So, , I'm Amar :) passed my test in October 2010 and first car was a 1.4se Memory Red 6n, brought the car when I was 16, done the usual, kamei front grille, lowered on TaTecknix coilovers, Brought brand new Lenso bsx's sadly in july 2012 it got written off and scrapped, it was rotten anyway and I had already brought the open air so it didn't really matter to me that she got killed haha so I put everything onto the open air. this first picture is of the first polo in its prime ...

interior:

6n2 gti seats retrimmed.

6n2 gearknob and gaitor trimmed

trimmed handbrake gaitor

momo team280 and snap off boss

exterior:

lowered on ta tecknix coilovers

smoothed jacking points

6n2 rear lights

matt black vinyl wrapped B pillars

6n2 roof strips

6n2 stubby mirrors

shark fin aerial

polo 6n2 gti splitter

15x7 and 8's Rial Cobra alloys.

oh and both rear quarters and lower doors rattle canned

not too long later brought a set of oz turbos In 15x7.5's all around.

and she died

and this is what the open aired hit road like..

a Friend of mine Harry Durrant painted the old 16v bumpers off of the first polo and bootlid for me, and went straight to HTS Motorsport for a notch as it was sitting on the driveshaft..

also Cleaned the wheels right up and fitted 2" dishes on the rear :biggrin:

Players 6.0

Sadly, the day before Westside2012, was mopping the car, and put 3m Bluetape along all the joints and seals etc, car came up real good, took the tape off, and off came the laquer too! was really bas in most places but heres a picture from the show anyway

so decided from this day on she needed new paint! so started pulling off all the necessary stops that needed to be done if the whole car was going to be painted.

drove around like this for the winter

pulled the arches and made way for the 15x9 oz's and yes, these were pulled with a jack poll, baseball bat, a big fat sledge hammer

along with smoothing..

front plate recess and top vents

rear bumper toe eye cut out

petrol flap

door handle recess's

side repeaters

washer jets

and the body shop done the aerial, rear seam joint lines and jacking points :)

TO BE CONTINUED..

Edited 2 July, 201313 yr by Amar polo.

I saw this car on the weekend.. Wow, I'm jealous

You no what I think!

Get some new pics up :)

Not even gonna lie, sat on clubpolo all day at work doing this then it got to home time so i finished up ill put the rest up tomorow :-D

Yes! 😃

cant wait to see new pics of this =D

really like your wheels. OZ turbo fully polished is perfect.

are you going to change the color?

8am, the work day has started, which means the build thread is continued

The 15x9 in the above pic was kindly lent to me by a friend of mine who also is building a polo to watch out for probably in 2014

so, as I was needing to buy 3" dishes, the 2's went up for sale.. long story short I came across some smooth wings for sale so said to the matey ill take them when I sell my dishes, he asked "what dishes do you have", I told him and he replied that he was also looking for 2" dishes, so he said he'll give me the money on top with the wings when he sells his smooth bumper, I said what smooth bumper do you have, he told me and what turned into me selling the dishes, lead to a deal of me swapping my 2" dishes for..

-boot with badge and handle smoothed

-front bumper with plate recess smoothed

-wings with arches rolled super flat and side repeaters smoothed

-a single drivers side 16v rear light

-a pretty mint open air roof

-open air interior light and surrounding

-a central locking pump

-a mint 16v rear bumper with number plate lights

probably a few extras I've missed out tbh

The deal was done with a guy called Damian who is now a pretty good mate with me so yeah there you go.

the wings were the only body panel near completed that I didn't have to do any work on, however the bumper cracked and the bootlid needed quite a bit of filler etc so from the cold Christmas months of 2012 right up until the end of March 2013 I spent my days in the garden or the driveway sorting out the unfinished business, some days in the rain, some days in the snow, but hey ho

The cracked bumper ...

