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i know this is the wrong section, but the polo section needed some old school love so here is the build up of my old mk2, unfortunately i no longer have it, but i still like to look at it.
Anyway on with the story..... I bought for the princely sum of not very much, a 1984 vw Polo coupe 1300cc of tyre frying fury. When i bought it the windscreen had been smashed by some little wuckfits that had no appreciation of how difficult it would be to get a new one....
I imported a new screen from 'ze fatherland' and had that fitted up and the car wof'ed on the road for around $600 all up. Not bad i thought, and for 2 weeks i drove it around and had a lot of fun, then, some more wuckfits again decided to liberate it of its windscreen and drivers door glass, and the OEM+ VDO gauges i had fitted, and they tried to wrench my sparco wheel that suffered a little bit of a bend but not much more.
Thoroughly disheartened i put the car into dry storage and forgot about it, until earlier this year when, just for a lark i decided to see what new glass was worth through the stealership. To my (and the technician serving me's) surprise the front screen through the dealer cost less than 6 months rego delivered from germany via airfreight
The side window however was nearly twice the price.
Windscreen number 2 unfortunately never made it past singapore before being turned into glass confetti, so i had to wait another 2 weeks and was beginning to wonder if perhaps this little car ws just not supposed to have windows.....
Windscreen number 3 arrived in one peice and was promptly installed into the car without any further glitches. I then set about undoing all the bad that sitting for nearly four years had caused... Tyres were split, cambelt looked pretty suss, carb was well nasty, and it smelled nasty....
I picked up a set of pirelli p slots (oem on mk2 golf's) and set about polishing them up in preparation for some new tyres, a set of 165-60/14 were duly purchased (wish i had gone for something else now).
This pretty much brings me up to around 1 month ago, where i managed to find an electronic ignition set up from a seat Ibiza (similar motor ) and had some more evil thoughts about putting the GSXR750 carbs, i have had for a while, to good use.
It's now running (a little roughly) on them and is awaiting some new brake calipers and pads so that i can have a go at tuning it a bit, but it is already well lairy compared to how it was with the old single throat DD pooburg carb that it left wolfsburg with.
Anywho pictures, and a little vid of the induction growl (and waterpump whine to boot)
YouTube - polo on bike carbs
Small update, have fitted choke cable, thanks to a triumph 2000tc, fitted a new, comically oversized, gear knob. Tidied up the throttle cable. Thats about it really, Have a new set of shockers coming courtesy of TM, just need to sort some new springs for the front and probably chop a couple of coils from the rear and it'll be a little bit littler in stance.
Anyway on with the story..... I bought for the princely sum of not very much, a 1984 vw Polo coupe 1300cc of tyre frying fury. When i bought it the windscreen had been smashed by some little wuckfits that had no appreciation of how difficult it would be to get a new one....
I imported a new screen from 'ze fatherland' and had that fitted up and the car wof'ed on the road for around $600 all up. Not bad i thought, and for 2 weeks i drove it around and had a lot of fun, then, some more wuckfits again decided to liberate it of its windscreen and drivers door glass, and the OEM+ VDO gauges i had fitted, and they tried to wrench my sparco wheel that suffered a little bit of a bend but not much more.
Thoroughly disheartened i put the car into dry storage and forgot about it, until earlier this year when, just for a lark i decided to see what new glass was worth through the stealership. To my (and the technician serving me's) surprise the front screen through the dealer cost less than 6 months rego delivered from germany via airfreight
The side window however was nearly twice the price. Windscreen number 2 unfortunately never made it past singapore before being turned into glass confetti, so i had to wait another 2 weeks and was beginning to wonder if perhaps this little car ws just not supposed to have windows.....
Windscreen number 3 arrived in one peice and was promptly installed into the car without any further glitches. I then set about undoing all the bad that sitting for nearly four years had caused... Tyres were split, cambelt looked pretty suss, carb was well nasty, and it smelled nasty....
I picked up a set of pirelli p slots (oem on mk2 golf's) and set about polishing them up in preparation for some new tyres, a set of 165-60/14 were duly purchased (wish i had gone for something else now).
This pretty much brings me up to around 1 month ago, where i managed to find an electronic ignition set up from a seat Ibiza (similar motor ) and had some more evil thoughts about putting the GSXR750 carbs, i have had for a while, to good use.
It's now running (a little roughly) on them and is awaiting some new brake calipers and pads so that i can have a go at tuning it a bit, but it is already well lairy compared to how it was with the old single throat DD pooburg carb that it left wolfsburg with.
Anywho pictures, and a little vid of the induction growl (and waterpump whine to boot)
YouTube - polo on bike carbs
Small update, have fitted choke cable, thanks to a triumph 2000tc, fitted a new, comically oversized, gear knob. Tidied up the throttle cable. Thats about it really, Have a new set of shockers coming courtesy of TM, just need to sort some new springs for the front and probably chop a couple of coils from the rear and it'll be a little bit littler in stance.
Not even picworthy...
Shame to break such a cool little car 
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