can't wait to see it finished myself. i've so much on atm. my chopper project is on hold still and I'm building a Nova for my girlfriend too. she'll be pulling the old 8v engine out for me when I'm welding at her Nova :p

What an awesome girlfriend!

^^ word.

She's fit as fook too so tis all good lol

Headed up to work on the engine. Pulled the exhaust manifold off and degreased in behind it.

Next was taking the fooking intake and throttle body off. Such a stupid complicated design but got it off eventually.

Also worked out I can use most of the original intake to make my new inlet manifold for the bike carbs. Quite happy about that as it means i can maintain a decent fuel spray pattern. Degreased in behind that too then gave it another hosing. Thats it ready for paint tomorrow

Selling the Throttle Body and original manifold if anyone wants them.

Edited 8 October, 200916 yr by McCann

This looks so cool!

And i'm loving the ghetto wiper! I was scrolling throught the images thing "WTF is he on about" then i saw the pic and spat coke all over my new 19" monitor!

Ok so after getting up early today to hopefully make good progress I ended up having to bleed the brakes on my friend Claire's 106 GTi (absolute fuck up) and change the brakes on Gerry's Polo (again a fuck up). Between dicking about I managed to paint the gearbox, block and rocker cover in the finest heat resistant BBQ paint. Sorry for the wanky phone pics. I forgot my camera.

I then filled the "DOHC 16V" in with red roughly as i wasn't happy with the black rocker cover anyway. I think it's too much black. Any suggestions for the rocker cover are welcome.

Connor

Heres mine.

Kuszpit :)

cheers for the ideas lads. i think its either gona be army green, black, silver or polished and the "DOHC 16V" is probably gona be the same colour as the bay

I vote polished with "DOHC 16V" in army green :-D

I vote polished with "DOHC 16V" in army green :-D

do it!!

Ok so after a bit of a heavy session of drinking over the weekend I ended up doing fork all to the engine. So today I had a spare hour and broke out the drill and polishing mops. Its a long time from I've done this so bare with me. So progress pics anywho:

Start:

Arty Shot :p :

Paint stripped and abit of polishing:

The finish I'm going for:

Shiny ! I like it :).

Right didn't do a whole lot today as I had to tidy the workshop to get the Polo and Nova into it later tonight. Got a spare minute tho and pulled the side mounting off the engine and painted it black just to tidy it up.

before:

after:

really nice car you got ther mate!! fancy a swap lol

any other future plans?

Aamir

swap? where the fuck were u 2months ago :p

after this i duno tbh. might re-do the install into a lighter fibreglass build.

lol

hows the engine going?

is it a 1.4 16v 75bhp or 100bhp?

i love the color of your car, might just have 2 copy you ... joking.

enjoy your weekend.

Aamir

Wow this cars come quite a way from when you first got it man, absolutely mint The stance and the colour is brilliant, keep up the good work!

cheers lad. the new engine is the 100bhp 1.4 16v.

new update:

Ok so I still haven't got the polo into the workshop. lol. Started welding the arches of the Nova and Lee couldn't strip the Polo as it wasn't there so she continued on with the rocker cover. Coming up rightly.

Next plan is to get it into the workshop and strip the ****er

Right so we finally got the Polo up to the workshop. I took into Lee's Nova and she proceeded to strip the Polo.

It has gone from this:

To this in an hour:

And as she finished up tonight the bonnet, bumper, grill, wings, head lights, front panel, washer bottle, radiator, expansion tank, airbox and intake and battery were all removed.

Next up should be the engine coming out

Progress looks awesome.

Pics of said gf who loves cars haha

Awsome Work.

But FFS take them wheels off and clean them NOW!

Sexy :)

WOW.

Progress looks awesome.

Pics of said gf who loves cars haha

I'll see what I can do but she's a shy creature and constantly gets out of the pics :p

Awsome Work.

But FFS take them wheels off and clean them NOW!

I know they're stinking. lol. Might refurb them tbh.

Cheers folks

Was tidying up the workshop today and got bored so decided to label the wiring to be removed and/or hidden.

Then i decided to hide the release cable for the bonnet catch inside the inner wing. I hadn't got a drill bit big enough so had to ream it out. Need to get a grommet on it too. I don't care what it looks like tho because its under the scuttle panel and wont be seen.

Before:

After: