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I'm some uni student from the North East of England with not much money so i make do with what i have and try and make the best of it. This is just a daft hobby build which i hope to come out nice one day. And it is a project, so please dont slate it straight away just wait see what it turns out like. This build is copied from another site so if some bits dont make sense it's probably because they were posted a few days after the last image/text - so just try and make some sense of it haha!
Decided to make a thread on mine and mikes 1991 mk2f saloon, incase anyone was interested haha. I'd got rid of my old car just before hand and just had to get myself back on the road. here is a little piccy of my old car just because i loved it
Anyway back to the polo, bought it in around September from a lad for a tasty £700 in better nick than i expected, here's a pic of the very day that i bought it
Just after i bought this i went online to search for some other mk3 saloons, to get a bit of inspiration for what i could do with this. I came across a sh*t tonne of images of what it used to look like from the previous owner, and they weren't pretty haha. here's it's thread: http://www.clubpolo.co.uk/forum/lofi...t177480-0.html
So anyway, as soon as i got my car there were changes (which i forgot to photograph ) which consisted of basics, spraying the wheels, got a roof rack (stock to be made cool with planks of wood) so on and so on.
After this things got a little sketchier. went about cutting the springs on both front and back for lows, but didn't realise how much it would fuck up the steering and stuff. back end went fine but it was extremely soft still, so if i had someone in the back or even heavy shopping the exhaust would tickle the floor. The front end however went mad, the steering arms came up and not only touched the body (which led to body notching with my trust angle grinder), but the end of the steering arms and the strut arm touched the inside of the arch which made steering extremely heavy and down right dangerous. I also felt game and decided to cut the springs another coil which meant that the springs were now pointless and the car was sat on the damper which again is super dangerous but also is very uncomfortable on any kind of road, not to mention how stupid i must have looked from the outside so if you're reading this and you want to cut your springs just dont. save up and fork out for some bangin coilies - which was my next step.
A hefty £480 later my coilovers arrived and i got straight to fitting. The back ones went on a treat which i expected, but the front ones proved a problem what with having to have the hubs and bearings pressed. I rang up a couple of major garages like kwik-fit and north east tyres and autocare and was told it'd be £50 all in, bearings and hubs pressed out and in. decided to fuck that and went to some backstreets and some guy with a press did both of the bearings and hubs for a 5er each. After seeing the state of the old bearings after being pressed out i quickly decided to purchase myself some new ones and decided to splash out on new hubs too. a couple of days later i had everything i needed, and got to work.
got one fitted and the low jack doesn't even fit under anymore
Due to not very low profile tyres, Mike had to get to work with a hammer - but don't panic because bolt on wide arches are on the way to clean it up. And yes, we tried the good old metal tube and roll the car, it worked perfectly but not enough.
This is it with around 90mm on the back and about 100mm on front, both the coils go to around 120mm so when i get some new shoes i'll drop it fully.
decided to test my old wheels before i have them re-sprayed and buy new tires for streettccchhhhhhh! coilovers still on about 100mm, here is how they are on the front. haven't got round to looking at the back yet
looks at lot more thickened out now. camber ftw
wide arches arrived today so hopefully i'll get the on before the end of tomorrow. then it'll start to come together
so me and Mike decided it as time for......... the colour change. Originally we were gonna go hot chocolate brown, but decided that we'd go fully stealth and be matte black. Sanding started and might i add this was all done in 16mph winds on my drive.... as ghetto as it gets.
then the first side began spraying:
Then some more sanding:
And final spraying and cleaning up, oh yeah and the arches were cut ready for bolt ons (going on this week)
Lights were also tinted for the stealthy look, and fitted:
and here are the finished pictures. i drove it about all night because i felt like it so it's a bit muddy but besides that i think we did a pretty good job!
