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Title: G40 at Harewood
Post by: spike on May 23, 2009, 06:38:41 PM

I was at Harewood hillclimb the other week and saw a very fast G40 beating the Peugeots!! I was told it is an ex Polo Cup race car. What is/was the Polo cup? Does anyone know the spec of this car?
It was truelly awesome to watch!

Spike

Title: Re: G40 at Harewood
Post by: scotsjohn on May 23, 2009, 08:38:05 PM

See "articles" for starters Spike.

Title: Re: G40 at Harewood
Post by: spike on May 24, 2009, 09:06:43 AM

Thanks for that. I read the G40 Cup article. In there it says the cars were virtually standard apart from safety equipment, I don't think this car is standard! Maybe it competed in the Super Coupe Cup before being turned into a hillclimb car?
Can anyone shed any light on this?

Spike

Title: Re: G40 at Harewood
Post by: samg40 on May 24, 2009, 09:45:08 AM

Is it white? There was one pictures on club polo ages ago that looked a right monster. Was probably that one. Is there an events list of what goes off at Harewood somewhere?

Title: Re: G40 at Harewood
Post by: spike on May 24, 2009, 10:15:00 AM

harewoodhill.co.uk is the website you want for dates.
Any idea where on club polo the pics were?
Yes,it is a white one.

Spike

Title: Re: G40 at Harewood
Post by: hayesey on May 25, 2009, 04:01:39 PM

did it have golf g60 arches on it?

Title: Re: G40 at Harewood
Post by: Robga on May 25, 2009, 05:42:52 PM

Just had a look through the pics at Harewoodhill.co.uk and found these.

http://homepage.mac.com/tony_online/Harewood%20Hillclimb%20May%20open%202009/large-75.html
http://homepage.mac.com/tony_online/Harewood%20Hillclimb%20May%20open%202009/large-144.html
http://homepage.mac.com/tony_online/Harewood%20Hillclimb%20May%20open%202009/large-145.html
http://homepage.mac.com/tony_online/Harewood%20Hillclimb%20May%20open%202009/large-146.html

Looks like the one hayesey mentioned with Golf G60 arches.

Rob

Title: Re: G40 at Harewood
Post by: hayesey on May 25, 2009, 05:52:33 PM

yeah that's the one I was thinking of, I've seen it around. No idea of the engine spec though.

Title: Re: G40 at Harewood
Post by: spike on May 25, 2009, 09:22:40 PM

It's got plenty of power but it also goes round corners like it's on rails!! What mods do you have to do to make a G40 handle properly on 15s?
Do you have to mod the bodywork when you lower it that much and use 15 inch wheels?

Spike

Title: Re: G40 at Harewood
Post by: hayesey on May 26, 2009, 09:37:45 AM

I would say that's had some fairly extensive arch work done to make those g60 arches fit as the polo arches are normally a fair bit smaller. As for handling, subframe, diff, decent suspension & lots of lightness. I have 15" compos on mine too and with that spec.

Title: Re: G40 at Harewood
Post by: G40motorsport on May 26, 2009, 12:19:40 PM

That car has been around for quite some time and is well known, doubt if it's an ex Cup car as it has a registration number (unless it has been re shelled) all the original Cup cars were never registered and built from pre production cars.

Title: Re: G40 at Harewood
Post by: spike on May 26, 2009, 09:01:44 PM

Hayesey,
When you say subframe what do you mean? Do you have to fit a different one? Or mod the standard one?

Spike

Title: Re: G40 at Harewood
Post by: NeilG40 on May 26, 2009, 10:28:43 PM

G40's don't have subframes as standard.

Title: Re: G40 at Harewood
Post by: hayesey on May 26, 2009, 10:46:15 PM

fit one, there isn't one as standard. Have a look in the Polo Peformance Parts section on this forum.

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