The Engine is in! - VW Polo Coupe - Scrap To Showcar - Episode 8
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- Опубліковано 29 кві 2023
- We made some major progress in this one. The 1.6 16v engine is mounted, The wiring loom is in place and we got the Drive By Wire conversion sorted for the throttle pedal too. We also got the car sat on it's suspension too but it isn't where we need it to be so some more research is required.
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Sunday morning coffee, watching latest video and wearing my new DAC hoodie, perfect day 👍
Same but without the hoodie.. Good prompt I’ll get that sorted!
Hi Dan, don't stress and beat yourself up about it running over £5k - I think all of us as much as you would rather this be done properly as opposed to it being done to a strict budget. We all know budgets get blown out of the water with car projects and that sometimes it's best not to focus on the cost and more so focus on the quality of the outcome. Hopefully, you can recoup some costs from breaking the donor! Absolutely wicked series this one - the highlight to my Sundays haha 😃Keep up the good work mate, keep churning them out!
Nothing wrong with the project becoming "how close to our budget can we stick" rather than, "built for under X"
@@usrnmeunknwn8691 No nothing at all wrong with that. Anyone can look at a car and think “yeah I can get this done for under X amount” but like anything, until you start delving into things and realising that it needs more work than previously anticipated, you can’t expect to stick to that budget if you want a true showpiece at the end of it.
Take property for example - you can buy a house for £150k which looks structurally sound that just needs a little redecoration, with the anticipation of spending max. £5k on painting, new flooring throughout, the odd new interior door and light fitting here and there, and a general spruce up of the garden. 3 weeks into the modernisation and the boiler has just packed up. Whilst ripping out the old boiler, your contractor has managed to damage the plaster behind it which requires the whole wall to be skimmed, and then repainted after the plaster has fully dried out. All this adds extra cost and time on the renovation.
The same applies to cars. The whole “£5k budget” of this series should be used as a guide, that Dan was going to aim to stick to. What do you expect him to do should he go over budget - a) completely abandon the build and scrap it, b) spend all the money where he can and bodge the rest and make it into a patchwork project, or c) continue as he is, accept that it’s going to run over the estimated budget and actually build something quality?
I know what I and 90% of other viewers would prefer to see.
I'm in agreement with you 😂
Everything is expensive at the moment Dan, don’t beat yourself up over budgets! It’s looking 🔥
What a great Sunday morning. Yours and binky's latest episodes 👍
Nicely done, mate.. budget's are meant to be broken 😂 even if it ends up being a 6k or 7k build that's still minimal amount to some show cars that have 30k to 40k spent on them. Looking forward to next Sunday as always mate 👍
men, everyweek im waiting for a new video and than it is here! doin a good job with the polo and hope to get the spend money within 5 grand! keep up the good and entertaining work! greats from North-Holland ( Netherlands )
It's looking good, matey 😎🤙🏽
Cheers bud
Loving the build Dan, it's going to be one stunning Polo
this car 100% needs a PoloPerformanceParts front subframe!!!
Loving progress and the solutions you are coming up with, Dan. The stance on this is so sick🤙
I think try to keep cost under control but Like you say do it properly. Then people can see why these things always end up more then you think and you’ll get an awesome set of wheels.
Ps love the channel.
Looking good 👍
love that throttle mount, I’ve seen weaker built engine mounts!
I need one
Amazing dude really it is and top work. Really taking shape now sat on wheels you can see the end coming.
Looking good Dan it's great to see you are making good progress with the build, looking forward to the next one👏👍
Another quality video mate, it interesting watching how u are over coming the few issues, can't wait to see it finished and the colour u go with,
Quality mate 🤙 loving this build
Looking good bud, can see this coming together now 👊🏽😎
I have some orders in with Heritage now. I bought a T2. Thank you Dan for the code and thank you for the superb content!
I think you need the cage which fits on the shifter rod spline, or ideally the whole thing. Also the ball on the cast aluminium fitting which fits onto the gearbox selector shaft is different on a 5 speed car. I’m not convinced about the whole arb difference between 4 and 5 speed models. From what I’ve seen it only provides slightly more clearance for the down pipe. I’ve a 5 speed 87 coupe with a symmetrical arb. Pretty sure I had it out with Jonny Leech about this before. Think he convinced me there was a difference on very early cars, although I can’t remember what that difference was!
Anyway, nice to see someone else enduring the pain of Polo money-pits. If you accept it as a total loss, everything is fine! I could’ve had a 911, what I’ve sunk in Polo’s. But I couldn’t have had the best 911 with the best parts.
