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 Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 2:41 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
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Location: Bristol
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Get rid of the front spacer and get the back to poke a tiny bit. Hellaflush is what it's about.
Lol if you ever do let me no.
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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 3:00 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
Posts: 4117
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Location: No Man's Land
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| Ruffy_206 wrote: |
Get rid of the front spacer and get the back to poke a tiny bit. Hellaflush is what it's about.
Lol if you ever do let me no. |
If I can bud I will be getting the car as low as I can the fronts and the arches rolled the the arches will be sitting on the side walls. The rears will do the same with the 20mm spacers but I need the 10mm to clear the coilovers on the front due to the size of the barrel.
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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 3:33 am |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
Posts: 932
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Location: West Midlands
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Looking good mate 
Will you be able to get the front down though even with the arches rolled? Looks like they poke quite a bit.
Have you put any split rim bolts back in the wheels? Can't see on my phone.
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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 4:31 am |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
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Location: No Man's Land
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| Ross wrote: |
Looking good mate
Will you be able to get the front down though even with the arches rolled? Looks like they poke quite a bit.
Have you put any split rim bolts back in the wheels? Can't see on my phone. |
I've ordered the split bolts from Rimstyle @ a cost of £60 and are taking a month to arrive to me. I will be doing something crazy with them but I'm going to try it first on the front badge to see how it looks before I do it else where.
Fingers crossed I should be able to as the arches are in line with the join between tyre and wheel lip. But I'll see once the backs down so I can get it just right, probs be looking at having the stance similar to yours.
But I've got a few updates a little later today, alot of which will be leather orientated, yes the addition is still there lol. But we'll see how it looks once it's all done.
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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 1:06 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
Posts: 2801
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Location: Barry, South Wales
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I'm 1st for the wheels 
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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 1:08 pm |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010
Posts: 368
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Location: Penzance & Falmouth Cornwall
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glad to see the wheels back again, cant believe the state of them, when they left me they had been on the car for about an hour, waxed and then stored in my room at uni and then treated like crap 
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:02 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
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Location: West Midlands
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 4:46 pm |
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Location: No Man's Land
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Not going to lie but even my dad said to me as we drove away from picking the wheels up 'what the eff has he done to the wheels..?' lol, he's never been one for fancy wheels etc and not really understood it all but when he saw these fitted on Ross' GT he was like yeah you've gotta have them. He was upset himself when you came and picked up the wheels but I'm chuffed with all the searching around they've arrived back to me 
I'm with you on that 100%, Ross. I'm never going to be happy with it purely because even once it's lowered to it's max it will still look like it's on stilts. I'm running Raceland Coilovers and did put the wheel on with the spacer but it was just rubbing against the adjuster rings, it would have been fine with 5mm shim but want to keep it all safe so just fitted 10mm's.
20mm spacers are going on during the day tomorrow on the rear and then I'll see what I need to do from there.
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Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 11:17 am |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
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Location: No Man's Land
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Well only 2 real updates...
The first being. I went into helfrauds to pick up some evostick as they're the cheapest for it in Evesham and while I was there start having a mooch around the paint. Been thinking about adding an accent colour to the SW's moonstone blue and the only colour that stood out was Ford Purple Velvet met. Anyway bought it home and took the badge apart, rubbed the gloss black down and this happened.
I did the outer strip as well, going down the same route as the XSi and this is what it's looking like now, still needs a few more coats and then a whole lot of laquer.
I know Sam & Ryan have already seen it on facebook as well as Icetto and I've gotten positive feedback, so everyone else let me know what you think.
The other bits I will be door include; mirror caps and roof strips. Also ordered some very cool dice valve caps which have been made out of the dices used at the Bellagio and they are purple. Also finally I will also be adding purple around where you can see inside the wheel from the stretch and also the purple bolts. I'm also tempted to have the inside barrels wrapped in purple.
Only other update is that I wrapped the bumper protector in leather and added a bit of stainless steel being the w**re that I am.
Let me know what you think guys & girls.
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 12:41 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
Posts: 4117
Trade Rating: +25
Location: No Man's Land
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Enough Purple Velvet going on..?
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 3:11 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
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Location: No Man's Land
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Got everything finished up yesterday i.e. all laquered up, cut and polished etc.
Got the centre console fitted in today...
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 3:36 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
Posts: 3817
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Location: Uni: Kent Home: Scunthorpe
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Loving the purple mate going to look spot on! Should go for a set of FKs then wont have any problem with the barrel rubbing on the wheels. I was looking into this form of air myself but it is pricey and im down 70mm roughly on 15s with 55 tyres (i think) and I do scrape abit and there is the odd speed bump which I cant get over but they are quite few and far between.
In terms of audio, give me a shout and im sure I can help you out personally wouldnt go alpine as i think you can get better for the money or a tad extra but you will notice that little extra.
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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:05 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
Posts: 4117
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Location: No Man's Land
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Thanks bud I know what you mean about going with the FK, wish they'd released the kits back when I bought this raceland setup. I'm going to knock the front spacers off tomorrow and see if I can do something about the spacing on front as it does in all fairness look stupid.
But, I found something on eBay which is seriously tempting me to sell my MAMs. I can only say that they are 8.5Jx17" and the company drill the PCD for you and you choose exactly what offset you want ranging from ET20 to ET38.
I know what you mean about having problems I have it with some of the bumps in Evesham, but usually the solution is to enter at an angle lol but even then the splitter does catch. It's only Evesham though lol everywhere else I don't have a problem.
Will speak to you about audio but as before I don't really want to be spending big money, spending about the same as what I spent on the XSi's install.
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 2:46 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
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Location: No Man's Land
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Gutter strips were sprayed up the other day, didn't manage to get them all done.
got one fitted up on the car to show what it looks like against the blue...
Custom engine cover started on...smoothing out the pug badge first...
Next to go is the 2 lines that run at the top of the cover and the HDi logo then it's just a matter of spraying it up
Got the car cleaned up today and given a full load of detailing with a couple layers of HD wax...
Also got this shot of a bit of bead, a small trickle just after I'd took the first layer off.
Front wheels sit like this;
Rears sit like this;
Interiors looking sorry for itself...soon be done =)
It's getting there. Next up is, I'm having the fogs sprayed in Velvet Purple and the roof bars done to match the colour of the car. Also tempted to take the bodyshop up on his price of £150 to have the roof sprayed in Gloss Black and have the aerial flushed out.
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 2:49 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
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Location: No Man's Land
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Not much of an update but took all the spacers off yesterday and the different of clearance between the two, right still had spacers fitted when I took it to compare. Obviously I'll need spacers as a result of this when the coils are fully wound down...
Right...10mm spacer.
Left...no spacer.
Also added something a bit one off...
Also just won a set of GT front arch extensions for the the front wings...this should be interesting. Will be here on Friday so I'll get them fitted at get some pics to show how they look.
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