Arches and wheels and a general clean up, including interior changes coming in the very near future
new tires came yesterday so i shot em on today. pleased with the stretch haha, now just need a general re-furb on the wheels! getting them sandblasted soon enough and then re-sprayed
Also shot together some quick bonnet latches, i'm really pleased with these. £15 from eBay for actual bonnet buckles, i just chopped these of an old briefcase that i payed a pound for in a charity shop car needs a clean but i'm sure you get the jist
fucking coilovers snapped day before yesterday and i was only turning into a road, barely moving. Absolutily livid, sent a letter to the manufacturer and they are replacing immediately but still.... thats ridiculous
Decided to make a thread on mine and mikes 1991 mk2f saloon, incase anyone was interested haha. I'd got rid of my old car just before hand and just had to get myself back on the road. here is a little piccy of my old car just because i loved it
Anyway back to the polo, bought it in around September from a lad for a tasty £700 in better nick than i expected, here's a pic of the very day that i bought it
Just after i bought this i went online to search for some other mk3 saloons, to get a bit of inspiration for what i could do with this. I came across a sh*t tonne of images of what it used to look like from the previous owner, and they weren't pretty haha. here's it's thread: http://www.clubpolo.co.uk/forum/lofi...t177480-0.html
So anyway, as soon as i got my car there were changes (which i forgot to photograph ) which consisted of basics, spraying the wheels, got a roof rack (stock to be made cool with planks of wood) so on and so on.
After this things got a little sketchier. went about cutting the springs on both front and back for lows, but didn't realise how much it would fuck up the steering and stuff. back end went fine but it was extremely soft still, so if i had someone in the back or even heavy shopping the exhaust would tickle the floor. The front end however went mad, the steering arms came up and not only touched the body (which led to body notching with my trust angle grinder), but the end of the steering arms and the strut arm touched the inside of the arch which made steering extremely heavy and down right dangerous. I also felt game and decided to cut the springs another coil which meant that the springs were now pointless and the car was sat on the damper which again is super dangerous but also is very uncomfortable on any kind of road, not to mention how stupid i must have looked from the outside so if you're reading this and you want to cut your springs just dont. save up and fork out for some bangin coilies - which was my next step.
A hefty £480 later my coilovers arrived and i got straight to fitting. The back ones went on a treat which i expected, but the front ones proved a problem what with having to have the hubs and bearings pressed. I rang up a couple of major garages like kwik-fit and north east tyres and autocare and was told it'd be £50 all in, bearings and hubs pressed out and in. decided to fuck that and went to some backstreets and some guy with a press did both of the bearings and hubs for a 5er each. After seeing the state of the old bearings after being pressed out i quickly decided to purchase myself some new ones and decided to splash out on new hubs too. a couple of days later i had everything i needed, and got to work.
got one fitted and the low jack doesn't even fit under anymore
Due to not very low profile tyres, Mike had to get to work with a hammer - but don't panic because bolt on wide arches are on the way to clean it up. And yes, we tried the good old metal tube and roll the car, it worked perfectly but not enough.
This is it with around 90mm on the back and about 100mm on front, both the coils go to around 120mm so when i get some new shoes i'll drop it fully.
decided to test my old wheels before i have them re-sprayed and buy new tires for streettccchhhhhhh! coilovers still on about 100mm, here is how they are on the front. haven't got round to looking at the back yet
looks at lot more thickened out now. camber ftw
wide arches arrived today so hopefully i'll get the on before the end of tomorrow. then it'll start to come together
so me and Mike decided it as time for......... the colour change. Originally we were gonna go hot chocolate brown, but decided that we'd go fully stealth and be matte black. Sanding started and might i add this was all done in 16mph winds on my drive.... as ghetto as it gets.
then the first side began spraying:
Then some more sanding:
And final spraying and cleaning up, oh yeah and the arches were cut ready for bolt ons (going on this week)
Lights were also tinted for the stealthy look, and fitted:
and here are the finished pictures. i drove it about all night because i felt like it so it's a bit muddy but besides that i think we did a pretty good job!
Arches and wheels and a general clean up, including interior changes coming in the very near future
new tires came yesterday so i shot em on today. pleased with the stretch haha, now just need a general re-furb on the wheels! getting them sandblasted soon enough and then re-sprayed
Also shot together some quick bonnet latches, i'm really pleased with these. £15 from eBay for actual bonnet buckles, i just chopped these of an old briefcase that i payed a pound for in a charity shop car needs a clean but i'm sure you get the jist
fucking coilovers snapped day before yesterday and i was only turning into a road, barely moving. Absolutily livid, sent a letter to the manufacturer and they are replacing immediately but still.... thats ridiculous