Great work!!! Greetings from Sweden ❤
Battery move. Grab the battery lead from a 3 series BMW, they have theirs in the boot and use the battery box from a MK4 Golf or same era Passat car as they contain the battery nicely, worked well in my MK2.
While you add it please do a shaved engine bay
Nice one dan I was watching a short vid from kev tee he got a polo coupe gt in at his work for scrap I thot about you straight away 👍
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Nice one Dan - certainly cracking on! I’d be amazed if you made it for 5k! I’m sure you’ll do what it takes to produce a decent build. 💯🤙
theres usualy a shock inside the tube of the coilover. you could take it out then modify the bottom of the tube to make the shock sit lower, after that you cut some of the top of the coilover making it shorter.
If the ta tecnix shock is too long use a golf 1 standard, their short.
Coming along nice mate, stance is going to be 🔥 can you not use a Pulley And alternator from the original polo engine as it alot narrower?
Naaaaaah bro a 20v turbo was the motor for that build.... I'm whatever u do it will be to be e bees 👍🏿
Rallydesign do a weld on coilover kit. But you'd still need to sort dampers
£27.50
😂 budget build just shows how much money you could need for a build and not paying anyone to do the work and how much fuel you have spent. Picking up parts. Still coming on great and great to learn what fits and changes you have to do.
Can you chop and reweld the bottom of the front coilovers so you can use a longer spring? If not you could is a dual rate spring or like you have now with a helper but the longer spring being soft and the shorter being hard.
The car is looking awesome and you're doing a brilliant job, keep it going!
Chop and weld suspension,yeah that sounds safe 😂
Welcome to 70’s Audi engineering. How’s the pipe of doom looking?
*Coming along great dan mk2 golf gti next?*
good episode, like and as usual, greetings from Ukraine) 🟨🟦
not as easy due to it being a welded unit but cant you do a similar mod to the t5 by cutting off the hub and relocating it further up the strut? you could also gain an inch or so by raising to top of the strut tower possibly?
What's happened to Dan and Abis' bungalow ??? Enjoyed those
Same..I’m still waiting for an update after it was all plastered
Is there room to raise the top mounts? Could gain a couple inches in suspension travel to get it sitting where you want
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Hard to tell on the camera angle however will the front ARB flip round the other way? I.e left to right.
That looks like it might buy you a bit more room between the manifold.
Hard to tell from the cam angle so sorry if I’m barking up wrong tree.
Hi Dan, you do say, us and we quite a lot. I was wondering if you had any help form outside sources. Great work on the car tho
What car did you get the 5 speed anti roll bar from
I'm guessing you'll be deducting any money you make back on selling off the 6n2 parts? 🤞 That will bring you into the green a bit
Does your loom guy only do vw stuff or dose he convert looms for other motors 👀
Just popular vag stuff m8
I found a 86c coupe (the real coupe version so long back)
I asked the Guy if its for sale hé said not officially but if you give me 1500€ you can have it reckon its a good deal?
I took a look at it the bottom is spotless! Only has 40k km on it its just really dirty
Is there any worth in these?
Any updates
2nd ❤
£450 on coil overs that are useless, should've contacted Gaz and got a custom set built,or any UK suspension company,not as expensive as think..
Hi Dan where are you based mate? I have a mk2f coupe GT and wanted to do 20v swap but I kinda wanna do the same as you. Wanna do mine she was my first car and been off the road for about 12 years
Hi bud. Im Leicestershire. You will struggle to fit a 20v in a polo as the bay is so small. You would need to basically cut the front off the car and fabricate from scratch.
@@DanChambersDAC yea I no mate I wanna do your route now. My car need body work it's a very low miles car but because stupidly I cut lips off the sills when I first started driving lol they want replacing really, want rear disc conversion aswell. So interesting watching your videos just makes me wanna crack on and throw some money at the coupe now. After having kids it's just sat there doing f all.
@@DanChambersDAC who's doing your loom?
First 👍🏻
Can you make me a bracket n sell me one ill weld it on this end
second :)
Why a polo coupe my lass had one of these the thing was a turd
i've done some research the millions of pounds the makers have spent getting a car sorted then some one comes along thinking they can do a better job in a shed
😂😂😂 you either get it or you don’t
You do realise manufacturers build cars filled with cost saving compromises right? Not to mention how much technology advances since this car was designed.....
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