Project little red (ferrari goodness)

Thought i'd post a build thread for you all to see the progress and effort i've put into my polo so far
Got her given after my granny passed away in 2010
this is as she was when i got her

got myself some wheels and harlequin refurbed them myself ( not to everyone's taste )

got them refurbed

cupra splitter fitted

new wheels fitted

then it went into the bodyshop and got the following done;
Bumpers, door handles, wingmirrors colour coded
Bumpers smoothed
full respray
half moon above the grille filled
rear badge deleted and smooth tailgate









new headlights

all done!


bought myself some new wheels and sold the lensos and had to get some stretch

and this is how she stands at the moment




more to come in the next few months :)boot build will be getting started on, interior retrimming and whatever else takes my fancy (note to self.... get a new job that pays well)

This is lovely!


Really like what you have done and I will keeping a eye on you

thanks happy with how she is at the moment

Very nice. Looked well today at spring dub

very nice the multi colour wheels looked sick:)

looks class and even better in real life

Yup i agree. Awesome in the flesh

amazing in the flesh such a nice car

aww thanks guys loving the feedback! deffinately makes me think i've doing something right

trust me your doing it right haha

Love this , size are the wheels?

They're 15's could have done with bigger ones but didn't expect the coilovers to give such amateur lows haha and that's with helpers out too!

Love this mind! Wheels are sexual

My D90's would look perfect on this!

So as your coilovers don't go any lower, are you going to source better ones? or go for bigger rims?

Thinking of getting shorter springs fitted just need to find the right ones but I catch underneath quite badly already and only bought the wheels a month or so ago brand new

So today my plan was to get some tyres stretched onto the wheels and pick up my wobble bolts

run into two problems....
first problem was that I had been sold the wheels as 8inch wide.... oh no, no, no, turns out they are 8.5" wide
so after getting some 185/35 tyres saved for me I went to get them fitted, much to my horror that the tyres wouldnt actually stretch on
Tried for almost an hour on one wheel but it wouldn't pop onto the bead and it kept losing pressure so we sacked those tyres off
I wanted to go for 195/35 but considering they are hard to get a hold of i've sacked that idea off but the test fit of the wheels has shown me that I won't actually need to go for such a low profile tyre so an executive decision was made and 195/40s will be enough I reckon.
The next problem we had was because i'm using 15mm adapters for the wheels, the wobble bolts are too long so we're going to have to cut them down.

Not overly fussed, I'd rather spend that extra bit of time getting perfect fitment and doing it properly than to rush and it look shit or be badly fitted

So here they are on a test fit, I'm extremely happy with the result and will absolutely, under no circumstances, be changing the wheels again any time soon

They are Modena Racing wheels (kindly found for me by my other half)
3 Piece splits, and if you can find any information on them or know anything about where they came from or the original manufacturer it would be greatly appreciated if you could pass any info on as I've been struggling to find any info on them at all!
Polished lip, teal powder coated centres and pearl white bolts








anyway I hope you all like them as much as I do.
I won't recommend the guy who did all the powder coating etc just yet... incase it flakes off and I go searching for him with a pick axe and a shovel

Wow them rims are fking sweet! Amazing choice! They will look unbelievable on the car. Nice colour choice too!

I like them splits mind!

Love this!

Seen this on the net very nice!

Bang! They look wicked!

So nice!!!!!

nice

Thanks guys
I will be showing off her new shoes in the top50 at Modified Nationals nxt week if any of you are attending?