Hurdy's new Polo GTI..project time!

[Hurdy]

A bit dark, but more subtle than I thought too. Plus it will protect the badge from stones attacking it on track.  8-)

[Wayne]

Badge looks really good.

[Hurdy]

Quick 0-60mph video on a flat, damp uneven surface. Short shifted into 2nd and only used 5k rpm to avoid wheelspin on the damp surface. Video is only 6 seconds long and I stopwatched the video 0-60 as 5.6-5.7 seconds. With a dry even surface I reckon a sub 5 second 0-60mph dash could be achieved. Not bad for a little car. Enjoy

http://s156.photobucket.com/albums/t8/hurdy_album/?action=view&current=0to60mph-1.mp4

[dom]

Quick 0-60mph video on a flat, damp uneven surface. Short shifted into 2nd and only used 5k rpm to avoid wheelspin on the damp surface. Video is only 6 seconds long and I stopwatched the video 0-60 as 5.6-5.7 seconds. With a dry even surface I reckon a sub 5 second 0-60mph dash could be achieved. Not bad for a little car. Enjoy

http://s156.photobucket.com/albums/t8/hurdy_album/?action=view&current=0to60mph-1.mp4

Woah! This car looks like a lot of fun

[Hurdy]

Ah well, I knew I wouldn't be able to resist for too long. Did some deeper investigation today about a hybrid turbo. New OEM turbo is £1100 +VAT and then looking like another £XXX for hybridising and then £XXX for custom software. 

£XXX means basically I don't know how much yet.

With the rest of the planned hardware mods (intercooler, intake and water/meth) I'm looking at somewhere between 270bhp and 300bhp, but where between those figure is anyones guess 

To put this into perspective 270bhp on a 1.4 is the equivalent of 385bhp on a 2.0 litre car and 300bhp on a 1.4 is the equivalent of 428bhp on a 2 litre car - without internals!!!!

[Hurdy]

Another little mod for today...

Wrapped the two front grey plastic sections with the carbon wrap to see what they look like. Not bad actually. Livens the front end up too. 

OEM

Wrapped

OEM

Wrapped

Close up on the car

[Rhyso]

 

[DanChave]

Looks good that does mate

[VR6_Wherry]

Much better! 

[SoundillusioN]

Never sure on wrapped badges but loving the surrounds. Makes the OEM style look cheap.

Was unaware of the performance potential.  Am almost convinced that I would prefer this over a golf to play with if I were ever in a position to have a modern toy hatch.