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With any luck I'll be converting this to Lupo 6 speed in the very near future.

Nice mate! Good plan I don't have the pennies atm

Niether do I really but I'll find them for an improvement like this

Very exciting!! I always think there's a 6th gear Lol I don't know why, but I'll go to put it into 6th only to remember there isn't one!
Can't wait to see updates on this!

keep the updates going on this! mate

Have you fitted the K&N typhoon yet mate?

One thing I would say about the Lupo 6 speed box is that despite being slightly stronger than the 5 speed box they still go wrong quite often.
A lot of the girls & boys on Club Lupo have had to replace/refurb boxes on their Lupo GTI's too and I'm not talking about the earlier 5 speed Lupo's either, I do mean the 2002 onwards 6 speed Lupo's.

The 6 speed also has pretty poor gear ratio's so your Polo will actually be slower if you fit the 6 speed box.
Polo GTI will pull 0-60 in around 9 seconds with a 6 speed box opposed to 8.4 with the 5 speed, same can be applied with the Lupo GTI as the earlier 5 speed examples were slightly quicker than the later 6 speed models

6N2 GTI 00 wrote:Have you fitted the K&N typhoon yet mate?

One thing I would say about the Lupo 6 speed box is that despite being slightly stronger than the 5 speed box they still go wrong quite often.
A lot of the girls & boys on Club Lupo have had to replace/refurb boxes on their Lupo GTI's too and I'm not talking about the earlier 5 speed Lupo's either, I do mean the 2002 onwards 6 speed Lupo's.

The 6 speed also has pretty poor gear ratio's so your Polo will actually be slower if you fit the 6 speed box.
Polo GTI will pull 0-60 in around 9 seconds with a 6 speed box opposed to 8.4 with the 5 speed, same can be applied with the Lupo GTI as the earlier 5 speed examples were slightly quicker than the later 6 speed models

hmm, thats interesting. food for thought anyway.

Yeah mate not saying it just put people off but it’s certainly worth mentioning

Something a lot of people consider doing to their Polo but very rarely materialises, I would stick with the 5 speed box and if it needs refurbishing then have the bearings uprated and use top quality gearbox oil opposed to the Volkswagen stuff.

I have spax coilovers on my red gti 3dr . was lucky enough to find a gti with the spax set up already fitted.