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So I've gone and brought myself a polo 9n3 gti 1.8 turbo

I've had her a couple of months and really enjoying it very under rated car

This is my progress of turning her from standard too show standards (hopefully) lol

This is her standard the pint was ruined so first thing was a full machine polish




Then I changed the badges to red instead of silver the vw badge will go to led eventually



Just a little touch putting a gti sticker on the wing mirror glass





Finally had the windows tinted with a surviving the night life sticker



This week I have been painting the calipers as they were flaking going for a special colour instead of the basic read and the wheels are also getting a refurb until I can afford a new set of rotas

Here's a couple of pics of my progress so far


And now all in primer

Today managed to get my brake dicks tidied up ready for Brighton incarnation anyone else going to this show?

Finally I seem like I'm getting somewhere for incarnation

Today managed to get my rear calipers painted in red and also my centre piece of my engine cover also had my wheels sent away to be refurbished and plenty more to come

Next week start on the front calipers fit my centre console as I had a broke heater grill

So this week has been a busy one the wheels have come back from being refurbed and they look better than the standard silver

Still got to paint my front callipers which should be done by the end of the weekend


Tinted my fog lights in red but still need to get a picture of them in the dark

Red fog light tint

She' looking good mate.
Looking forward to see what's she like when your done.

What are you planning to do?

I've got a big list of things tbh but it's all about funds atm

Going to get a milltek turbo back pipe then have the rest custom made so it can be louder than the milltek systems

Boost gauge and remap
Induction kit
Glass made up to go under the heat shield
Fit some vxr recaro seats eventually but atm their still quite expensive

Custom make my own rear bumper
Smooth the front bumper and door mouldings
Led rear badge and led front grills wired to a switch so I don't get pulled
Get bits under the engine bay hydro dipped
Red silicone hoses
Metal battery cover

Ebiach lowering kit which is the main thing cost £800
Boot build then look into getting the interior retrimmed so get rid of that plastic look

My main goal atm is to try get her to around 250 bhp with a nice bassy sound system and lowered I'm not doing bad as I've only had her 4 months

So a little up date had my first show yesterday at incarnation (Brighton)
Got quite a bit of interest as it was the only polo their (these cars are so under rated)























This week I'm going to fit some engine bay bolts with red washers
A red luke tow strap and hopefully fly eye tint my head lights keep watching

Looking very tidy under the bonnet!
How did you do the engine cover to get it to come out that well? Was it professionally done?
Got a Shadow Blue GTi myself and really want to colour code the engine cover on mine.

Going to be doing performance mods later in the year and hope to get mine to around 220ish BHP

Iv had mine almost 9 and not nearly done as much as you have in 4 haha.

Awesome mate
I work in a professional body shop so painted it myself

I'm keen to modify her brought a toe strap for it on the weekend and fitted it today but didn't like it so it may come off tomorrow

Also brought some fly eye film but it was cheap stuff from a show and didn't work that well so my next approach is to by so eye lids instead and see how that looks


These are easily done to get to 220bhp you can get a remap without changing a thing and it will take it to 205bhp
So with a exhaust and induction kit you should be getting close to that mark

I'm going to wait to get mine remapped until I've put my exhaust and induction kit on so its mapped with all those parts on

Problem is now I've started spending I can't stop addiction lol

Centre peices in steering wheel carbon fibre
Also going to install a black centre console

Looking good mate!! How did you get the trip computer in the centre of the dials?

That's standard mate does yours not have that?

AH right, mine is just where the clock is!

So this week I got round to painting my centre console and changing the heater bottoms to make it look a bit more modern



I have also ordered a ram air induction kit and some red things for under the bonnet