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wow Jarno, you get me astonished everytime you post your polo's news..

Wow air-ride!! Wicked! Man I seriously can't wait for the end result....whoop whoop!

Thanx for the compiments, I meself can't wait 2 of course, got a new deadline too, since I'm meeting the present air-ride owner on novemberr the 10th to swap the set and install it on mine, I'm kind of feeling to have the engine ready then too, and place it in that same weekend

Don't have any pics thistime, but ported the exhaustports last night, also started sanding (pre-polishing) the inner works of the inlet and exhaustports

exhaustports are now as big as the 1600 inletports were

well done jarno!! i'm waiting to hear your feelings about the power gain of your little 1.3 engine with all the mods you've done!

Me too, been following the progress for quite some time +try getting some pics up of your car.

Thanks, finally finished my works on the head today, got around to polish the ports, now it can go back to get refurbed and all the valves put back

Shiny as f*ck

Time for an up-date:

Bought meself some fibreglass doorboards from Germany lately, wasn't what I expected and didn't match my style/taste/interior, so kinda pissed me off.

And then there is only 1 solutoin, make yourself some by your own hand

MFD-speakerrings, from 18mm thick MDF, those speakers aint going nowhere!:






How it should be looking like:





Finally got this, got the rings to go a bit deeper inside the boards, all covered in stretch and ready for fibreglassing it!:






Up, up & away!




Hopefully I can make something nice out of it.

Also finally got this baby from Germany:



Adjustable camshaftpulley, last thing I needed for the engine, hopefully the weekend of 10 november is enough time to assemble back the engine, put it in again and install the air-ride

Bought myself a little extra yesterday, will come in handy with the air-ride:




Hopefully the audio will also benefit a bit from it

JarnoVWPolo6N wrote: hopefully the weekend of 10 november is enough time to assemble back the engine, put it in again and install the air-ride

Jarno,
Looking forward to seeing the body, engine + suspension all in the car!

Do you have a target to finish the car by? I know a project car is never 'finished', but you know what I mean....

Cheers

Well, yes, it will never be ready, I haven't put it back together and already the next plans are in place

But I don't really have a target, on the 10th the air-ride is going in by what means, assembling back the engine depends on whether I've got me head back from the refurb-man that assembles it back for me, then I can assemble and mount the engine again, planning for that is asap Can't wait any longer for driving my baby

Was a long day today, started at about 9, finished at about 8, but the air-ride is transplanted from the persons mk4 who's sold it onto my mk4, and it all works perfectly.

Still need to tidy up the boot, and make some small adjustments to the set-up (not to keep on some little details so far), but that will come in time, biggest concern was to put it in and get it working.

Here some small flicks I took:


https://www.youtube*.com/watch?v=hKqLRlr5bz8

https://www.youtube*.com/watch?v=4IwX1P-TMNE

And me in the mk4, playing with the switches

https://www.youtube*.com/watch?v=NaD-A6qcvRY

That battery costs around the same as my annual insurance and i need to drive over to Spain to get it!!

With the air ride in does that mean the engine is already assembled? I want to see the whole grey/black matt combination.


Keep up the good work,

PHG

No, engine isn't assembled yet, also installing the airride showed that the bearings from the front shockmounts were gone so need to get some new ones from Bonrath, these are metal and increase the stifness of the suspension moddin'never stops