VVT

How does VVT and VVL work?

One of the first things normally gets done to modify an engine is to fit a performance cam. One of the things that go together with that is a Vernier gear or pulley. With the vernier pulley on the cam, the cam can be set up to whatever the driver wants. You can advance the […]

Fabrication of all piping

The engine was assembled and in the car. Now it was time to fit all the extras. The Supercharger went on and so did the intake manifold with the throttles. I left the plenum off for now as I still had to build the boost pipe between the turbo and the supercharger inlet. Next was […]

Will this engine fit?

Now that I had the gearbox sorted out I was ready to start this build and see how this engine fit. I stripped off the complete nose of the car. The Polo has a subframe or stiffener that bolts to the chassis. This subframe houses the radiator and lights. By taking this section off it […]