This is all about my first project car. I talk about where the car started as a standard 1.4-liter motor to my first mods and then everything I did to the car. Running a 2E engine with MP9 fuel injection all the way to the Crossflow head with individual throttle bodies to a 2.1-liter 20V engine that had individual throttles, Supercharger, and a nice big turbo. I talk about all the issues I had with the car and how I got around the issues. This was a fun project and my daily driver.
The Toyota SC14 Supercharger was in a box for a while. Well at least till I decided what I was going to do with it. I had all these ideas of what I am going to do how I am going to do it. My master plan was to have the Polo up and running […]
This may sound corny now. When I first heard the words supercharger and Turbo I thought it was a sales gimmick. I didn’t have a clue what it was. Weber side drafts and the throttle bodies were the only performance intakes I was exposed to till now. The VW Polo was really running well. It […]
One day I was on a dyno day at one of the performance shops not far from where I stay. I saw a BMW E36 M3 going onto the dyno. When they opened the bonnet that was the first time I saw individual throttle bodies in a car. Till now everything was Weber side drafts. […]
After I had my Polo for a few months the bug bit me. I wanted to make the polo go faster. There were a few Polo‘s running around with 2-liter conversions and they were running really well. I started doing some research. The 2E long block Volkswagen engines were more reliable than the short block […]
My first project car started out to be just a car a bought for transport. I didn’t have any thoughts of modifying the car….maybe one or two small things crossed my mind. This was my 1.4-liter 1997 Volkswagen Polo classic. I got it for a good price and it was in great condition. I loved […]