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Club G40 => General Chat => Topic started by: paulg40 on September 22, 2013, 10:44:03 pm

Title: Im back!
Post by: paulg40 on September 22, 2013, 10:44:03 pm
Hello, so as you may have guessed from my last post I am looking at buying a G40 again, it's been a long time since I have been about and I don't know if anyone will remember me much, I still know some of you guys :-)

If you don't know who I am I used to own a G40 in early 2000's think between 2000-2005. My car was a Tornado red Saloon CL converted to a G40. It used to run 175BHP with 170 ft/lbs on standard engine/injectors and a Jabba sport 65mm chip! which seems mad but it worked. it was a solid engine I loved it! (had other mods but won't list them here)

Anyway in 2005 someone pulled out infront of me and I couldn't avoid a collision and ended up writing the car off :-( sold the engine and that was that.

I have had many golfs since, MK3 VR6, MK5 TSI, Mk6 GT TDI, 09 Polo 1.2 (i know what the hell!) and back to a Golf MK5 TSI (which i resurrected from a nasty timing chain failure) photo's are interesting as the pistons are in pieces!

So now my wife Helen has a new job we need a new car and she suggested I bought a G40 (I have a great wife). So here I am a day later and about to buy another G40 and I am like a kid at christmas.

One thing I cannot wait for is the simple engine diagnoses! these bloody TSI engines just have too much going on with them and I have rebuilt the entire thing but still have a couple of boost issues, just frustrating.

So 13 years in 5 minutes :-)

Hope to meet the ppl I knew pretty well so many years ago and meet some of the new ppl as well!
Title: Re: Im back!
Post by: hayesey on September 23, 2013, 09:03:48 am
ey up paul.  Good to see you back in the fold.  I'll patiently wait for details of the g40 you're buying.
Title: Re: Im back!
Post by: Robin on September 23, 2013, 04:40:02 pm
Hey Paul!!

Welcome back!!

It was the ride in your car that made me but a G40 and not regretted it since!!
Title: Re: Im back!
Post by: Andy on September 23, 2013, 07:09:07 pm
Be good to see you back in a G40.

Remember this?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v467/amstrange1/engineswapmess.jpg)

I passed the favour on, and put the PY lump into Alex's GT.  :)
Title: Re: Im back!
Post by: paulg40 on September 23, 2013, 09:35:46 pm
Ha! Seems like so long ago.
Title: Re: Im back!
Post by: paulg40 on September 23, 2013, 09:47:06 pm
Hey Paul!!

Welcome back!!

It was the ride in your car that made me but a G40 and not regretted it since!!

Cool! Glad to have helped ha ha

Title: Re: Im back!
Post by: hayesey on September 24, 2013, 09:07:49 am
same here!  BVF 2002 or 2003 if I remember correctly.  My G40 was Paul's brother's

It was the ride in your car that made me but a G40 and not regretted it since!!
Title: Re: Im back!
Post by: Yoof on September 24, 2013, 11:03:36 am
Heyup Paul!

Remake required of the T40 and G40 'make the bastard chase you' video required...
Title: Re: Im back!
Post by: paulg40 on September 24, 2013, 07:13:29 pm
Wish I still had that video! No idea where I put it! Infact to be truthfull I have hardly any videos or photos of my old polo :-(
Title: Re: Im back!
Post by: Andy on September 24, 2013, 07:42:14 pm
It was here:
http://www.markhunter.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/polowarsHiQ.rm
...but Blueyonder is long gone!

Maybe Mark still has it somewhere?
Title: Re: Im back!
Post by: hayesey on September 25, 2013, 10:32:10 am
I have a copy of that video!

Just uploading it to the web server now.
Title: Re: Im back!
Post by: hayesey on September 25, 2013, 10:33:41 am
pow!

http://derby.polog40.co.uk/videos/polowarsHiQ.rm
Title: Re: Im back!
Post by: paulg40 on September 25, 2013, 01:51:00 pm
Ha!
class, that is so cheesy but brings back some memories! especially me waisting my tyres trying not to hit the kurb in the carpark  :D

Maybe an HD remake is needed! especially now the GO PRO cameras are about.

Has anyone got a video of me at the pod? I used to have a couple but can't find anything.
I do have a great in-car video of Marshals G40 going up the strip at GTI international back in 2005, I edited it into a little sequence, will have to get that up here.
Title: Re: Im back!
Post by: hayesey on September 25, 2013, 02:19:26 pm
I've got some of those Pod videos too Paul.  Just uploading them now into this folder:

http://derby.polog40.co.uk/videos/

They are the WMV with 'paul' at the start of the file name
Title: Re: Im back!
Post by: paulg40 on September 25, 2013, 10:19:28 pm
Cool :-) cheers man!
Title: Re: Im back!
Post by: paulg40 on September 25, 2013, 10:44:23 pm
How cool, mine was pretty quiet like, but plenty charger noise which I liked!

Treasure mate, got hardly any evidence of this car. Can finally show my work mates what I have been going on about for the last 8 years! And then need to get the new G40 up to scratch but I think if I can I'll be keeps the charger once again. (buy a spare as well).
Watching these has got be right excited for Saturday when I pick the new G up!