What did you do to your Polo today?

[noone]

modding the stock airbox so it can be removed with the strut brace in place. Summer is coming, so I think I'll move away from the POD filter setup until I can finish it or it gets cold again.

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does our MAF have this little fuse / resistor thing?

[nikanasz]

Nice looking lines! Any difference in pedal feel mate?

thanks, ordered them transparent red to match my car color. the pedal feels much firmer on braking, and you really feel the brake biting sooner from the pedal if that makes any sense. i also flushed the old brake fluid and put in pentosin racing brake fluid.

Nice, I have had a set sitting here for ages and haven't put them in

Do you have a pic of the back ones on the car, my car looks like the fitting is crimped onto a hard line.

sorry mate, i didn't take any pics of the rear ones, but yes; initially i too thought i was duped or something when i saw that the rear calipers also have banjo fittings connecting to a hard line, totally not going to fit with the HEL supplied lines.

but actually the hoses to be replaced are not connected to the rear calipers. the two short hoses are located under the rear subframe, right under the fuel tank (left side is easy, right side you'll need an angled spanner to reach one of the fittings). you'll see what i mean when you hoist the car up and look under the rear subframe. the rear hoses are connected to the hardline that you see going to the calipers. the other end of the hose connects to the brake hard line on the car body. dang, should have taken pics, i hope my description is clear enough.

[ml16]

Headlight restoration. My driver's side was heavily pitted so i rubbed back with some wet and dry to smooth it a bit, then used the turtle wax headlight restoration kit. Came up a treat. Could use a machine buffer for the final polish to make it even better. I'm happy with the results and a $30 kit is cheaper than a new headlight. No before/after pics though.

[vwthunder]

sorry mate, i didn't take any pics of the rear ones, but yes; initially i too thought i was duped or something when i saw that the rear calipers also have banjo fittings connecting to a hard line, totally not going to fit with the HEL supplied lines.

but actually the hoses to be replaced are not connected to the rear calipers. the two short hoses are located under the rear subframe, right under the fuel tank (left side is easy, right side you'll need an angled spanner to reach one of the fittings). you'll see what i mean when you hoist the car up and look under the rear subframe. the rear hoses are connected to the hardline that you see going to the calipers. the other end of the hose connects to the brake hard line on the car body. dang, should have taken pics, i hope my description is clear enough.

Cool thanks for that, will have a look next time im under there, just changed the rear pads last week lol

[noone]

I dropped this into the new Polo section, but thought it made sense to put it in here for what I did yesterday...

Yesterday I removed my custom POD filter and shield setup, cleaned my MAF, and re-installed the original airbox I'd modified so it didn't clash with the front strut brace making cleaning the filter a total pain. Re-oiled the flat filter, reset the ECU, increased my ignition timing. checked my tyre pressure, I could tell it had dropped by a few PSI. I took one of the shims out of my Forge 008 diverter, I'm getting used to the noise. I think the yellow tension spring with 1 shim is holding enough boost, but I'm yet to do any logging.

[seangti]

Gave the car a good clean. Washed, clay bar, meguirs paint cleaner and finished with meguirs wet look. Has come up much better, paint feels fantastic now, nice shine - though as per murphy's law, Brisbane has a week of rain forecast. Though I've polished it reasonably often and always keep it pretty clean, I hadn't done a claybar on this car. The paint was much smoother than I was expecting when clarbarring. Waiting for the sun to come out to appreciate it.

[FLYINGTI]

Gave the car a good clean. Washed, clay bar, meguirs paint cleaner and finished with meguirs wet look. Has come up much better, paint feels fantastic now, nice shine - though as per murphy's law, Brisbane has a week of rain forecast. Though I've polished it reasonably often and always keep it pretty clean, I hadn't done a claybar on this car. The paint was much smoother than I was expecting when clarbarring. Waiting for the sun to come out to appreciate it.

Nice, Feels good once all is done!
Got Some clean before and afters=)

[seangti]

Nice, Feels good once all is done!
Got Some clean before and afters=)

I didn't do any befores, and the car hasn't left the garage for afters. Should have some photos this coming weekend from the lakeside track session thingy. Fingers crossed for no rain.

[Button]

Installed my Seat Intake!

I'm an ultimate noob with this sort of thing, so I was chuffed that I managed to do to it myself.

[Bflat]

Installed my Seat Intake!

I'm an ultimate noob with this sort of thing, so I was chuffed that I managed to do to it myself.

Probably did a better job than me mate, I managed to gouge my wrist open on the corner of the battery. Still have the scar

[Button]

Hahaha, I didn't do much better mate, I managed to chop the ends of my fingers up pretty well. There really wasn't much space there to fit the considerably larger piece!

[FLYINGTI]

Hahaha. a little blood is fine once you get the job done=)
where did you order from if u dont mind me asking=)

[Button]

Here's where got it from; Partsworld-UK. Seat Ibiza pd160 air intake pipe & adapter

I'd heard that it would take ages, but I had it within two weeks.

[Spec83]

The PD160 was a much tighter fit than what I was expecting... Heaps easier if you remove the snorkel from behind the grille

[kaanage]

Fitted different torque arm with a polyureathane (APR fast road) bush. Gear changes are very slightly smoother at the cost of massive vibration at idle (re Buller_Scott's experience with a SuperPro bush).

I'll be changing back to the OE arm ASAP and reserving this for trackdays (as planned)