Will's mk2 Polo Track Car - Uupdated November 1st

Background info...

It's a mk2 polo squareback, the chasis has done 88k miles but it has a ~60k mk3 GT engine in. This will be run on bike carbs with a homebrew P&P'd head and naughty side exit until next summer when I will hopefully have built a race spec 1400 16v on ITBs.

The chasis consists/will consist of homemade front coilovers H&R dampers and undecided springs, custom, rose jointed, wide tracked front end imcorporating a PPP subframe and camber adjust top mounts with a few sets of 13 or 14 x7 wheels with various tyres, Wilwood brakes, the car has a fully welded in cage (which I understand I can modify to triangulate in to the front strut tops). KW v2 coilovers on the rear and a G40 rear beam with rebuilt drums.

Everything I can has been relocated into the rear of the car, this means: ally fuel tank, race battery, washer bottles etc...

Bodywork wise I have a fibreglass bonnet with Aerocatch bonnet pins (+go, +show!) and am in the process of moulding custom Berg-esque front wings, doors boot and rear quarters from fibreglass. A carbon fibre roofskin will be making it's way onto the car as soon as I get hold or a non-sunroof roof to take a mould from. The paint will be Candy White, which will go well with the multitude of carbon parts I've been hoarding, including an ex-Prodrive, used in a WRC stage by Colin McRae steering wheel. I've a goal of 650kg when it's finished, should be fun with 150+ bhp next year!

I'm concentrating on getting the chasis ready and painting before I start to assemble parts, so it may not look like much but there should be a lot more progress now the cage is done!

Hope you enjoyed that essay, now for pictures. Beware WIP content!!

 

Bo

 

I love it, its nice to see something completely different!

 

Thanks!

That's the look I'm going for!

 

Sweeeeet

Good choice

 

top work!

 

lookin awesome so far!

 

That should go very well, makes a change from a Mk2 Golf

 

Yes indeed!

 

glad you like it!

It's normal reception is, "Why have you done that to a polo?"

 

saw a breadvan polo at the ring last year, it was stripped, caged and bombing it around, we called it the flying machine!

 

That is awesome, love the way you have done the rear arches

Just out of interest, are you doing the carbon roof yourself or are you taking the mould to someone to do?

 

I'll be making the roof myself

The arches in the picture with the exhaust are my first attempy, proper bodge, they have since been cut out and I'm putting Berg arches on.

 

So the rear arches aren't going to retain the original shape?

I'll be interested to see how the roof comes out and the cost of it (if you don't mind letting us know) as it's something I've wanted to do for ages to get rid of the stupid aftermarket sunroof.

 

Love it

Keep the updates coming, it will be an awesome car

 

no, they should be done in about a month when i get back from the states, so ill get some pictures up then....

the carbon roof won't be coming for a while, ive got more important things to work on in the mean time!

 

One of my favourite cars ever - sounds like yours will be similar.

 

dam i might have to buy a breadvan polo as my next track toy, what car are they mainly bassed on?

 

that looks awsome