As my ax got written off, my mate has kept bugging me and bugging me to get something german...

Bought a 1.4 8v polo 6n...

How it stands,
Lowered on 60mm springs and shocks
13' starmag wheels,
a Horrible back box
and a nice 130,000 miles on the clock...

bought myself a donor car...

and the goodys off it that are now on mine...

New interior out of an ibiza cupra...

New race wheel

got some alternate wheels too, teledials

coilovers added

due to some arch issues with the teledials, i had to revert back to the starmags... lowsssssssss

and a new zaust to replace the hhiiddeeous japcan thing that was on there

and a few with the added valver bumpers..

sold the mags and bought some steels as winter wheels and have been rolling them with merc trims on since with new fk ak coilies as my other ones were shot to say the least....

Edited 1 August, 201412 yr by Jandrewz

looking sweet.will be keeping an eye on this :)

I was aiming to put a afh on carbs and cams but rather but an actual 16v car an do it to save larking about with engine conversions, so decided I'm going to carb and can this engine :)

Bought myself a new mani as mine decide to blow, so ordered a nice spanker stainless..

After taking the old one off… i think i found the blow… hahaha

so bolted on the new one and encountered a problem… so much for a straight fit.. this is about 19" gap!

had to get it welded up for it to fit, i wont lie, stainless pipe looks so rad, no matter what it is!

finally got it all on and fitted, sounds rad! loves it! :)

Love it on those starmags

Love it on those starmags

regretting getting rid of them so much :( may get some 13" bullet steels though, 13" fake lows

Bullet steels are the way forward if you dont mind me asking mate you say it sounds rad since adding 421? I'm curious if just changing the manifold will change the tone?

Does the manifold make much noticable performance difference on the 8v's? like to hear a review before buying one. cheers, OIlie

Well as for performance, i'm not sure, haven't had a chance to really give it a blast as i'm experiencing some electrical problems, as for noise, i was running a standard mani to de-silenced powerflow exhaust, adding this new mani has given it more rasp and crackle and pop in my eyes, and is louder too :)

Not much of an update but getting my bits together now for the carbs side of things, think i bought some stuff unnecessarily… but heres the goodies :)

cbr600 carbs, rejetted to run on the car and some other bits and bobs

still need to get the manifold flange welded up, ignition setup which i've sourced one and some silicone houses to fit the carbs onto the mani :)

Looking good mate. What's that manifold base plate for? Looks like it's for an 8v

yeah, 1.4 8v, i know its probably not going to make much of a difference performance wise, but will hopefully sound cool as f*ck, may go hybrid with a 1.6 8v head and stick 1.4 bottom end, seen it done and they run about 100bhp, i've also just had a look and notice i'm missing the bits that secure the trumpets to the carbs! -_-

Changing the head to the 1.6 one won't make a difference.

A cam and carbs will see you about 100hp maybe with exhaust too - tried and tested last week.

ahh bugger, heard a 1.6 was bigger inlets, maybe i hear wrong, may just fork out on the cams then lots of pops and bangs then

Might do but isn't worth the hassle really.

fair enough, anoying have this engine, so slow, haha, would love to get an afh in there on carbs and cams, that would be a dream for me

and as for the hybrid engine… Reference:

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=148683.0

Edited 7 February, 201412 yr by Jandrewz

my carbs have come to a bit of a standstill at the moment… but i had a week off last week so i thought i'd do a few little touch up bit to the wagon...

painted the interior pillars to try match my interior a bit better

also took my interior out to give a scrub down too

also tried my hand at some body work and covering up these bloody rust patches… went okay, better than rust anyway, will try get some finished pics up soon :)

dewipered the rear window too

touched up my rear lights as my striped bits had worn off so repainted them

tried on my mates wheels which are now mine… pictures to come soon after some ride height re-arrangements

Sorry for some off the pics, had troubles linking them up for some reason...

Get some 165/45's on those. will help the arch problem, then pull the rears and roll the fronts!.

Looks good.

Edited 1 March, 201412 yr by Jonnyboi

got plans for thinner tyres soon :)

but for now…

heres a random picture of mine and my brothers car sitting on the drive he swapped it for a honda Accord type R… fair to say he should have kept the cupra… the hondas a bag..

and another random of mine..

as promised a picture of my bodywork on the door… i tried attacking it with the VERY fine wet and dry and its come up all hazey even after t-cut, wax and polish :/ anyone got any suggestions?

for the lols aswell, got hold of a bonnet and two wings, free of charge and local… dont know why i took the wings, i dont need them, haha

yeah… not everyones cup of tea.. you know where its going..

and after it was sanded, salted and rinsed… and painted

and at day out my window

i still got my black bonnet for when i get bored of this, may lacquer this one and make it a wall feature in my room or something...

Machine polisher for the door.

Maybe my handy work just isn't good enough I know someone in a body shop so I'll give then a visit see if they can use their machine polisher :)

Defiantly needs a mop, no chance of polishing out flatting marks like that by hand. Bonnet actually looks okay

is it better to use the proper wax too? like the really thick stuff… and the bonnet isn't to everyones taste but hey ho, most people seem to like it :)

Hey mate, you're best to use a good polishing compound, I use farecla G3 for polishing out flatting marks at work. remember to use water, keeping it cool is key. Don't want to burn the paint

My mate is doing photography at uni and is having his hand at the Automotive side of it… so he asked to do a few pics of the polo to try out some stuff… fair to say the end result is AWESOME!!

Heres some of my mates polo 6n2 gti and golf mk3 gti too! :)

And in return i'm trying to spread the word of his photography… heres his page on facebook if you would mind giving it a "like"

Cheers guys!

So sick!