One of the many cars that left me scratching my head at Gatebil was this innocent enough from a distance Volkswagen Polo. The fourth generation Polo never really got a whole lot of love from enthusiasts, with the exception of the GTi variant which arrived in 2005 when the 9N was face-lifted as the 9N3. I guess there wasn’t really an appeal to tune something which is by all accounts, a small city car. That is of course until Dahlback got their hands on one …
The most powerful Polo of this generation from factory was the GTi Cup Edition, with a respectable 178BHP powering the front wheels. It never really set the world on fire but there was a lot of potential in the small Veedub.
Potential which Dahlback have realized. Gone is the humdrum four cylinder engine and in its place an Audi Rs4 sourced 2.7 litre V6 with a single (BIG) turbocharger which boosts to 2.4bar. The result? 990BHP and 1220Nm (circa 900ft/lbs) which is transferred through a presumably Audi sourced 4WD system.
The car is also a full carbon bodied car and weighs in at 913KGs. My man maths calculator tells me this equates to 1,084BHP per ton.
With KW Competition suspension, road legal Toyo R888 (265/30/18 all around) and so little weight – I think I’ve found a new favorite Gatebil car.
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Paddy McGrath
Gatebil Mantorp 2012 on Speedhunters
Photo by Paddy McGrath
Photo by Paddy McGrath
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Is there any polo left or is it just a silhouette?
Any match for Lancia S4?
@PaddyMcGrathSH Unless you own it
@TorqueIRL True that!
Lol @ MILF Hunter in 3rd. shot!
Im not a Volkswagen expert so I wanna ask about the front. Are they from Mercedes? Because that front end reminds me of CLK GTR.
@yanes33537 It's quite like some of the older Mercedes' alright, but that's the standard front for that car (with regards to the headlight shape)
Will you guys do a feature on the V8 passat some guys were fiddling on driftworks? they talked about gatebiiling it...
@Vilko Good question - there's certainly not a lot left of the front of the car but I couldn't get a look on the inside / rear / underneath to make a call on that. Never the less, it's a pretty awesome build!
That is a serious V-dub. Clearly not a single F**K was given when driving this beast. I bet the acceleration is insane.
I think it looks like a Rallycross-racer on steroids.
Wish more VW/audi guys did performance based builds like this
@PaddyMcGrathSH @Vilko It's still a Polo. Stock frame and all!Some more pics and info, although in Swedish, but google translate might help you
@PaddyMcGrathSH @Vilko It's still a Polo. Stock frame and all! Some more pics and info, although in Swedish, but google translate might help you
http://www.garaget.org/?car=243632
The Polo still retains the stock frame/ chassis For more info/Pics; http://www.garaget.org/?car=243632
Awesome car, shitty feature!
How about the cage? Any pics? How about the brakes? How about the electronics? What size is the turbo? What fuel is it tuned with? Who drove it? 5 pictures for a car like this? This car deserves A LOT more!
And then you ask me why I never have anything nice to say?
@JDMized LOL...I have to agree, could've been said in a nicer way.
Oh my god. This is amazing. o_o
MOARRR ....
i lol'd hard at the milf hunters badge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyuhR0QC6BM&feature=related Check this out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyuhR0QC6BM&feature=related Check this out!
Goddamn. This car definitely deserved a bigger feature!
Holy hell!
i had to read it twice...! this "thing" is insane! 990hp in a polo?! WTF!!!!
@JDMized Who said it was a feature? It's a car spotlight, like the many others that run on this site. The difference between a spotlight and a feature is that a spotlight is limited to five images and we don't have full access to the car or have all the information to hand. A spotlight also leaves scope for a more in-depth feature in the future.
I remember the 5 cylinder Mk4 Golf they did that was just plane insane and thought they couldn't top it and boy was I wrong. How did they manage to put a twin turbo V6 in a Polo is just witchcraft and I love it. I am off to find videos of the car.
I remember the 5 cylinder Mk4 Golf they did that was just plane insane and thought they couldn't top it and boy was I wrong. How did they manage to put a twin turbo V6 in a Polo is just witchcraft and I love it. I am off to find videos of the car.
OOHH EMM GEE!!! This is undeniably insane!! 1084BHP per ton!?! Must be rather quick then eh?
Just imagine how much custom work they had to do. Anyone else notice how they had to relocate the front strut towers? This puts the Nissan Juke R to shame...
@PaddyMcGrathSH Why bother with a spotlight? Waste of time and energy! Do a feature and quit defending yourself!
Pretty sweet, just needs a hood
What an epic car, but what a dull post. We get literally dozens of pictures of slammed things with stupid tyres, paragraph-long descriptions of stupid see-through gear levers, entire treatises on rolling wheelarches to accomodate stupid camber and almost nothing on this?
@I_AM_DAVE_COX 990BHP???? Fuch
@ryanDC IN-FUCKING-SANE
@I_AM_DAVE_COX needs super charging.
@RickNunn I agree, MORE POWER!
"Potential which Dahlback have realized." So they realized the "potential" by replacing the engine and running gear?
Reminds me of that crazy GTI that they shoe-horned a W12 engine into. So much power the car was virtually uncontrollable.
nice. but short on detail1
@Eventomotor VA sin motor, pobre hombre, va a doblar el chasis
@JonathanSvensson @PaddyMcGrathSH @Vilko
its a coustombuilt chromemolly tubular chassi in the carbonfiberpolo.I know beacuse i built it for the owner Viktor
@PaddyMcGrath @Vilko
here is some pictures i have more of them on my computer. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150106861874016.278659.596314015&type=3
@Von_vettet
Von vettet the polo has an custom made chromemolly tubular frame. i know because i med it for Viktor who is the owner of the crazy beast.
@JDMized
Hi JDMized this car has a custombuilt tubular chassi in chromemolly. it has RS6 brakes all around. the engine has an Nira i3 pully progamable enginemanagment system. The turbo is an Presision 6766 witch is maxed out. it runs on ethanol- the driver is the new owner of Dahlback Racing Viktor Ihlis