tom_simes
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Registered: 12th Jan 05
Location: Undy, Newport Drives: Skoda Octavia vRS estate
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Fair enough, I have a mate with a lathe so I will get him to make me up a pair of spiggots
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Dave-Creations
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Registered: 28th Dec 06
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Ah Polar Sea Blue Gorgeous colour when clean your car is lookin lovely fella! i will be getting myself a project page made up shortly, cant wait to see yours complete! good luck with the rest of the work
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tom_simes
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Thanks mate
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little_duke
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Registered: 21st Aug 06
Location: Tamworth,staffordshire Drives: rover coupe
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very nice with the new wheels,i do love this colour a fair bit.whats happening about the height now?
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tom_simes
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The height is back to normal now, with all the seats back in.
However - project maybe coming to an end now
The car got badly keyed last night, obcenities scratched into both doors, the bonnet and both rear quarters, and I'm only insured third party, so I may sell the car as it is and buy another as I can't afford to get it resprayed
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mattk
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Registered: 27th Feb 06
Location: St. Helens
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gutted for you fella I really am, I know yours is 10x worse than mine but the feeling is still in describeable
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tom_simes
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Its fucking horrible, must be said
I'm tempted to jack in my part-time job and leave my car at home permanently, as I know it will be safe there
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tom_simes
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Right, time for another update!
I have decided not to do anything about the keying until at least Easter, and probably the summer, hopefully before PVS though!
I received a set of MHW's from Marklaruk a couple of months ago, so fitted them earlier in the week but unfortunately have no photo's of them yet apart from one when fitting:
However, today I have been fitting new front suspension top mounts and my V6 brakes, which has one-off spigot rings to centre the Fiat Coupe brake discs
So, pictures:
old, which were 1.6 callipers and standard size 256mm discs, which you can see are Red Dot 20 groove discs.
And the new, which are Vectra V6 callipers, Fiat Coupe 284mm discs of the Black Diamond drilled and grooved variety and Ferodo DS2500 pads.
So, after a small amount of grinding to allow the wheel to fit over
Apologies for the poor pictures, I need to grind the other calliper tomorrow so I can fit the other wheel, then bleed both callipers so I can go driving!
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205tom
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Registered: 1st Mar 06
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how much caliper clearance :\
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flybikeslee
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make sure your sparewheel fits!
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tom_simes
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quote: Originally posted by flybikeslee
make sure your sparewheel fits!
I have 5 Cesaro's
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tom_simes
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Since ground a tiny bit more of the callipers so they fit perfectly, and they have been bled but not quite bedded in yet as can be seen on the inner edge of the disc:
Also went for a blast around the Welsh hills last week and got a couple of snaps:
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flybikeslee
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red dot 20grooves FTL, i hate mine , big improvement on new ones?
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tom_simes
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Much better now
My red dot were shit Lee, warped so easily!!
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mattk
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What happened about the Qunts that vandalised it? did you get it re-sprayed? looks good n the pics!
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tom_simes
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Still not been resprayed Hopefully getting it done in the Summer.
I did the drivers side myself due to thr crudity of the comments, as can be seen here:
Like my handywork?
Didn't bother with the passenger side though, as it isn't too visible.
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mattk
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Such tossers
Still looks good though, I like the GSi skirts left matt black for some reason
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tom_simes
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Actually, need to get some pics of the underside of the car - Currently got a Janspeed 4-2-1 and a custom de-cat on there, with the SAI removed.
I like the skirts too
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tom_simes
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Cheers by the way Matt
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Danny W
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car looks good Tom coming together well i quite like the exhaust, what size tailpipe?
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tom_simes
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Nice and subtle 2" inward rolled Danny, looks standard
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Danny W
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nice, thats what i like about it looks very subtle & suits the car well
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little_duke
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Registered: 21st Aug 06
Location: Tamworth,staffordshire Drives: rover coupe
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love this car,so effective! id love ceseros but not sure what to do about my tigra rims
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Chris F
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Registered: 26th Dec 05
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Looks like mine
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tom_simes
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quote: Originally posted by CorsaCF
Looks like mine
Because it has the same skirts
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