as soon as i get chance ill stick em all on and see how low i get then

Yes mate... all about lows.

my lupo had this much poke on the front and was fine i havnt got a good pic but i had 7j porsche wheels with 15mm adaptors on and it was fine you might be arate like that

a bad pic is better than no pik.
you got yourself a "poke off" :P

yeah my polo was low mate and had bout over an inch poke and spacers mate
looks even better now mate love it

cant wait to get the coilies and get these on finaly

right. the wobble bolts and adapter finaly arived so i thought id get all the cats on at the same time and see how much of the tread was sticking out and see what i could get away with.


it looks like it has a touch of rear camber but this is standard. It definatly needs to come right down for a half decent stance


Am i right in thinking that the top of the wheel tread needs to be under the arch?

yeah you are mate more stretch will sort that out lol !

im gonna have to run on the 165/55's for a while till they run out o tread. looks like its gonna have to be an arch pull then

I like alleycats man but that needs dropping abit more now

coilies are the next thing. as soon as pay day comes that is

coilies and camber should sort that out if you worried but i wouldnt be seen motors with way more poke and they have no trouble even no a lad running a mini with 13x7 deep dish revos with about 3" of poke and he runs that daily with no trouble i even used to run my mini with the same amount as yours and had no trouble i wouldnt worry

think off top of my head its something like your allowed 25mm of 'poke' but you cant have any 'edges' protruding from the arch, so the tread has to be under the arch (thank god for stretch, of which yokohama gives a 'stretch' guide on their site ) and also wheels bolt heads, or centre caps cant protrude (basically its to stop injury)

so no tread but side wall. not too far off then

Looks awesome man! Some really cool ideas going on :D

cheers buddy should be a few more changes over winter depending on the funds

Managed to get me a bit of "show bling" sorted today.
spent a good few hours polishing it up with toothpaste, autosol and then meguires metal polish. still got pleanty more hours to put into it before its perfect but you get the idea.

I want to see this haha

Love this car, seen you around loads!

When I get my coilies and stickers on you should be able to see me :P

should be getting a bit more bay bling from Mr. VW today
will hopefully have the bay and car cleaned for sunday.

ha ha give us a beep and a wave next time. I might just hear you.

i polished up the maniford cover on my lupo ill try dig out a pic it did look really nice

yeh man throw it up.
im not quite happy with the finnish on the new one yet but gimi time n ill have it sorted.

check this mate

to be fair because its steel not alloy you might be better getting it dipped as steel will only polish so much unless its stainless which its not lol

what do you mean dipped?
i pollised up my old one before and the shine looks sharper.

I might have annother go with the rotary tool n auto sol.

Looks like a tidy bay BTW!

yeah it was took me a while to get it like that was very clean get it chrome dipped wont cost much mate and will be proper bling bling

any idea who could chrome dip it?
sounds like an awesome idea.
we like bling bling

try the web mate i dont know any off hand but im sure somebody on here will

luposean wrote:

any idea who could chrome dip it?
sounds like an awesome idea.
we like bling bling

We like bling... Also, ball pools.

Jon wrote:

Chrome Restoration Services Specialising in chrome plating and polishing to show standard 38 Coronation Road STAFFORD, Staffordshire ST16 3JR United Kingdom Phone: 01785 212878

aha!!! cheers for that! will give them a visit some time tomorrow. gonna be all about the bey bling next year.

And the ball pool.

Generic VW in snow shots.

right iv been thinking ALOT about 2011 and iv decided to restyle the lupo slightly.
HOT ROD style!!!
im thinking of an exaggerated raked stance for the alley cats, with whitewalls.
no or minimal stickers.
perhaps a bee sting exhaust?
and a scalop paint job.
put together a rough photoshop, what do ya think?

with rake like that say good bye to almost all your handling...

personally its not my cup of tea... but then again I don't drink tea nor will I drive your car so its your choice and if you love it then go for it dude...

I'd keep the stance, but I love the paintwork -- I was actually looking at something similarly extreme for the oloP!!

im not !00% on the stance myself, but hey thats what photoshops for right?
i just need to find a way of joining the bonnet in?

finaly got the coilovers on so this weekend i wound them down and put on the alleycats. rears running a bit high as the adjuster is still in but the fromts as low as I dare go. few photos for you to enjoy.

looks tops with the alleycats mate very tidy

realy happy to have them on finally.

Loving it dude

Possibly my fave car on here....

Is that behind Tesco, Stafford??

i need to get mine clean and go for a Photoshoot!!

looks great on the cats top job just need the back down a tad

Rosh wrote:

Possibly my fave car on here....

Is that behind Tesco, Stafford??

i need to get mine clean and go for a Photoshoot!!

it is yeh its a great place for a photoshoot just gotta watch out for chav kids they like to "hang out" there, sniff glue and pllay pokemon or whatever it is kids do nowdays.


Cheers for the comments guys, finaly made some progress on it ha ha.

looking tidy mate like the hotrod style paint job idea

looks really good mate

work in progress

haha... nice idea I'd get sore arms having to hold onto that all the time..

you might want to check out the conformity to the regs... it might fall into one of the grey areas under the construction & Use not sure??

The insurance company might have some issues with it also as
1. you've removed a safety device fitted as standard to this vehicle (airbag)
2. you've created another hazard by having two striking points in the event of an accident (end of handle bars)

Check the small print as they will void your insurance...

after having a short test drive im gonna have to put them on just for shows. far too risky. but fun at the same time.

Managed to bag myself a runners up trophy yesterday at dubfreeze. winner of my class was a real nice white caddy pick up. was quite a good show realy happy with how it went with it being mostly an aircooled show.


managed to comicbook and fit the handlebars (fitted them at the show)


givven the engine bay a revamp with a couple of new parts, black engine cover, polished bolts and a bit of barbed wire


and I managed to get the lucas wing mirrors fitted in time too

well done on the trophy dude looked very tidy at dubfreeze there was some tough competition so you did well mate lookin forward to the future plans for this motor as well take it easy

got a few plans. its not easy coming up with something that hasnt been done on a lupo but iv found something