right o then

not my first polo but my first mk3. i had a 6n that i bought in september but she had pretty much had it on 118k miles.

bought the car about 2 weeks ago and it looked like this

she survived our little blast of snow, heater was better than i thought it would be

put in my steering wheel that i picked up off someone on here for like £25 i think. shoutout to who ever you are

dad gave my car a right good polish while i was at work (top lad)

took a drive down to brands hatch with a few mates for prept!

and then today iv ripped the bumpers to give them a good clean and clean up behind them

also added a little red striping just because i think it looks odd having that big line in the bumpers with nothing in

got a bit eager

oh and changed the bulbs

my mates offered me some of these for £60? not sure whether to put them in or offer them to my tutor at college to buy for our mx5 track car?

If you lower it those seats would ruin your back!

After seeing this I better get behind my bumpers cleaned haha

Looks good man, Same bumpers need doing!

its the easiest thing to do! 5 bolts on the front and 8 for the back

so yesterday i managed to get this done

my mates a carpenter so he cut it all out for me at his workshop which saved me from having to wack out all the powertools :L

its waaaaaaay too big though so probably gna end up making another one in the distant future but its fine as it is

anyway halfway through wiring it in this happened

but all hope is not lost as this arrived today

If you lower it those seats would ruin your back!

They already do!

Bumpers look much better. You've done well cleaning this up. Under bonnet sound deadening is a rare option on these

yeah my dad told me i was well chuffed :)

quick update:

car hasn't started since friday :( replaced all spark plugs, ht leads, dizzy cap, but still nothing :/

all i get is the engine turning over and then hitting some resistance. checked all spark plugs and they spark fine, checked that the fuel is pumping and its fine.

it did start on a tow friday but it was running shit and missfiring

the battery had a fresh charge yesterday and still nothing

i have checked the firing order and made sure that was all correct just in case i made a mistake in changing the stuff over but it is all correct

so now i am crying out for help because i dont know what to do next haha

got the old girl started today panic over

well then people starting to get the ball rolling with the polo :)

took delivery of this bad boy today so should start cleaning it up and dismantling it ready for a head rebuild

yeah so while I'm doing that just got to wait for pay day and then some new springs should be in order :)

oh and its a 1.6 aee

not too sure how many people are actually looking at this haha but thought id ask on here anyway...

looking for a gearbox for the aee as i only have a 4 speed on at the moment. have read that the cl box is good as it has good long ratios and can take the power but was also looking at how you can fit mk4 polo box's in? just wondering if anyone has had experience with both and can tell me which ones better to go for. from my prospective it looks like i can get a mk4 box much easier than a mk3 but i havnt really looked into the ratios/how much power it can take point of view.

help would be greatly appreciated

just a quick photo from last nights prept meet

question still stands on what gearbox?

made one of these bad boys surprisingly easy

ok people today i have been semi hard at work. got as much done before my back was pretty much broken

started off looking like this

and then after some time ended up like this minus the exhaust manifold