ryanlupot

hi mate. pretty easy to change yourself. only one which might give you abit of a problem is the gearbox one as you have to take the battery tray out and a few little pieces around it. jack the car up and get it on 2 axle stands. then use the jack to take the weight of the engine while you do the mounts. if I remember rightly the one under the car doesn't move when you unbolt it. its there to stop the engine twisting under torque mainly. hope this helps ryan

hi guys. I have the polo gti 6n2 engine in my lupo. its a project iv been working on forawhile. going for boost. I was planning on running a 2.5mm spacer plate to drop the compression however I have spotted these on ebay. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/300556458795?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649 just wanted to see if the experienced tuners had any opinion on these. means I could run a bar instead of the 6psi I was planning on running. (btw this isn't another pipe dream thread I am 75% well into the build) cheers ryan

hi mate. I have a brembo 4 pot set up on my lupo and im using the cupra r master cylinder. have to change a couple of pipe nuts but its well worth it. brakes are realy responsive. hope this helps

£25 each from gsf, you get the ball joint and rod. then gaiters are £8 each. easy job to carry out if you have abit of mechanical savvy. just done mine then took it to tyres galore who track lowered cars. £66 for parts and £25 for tracking a lowered car. simples

any power flow dealer will build you a system for 250-400 depending what you are after. I imagine your quote includes a cat which in itself is an expensive item. get the right cat for your car and buy a catback for it. problem solved.

thought of using an aftermarket ecu ? omex for example. and run it along side the cars original ecu which will run clocks etc. worth thinkin about

whats wrong with yours mate? people have used the 1.4 head. a few people have fitted the 1.4 head to the gti engine when boosting. never known anyone to fit a gti manifold to the 1.4 tho.

just a roll of headlight tint.. got the head lamps fairy warm, then slightly stretched it over while my bro was applying a little heat with a heat gun. sticks really well and is 100% legal as when you look really close its actually a fine mesh so light shines straight through it

the most boost you will get on those standard internals is 8psi at the very most mate. 1 bar on standard internals will get you around ten miles before your picking pieces of your pistons out of your turbo. meltdown. and those brakes are not good for 160 bhp.

2.5mm spacer plate loweres compression to 8:5:1. good turbo compression theres a company on ebay that will make you a decomp plate if you send them a head gasket

seemed to have a nice kick at 4500rpm. plus its very torquey anyway so all it would do at a lower rpm is increase wheel spin. its on its way to being boosted anyway so il be using the 1.4 cylinder head and getting rid off vvt so it hasn't really been something iv been to bothered with

the cars on an omex ecu so the vvt is where I chose it to be and the cars doesn't have any flat spots according to the dyno graphs I have of when me and a friend who has a rolling road where moving the vvt around to see the effects

theres a thead on here mate for doing what your doing it called ''gti conversion for dummies'' or something like that. search it mate its quite helpful. I did this conversion how ever I used an omex ecu as im running boost

it does fit with modifications mate. I think you have to blank the egr valve part of it. sure there is a topic on here somewhere if u search it

I am running the polo gti 1.6 vvt in my lupo.. my vvt comes in around 4500 rpm and you definitely feel it. not as aggressive as the type r but you still get the surge of power and noise. shame my gearbox doesn't like the 145bhp going through it