VW Polo Mk2 body kit and lowering

they're known as breadvans

lots of info on clubpolo , best to get uprated dampers if lowering it ,but yeah just springs will get the look you want

few lowering pics here
www.clubpolo.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=71224

you can get the gt arches for the breadvan , rears are rare but do exit

my mate has slammed his by 80/90!!!! i think thats about as low as they will go.
check for the phillj kits on cp, thats what he used


there isnt really a great deal you can do with the engines, bike carbs would prob be your best bet. but you have to change the dizzy to a vacuum set up.

tbh looking around on cp is gonna be the the best thing.

Have found philj's page on the cp forum, he has bloody everything! 80/90 shocks and springs, 4 branch exhaust manifolds etc etc, cheers for the heads up rich

On one hand I'm thinkin. don't put a kit on it because itll just look like somthing out of max power in the mid90's
but on the other hand I'm thinking do it, Because when was the last time you saw it done? That said, don't RAT IT!!!! its getting tired now... just matt black it, matt silver? somthing other than rust.....

Get some pics up of the offending item anyway? Someone might be able to give you some photoshop ideas for it?

And the following link sells kits for mk2's...


www.clubpolo.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=54548

recommend joining clubpolo, lots of experienced advice on there.

I've been sorting out a lowering kit for my bready recently, the easiest option is just the springs, it's recommended that anything below 60mm you replace the shocks aswell. They're really easy to do, you don't even need to compress the rears.
You'll need a special tool for the fronts and the bottom bolt at the rear is prone to breaking off wich is a ba***rd.

As for body kits a mk1 golf chin spoiler can be fitted, although is a required taste.

Mat.

totally agree, Theres lots of knowledgeable people there!

Club polo has moved on abit from the mk2 thing now...

That said theres more than a few people here that run mk2's or have had, and will be willing to offer advice , Me included.

I'd go for polo3 aswell. as for mods on engines, it really depends what you want, many people seem to be replacing the 1.3 normally aspirated engines with 1.4 and 1.6 engines. its also pretty straightforward to drop a fuel injected engine from a mk3 polo into place of the carbed engine. just have a look at the forums then see what you like the look of. my personal choice is for a mk2 1L
breadvan and a mk3 GT couple with a mildy modified engine

Cheers again for all the input.

That's good to know that the Golf Mk1 spoiler will fit, I checked out some photos of them and I reckon it could look pretty good... retrowagen, I know what you mean about putting a body kit on in that it will make it look like something out of Max Power, but to be honest 80's boy racer rides look rad! It's just the modern, androgynous, gelatinous monstrosities consisting of darth vader parts and smoothed out panels that I hate! At least the 80's kits had some 'purposeful' looking styling.

Thanks for the advice on lowering volkskid83, I'm keen to go as low as possible so I will be looking to do the shocks as well, I like the sound of 80/90 running on 14" steels (will that fit?!)

I've had a good look at the club polo site and it looks like there's loads of good advice on there, god to know there is another mk2 specific forum, will check it out.

I've been having a good think about it over the last few days and I think I'm going toward the following for a plan...

- Matt black paint all over, gloss black bumpers, bonnet sanded to bare metal to go to rust (got to have a little bit of rat in there, sorry! Easily replaced tho )
- Mk1 Golf chin spoiler, mod the front and rear wings to coupe / mk1 golf flared arches
- 14" steels painted white
- weld in panels over the rear windows (going to be using it as a bit of a work van for my screen printing business)
- lower it 80/90 when I've got the cash

And then when my Morris is back on the road and I can take the polo off the road briefly, I'll tune up the engine - Webers + K&N, 4 branch ex manifold, port the head and up the compression, perhaps put a hotter cam in if I can find info of a suitable upgrade etc. I'm in the process of tuning an A-series engine so am quite used to old school tuning

Personally I like the idea of sticking with the stock engine and seeing what I can get out of it, rather than dropping in a bigger lump from something else. Does anyone know if one could drop an SU carb on it? I suppose a bespoke manifold would need making. I only ask as there are some that say a large SU i.e. an HS8 (2") flow as well as Webers not to mention being cheaper and easier to set up...

if you want a cam, you can use the one from a mk3 polo GT with a 3F engine, but you'll need to use an electric fuel pump as it has no lobe to drive the mechanical fuel pump. you could fit an su or pair of su's, but you'd need to get a manifold made up, if I was going the su route, I's use the HS2's from a mk3 spitfire as they were arround 75bhp as standard from a 1300 cc engine, and that would have sporty cam similar to the polo 3f engine. forget about raising the compression on the polo engines as it wont make that much difference, as the head is almost flat as the combustion chamber is in the pistons.

I'm with the idea of modifying a stock engine too, on my mk3 polo GT 1272cc engine with fuel injection, mine was running 97bhp at the flywheel last time on the rollers, thats using the standard cam for the engine and induction mods and porting. People have different opinions about porting and what works and what doesn't. Most people will make the inlets bigger, but personally after doing a bit of research thought they were too big and filled them to make them smaller. I still need to tweak the fueling and ignition timing, so should be able to break 100 bhp. its not all about the power though, as the engine is very smooth now and pulls from just off idle. its hard to find people giving rolling road figures for comparison, but 2 or 3 years ago, someone had a 1272cc engine running twin 40's a ported head and an aftermarket cam and had 106bhp at the fly. my car would probably be better for normal driving and have more mid range torque though.

ohh and Jon, I'm not the polo3 tuning guru, there are several of us who know about the engines that we can use in our cars. I'd be struggling to know how to fit a 1.4 or 1.6 conversion, but I know people on there that would point me in the right direction ;D ;D