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Ross’s Red coupe s

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Model - Polo coupe s

 

Engine - MH 1272 cc

 

Colour - Tornado red 

 

Suspension - Standard

 

Brakes - Standard 

 

Wheels - Hockenheim alloys 

 

Exterior - Standard 

 

After looking for another polo for quite a while I managed to find this little gem.

The last owner of this had a white coupe up for sale as a project that I was going to look and, however he had a red coupe s in his drive along with a blue gt. As soon as my eyes landed on this I knew straight away I had to get it.

Picked it up fairly locally and off I went.

Here is how she looks just now...

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Looks great dude! 

  • 2 months later...
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Thought I would post an Update on here 

I put the car on the ramp after my work to make sure everything was good, It was not unfortunately I did notice a knocking noise thought gearbox mount was away and found this ... 

bolt had ripped though the threads, I tapped it out to an m10 and fitted a new bolt good as new ! 

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Decided to begin with the engine swap, 

Stripped everything off the car and lifted out the engine.

Replaced all brake pipes while engine was out.

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Drove down to Manchester to pick up the abd/gt engine and managed to find myself a gt gearbox ! 

cleaned up engine and box and gave a quick lick of paint and then dropped it into the bay. 5A3BC0E1-D6C1-41D4-A27F-1619033D218C.thumb.jpeg.5bf7c729261962971dd82ab3571d9315.jpeg

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Need to tidy up the messy wiring but the main bit is done ! 

  • 3 months later...
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While the engine loom was out I wrapped it up to look nice

Fitted the mk3 injection fuel tank and then

I took the live wire from fuel pump relay and ran a cable to the intank pump and then to the high pressure pump to power them up. 
 

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I sent my struts away to get powered coated and then once they got back fitted new bearings, hubs, bilstein shocks and super sport lowing springs.

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