When you buy a car that is fitted with a turbo or even when you build a project car with a turbo you always know that there is so much more potential than what the car is currently giving. Well, this is the case if you are a petrol head. When you have a turbo […]
Now that all the hardware was done in the car I had to work out a strategy. How am I going to control the clutch of the supercharger and also the electronic bypass valve? I have seen other setups with this charger that the guys just fit a switch on the dash. They can switch […]
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 […]
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 […]