What did you do to your Polo today?

[mikepologti]

yeah i cut mine out too with a stanley knife, and used a bit of wet n dry to smooth it up.hey scot did you notice the 10mm gap underneath where the seat intake trumpet connects to the grill harness? was going to think of a way to ramp the air into the seat intake some how(im open for suggestions)

[Buller_Scott]

hey man i have looked at it a few times, but i havent noticed that part in particular- i will check it out this morning (this is my last post before work ends).

i reckon there is definitely a way to free up the intake tract abit more.

i'll check it out.

[572]

Looks the goods Jon. I've had my eye on a CDA9887 for the polo for some time, but haven't quite got there... What are you doing for splits/ sub etc?

9887 is nice, but I wanted USB. So 9886 + Imprint Processor did the trick nicely!

Splits are staying standard for now, very happy with the sound quality improvement running off the Alpine. Finishing off the sub box this week which houses an Image Dynamics 8".

[mikepologti]

hey man i have looked at it a few times, but i havent noticed that part in particular- i will check it out this morning (this is my last post before work ends).

i reckon there is definitely a way to free up the intake tract abit more.

i'll check it out.

ill take some photos of mine and post them,(people dont seem to know what the hell im on about,.....(.i feeling not to uncommon round these parts lol)

[philthy]

9887 is nice, but I wanted USB. So 9886 + Imprint Processor did the trick nicely!

Splits are staying standard for now, very happy with the sound quality improvement running off the Alpine. Finishing off the sub box this week which houses an Image Dynamics 8".

I'll have to have a listen sometime.. Will be interesting to hear how the 8" sub goes. My 12 tends to take up about half of the boot and I can't turn it up too much anyway cos it drowns out the front stage.

[mozzzy_2000]

mozzy:- where the seat intake trumpet ataches to the plastic grille harness. after it is atatched theres about a 10mm gap below the seat intake and the grill harness .not sure how best to explain it, id take a photo but it was a tight fit to get in there.nice work jon, looks awsome, the blue display should word well with the rest of the gti displays.

I think I got what you are saying. To be honest I haven't looked at that bit. There maybe a gap afterall. To be honest I couldn't tell you if there was a gap with the stock trumpet or not. Side by side they looked like the same dimensions and the SEAT trumpet is certianly not any smaller that for sure. Doesn't seem to have been a hindrance since the overall performance gain is better than I had expected. 3rd gear in particular now feels super torquey and you really feel the boost come on. Not sure how much more removing the flap gives but I dare say quite a bit since it can scoop up much more cooler air. It surely must improve things. Also I used a dremel cuz I basically love dremeling things! lol One of the handiest tools I have ever bought.

I've just had a squiz at my car. Comparing the stock trumpet to the SEAT one, that gap appears to exist in both cases so I am guessing its nothing to worry about.

[Kai]

I asked vw about wheel bearings.

400 each.

hahaha

[mikepologti]

jesus are they gold plated?

[Buller_Scott]

yeah i cut mine out too with a stanley knife, and used a bit of wet n dry to smooth it up.hey scot did you notice the 10mm gap underneath where the seat intake trumpet connects to the grill harness? was going to think of a way to ramp the air into the seat intake some how(im open for suggestions)

okay this is going to be retarded, but basically this is what i saw today:


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---------\/---------|_seat_intake_opening__|
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mike, i know what you are talking about- i think one way to go would be perhaps to cut out the little horizontal bit of plastic (once installed) above the flap, and relocate (glue) it to the bottom of the box that you click into the grill harness, thereby encouraging a little more air flow.

however, i was thinking that, when you look at what is actually visible of the intake trumpet, from the front of the grill, the bonnet actually extends down rather low over the intake mouth, so that only a small portion of the intake is actually exposed readily to the full brunt of outside air (as per visual reconstruction above).

obviously at speed, this would be somewhat overcome, but i was thinking- i know that the bracket into the plastic grille is designed such that it sorta hooks over one of the horizontal plastic blades.

what if you were to move the grille bracket down a blade (still have to see if this will work), thus allowing a greater area of the intake to be smack-bang exposed? i think im going to try it. all it would take would be a thin yet non-pliable piece of plastic, drilled in two places: first, at places that would match the mounting brackets to the grille (where you screw it in); then secondly, a distance below those two holes that would be equal to the distance between the grille blade that the intake box feeds into, and the next grille blade below that.

it would take all of 5 bucks in plastic, and probably 3 bucks for the two screws, washers, and bolts, for the lower mounting point.

i will investigate further.

cheers

[mikepologti]

okay this is going to be retarded, but basically this is what i saw today:


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---------\/---------|_seat_intake_opening__|
--------\/\/------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------

mike, i know what you are talking about- i think one way to go would be perhaps to cut out the little horizontal bit of plastic (once installed) above the flap, and relocate (glue) it to the bottom of the box that you click into the grill harness, thereby encouraging a little more air flow.

however, i was thinking that, when you look at what is actually visible of the intake trumpet, from the front of the grill, the bonnet actually extends down rather low over the intake mouth, so that only a small portion of the intake is actually exposed readily to the full brunt of outside air (as per visual reconstruction above).

obviously at speed, this would be somewhat overcome, but i was thinking- i know that the bracket into the plastic grille is designed such that it sorta hooks over one of the horizontal plastic blades.

what if you were to move the grille bracket down a blade (still have to see if this will work), thus allowing a greater area of the intake to be smack-bang exposed? i think im going to try it. all it would take would be a thin yet non-pliable piece of plastic, drilled in two places: first, at places that would match the mounting brackets to the grille (where you screw it in); then secondly, a distance below those two holes that would be equal to the distance between the grille blade that the intake box feeds into, and the next grille blade below that.

it would take all of 5 bucks in plastic, and probably 3 bucks for the two screws, washers, and bolts, for the lower mounting point.

i will investigate further.

cheers

scott,

doesnt sound like such a bad idea, was trying to think of ways around it myself. brought myself a water catchment bucket from bunnings the plastic is very strong yet plyable. ive just started to cut a few peices off it to get some ideas.let us know how you go.

mike