I was going to get a mate of mine Will Smith to sort the bumper for me, but I hate the feeling of it being someone elses work, and I would of never learnt if it wasn't for trying, so decided to start the repair myself!

so I dug a little deeper to get right down to the crack itself..

plastic welded up using pieces from an old 8v bumper kindly donated to me by a mate of mine called Nick, a soldering iron, and a militant Heat gun I borrowed from work

the bumper also cracked along the top of the plate recess, I don't have the picture of the initial crack but have one after being plastic welded :-)

sanded down..

applied some fibre glass resin, famously available at the local Halfrauds..

sanded down the fibreglass..

and after messing around with some P38 filler, also from Halfrauds..

fitted the US markers, don't want to talk about it, what a ballache it was !

as I got confident with the plastic welding, fibre glassing fillering etc, I thought ide give the rear toe eye a shot!

welded in a plastic cut out from the old donor bumper...

welded from behind too...

sanded down...

fibreglassed...

sanded down the fibreglass...

and a skim of filler...

et voile!

With all of this, I thought fuck it, might aswell do the top vents too!

mocking up..

pieces cut and tacked with masking tape into 16v bumper...

after they were plastic welded, I then fibre-glassed up and sanded down...

after some filler and more sanding...

As I thought I'm spending all this money on the Respray, and all this time doing the bumpers etc, I might aswell push the boat out a little further and do the rest! so I got a mate of mine 'Matt the welder' to come and weld up the door handle recess's and washer jets for me I don't have many pics of the process this is all I have..

bonnet being welded up...

door handle recess fibreglassed over plateing...

door handles recess in filler...

door handles sanded..

petrol flap welded and fibre-glassed over...

and some filler

must say I hated rolling around like this for those few months .. :finger:

NEEDMESOMESTANCEBACK :crybaby:

A picture of the bumper finished £65.20 for that damn splitter

backbox fucked up at some point from Christmas to March, so here a pic of the old VS new..

AND so the time came, getting the car ready to be dropped off to JoeNinetyBodyworks down in Northampton, so about an 80mile drive..

don't need this nomore

fitting up the smooth bumper..

smooth boot also fitted, what a pain to line up this was

old open air roof out!

old wings removed and removed a headlight to try out the Powerlooks the Mr's got me for Christmas

new wings and smooth bumper fitted, looking better already if you ask me!

and dropped off at JoeNinetyBodyworks, also with the German spec 6n2 rear lights that I brought off of Chris

the last pics I got off the polo

ILL BE BACK

Edited 12 June, 201313 yr by Amar polo.

really like your wheels. OZ turbo fully polished is perfect.

are you going to change the color?

The car is staying canyon red as I actually like the colour dude :-) the wheels are now different, the car finished and has been out for a few weeks now, but I've finally decided ide make a build thread so I'm slowly getting towards the end but will have some pics up of the finished car hopefully today

Nice to finally see a build thread on this. See you at ace cafe alot. Top work! Respect for doing it all yourself, most people down londin way seem to just get their wallet out and give it to a garage then take all the credit lol

Edited 12 June, 201313 yr by erixtar1992

Scene.

Break times over

I've got some pics from building the wheels too so thought ide put them up :-) I wasn't feeling the polished anymore, as ide ran them throughout 2012 showseason and just generally wanted something different!

my initial idea was to go with matching the centres to the leathers, I kept on changing my mind about this but I thought believe in going with my instincts, so I done it anyway Haps managed to get me some 3" dishes and 120 gold bolts for a steal from Germany, and kindly donated me what he thought was about 40 nuts, but ended up being 120 on the dot, so new nuts and bolts all round for the oz's

wheels split, washed, degreased, and keyed with 600 wet and dry, as they're already bare metal al they needed was keying :)

and in etch primer :-D

built and sealed, 7.5's and 9's with a little help from my good friend Haps again..

tyres came ! 165 45 15's and 185 45 15's for the rears :-)

time to get them fitted up !

185 45 on a 9, nice amount of stretch :-)

the 9 and tyre fitted up..

