Mk3 POLO project. (PIC HEAVY!!!)

[Baggaley90]

It begins,

Bonnet stripped

Rebuilding 5th gear

Painting badges

Lowering, but had a few problems with the wheels fitting

Fitting and sitting nicely now,

Few pics of her up and running

Painted the rest of the badges and roof rack on

 

[Baggaley90]

Dent free boot prepped and masked

Painted the bonnet

Picked the new engine up and set to work cleaning the 10 years of sh*t off it

Painted the rocker cover with some black enamel paint.

Got the wellers powder coated

Painted the block (sorry about phone pics)

and cleaned up the gearbox

Little meet with the coupe, bready and next doors coupe.

Finished cleaning the gearbox and painted it

 

[Baggaley90]

Borrowed an engine crane to get the old one out,

Got the bready washed

Fitted ben's new wheels, they rub tho so will need to roll the arches.

Anyway getting back to getting the bay ready for new engine.

Using a road sign to plug the massive hole in the battery bay

Before

After

Tried to fit the engine, but need to get a new sump as it won't quite fit in.

 

[Baggaley90]

Painted the bready cus i got bored waiting for parts for the coupe.

Took off the sump and oil pickup

The new sump came, DPD guy looked at me a little strange due to the little prank

The difference

All back together

Engine back in!!

These arrived

Popped the rocker cover off to get it powder coated blue and took the arches off as having new ones without dents.

Got the new wings on with the side repeaters welded up. Will be getting a full body respray soon.

Wellers back on now new tyres have arrived

 

[Baggaley90]

Some green stuff arrived, can't fit just yet as it's raining

Managed to get all the wiring pretty much done

Getting the new brakes on

Wheels didn't fit back on so had to get some spacers for the front which has given some awesome poke

Rocker cover has come back

To get the wheels in line front and back, swapped the rear wellers (7) for a mates (8) so now sits nice

 

[DaveDreads]

Wow, alot of work there.
I wish I knew the first thing about grease monkey stuff but other than an oil change, i'm out of my depth.

Gonna look amazing once finished, I haven't seen an old polo like that in years.

 

[Winston]

Dope Polo..

Nice to see you sorted out the chassis to

 

[guysy]

Nice project, lol at the postal prank, simple yet effective.

 

[Ridahz]

Nice project!

This will be great when finished :approve:

 

[_Tom]

Good skills. i'd love a G40 to play with. i remember my grandad having one brand new..

 

[Dweeb]

rad!

 

[Coby.]

Great project.... My mate had one for his 1st car and I loved it.

 

[Dan29]

Brilliant project, eyes on this

 

[Baggaley90]

Thanks for all the support will keep it updated as much as possible.

 

[Trev.]

looks like its getting somewhere!

just remember...your "poke" will get you 3 points a wheel if your pulled over..so 12 points...no license...no point in having car...hmmm is it worth it...

 

[Jon.G]

Awesome, My mate recently swapped his Mk3 GT for a G40. yes, SWAPPED!

What other plans have you got for it then?

 

[Baggaley90]

looks like its getting somewhere!

just remember...your "poke" will get you 3 points a wheel if your pulled over..so 12 points...no license...no point in having car...hmmm is it worth it...

Rolling the arches and the bumpers aren't on yet so wont be as noticeable.

Awesome, My mate recently swapped his Mk3 GT for a G40. yes, SWAPPED!

What other plans have you got for it then?

Well awaiting a custom inlet manifold so i can get the bike carbs on, and new exhaust system (not a big 5 inch pipe) After that respray and maybe flocking the interior.

 

[one in a million]

very nice

 

[Trev.]

Rolling the arches and the bumpers aren't on yet so wont be as noticeable.



Well awaiting a custom inlet manifold so i can get the bike carbs on, and new exhaust system (not a big 5 inch pipe) After that respray and maybe flocking the interior.

ahh ok get you now...hope for your sake they aint noticeable lol

 

[Englebert]

Great job so far!

 

[Paddy_g46]

what engine is that gone in then?

 

[Baggaley90]

what engine is that gone in then?

As far as i'm aware it's a few put together, but mainly a g40 engine and it's gonna be running on bike carbs. It's not my car, but he wanted me to put his thread up on here.
I'll ask him tomorrow.

 

[unclebuncles]

That looks minty.

Always loved the dubs.

 

[Jason_E]

It's so nice. Nice work!

 

[Paddy_g46]

As far as i'm aware it's a few put together, but mainly a g40 engine and it's gonna be running on bike carbs. It's not my car, but he wanted me to put his thread up on here.
I'll ask him tomorrow.

g40 is supercharged no?

