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jimmy 2.1

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Registered: 17th Oct 05
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12th Nov 06 at 18:24

My van started out life like this:

Time for a change.....

Decided to do some smoothing and get a better exhaust......

Then i bought martin_c's old wheels and re-sprayed it......

Then i had an accident on the motorway with a brick which ripped off a sideskirt

So i plodded on with a little more smoothing and ended up with this.....

BUT! Its all change yet again! Its going away to a bodyshop for lots of things to happen to it, which i will not reveal at this moment in time.

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All Torque

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Registered: 17th Nov 05
Location: Milton Keynes Drives: Ford Focus TDCi
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12th Nov 06 at 18:29

Exhaust

Nice Progess mate, looks neat in matt black

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Registered: 20th May 02
Location: Kent
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12th Nov 06 at 18:30

Withut sounding negative

it was much better in phase 1 IMO before it was touched

jimmy 2.1

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Registered: 17th Oct 05
Location: Shipley, West Yorkshire
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12th Nov 06 at 18:40

i know!

but i've got this far now so i'm not going to rip it all off to put it back to phase one......i'll put those cav wheels i have in my garage onto my bro's corsa

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Registered: 20th May 02
Location: Kent
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12th Nov 06 at 18:41

Sandsy

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Registered: 29th Oct 04
Location: Tilney All Saints Drives: V6 Corsa
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12th Nov 06 at 18:44

euro/subtle is definatly the way forward, i am going euro over the winter fresh for next year

SteveW

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Registered: 15th Jul 02
Location: Up in the clouds
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13th Nov 06 at 13:42

wow.. that is mega euro.

get some schmit wheels on there

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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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13th Nov 06 at 13:45

Weld the back windows up and get rid of those metal windows!

SXi_Tim

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Registered: 11th Mar 03
Location: South Yorkshire Drives: RS3, LET B
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13th Nov 06 at 14:05

Get rid of the back lights aswell and get it sprayed gloss black, not matt black as it looks completely unfinished

deano87

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Registered: 21st Oct 06
Location: Bedfordshire Drives: Ford Fiesta
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13th Nov 06 at 22:16

quote:
Originally posted by SXi_Tim
and get it sprayed gloss black, not matt black as it looks completely unfinished

Or a school blackboard!

jimmy 2.1

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13th Nov 06 at 22:55

quote:
Originally posted by deano87

quote:
Originally posted by SXi_Tim
and get it sprayed gloss black, not matt black as it looks completely unfinished

Or a school blackboard!

i wish when i was at school the blackboard looked like that

deano87

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Registered: 21st Oct 06
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13th Nov 06 at 23:08

Could have made drawing triangles tricky though

Martin_C

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Registered: 27th Jun 03
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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14th Nov 06 at 00:10

shit wheels

Carl

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Registered: 9th May 04
Location: Jimmy Bennett's la la land.
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14th Nov 06 at 01:25

nice one, a dark tint on the back window would finish it off and make it look smoother i reckon.

FlamingCorsa

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Registered: 22nd Apr 03
Location: Shropshire
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14th Nov 06 at 17:36

looks great mate, like it the last few times its had work!!!

wot is the crack with matt black paint, is it just basecoat or do u get propper matt black paint??

also is it a pain to look after cos u cant reallt polish it etc cos it will make it shiny

jimmy 2.1

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Registered: 17th Oct 05
Location: Shipley, West Yorkshire
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14th Nov 06 at 22:42

iaz, its a normal black base coat then a 2k lacqer with a matting agent in to dull it. i had it mixed and had samples made till i was happy with the matt-ness (if there is such a word! lol) of it. when you open the tin its almost white is the lacqer its that cloudy but it goes on clear.

your right aswell that you can't polish it up with g3 compound as it'll shine up. its just a case of washing it as it gets filthy in no time! worse than white!

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nik

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15th Nov 06 at 12:48

sort the rear plate out

Marc

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Registered: 11th Aug 02
Location: York
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15th Nov 06 at 12:53

Needs MHW/Irmscher rear lights.

rosssei

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Registered: 3rd Jan 07
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3rd Jan 07 at 18:18

love the van idea.....is it a diesel? or a smallish petrol?

Mark330d

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Registered: 25th Apr 06
Location: Netherlee, Glasgow City
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3rd Jan 07 at 18:43

2.0 Redtop judging by the first pics.

Martin_C

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Registered: 27th Jun 03
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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3rd Jan 07 at 19:11

2.1 16v

jimmy 2.1

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Location: Shipley, West Yorkshire
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3rd Jan 07 at 19:52

quote:
Originally posted by Martin_C
2.1 16v

2 bonus points to martin!

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jimmy 2.1

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Registered: 17th Oct 05
Location: Shipley, West Yorkshire
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27th May 07 at 18:49

Might as well get this thread re-started!

Took it to a bodyshop, where i started to pull the van to bits. Here it is looking very poorly!

Then we started on a bit of metal work, and getting a shape for it. We cut the original arches off and cut the inner arches out and re-welded them for clearance on the wheels. We then welded on some arches from a........ not telling you yet!