Foxy
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Making pink manly in the north!
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I can probably guarantee this to be a pearoast but lets just enjoy some silly speed anyway     1047hp from a 1.9 litre!!!  From Hereand Here If you're any good with German. |
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Last Edit: Oct 11, 2010 18:36:57 GMT by Foxy
I'm the handsome fella with the cheesy white specs or is that the cheesy fella with the handsome white specs?
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jrko
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Oct 11, 2010 10:10:13 GMT
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That is bonkers So crazy I'm not sure of its win factor - stupid or full of win? |
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Lawsy
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Oct 11, 2010 11:18:01 GMT
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thats mental..
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LAndy
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Oct 11, 2010 12:03:53 GMT
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new Polo = OWNED
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Previous retros: 92 AX GTi 92 Scirocco Scala 94 80 sport 87 Golf Cab GTi Current retro: 1965 Clark Cortez YouTube Website Instagram |
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stealthstylz
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Frightening Polostealthstylz
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Oct 11, 2010 12:09:33 GMT
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I still don't get these FWD/4x4 drag cars. That sorta power but in a tube frame, rwd, with an auto would see you deep into the 8s.
Matt
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Frightening Poloretrowagen1234
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Oct 11, 2010 12:11:23 GMT
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I still don't get these FWD/4x4 drag cars. That sorta power but in a tube frame, rwd, with an auto would see you deep into the 8s. Matt because they can...... |
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Oct 11, 2010 12:22:33 GMT
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Wonder what it'd do with a proper drag suspension and wheels.
Maybe something like this one
(i promise, it's worth a look)
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Last Edit: Oct 11, 2010 12:23:22 GMT by dude
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Oct 11, 2010 12:23:18 GMT
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Because that amount of power in a traditional drag car would have a more significant torque curve. While I want to take nothing away from the achievement here the simple thing is a larger engine epidemic make more torque and run ! Quicker quarter mile...
The rule of "because he can" trumps all considerations of practically.
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stealthstylz
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Frightening Polostealthstylz
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Oct 11, 2010 12:24:00 GMT
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Just seems pointless though. People don't turn up to an F1 meeting with a front wheel drive car just because they can. Now that the import racers have realised that the fastest way to go is to bung their engines in a traditional drag car tube frame with traditional drag car running gear they're going loads quicker.  Matt |
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Frightening Poloretrowagen1234
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Oct 11, 2010 12:25:30 GMT
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yeah but the bimmer for all its big tyres and probably tube frame didnt do that much better ..... The polo i think is pretty damn amazing.
And it does show what can be done with a monocoque , Polos arnt exactly solid in the first place. A standard g40 can rip its own enginebay appart if driven hard...
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Oct 11, 2010 12:34:27 GMT
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I still don't get these FWD/4x4 drag cars. That sorta power but in a tube frame, rwd, with an auto would see you deep into the 8s. Matt He probably want's to use it for other than dragracing, that much power in a short wheelbase rwd car would be absolutely uncontrollable. On the other hand, if it is built only for dragracing i understand that too, for the same reason people try to go as fast as they can with a flathead. You wouldn't ask a traditional hot rodder why he doesn't put a modern 4-banger in his 32 hi-boy would you ;D yeah but the bimmer for all its big tyres and probably tube frame didnt do that much better ..... with 2 missed shifts |
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Frightening PoloDeleted
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Oct 11, 2010 12:45:32 GMT
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Everything posted in this thread is mental and I approve.
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skinnylew
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Oct 11, 2010 13:26:49 GMT
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I still don't get these FWD/4x4 drag cars. That sorta power but in a tube frame, rwd, with an auto would see you deep into the 8s. Matt Then its not a Polo any more is it! If you want to go out and be the fastest you go and buy a dragster. If you want to develop your own car through to a top running 1/4 miler you start with your car and build it up from there. Maybe if he wanted to be the fastest fwd car in his class it means he has to retain a degree of originality. And wheres the fun when everyone can tell its spaceframed and tubbed. too obviously a drag car. Loses all sleeper effect. I look at a spaceframed car and i don't see the original car. It may as well have any old body on top. At least running this like this you give people the impression or the imagination to think, damn it looks so stock he could have driven that here. etc etc Very rapid car, seen it in its blue guise but not in beige. I approve lots! |
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Seth
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Oct 11, 2010 13:59:12 GMT
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Missed shifts, a stoppie, and he still ran a mid 9. R-E-S-T-E-C-P That engine must have a seriously strong bottom end. |
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable. |
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Oct 11, 2010 14:09:14 GMT
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Missed shifts, a stoppie, and he still ran a mid 9. R-E-S-T-E-C-P That engine must have a seriously strong bottom end. The engine block is a (ex-)1.9 TDI. A reinforced one O.O Amaazing build this! |
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MK2VR6
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Mk2 Golf GTi 90 Spec
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Oct 11, 2010 15:23:07 GMT
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Very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very cool.
Hope they seam welded the front end though so it doesn't drop off!
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murdoch
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Oct 11, 2010 18:06:08 GMT
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;D
thanks for sharing !
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ZXRob
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Oct 11, 2010 19:16:54 GMT
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That is absolutely unbeleivable!!
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Colonelk
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Frightening PoloColonelk
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Oct 11, 2010 19:23:55 GMT
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why don't we get those reactions in this country? haha would make spectating more fun! Got a few vids from america where they go wild too and it just looks more fun.  Looks fast as feck though! |
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tri
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Oct 11, 2010 20:10:38 GMT
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I still don't get these FWD/4x4 drag cars. That sorta power but in a tube frame, rwd, with an auto would see you deep into the 8s. Matt ..and if I jacked my car up 2 inches I could go to the cinema without having to make all my friends get out of the car when we get to the speed bumps. What's your point? A stoppie, missed shifts, <10 seconds. To be honest, you've gotta be happy with that!! |
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Ax GTi Turbo
