spraycanmansam build thread

[Jmac]

Thanks Sam appreciate that, im doin it, cool look. Yeah i think its your struts my friend but please let us know if not. .
Cheers for now
Jmac

[s4mmie]

Jimmy, tried to spray some silicone spray everywhere around the struts, no luck mate The CEL came back too
You didn't happen to see if the grub screw for the coilover adjuster was missing the other day did you? It's disappeared...



Well, I had a great productive afternoon! Love when you can spend no money and make a huge improvement on the car. Reading Anthony's thread gave me the motivation this weekend to get off my bum and fix the scrubbing. I had suspected that they weren't actually scrubbing on the metal, but rather the plastic guards. After removing the arches it was pretty obvious where the tyres where scrubbing --



I cut the offending pieces out on all four guards. It's amazing the amount of crud collects in behind the plastic arches --



I also pumped my front guards out a bit more with my specialist guard pumping tool (hands). Slowly and carefully pulled them out till I was happy with them. The metal is so thin on the front it's terribly easy.
After our recent discussion on rear bumpstops and Ben's success, I finally got around to modifying mine also. I cut out the middle knob in both bumpstops to give the shocks the proper travel --




I still need to figure out what I'm going to glue them together with...
Results: No scrubbing! At all! Our street is a terrible bumpy street and the car would scrub in the rear doing 50km. Now doing 60-65, no scrubbing



Afternoon well spent

[Jmac]

Jimmy, tried to spray some silicone spray everywhere around the struts, no luck mate The CEL came back too
You didn't happen to see if the grub screw for the coilover adjuster was missing the other day did you? It's disappeared...



Well, I had a great productive afternoon! Love when you can spend no money and make a huge improvement on the car. Reading Anthony's thread gave me the motivation this weekend to get off my bum and fix the scrubbing. I had suspected that they weren't actually scrubbing on the metal, but rather the plastic guards. After removing the arches it was pretty obvious where the tyres where scrubbing --



I cut the offending pieces out on all four guards. It's amazing the amount of crud collects in behind the plastic arches --



I also pumped my front guards out a bit more with my specialist guard pumping tool (hands). Slowly and carefully pulled them out till I was happy with them. The metal is so thin on the front it's terribly easy.
After our recent discussion on rear bumpstops and Ben's success, I finally got around to modifying mine also. I cut out the middle knob in both bumpstops to give the shocks the proper travel --




I still need to figure out what I'm going to glue them together with...
Results: No scrubbing! At all! Our street is a terrible bumpy street and the car would scrub in the rear doing 50km. Now doing 60-65, no scrubbing



Afternoon well spent

Na mate i only had a peep in there and saw there was no spring problem so didnt even pay any attention to your grub screw sorry and had no need to be near it. Next Cel, shame that your resistance and resistors must be the problem, well have to be, its only relating to SAI flow so its the pump resistance. Shame silicone didnt quiten it, i still think the noise is the struts though and must be internal mate. .Heard that very noise too many times on other Coilies.
good to hear you have no rubbing must be happy with that, yeah its hard to get motivated at times hey but great when you do. .
Cheers
Jmac

[Polo GTEye N9]

G'day Sam, you have inspired me. I sold my WRX this week and turned my attention to the Polo. Rear Sway bar installed same night you dropped them off. Having had to get a safety certificate reminded me that the Cone filter open in the engine bay could be defected by Qld Transport. As soon as I saw your Cone In A Box I knew it was the solution. So on Saturday I got the tools out and manufactured a lid to suit my cone and now all I need is the 90 degree silicon bend! Thanks for the write up on your sweet Polo GTi. Question: Where to get a 90 degree bend? Cheers Al

[sssstew]

I cut the offending pieces out on all four guards. It's amazing the amount of crud collects in behind the plastic arches --

Yep, this is common on all VW group cars it seems, found this on my old Audi i got last year and cleaned it out, see below. Its much more of an issue in the UK where these things fill up with mud and road salt which just sits against the paintwork for years being wet and damp and causes rust issues, here in Aus you are lucky you dont salt the roads and its much drier.

[s4mmie]

No worries Jimmy, I mustn't have tightened it up and it's worked it's way out
Yeah I'll play around with the struts some more, I still have a feeling it's the KW rubber bushing at the top of the strut. It's definitely coming from the top and there's nothing else it can be!

G'day Sam, you have inspired me. I sold my WRX this week and turned my attention to the Polo. Rear Sway bar installed same night you dropped them off. Having had to get a safety certificate reminded me that the Cone filter open in the engine bay could be defected by Qld Transport. As soon as I saw your Cone In A Box I knew it was the solution. So on Saturday I got the tools out and manufactured a lid to suit my cone and now all I need is the 90 degree silicon bend! Thanks for the write up on your sweet Polo GTi. Question: Where to get a 90 degree bend? Cheers Al

Yeah mate, that's the main reason I did the cone in the box, keep Mr. Plod off my back! When you start getting big power levels it gets restrictive but see how I go later on.
Depends what size your filter is but I bought a 2.75-3.5in bend. I had to cut off a little bit on the MAF end which made the hole a little larger, I think a 2.5" might fit tighter. EBay should have plenty

[s4mmie]

Another one on the SEAT cooler bandwagon --






It better





<EDIT> Just thought I'd add it was a total biatch doing it in this :O --
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/g...-1226518633361
..I got the core on before it started pissing down, thank goodness it dried out this afternoon to finish it off.

Took it for a test drive before I bolted the bumper back on; It holds 17psi as normal through 2nd, no leaky
I wouldn't say it's increased performance, but I got my powa back! It feels like driving on a winters night.

Only thing I don't like is the stupid plastic OEM pipes still there...I'd like to grab a peice of 2" alloy pipe and another 90 deg bend and replace it to put my mind at ease.

They weren't wrong when they said there's a lot of plastic to go in the bin! :O The bumper required serious trimming, none of which is visible. The lower drivers-side fog grille also need cutting down at the back, but I replaced it with my thinner honeycomb grilles. It still fouls a little but I'll see what I can do...





Anyway, happy with how it feels
Onto the brakes...

[s4mmie]

Just fit up the Mondeo drop links that arrived in the mail.
No idea on what torque to do them up to so I just did them FT.

I think it's too early to tell, but I took it over the usual suspects and no bumpy.. fingers crossed!

[team_v]

Great work!
Will be interesting to see how it handles at Happy Laps with the new cooler.

[s4mmie]

Yeah there'll be a few new bits so I'm curious to see how it goes.

Thought I'd take some pics after I washed it today --









Now I just need to mow the grass