7.5 and tyre fitted up ...

fresh caps yo! #teamscene

Ran into some problems with paint, it turned out that the laquer on the car was real bad, which meant more work.. Jake from Joe90 rang me and said he can paint the car and mask the window seals etc, but run a rick of the paint peeling within a couple of years, but either way all laquer had to come off the car. so I gave him the go ahead to remove the windows and strip all the laquer off of the car, imo its better this way anyway as the paint will be all behind the windows too so will be no risk of paint coming away from any edges at all!

BACK IN 45MINS WITH SOME PICS FROM THE PAINTERS.

<3

Back again

Pics from the bodyshop as promised...

#

Gun finish

gloss black roof, gun finish! not even flat and polished yet ! (L)

gloss black grille etc..

And finally, ready to be collected

and a quick reflection shot of when I got her home :)

got her home, started fitting up the interior.. roof lining, pillars, new seatbelts etc, all the audio back in, so quite a fair bit to do!

home trimmed parcel shelf, makes it look that little bit cleaner if you ask me :-)

fitted the powerlooks, tidys up the front end a lot !

and finally, wound the coilys back down and fitted the wheels (L) (L)

rear fitment ...

went to dubs at the park on the weekend !

and Saturday at last minute, Will Smith managed so get me a pass for mod nats, so gave the car a last minute wash, polish and wax..

taped up ready to roll

and some pics from the day!!

after Nats, we rolled down to Ace café for a mate of mine Danny braggins Almost Famous first meet, was a good relaxed ending to a good day ..

BACK AGAIN SOON

Thats a top build mate, props for doing that work yourself, the payoff is a whole lot sweeter that way!

Back for the last time today

not a great shot, but tidyed the bay up a little as was dusty as hell after paint, will get some better shots later!

also, the haters be shitting on me :lol:

and just some pics from various different meets etc :-D

Stonor Park ...

Players Classic...

DC13...

TopGearHayes Rave at Sainsburys Hayes...

and this is a personal favourite of mine, most recent picture from the weekend at DC13..

So, that's summed up most things start to finish, will try to update this as ruguarly as possible as there will still be lots changing on the car :-) hope those that read enjoyed the thread so far! watch this space for more updates!

#TEAMSCENEORIGINAL.

Edited 12 June, 201313 yr by Amar polo.

Fantastic write up, and a beautiful 6n! Can't want to see what else you do with this. I hope to get a chance to see this in the metal!

Dude really looking fresh! color is perfect.

what is the size of the rear wheels?

can't wait till my car is finished with the new paintjob. ( i think about 1,5 week)

Fantastic write up, and a beautiful 6n! Can't want to see what else you do with this. I hope to get a chance to see this in the metal!

Thanks dude, same goes for yours man! Doing many shows this year?

Dude really looking fresh! color is perfect.

what is the size of the rear wheels?

can't wait till my car is finished with the new paintjob. ( i think about 1,5 week)

Thanks alot mate, its come a long way and I'm really happy with it! Rear wheels are 15x9 et8 bud :) oh really, ill have to take a look at your build thread if you have one then too man 😊

Dude really looking fresh! color is perfect.

what is the size of the rear wheels?

can't wait till my car is finished with the new paintjob. ( i think about 1,5 week)

Thanks alot mate, its come a long way and I'm really happy with it! Rear wheels are 15x9 et8 bud :) oh really, ill have to take a look at your build thread if you have one then too man

damn thats sick! I think i want something between 8 and 8.5J (static)

my build tread is http://www.clubpolo.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=317128

Edited 12 June, 201313 yr by rubenn

saw this at stonor man i was in the silver 6n2 with rs's on a few up from you, looked incredible. paint works really well, will defo be keeping an eye on this!

gorgeous car and good job on getting the work done yourself.

great instincts on the wheels, love the tie in between wheels and interior =D

Wow.

Why have i not "scene" this about!?

Awesome 6n bro, nice to see people are still toying with 6n's as they seem to be going a little scarce.

Good work.