What did you do to your Polo today?

[Bullet Fast]

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[Bullet Fast]

What did you do to your Polo today?

Was really horrified how much material I had to remove from the front bumper plastic and fog light surround to get it back on over the intercooler. Shamefully, I used a dealt 18v cordless grind and flapper disc, and although not quite arrow straight cuts it was a neat enough job.

BTW, WTF is the go with the radiator and aircon grill angle? I was actually taken aback when everything went in, until today I hadn't noticed how angled the whole front end is behind the bumper. Bumper is straight, but radiators angled? I thought straight away it was crash damage but I can't find anything broken or bent, and when I looked hard at other images on the net it started to look normal, ish. As normal as a bent front end can look....

[VWindahouse]

Was really horrified how much material I had to remove from the front bumper plastic and fog light surround to get it back on over the intercooler. Shamefully, I used a dealt 18v cordless grind and flapper disc, and although not quite arrow straight cuts it was a neat enough job.

BTW, WTF is the go with the radiator and aircon grill angle? I was actually taken aback when everything went in, until today I hadn't noticed how angled the whole front end is behind the bumper. Bumper is straight, but radiators angled? I thought straight away it was crash damage but I can't find anything broken or bent, and when I looked hard at other images on the net it started to look normal, ish. As normal as a bent front end can look....

Yep, yep and yep lol!

[Bullet Fast]

What did you do to your Polo today?

Dude it reminds me of the MK2 escorts I had, the steering wheel used to meet the driver angled off by about five degrees, just enough to make your wonder if it was your imagination. Mind you, that car was had some of the worst engineering in the world inside it - including a wiring loom twisted together by hand and taped up. Designed in England, assembled in NZ. *sigh*

Anyway, I want to know what excuse zee Germans have on this one. It could be something ridiculous about multi fits... Like the Seat 1.2L diesel gaywagen has an extra piece of something that lives there. Gav?

[jasonc23]

Wasn't today but sold my Polo for a NB MX-5. Boy does that thing handle better than the Polo (even on stock suspension compared to my KW equipped Polo). Significantly slower on the straight bits though but that's ok.

[blackbetty]

angled radiators - improves cooling efficency while the car is moving at speed.
if air passes through a radiator perfectly perpendicular, then it picks up less heat and cools less than if the radiator were angled slightly, which causes moving air to hit the cooling fins and then change direction, giving more time for the passing air to pick up the heat stored in the fins/radiator and therefore cool the radiator down better.

[blackbetty]

jason, congrats on your purchase
a good friend has a mx5, ive taken it for a spin many times and i love it.
lower center of gravity, near 50/50 split weight front to rear and rear wheel drive, will always handle better than a fwd car.

[Stuwey]

Ran in the Targa Sprint class at the opening prologue.

Came 4th on a wet, miserable night in front of some really quick cars

2013 Targa Adelaide Results

Now to find my boost leak...

[noone]

Sad to see you go Jas, they are a nice toy, very different.

Interested to hear more about how you manipulated the radiator mate.

[blackbetty]

Ran in the Targa Sprint class at the opening prologue.

Came 4th on a wet, miserable night in front of some really quick cars

2013 Targa Adelaide Results

Now to find my boost leak...

thats brilliant!

[kaanage]

I agree - that's awesome, Stuwey.
Good luck with the boost leak

[FarQ]

changed the H7 low beam bulbs as they both went out within a week of each other. Put the narva Intense ones in. They should fire the F&$ker engineer who designed the stuff around right hand side rear of the headlight assembly. What a F&%ken bitch to get the bulb in...

[seangti]

Got the car corner weighed this morning:

08 Polo GTI - Stock in terms of weight, no weight loss attempt whatsoever: stock wheels, brakes, interior, near full tank of fuel, tow bar, roof racks and sub woofer, and some chassis bracing mine weighed in at 1240kg without driver.

Front Left - 384kg Front Right - 396kg
Rear Left - 232kg Rear Right - 228.5kg

ie. 62% front weighting and ~50% left/right

Interesting to now know what it weighs, and then to work out what it means.

[VWindahouse]

So also went with Sean and put the Devil on the scales.

I have a heap of weight saving measures like no back seat or seat belts, small battery, rear parcel shelf, spare, jack to name a few of the big ones.

Total weight with a 1/4 of a tank was 1131.5 and with me 1205.5

Front left 367 (32.4%) Front right 385.5 (34%) Total front percentage = 66%

Rear left 192.5 (17%) Rear right 186.5 (16.4%) Total rear percentage = 34%

With driver

Front left 375.5 (31.1%) Front right 416 (34.5%) Total front percentage = 66%

Rear left 203.5 (16.9%) Rear right 210 (17.4%) Total rear percentage = 34%

And total left to right side percentages with driver 48:52

Now what I don't get is the Polo GTI is always listed as different weights depending on which Google search result you click on

VOLKSWAGEN Polo IV 9N3 GTI 1.8 150 hp 3 . Car Technical Data. Power. Torque. Fuel tank capacity. Fuel consumption.

VW Polo GTI lap times and specs - FastestLaps.com

So not sure which one to compare to?

[RoSonic]

The official value from VW was 1164kg.