Club G40 Forum
Club G40 => General Car Chat => Topic started by: poloeatonm45 on January 17, 2010, 05:26:42 pm
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as title says what happened to the blue polo that psd had when they shut up shop? have one of them stil got it? does anyone know what spec it was ? i assume it will of had all the psd goodies on? just wondering what happened to it
steven
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just before PSD shut up shop I remember Steve bringing it to the Club polo vs RTOC day at Stratford long marston airfield. He was still trying to get it running 100% and was still running experimental maps. All I really remember was that it was completely stripped out inc no dashboard, just some clocks cabletied in. On the same day Andy Strange was running his Polo turbo and it performed bloody well.
As for Steves car now I dare say he still owns it as he still loves his motors and to this day still helps out friends with their cars.
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The blue one? It's changed hands a couple of times since. Steve sold it on midway through last year.
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The blue one? It's changed hands a couple of times since. Steve sold it on midway through last year.
I stand corrected :)
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dunno who currently owns it but it's been through a couple of owners since steve had it.
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the johnny that worked for steve owns it.
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the johnny that worked for steve owns it.
what power / mods it running, can only imagine if it was a PSD test polo it would be NUTS!
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max on here owned it, think he stripped it lol
i have most of the turbo kit off it!
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I did indeed own it but have since parted ways with it.
The turbo stuff you have is off my black G40 mate.
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was their anything special done to the car that you dont see very often on polo mk3,s just wondering if they had used any special suspention set ups or independent rear suspention set up or anything like that???????
steve
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i should pay attention really lol
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was their anything special done to the car that you dont see very often on polo mk3,s just wondering if they had used any special suspention set ups or independent rear suspention set up or anything like that???????
steve
nothing that fancy about the chassis, it was basically cup-car spec. It had been in use as a rally recce car when steve bought it. Not much inside it other than a seat, roll cage (safety devices one as per cup cars), steering wheel, tilton twin master cylinder brake pedal. Steve built a turbo engine for it using the usual k03 bits but running on Emerald management with a couple of fancy bits such as a 20vt throttle body and inlet plenum welded to gt inlet runners.
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oh ok i was hopin it was gonna be full of psd test goodies booooooooo
steve
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;)
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only unique thing was the ignition system
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well the inlet was pretty unique too and the brakes werent exactly standard. it was really a psd "test" car, it was just steve's own project car.
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only unique thing was the ignition system
Golf coil driven directly by Emerald if memory serves?
Was hanging to look at, but that was kind of the point - was plenty quick enough, and think that's why Steve sold it. Was a bit too quick for regular fun blasts on the roads - Steve's currently Polo-less and I think he intends it to stay that way from what he was saying at work on Sat! He was supporting the military vehicle I'm designing the CAN architecture and some of the electrics on.
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It was too much of a handful on the road, I had to be on the ball 100% of the time and with my limited skill didn't really have big enough balls to push it to its full potential like Steve did.
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Rough idea of what power it was running? ???
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Prob 200bhp give or take a bit.
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Wasn't just the power, it was very light and very unforgiving.
With a good driver on a track it would be an absolute weapon.
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The tin can rules OK!
How many of us have got parts developed on that slag eh? Legendary.
LHD too, overtaking would be scary if it wasn't so quick!
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Has anyone got any pics of the eng bay from psd's turbo conversion I did have the pic that was posted on there website but have since lost it, I am doing a turbo conv myself & have got the chance to get a 20vt inlet & throttle body from a S3 (came from my mates 03 20vt polo with 550bhp yes 550bhp in a polo) & would like to see what it looks like so we can work out what fits were.
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hmm thought about this awhile back but couldnt be arsed, a decent 51mm throttle body it would probably out-flow most G engines anyhow, however not so good if you want TPS for standalone management!
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Last year we were testing a FS car at Brunters and I had a chat with the guy who owns the yellow sister recce car, this was essentially a left hooker cup car but with custom cages welded cage, AP brakes, not sure on size but nothing smaller than 16s could fit over them, had a bias pedal box, as well as other rally goodies. Dare I say it, Alister Mcrae probably used it when he drove for VW in the 90s...