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david burton wrote:3M Mastic does the job

Cool, now i gotta go find some headlights somewhere... any ideas on how much they are new? Or would it be easier to get em from a scrappie?

oh, and a tip for taking of the glass of your lights, put the entire units in the oven, warm it up, take a dump while wainting, and your able to take of the glass more easily (I'm told to use a piece of fishing 'rope' to 'cut'/'saw' it of (saw through the glue which sticks the glass on the units)) ...

suby786 wrote:oh has any1 noticed its a 5 DOOR.... lol

Yeah man, 5 door's the way!!

david burton wrote:mpi is multipoint injection - into each cylinder. spi is single point.

Ahhh! *Duuuh*
So is the AEE engine code just 16v? didnt think any other polo engine had mpi

Whats the difference between mpi and spi?
What is mpi/spi?

Sorry about all the questions, im not too hot on engines

i see..... black badges are just as good though.... u getiing proper black badges or just matt black them? i matt blacked them on my old golf....... mitch Well, a mate of mine has a golf Mk3 and is using a de-badged grill, might try n buy it off him n spray it black, then laquer it. The golf mk3 fr...

I was thinking of getting some new lights, taking them apart and spraying the very front part of 'em, as in the bits that aren't reflected from the lights but are in contact with the glass, know the bit i mean?

M1 TCH wrote:why not try separating the headlights and painting the inside???

then use bright xneon bulbs?

mitch

Yeah but doesn't the reflective stuff on the inside reflect the light from the bulbs? which bit do you mean?

Much better Thanks :) and colour code the lower lip spoiler :wink: Yeah i was going to but i decided id make it darker to go with the black/red theme i got goin on Oh and slam it on steeelies!!! They are steelies, with sprayed hubcaps - thats what im gonna do, as im a cheapskate! :D de-badged grill...

CymruPolo wrote:

david burton wrote:From what I've heard the new FK ones are almost a straight swap?

That's great if true! Let me know if it is please . . I'm not keen on the idea of cutting the radiator sorround

Alun's proper protective about his car!

david burton wrote:depends on whether you lose low-down torque. If you kept the low down torque you could catch a 16v unawares quite easily.

So does the valver have all its power up high in the rev range?
How come you lose tourqe with more valves? Same thing happened with the 16V mk2 gti, didnt it?

david burton wrote:get those handles red (i'm a hypocrite) and those bump strips off



any polo is a good polo!

Like this?

Err don't want to rain on your parade but I think it would be unwise to tint the headlights - As much light on the road at night as you can get is a good thing!!! If you want to get a smoke finish uniform accross the headlights and indicators get some headlight lens protectors and tint them for day...

Whats the deal on using tint spray (like from halfrauds) to tint the headlights? I was thinking of buying a new set of lights (+ smoked indicators) and attempting to tint them to the same degree as the indicators (i mean the slightly smoked ones, not the full on black ones) Any ideas? Has it been do...

First, make sure it's the cam for a GT with enginecode 3F, or else it won't be of any use, only the 3F cam has 219 degrees, and is therefor the 'wildest' cam made by VW itself. And yes, theoretically you'll gain a lot, but due to losses of power in other parts of your engine just a cam switch will ...