 

[Baggaley90]

g40 is supercharged no?

I don't think so, the one he's using doesn't have a supercharger. But it may be that it should have one haha.

 

[adele_90]

That looks great, think im gona change my 6n 16v for a gt this summer, sooo much cheaper to insure!

 

[Ian_182]

Great effort

 

[Baggaley90]

That looks great, think im gona change my 6n 16v for a gt this summer, sooo much cheaper to insure!

The gt's are much cooler too. The 6n is too tall and the indicators are massive haha. But they are better to drive.

 

[Baggaley90]

Nice project, lol at the postal prank, simple yet effective.

We got him back when we sent him some parts back with "extremedildos.de" and he wasn't in and his nan signed for the package!!

 

[Tommywood92]

This isn't tommy, it's Alex, the owner of this car, though id better say what engine it is as somehow, even though i work with him and he's seen this progress, jack somehow didnt know what engine was in it :rofl:
At the moment, its a 1.4 16v out of a 6n, but the plans are to build a hybrid 1.6 16v out of 3 different engines in the future, cam it and stick it on mappable ignition, its been done before and the guy is running 180bhp, cheaply, nd more importantly reliably! Failing that, its going to be a g40 turbo build, but thats lots of money and i should be saving for a house!
i just want to get this thing running now, so the 1.4 16v will do, 130bhp in a car that weighs 600kg will do for this summer i guess..

I know about the poke issue, and the points for it, the rears, with the stretch sit inside perfectly in the arches, so they are ok, and the fronts will just about be when my arch roller finally arrives

Anyhow, thanks for the feedback guys

 

[JD]

Have to say, it all looks pretty slap dash "it'll do" to me! Will it pass an MOT like that??

 

[Tommywood92]

Have to say, it all looks pretty slap dash "it'll do" to me! Will it pass an MOT like that??

Really? its been off the road for 5months and some of that is from when i originally had it from over a year ago!
What makes you think it wont pass exactly?

 

[JD]

Really? its been off the road for 5months and some of that is from when i originally had it from over a year ago!
What makes you think it wont pass exactly?

I am not saying it won't - I am interested to know if it will. I would have thought the wheels sticking out that far would be a fail for a start? Things like using a sign to cover a hole and just welded into place cannot be safe? Same with the wiring that looks all over the place! It just all looks half arsed and like a death trap to me!

 

[Baggaley90]

I am not saying it won't - I am interested to know if it will. I would have thought the wheels sticking out that far would be a fail for a start? Things like using a sign to cover a hole and just welded into place cannot be safe? Same with the wiring that looks all over the place! It just all looks half arsed and like a death trap to me!

The wiring isn't finished yet. It's just there like that so we can see where it all is before it all goes back properly. The arches wont be so much of a problem once the trim is back on. The sign i've no idea haha, but i think it's better than the whole that was there that it passed it's last mot with. But yehh it will be a lot tidier before it goes on the road.

 

[JD]

Not to come across as a t**t, but if my car failed an MOT on the basis of having "a sharp edge" from a crack in the wing, I'm amazed a self welded piece of metal from a sign is let through.

But good on you for doing some work on your car yourself. No taking away from changing an engine yourself!

 

[Baggaley90]

In all honesty I don't know if it will, and don't worry about it. I don't think your being a tw*t. haha
Will have to see how things play with the MOT. Not my car so not too much of a problem for me if it fails

 

[Jason_E]

I've seen MUCH worse pass, and I've seen much better fail! MOT is a bit of a lottery at times.

 

[Tommywood92]

The sign was because i had no metal to hand, and the sign was galvanised and wouldnt rust as that area is horrendous for rot, but has been sealed around the edge, and all painted, and since its been smoothed, its hard to tell its not original! Its the battery tray anyhow, so without undoing the clamp and taking it out, you wouldnt see it!
The arches are getting rolled tonight/tomorrow so the wheels wont poke out at all.
The wiring has been stripped back as ive ditched the ecu as im running bike carbs and an old mk2 vac advance ignition system, im removing the wires i dont need (about 3kg so far!) and cant do that whilst its all in the loom tape, in fact this morning, 20m of tape arrived to tidy it all back up again
Trust me, this is no rush job, and no expense has been spared, i hate to think how much ive spent on this bloody thing :/
Oh, and by the time its finished, there is nothing it should fail on, everything has been replaced! though emissions may be a slight issue :S

 

[chriscummins7]

needs more lows to pull off the wheels IMO!