O/P updated 11/06/13

I've had the car since March 2000 - back then it looked like this:


But it's best known for sitting on these 15in wheels and looking similar to this for years:


I've started getting performance-obsessed recently though, here I am enjoying a certain toll road in Germany


It's since had Gaz coilovers, a Quaife LSD, Helix clutch, Mocal oil cooler and Stack gauges fitted. Check out my 'serious motoring journalist' face


It was refreshed in 2011, new wheels in 2012, and it now sits like this:

You might also notice it now has the correct plates for the age of car. Details...

Stack Pro Control gauges - with colour changing hot and cold warnings


Blyton Park:

On show at Pembrey:

ENGINE
1272cc, multipoint injected, supercharged • Pitstop Developments Full Blend ported supercharger • SNS Stage 5 chip with PSD bespoke remap • Bosch 250cc injectors • Pitstop Developments toothed belt conversion with 65mm pulley • Polo GT inlet manifold • De-restricted airbox • Boost return pipes removed • PPP stainless steel exhaust system including four-branch de-cat manifold • SFS silicone hoses (black) • Mocal 7 row 235mm oil cooler with thermostat take-off plate

TRANSMISSION
Quaife automatic torque bias limited slip differential • Helix Autosport uprated clutch;

SUSPENSION
Gaz coilovers with 8in 225lbs springs (front) and 165lbs springs (rear) • G-Laderseite G40 cup car nylon anti-roll bar block mounts • Steel rear strut brace • Steel Front Brace Bar • PPP rear beam bushes

WHEELS AND TYRES
14x6 ET33 Revolution RFX wheels • 195/45 Toyo Proxes T1-R Tyres

BRAKES
Audi 90 calipers and carriers (painted silver) • Pagid pads • 256mm EBC USR discs • Pitstop Developments steel braided brake hoses • Passat master cylinder • ATE Super Blue race brake fluid

EXTERIOR
Clear indicators • late spec rear light clusters • OE fog lights • de-locked door handles • wing aerial hole smoothed • green tinted windows

INTERIOR
Scirocco GT2 "Modekaro" trim front seats with Polo Genesis rear bench and door cards • Corrado VR6 leather steering wheel • Stack wideband air/fuel gauge in custom-made centre console pod • Stack Pro Control boost, oil temp and oil pressure gauges • Leather gear gaiter

SECURITY/ELECTRICAL
Toad Ai606 CAT1 Alarm and Immobiliser with remote central locking • Uprated headlight and foglight wiring looms • Philips Vision Plus headlight bulbs • Xenon fog light bulbs

Edited 6 October, 201411 yr by Alex

About time you posted this up Alex! One of the nicest Coupes around :-)

Karl.

Cheers Karl, it's been on my mind for ages, but I was waiting for my wheels to arrive so I could take new pics. Ah well!

Instantly loved this car from the first time I saw it and its only got better and better, cars a credit it to you!

Perfect! Will look very nice on new wheels and a 60/40 drop?

Looks awesome as always Alex, hope to see it up at Swansea some time in the future!

Perfect! Will look very nice on new wheels and a 60/40 drop?

Perfect totally sums this car up.Nice work mate

Have you gone back to the 15s now Alex?

I remember parking my old G next to this at Inters a few years back in the Show and Shine. Back when it was in it's GT guise.

Still looks great today! :)

Cheers, yeah the 15s are staying. Look nice, and I don't have to worry about scrubbage, peeling lacquer etc.

I'm not adventurous enough to go for lots of dish, I still need this to be a very practical mode of transport. With the 15s, there's enough arch clearance to carry an engine in the boot. Or 3 passengers. Plus there's a far wider, and more readily available selection of tyres available.

So I'm happy as I am (now).

Cool! Looks great as it is dude!

About time you posted this up Alex! One of the nicest Coupes around :-)

I completely agree!! I wanted a very similar look for mine, but i feel my wheels are a bit too fat!!!

Very nice street sleeper, looks ace!

car looks stunning! great example

I'm glad it still meets with people's approval, I'm hoping if I keep the 15s long enough they'll look old school think I've got a long wait ahead of me!

Should be sporting some extras for next year's show season, but this year I'm gonna be missing out which is a shame. :(

Cheers for the compliments.

It's the shiznit fo' real son!

Thought it was about time I put some recent pics in here... so show pics from the Welsh Motor Show last Saturday and a couple of recent snaps have made their way in.

Not much in the way of changes, but new pics are always good (well, the back end one's not great tbh, but that's what happens when you take a quick snap).

Top marks if you can spot what's changed since the last ones went up!

an older one sneeking in there, one of my favorite shots of your car mate!

i remeber when i first went on e1k like 3-4yrs ago and saw it, that was me polo hooked!

keep going at it! oh and theres a 106GTi on ebay with your wheels on saw it at cheltenham cruise and they look rubbish on any car apart from yours lol

I've seen them on a Scirocco (musicman off No Rice), plus local Orion (a red one) years ago, which looked pish, and an otherwise bog standard green/silver Focus. And a really tatty set on a Golf. Oh, and a set of 15s on an '80s Civic at the Wales Motor Show missing two centre caps. The Scirocco and Civic were the only ones which wore them well.

Odd wheels, pretty ugly tbh but they do look good when they work.

I'm currently missing a centre cap, I still have it, but it doesn't stay on while I'm moving. Can't get a direct replacement, and I've never liked the domed caps, so I'm trying to find myself some flat VW ones instead.

Thats a very nice car mate

You car always looks so tidy. Nice and understated.

I wish I'd taken as much time on my engine conversion as I did on yours!

Yeah people are always surprised when I tell them it's not a factory G40 because the engine bay's so neat, much credit due to you for that job Andy!

Since the pics were taken I've cleaned the oil off the head (rocker gasket was leaking) but I still need to tidy up the boost gauge installation and fit the catch tank.

Hopefully by next summer I'll have a PSD exhaust system on there too. :)

OMG!!!

That purple clio in the first pic belongs to my mate, Jamie

Suprised to see it next to a pretty polo mind!

(Just shocked that's all lol)

I love this car - one day... one day...

i just noticed i have already posted...

Edited 3 October, 200619 yr by rg_GT

OMG!!!

That purple clio in the first pic belongs to my mate, Jamie

Suprised to see it next to a pretty polo mind!

(Just shocked that's all lol)

He spotted that too! He's a member on South Wales Cruise, which one of my mates helped set up. Those pics were taken on the SWC stand at the Wales Motor Show in August so they're on the forum there.

Pictures updated (19/11/06)