Been on here for a while now having a look around getting some inspiration and ideas finished my last project a couple of months ago i had a 1972 Austin Mini, then drove my brothers mini around for a while as a broke mine he has a 1962 Mini Vtec, i got the Polo a week ago done a few bits to it but not much until i get paid.

Pictures of my last Project -

Brothers Vtec -

The Polo I got last week -

De-Wippered and De-Bagged

Removed back seats and re carpeted boot and under the back seats got some plans for the rear so i cannot have them in

Had some spare carpet left so redid the headlining -

Got some Cobra reclining seats just need some mounts making now -

Got quite a few plans for the little car should have coilovers and banded steels at the end of this month, let us know what you think all comments welcome :-)

Thinking of smoothing the bumpers on the polo this week is there a guide anywhere had a look in the bodywork thread but counldnt find anything how has everyone else don there's?

Not updated in a while got some banded steels off a mate, also just finished smoothing the bumpers in primer waiting to be sprayed, done the stud conversion also, and got some towing eyes put on, and a bit of camber.

Also found out that the previous owner has put the wrong bottom arm on the drivers side which has pulled the drivers side wheel in an inch, put the passanger wheel sticks out an inch :(

Let me know what you think guys

Loads of poke, what you gonna do? like the steelies

Not a fan of the steelies, poke way to much!

Going to roll the arches and drop it, there will be poke but just not as much, coilovers and painting the steels is the next job.

So I got some coilovers and got the polo sitting near enuff how I want still needs a few tweeks, I dont know if to roll the arches more or get some bolt on arches :/ Pics

Needed to get the jack under the car, "Lower you're car they said, it will be fun they said"

Got a week off in February, so I can paint the wheels and the car and hopefully make my mind up about the arch situation :) let me know what you think.

We'll would need to roll d fuck outta them back archs ha roll and loads camber bolt on archs not nice lookin on Polo ta my opinion any ways ha

Front sits alright, rear looks silly imho

Decided to take a different approach with the polo backed the camber of took all the spacers off to bring the wheels in a bit rolled the arches, stripped the interior not fully stripped yet though, decided to paint the car in primer (not to everyone’s liking but its a little different) just finished painting the wheels, made a custom 60mm roll cage and made a strut brace, got hold of a new engine ready for fitting towards the end of the year, got the spare Nitrous Express system we had lying round in the garage and colour coded the bottle ready for when the new engine goes in :) a few pics -

New GTI spliter from VW

For now that is all i have got done more pictures to follow :)

Looks great man, roll cage looks impressive! Love the colour scheme you got going on aswell.

Looks great man, roll cage looks impressive! Love the colour scheme you got going on aswell.

Thanks mate should have the bottle fitted and wheels on this weekend will put some more pictures up when i have sorted them.

Looks good man Are you actually putting nos into it

Looks good man Are you actually putting nos into it

Cheers mate, yeah when i put the new engine in it will be fitted to that, just thought i might as well spray the bottle whilst i was spraying everything else, might fit it to the polo engine for a laugh just to see if it blows it up haha.

Ye I'd Deffo do that see how long it lasts :-) Haha

there is 3/4 of the bottle left so might just use that on the polo engine then get it refilled :-)

I would ha sure have new engine there so Wy not ha

do you still have the original silver grill ? cheers

do you still have the original silver grill ? cheers

Sorry mate the silver grill was broke so i threw it away.

Just started to plum an wire the NOS in

Just waiting for the intake pipe to be delivered on Friday, so I can get the jet in place need some extra fittings for the bottle too so i can have the heater blanket working and have a gauge attached to see what’s in the bottle.

more updates soon

Mint man you may get a video of it on nos be funny haha

Mint man you may get a video of it on nos be funny haha

of coarse mate will get a video of it with nos after its all fitted.

No bother ha be funny if engine lasted haha

So the night before the MOT, the sidelight decided to go :@

so it was finally ready for the MOT

Gotta love the MOT man couldn't stop laughing when he handed me the slip back.

Took it up to my mates garage afterwards so i could use one of the ramps to get underneath sorted and get some schultz underseal on there,

Had to block the car up and take the front bumper off to get on the ramp outside haha

Also got myself a little present so i can get some videos of the polo and the minis on the track days

cheers for looking.

Well I have something else to fix know, thought I had snapped the clutch cable the other day, so went to Unipart and got a new one fitted it and the clutch still felt sloppy and wasn’t engaging gears properly had a look underneath only to find I had snapped the pedal box, so tonight’s job strip the pedal box out run a weld down the crack as a temp fix, until I can get my hands on a new pedal box.