9N3 Polo R Project - who's game?

[nightphotographer]

Yesterday I had the coolest idea for a 9N3 Polo R project and I'm wondering who is crazy enough to try it...

First off - complete respray in Rising Blue.
Cup Edition body kit (minus the spoiler)
17" Oz Aristos (Cup Edition wheels)
Tuned to 240bhp (R32 power output)
R Styling (Badges, sill protectors, steering wheel, engine cover)
Twin Exhausts in the MK4 R32 style (one on each side)
Maybe even lose the GTI grille and go chrome slats with R badge.
Retrimmed, Heated Leather 'R' Seats.

It's kind of a crazy project, that isn't that crazy - you'd make a unique, one of a kind car with not really much outlay if you have the right connections for parts and labour. The wheels are probably the hardest to find (trust me I've tried), but you could replicate with some 17" Borbet LS' or similar.

Opinions?

I think I might see how far I can stretch my budget...

[h100vw]

I'll do you the 240hp.

[Bflat]

I'll do you the 240hp.

Van has essentially done the visual side of it.

[nightphotographer]

Who!? I want to see photos!

And Gavin - don't worry I'll be coming to you for that tune very shortly, custom downpipe soon, then going to get a replacement clutch just in case and then I'm ready to book in. I've got a forge FMIC too that's on and ready to handle that extra boost!

[Bflat]

Who!? I want to see photos!

search SSMan

[nightphotographer]

Yeah that's one nice polo, but it isn't Rising Blue! And I couldn't see any pics of what I assume were 18" Aristos, 17's are rarer

[GTI_PAPA]

Regarding wheels, if you are after 17" R32 replicas (Aristo), try Rochford Tyres (UK) or Performancealloys (Irl). They no longer display them on their sites, but it might be worth an email to see if they can still get hold of them.

If it's Polo Cup wheels you're after, their Australian model name was 'R Line', but search 'Areitta' on Ebay.com, or just Google and I'm sure you'll find what you're after.

Hope this helps...

[nightphotographer]

Cheers man - that does help, wasn't able to find a set of Arietta's for sale, and they're still slightly different to the Aristos that came on the cup edition. Those Borbet LS' I was talking about are only $800 new for a set of 4 and obviously Borbet have got a great reputation in the Dub scene so they'd be a good option.

[noone]

FWD. even with a LSD, not the same.

[End User]

FWD. even with a LSD, not the same.

^^^^^ This ^^^^^

[philthy]

Haha.. When I read the topic I thought you might have a written off mk4 r32 that you were going to gut and graft the drive train into a polo.. Oh well

[Evaded Motorsport]

Haha.. When I read the topic I thought you might have a written off mk4 r32 that you were going to gut and graft the drive train into a polo.. Oh well

I'll do a diesel verison, just ordered a new turbo that should see those power levels

[Buller_Scott]

I'll do a diesel verison, just ordered a new turbo that should see those power levels

ANOTHER turbo? what happened to the vnt17?

and what's this about fwd vs awd? didnt some magazine, when testing ''hot hatches'' around philip island (iirc) say in the context of golf gti vs golf r (forget if they were tuned or not): "you dont need awd on the street, and it didnt help it on the track"...

if you're going to make a project car that's all about performance, is adding more weight via an awd system really going to help?

yes, people like to look at stats on paper and say "awd is gonna be so much better than fwd in a polo 1.8t with stock/frankenturbo/k04", but where's the proof? in terms of b-road spirited driving, i've been on some rather aggressive (read: brakes acrid and tyres screeching every corner) drives with the boys in victoria and it's never seemed that the awd cars have ever had any noticeable advantage over fwd cars on victoria's favored driving roads...

perhaps on the track, maybe, but then you're also lugging around an extra 150+ kgs.

it'd be unique, that's for sure...

[Njay]

drives with the boys in victoria and it's never seemed that the awd cars have ever had any noticeable advantage over fwd cars on victoria's favored driving roads...

take an awd for a drive in the rain and drive it hard and see if you can notice a difference, ive driven both golf r and scirocco r with stage 1 tune and I would always go for a golf r purely because its awd and better if your after power and the scirocco r gets ridiculous wheel hop

[kaanage]

Meh. I don't mind slowing down a bit in the rain. For a small car, lightness rules.