PPC's £999 Challenge - Norledges 1998 Polo Saloon

Engine build weekend! Yeaaahhhh! Wish i had a bloody car, id pop over to give a hand!

Stop mincing!!

Only messing, I know you are building this with a purpose!

What's the benefit of the head block combo you're going to use? Is the 2.0 head no good?

Lol. The 2.0 counterflow was poorly designed from factory, half of the reason they only got an extra 15bhp from an extra 400cc.

So what engine is the g60 head from? Has the setup you're doing been done before with bike carbs?

The head gasket's off a G60 which is a 1.8 Supercharged as it's the only gasket i could fine that almost matched the head and block, the head is off an engine the same as my current one (1.6 x-flow) the block is the standard in a 8v Mk3 GTi 2.0.

No one i've spoken to has seen it done... so yeah, could be a bag of wank

Carbs and coilies just turned up... yay

Wasn't a bad guess at where to cut the fanimold!!



And my 'two month old' coilovers...

Main jets drilled out to 1.5mm (mainly because it's the only drill bit I could find), and i can always go bigger if needs be...

Should be enough.

Now with new lows...



The observant amongst you will notice the exhausts now sits about 15mm off the ground... suppose i'll be re-rerouting that then.

Anyway, picking up the AGG block tomorrow, hopefully sorted a piper 285 cam and a rear disc conversion off an Ibiza too

Looking good man, doing well!

Rear disc conversion sorted off an Ibiza GTi, as well as a tasty Piper 285 cam/vernier!

Costs -
Polo - £150
Tyres - £160
Paint - £Free
Chopped Springs - £Free
Range Rover Exhaust Section - £Free
Carbs - £45
AFT Head - £Free (Thanks Harry Buckland!)
Fuel Pressure reg - £Free (Thanks Ad!)
Silicon tubing - £Free (Thanks Kyle!)
G60 Head set - £60
Coilovers - £80
2.0 Block - £50
Piper Cam - £100
Rear Disc Conversion - £50

Total - £695

So...no updates for over 2weeks?? You been slacking Mr norledge?

So yeah it's kind of slowed down. I'm all spent out for this month and i need a clutch so waiting till payday

That a clutch for the new engine?

You can build a fudging engine without a clutch, mincer

Paint wheels pink now

What will be awsome is if you cut out a section from passenger rear footwell & weld in a tunnel to sit exhaust in then it will be higher than the sill IMO.

So yeah... went to do a bit of engine stripping today, try to spin the 2.0 by hand and it's seized solid!!

So that's going back, but luckily there's a 2.0 Ibiza at Buckies we'll be salvaging Saturday!!

So only 6 weeks and 2500 miles after buying them, this has happened...



Looks pimp... and lower!

Lmao and its not like you drive around spinning tyres!

That's mega

I want to shred the space saver before i fit the new tyres on... fudging chav.

Not much been happening...





Now have some pimping matt black centre caps.

Also got the doner engine out of a GTi, and stripped to a block...





Also taken the disc rear beam of a Ibiza GTi, which I've got no pictures of

That tyre is bad, i thought my toyo's lasting 6,000 miles was bad lol.

Yea but ryan half ur front toyos is still on the floor outside wrk after ur 30 foot burn out lol

What happened!

That looks bad?

Got Bored. Scrapped.

Do you think you'll ever get close to finishing any project??

poor powlow