AndrewDH
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Cheers man! Yup did indeed, grayston conversion studs I think where the brand, just used a bit of loctite too to give a bit more piece of mind lol!
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Oh man the Borbets look so good
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Alright bit of an update! Been to two shows so far on my side of the water after getting some new shoes last minute for Dubshed. Then last weekend was at Lets Stance. Heres some of my favorite photos from both shows. Anyone got any ideas on what shows on the mainland I should head to? No idea what goes on when it comes to shows, so any suggestions would be great!
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Indeed Pete, looked up the vcds code and the only other thing they suggest is a fault with the ecu power. Which is why it would be great to know which pins are meant to have 12volts going into the polo ecu so I could double check yenno?
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Hi everyone, in the process of converting my 1.0litre to a 1.6 Gti engine out of a polo. Theres a fault code with the immobiliser coming up and the car starts up for a second then cuts out. VCDS says it's fault code 17978. Immobiliser in the key has been swapped and control unit and im using the polo dials so it's leaving me think there's a power fault with the ecu. Does anybody have a diagram which shows which ecu pins need 12 volts going into them? I have one for my lupo ecu from auto data but there's none for the gti polo. Any help would be much appreciated lads!
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Yeah I know? Lol..
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K&N typhoon, more for noise at this point but I don't doubt I may get this engine tuned later on. Theres a video on YouTube of a 6n2 gti driving by with one and it sounds deadly!
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Hello all in the process of converting my 1.0litre to an ARC 1.6 out of a gti polo I have the ecu pin diagrams for the lupo but can not for the life of me find a ecu pin diagram for the polo? Would help so much as I dont want to have to trace every wire lol. Cheers!
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Also some new parts arrived the other day. Once I have the engine running its on to the boot build.
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There basically just a big chunk cut out of the wheel well, the exhaust just continues from the last box at the side on round to the centre, was just the handiest way to do it at the time. Seen other people suggest cut the whole wheel well out and weld in a shallow one from a gti or sport which would probably be a lot neater and would mean less bends for the exhaust. Just replied to you about them arches Cough!
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Haha thank you!
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Could have indeed Pete, but the bearings and whole setup on my old struts where absolute gash... Guess that's what I get for buying cheap!
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I feel ya, my wee loop was black before i wrapped it! They aren't too hard to find on ebay.de if I remember thats where I got mine, in black and all
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Damn this car is so clean! What about the getting the mirrors to match sizes? Only really noticed it there in that last photo, Other than that looks amazing! Top job!
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Alrighty folks bit of an update here. In the process of throwing in a 1.6 GTI Polo lump into this little thing. So here is the engine I found, only just over 50,000 miles on it! Its one of the older ARC engines from the polo gti's but don't think theres much difference in the two from what I know. Next thing I needed was all the other parts. Decided the handiest way was to get a complete polo gti. Found one on ebay with some serious cosmetic damage. But at only £300 I thought it was a complete steal with a freshly reconditioned gearbox. High mileage on the engine in it but it still runs fine so I guess I'll have a spare engine in case the other one s#!ts the bed! Measuring my lupo and polo side by side, Was pretty surprised to see the front ends seemed to be identical. Drove the polo up and down our lane a few times. Seemed to driving fine and the gearbox is so smooth compared to whats in my lupo. So had to get the high mileage engien out of the polo. Me and my Dad took the complete front axle out too as I'll be using that in the lupo, bigger discs and anti roll bar. Another bonus is the polo came on some coilovers and they are in way better condition than mine with better progressive springs so the plan is to switch the complete axle, hubs and coilovers all in one go. Rinse and repeat for my car. Next we started on getting the GTI lump into my car. Looks so good Also switched out the puny 1 Litre radiator for the GTI one.# Fits in perfectly once you switch the driver side engine mount for the one off the polo. Next just need to fit the polo front axle onto the lupo and we can get on to the wiring. Here is my front strut. Its got the same size coil the whole way unlike the polo's. Also they are pretty rusted cos' I cheaped out on coilovers and went for pov brand! Now the Polo's front strut. As you can see there is one problem... The polo mounts with three bolts instead of just one at the top. Oh well time to adjust the lupo! BOOM. Fits prefect haha! That's all we have got done for now. Just got to wire it all up, cross fingers and once we know it works, upgrade the rear axle...need to get rid of those drums So yeah I'll keep you all posted!
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Cheers guys Really? What's wrong with it?
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Hello all. I've owned my little 1.0 Litre Lupo for just a bit over a year. I thought now is the time to finally give an in depth view of how it is sitting currently and how it got to there. This is gonna be very in depth and may be a bit boring to read or look through but I honestly just want to have a permanent place to look at the progression of my little car for my own satisfaction. If even one person finds it interesting then that's just a bonus! So here we go. Lets have a quick look at the car when I bought it in October 2014. I was so excited to just be able to drive any car. A lupo is definitely not what came to mind for my first car but it was volkswagen, with nice blue dials! ooooh very fancy I thought. Now here is how it sits as of around Ocotober 2015. One year later. (Bottom right photo is actually a few months ago, no splitter and some other small things not done to it) Never thought I would still even own this car by now nevermind have it sitting like this. But hey I have grown attached and I'm super excited for where its gonna end up. Lots of stuff still planned for it! Just recently bought a 1600cc 16 valve Polo GTI engine so...yeah Obvious influences from other members of the lupo community. Club Lupo's Haakon colour choice is probably the most obvious. Don_Larss from instagram totally inspired me to put arches on this thing and there plenty of others Ive stole ideas from. So thanks to all who have helped. Anyway its 2:00 in the morning so I'll update this another time with the actual progression from start to now. Then I'll hopefully start posting updates to the finish of this thing! If any of you have read this thanks!
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1.0 Litre to Polo GTI Conversion help needed
AndrewDH replied to AndrewDH's topic in Volkswagen Lupo
Thanks a bunch lad, honestly would just sell my car and buy a GTI but got this engine for next to nothing and I've already poured alot of time into the shell. Its just after a full wrap. Bolt on wide arches with old arches cut out etc etc. Plus my dad's a mechanic so shouldn't have to pay someone to do it for me haha! But thanks for confirming that stuff! -
Hello all, First off, I know this has been posted lots before but honestly the information seems so scattered and varied and I'm not sure how applicable all of it is to my situation so I'm sorry for reposting this...please don't murder me Anyway I've come into the possesion of a 6n2 GTI engine block from a local vw dismantlers. My little (AUC) 1.0 litre has s*** the bed so I planned to do an engine swap anyway but then I got this engine for basically nothing. I know the best way to do this is to buy a complete Polo GTI that's been rear ended or something and begin swapping everything over but I don't want to buy one that's already sold some essential parts I need. So from my understanding this is what I need now from another polo with the same engine code as the one I have (AVY) Gearboxengine loominterior loomECUradiatorfuel pumpfront hubs/carriers/calipers/discsand the ignition barrel. Is there anything else?How does the AVY fit onto the AUC Engine mounts, I think I read somewhere new mounts will need to be made am I right?And also are any of these parts interchangeable between GTI polos and GTI lupos, just in case I can't find the part on a polo maybe I could use the GTI lupos. I've found lots of posts and some even talking about guides for this sort of thing but none linking to them and I can't seem to find it through the search on this forum (Probably because I'm not a huge forum user but still...) Any help would greatly appreciated. Cheers!Thanks so much!
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Thanks daniel
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Hello all! New to ClubLupo so just thought id post in here, I got this beaut in October Here she is now after just a few months
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Hello all! New to ClubLupo so just thought id post in here, I got this beaut in October Here she is now after just a few months
