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I have some experience of buying ex-team recce cars and turning them into proper rally cars. Most of them had sump / tank guards, cages, bucket seats and harnesses and suspension and brake upgrades to suit.
The Polo had a VW Motorsport ECU with a remap but otherwise standard engine.Do you have the ratios for the Xtrac box yours has fitted? If the ratios are similar to the WRC box used in the GT4 then there's a sensible justification of using it for a recce particularly if they were making notes in a 6 fastest numbers first format maybe.
mcmyk-
unfortunately non of the TTE mods are in the car (except for the TTE - seemingly limited edition - exhaust system)
the box is not an Xtrac anymore, it is the standard E151F with straight cut gears and dog engagement hubs (made here in hungary). not sure if the front diff has been messed with either..
hma
well, the thing is, i don't know what the spec was, when used by TTE.. there is info about the WRC cars, of course, but i doubt they used an Xtrac gearbox for a reconnaissance car..
there were modifications that have left some clues behind, such as light pods on the front bumpers (hole locations still visible), harness anchor points behind the rear seats, oil pan shield (bolts welded to the underside), map light over the passenger side Jesus-handle - will have to dig in deeper to see if it was caged
the chap i bought it from sent an email to TTE, but they told him they didn't keep records at the time, so not much info from them (apart from confirming the license plate). i know the names of the following owners, so might try to hit them up and ask around.
the plan is to put the gearbox internals into my MR2 project (sw20, with a planned 3sge gen5 (Altezza) blacktop engine swap), convert the Celica back to synchro, get the OEM ECU back in, etc. :)
it is likely that it looked like this: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=414864779168022