Put yo' money where yo' mouth is !!

Can we have streetwars at pod ?

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I've never seen that before!

So funny

Got the engine out yesterday. Just need to take steering rack off and replace both gaiters and a lick of paint wouldnt go a miss. Master cylinder needs replacing as its seen better days! then to start prepping the bay for some paint.

Tank off today to paint and sort blocked breather..

Had a big clean up in the bay today and got the tank off to clean all breathers out and paint. No nasty suprises really so will get cracking with painting the bay next week some time!

Car and engine are coming along slowly.. very slowly.

Got a few parts for the engine, just need aux and alternator pulley then engine can be timed up.

Swapped out 5th gear in the GT 'box to an 8p 5th. Piece of piss, loads easier than i thought! Anyway pictures speak louder than words!

And also bought a mk2f breadvan as a daily while the mk2 is off the road, so shit but cost me 175 quid with tax and mot, runs sweet although could use

some attention body work wise...

Think thats it for now really. Need to check oil pickup on the APQ engine, unsure weather i can just swap over or have to cut and weld to allow shallow

sump..

You'll need a different pick up either way. Either shorten or use your mk2/3 bolt on one.

Just use your mk2/3 v belt aux pulleys fam and a standard belt too.

Piece of cake mate

yeah just need to get engine on stand and take sump off lol.

keep leaving shit at lockup and forgetting to bring it home to get it on engine. x

Ok

loving this build :)

Hi Oli, progressing well..

Hopefully have it finished this week or next

Can't wait to see how this performs!

Nor me he's basically doing what I wanted to try with that engine lol

It'll proabably break, just my luck..

Engines now on the stand, gonna get oil pickup shortened and back together with mk2 sump tomrrow hopfully, then engine just needs timing up and

getting in the bay, which is also getting flatted back tomrrow and mopping up!

Shame about all the pictures on here going to shit, organised my photobucket and all the codes have changed, and dont know what pictures went

where.. might tidy up a bit on a rainy day, meh.

It'll proabably break, just my luck..

Engines now on the stand, gonna get oil pickup shortened and back together with mk2 sump tomrrow hopfully, then engine just needs timing up and

getting in the bay, which is also getting flatted back tomrrow and mopping up!

Shame about all the pictures on here going to shit, organised my photobucket and all the codes have changed, and dont know what pictures went

where.. might tidy up a bit on a rainy day, meh.

May as well add a few shots of recent while I'm here..

Re painted the gt box

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Cleaned up rad and new fan

New track rod end 6 months ago... ssaakeeeeeeeeee rust!

and a sneaky shot of the bay!

Thats it for now!

Looking good mate, will try finish manifold this week, you could do with fitting a mk2/3 dipstick AND tube also, 6n tube length is different, or the plastic bit at the top makes it different anywho.

Thanks mr new clubpolo moderator nick :)

Got the mk2 dipstick and tube from garage earlier, one step ahead of you!

Started flatting the back back today, gave it a once over with some g3 cutting compound and touched a few places up.

Took off the brake lines and gave them a lick of paint just to tidy them up a bit.

Got excited so bolted steering column and rack together along with steering arms and a few other bits just to see how it looks :)

Great work mate love reading this. Just a little thing,some of your pictures won't load

Great work mate love reading this. Just a little thing,some of your pictures won't load

Cheers dude!

and yeah, organised my photobucket into albums and its changed all the img codes so none of the pictures work :/ will tidy it up one day!

Done, not the best but it will do, paints a bit shit but better than rust lol.

Ill bring it up tomorrow, and a DTI and a timing disc and time cam up for you too

Bit more progress, engines now timed up thanks to nick for helping! breather and thermostat etc bolted to back of block and a bit more tidying of the bay.

Hopfully drop engine in tomorow too :-)

Probably bend all the valves

o well..

arb back on today.. mk2 sump and dipstick/tube and alternator/belt on aswell. Might put clutch and flywheel etc on later..

Got the engine in today, thanks to matty for giving me a hand, and no thanks to jamie for getting red paint all over my engine bay..

quite a few things still to do, really wanna take this to action at the end of the month but doubt i'll be able to afford it :/