Hoodedreeper's New Polo Project

[hoodedreeper]

Only prep i done was wiped the dash with some Isopropyl to get rid of any dirt/grease/oil and they stuck on fine Its all individual stickers

 

[hoodedreeper]

Got bored and re-pin striped my grille (my old grille had red pin stripe)

Also found my old Micra winter wheels and put them on the 'ol Polo:

Will get a better 'full on' photo tomorrow when its actually day light haha

 

[karlj]

love the green hooded (Y)(Y)

 

[hoodedreeper]

Dropped my steelies off tonight to be resprayed. Here are my plans:

Or with a green Pin Stripe (to go with the Grille)

 

[ollyc98]

Whitewalls? Go on, you know you want to.

 

[hoodedreeper]

Indeed With or without the green pin stripe though?!

 

[ollyc98]

With the pinstripe, although I'd prefer red.

 

[karlj]

white walls ftw

 

[hoodedreeper]

Heres a better pic in daylight

 

[peposhi]

he-hee, this car stands out (Y)(Y)(Y)

 

[karlj]

Little of topic hooded but how did you fit your nismo spoiler? Was it with just the bolts or bolts and tiger seal?

 

[hoodedreeper]

The body shop used a sealant

 

[hoodedreeper]

Abit of an update:

Centres now sprayed Satin Black:

All Masked up:

All done:

 

[B14KLR]

looks cool, i'll be interested to see how long the paint lasts!what did you use?

 

[jamieccc]

white wall looks ace, any plans for the engine? bike carbs?

 

[hoodedreeper]

I used a product called Plasti-kote which i believe is flexable

No engine plans unfortunately,this needs to be as cheap to run as possible with maximum fuel economy

 

[hoodedreeper]

Will get a better photo Sunday when its daylight and hopefully less snowy

 

[hoodedreeper]

Daylight photos as promised:

And the snow laid on my roof over night:

 

[Shaun]

I love your car apart from the bonnet, think it deserves more than rat now

 

[hoodedreeper]

I know what you mean Might put the black one back on when i get a chance

 

[Shaun]

I know what you mean Might put the black one back on when i get a chance

Yeahhh!! (Y)

 

[peposhi]

I love that car!

You've done a fantastic job!

Keep up coming with those crazy ideas!

 

[hoodedreeper]

Thanks I've got the door cards being made for some custom speaker builds. After that its no more spending! I reeeeallly need to concentrate on the Micra!

 

[hoodedreeper]

Collected my new door pockets from H&S Performance today:

Added my own touch:

Just gotta drop them off now to get the wiring all sorted and then get it wired up to the car next friday

 

[hoodedreeper]

Car was booked in at H&S Performance today to have the door pods fitted and everything all wired up. Heres the finished product:

While i was there i got the centre box cut out:

And a straight piece of pipe welded in its place:

This is mainly to stop the car from scraping on every speed bump!

 

[Shaun]

You couldn't wire them up yourself? :laugh:
Looks very nice! (Y)

 

[hoodedreeper]

Yes i could have,but i had a problem with the orginal 6x9s that i wired them up. So i asked them to wire these up from scratch to make sure there werent any kinks etc in the wires

 

[Shaun]

Yes i could have,but i had a problem with the orginal 6x9s that i wired them up. So i asked them to wire these up from scratch to make sure there werent any kinks etc in the wires

Ah ok cost much for them to do that sort of thing?

 

[hoodedreeper]

I got a bargain really,cos making of the door pods should have been at least £120 with the amount of work that got put into them. Then what ever on top of that for the wiring and the exhaust. I got it for £120 all in

 

[Shaun]

I got a bargain really,cos making of the door pods should have been at least £120 with the amount of work that got put into them. Then what ever on top of that for the wiring and the exhaust. I got it for £120 all in

That's quite good! (Y)

 

[hoodedreeper]

I dunno if its cos i'm friends with the owners or if they're prices are good. I got an oil and filter change for £10 cos im too lazy to do it haha

 

[Shaun]

I dunno if its cos i'm friends with the owners or if they're prices are good. I got an oil and filter change for £10 cos im too lazy to do it haha

lol mind you £10 is the price of oil and a filter.

 

[B14KLR]

side exit exhaust next! these cars are made for them! can be done with minimal effort. as you can see in your pic, if you continue the exhaust in a straight line just after the mid box join,it pops out just before the rear wheel. your mates at the garage should be able to do it no probs...here's my mk3 coup with a bit of standard pipe welded on...

also as i'm sure you aware,the silly exhaust set up goes under the rear axle, so losing the backbox will help scraping issues. sounds tidy too

 

[hoodedreeper]

Last night was the last trip to Great Yarmouth for the Polo So couldnt do it without taking some photos!

 

[Shaun]

lol good back drop.

 

[hoodedreeper]

Delivered the Polo to Olly yesterday,managed to grab a couple of last photos before setting off for the 190 mile trip:

Bye bye Polo