Little Red Devil

[VWindahouse]

Cosmetics finally arrived!



Plus the facelift is complete! Bit of nip and tuck for the Devil.....

Firstly lost the side skirts for a cleaner look. I was surprised at the very prominent lines now visible along the side of the car!

Sorry crappy pics while out shopping.





Then had the rear valance colour coded to match the sides





Even took off the bonnet insulation



Got some rubber VW stickers made up for the center caps for the real OEM look



Hopefully will have the interior completed this weekend then the real fun starts! Lots of custom performance experiments on the cards. Can't wait....................

[vwthunder]

Wow loving it, so clean, i like the look with no sideskirts, and the Red paint is looking mint

What are you going to do on the inside?

[WHTPOLOGTI]

Lookimg good. What wheels are those btw? 16s? Emkeis?

[dainese]

Lookimg good. What wheels are those btw? 16s? Emkeis?

enkei rpf-1

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car does look good!

skirts do accentuate the lines of the car, ey?

good stuff!

[VWindahouse]

Wow loving it, so clean, i like the look with no sideskirts, and the Red paint is looking mint

What are you going to do on the inside?

Thanks mate!

Not too much with the interior. Just taking out the fuel and oil pressure gauges and their senders. The fuel pressure sender it way too heavy and is rubbing through other fuel hoses under the bonnet and the oil pressure sender keeps frying because its so close to the engine. I have replaced the triple gauge pod with a single din VW pocket from Jimmy and I'm installing a new type of boost gauge in an air vent pod.

[VWindahouse]

Lookimg good. What wheels are those btw? 16s? Emkeis?

Thanks! Yes they're 17x8".

dainese - thanks! Yes it's a bit hard to explain and the photos don't do it justice but the polo looks more squat now and a bit meaner on the road. Plus without the skirts the rear tyres poke out more.

[noone]

Reminds me of mine. But cleaner. I've been thinking about the colour coding for ages, really should just get on with it.

Nice ride dude.

[VWindahouse]

Cheers mate! Got some better snaps with my girlfriends SLR.

[Plautos]

Cool! I loved how it look with out the side skirts!

[VWindahouse]

Thanks mate! Might shave a few 10ths of a second off your lap times in that little silver bullet of yours Plautos

[noone]

How hard was it removing the side skirts? After that is it just removing the glue residue or is some painting required?

[VWindahouse]

It was a total bitch a couple of hours to remove all the glue residue, but no paint required luckily! I started at one end with a hair dryer and progressivily moved forward inch by inch which helped a bit. The first skirt pretty much left all its glue where as the second was fine.

[DeanB]

sounds far easier to get them colour coded

[Buller_Scott]

hey vwindahouse, how are things?

i've been rooting around looking at different suspension setups for the pog, and i cam across your setup (hr gti springs + koni adjustables), and i'd just like to ask - are the shocks well matched to the springs? did you find it improved handling a lot (stupid question i know, but whilst im here...), and also how is the adjustability - i gather the fronts are adjustable on car, are the rears adjustable as well? lastly, do you find that there is lots of scope for changing just how your car drives, thanks to the adjustability? (as in, helping turn in by only having the front set to 75% hard, whilst having the rears set up at max etc?)

any advice and insight would be great!

cheers mate and travel well!

scotty

[seangti]

Hi Scott, I've driven Anthony's car so can comment on the ride quality - very good. I was going to buy the koni's until I could get the bilsteins for very little more so went that way. I haven't done back to back with the bilstein, but ride and handling for anthony's set up is exceptionally good. Bear in mind that Anthony's done quite a but to the suspension geometry, but ride over bumps was good so would have no hesitation in suggestion koni as a compliant yet very capable set up.