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Grill is bad
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sri-monster
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lovely car mate, i think a black carpet would really finish the inside off 
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Rich H
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Registered: 26th Oct 05
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Couple of new pics for you all - courtesy of Daveskater from last weekends SC meet as I haven't had time to get my own lol.
Bilstein B10's on (cheers to Mark Broster @ Jamsport), tracking all sorted finally, V grille on and growing on me. Only downside to it is that there is no air flow through the slats so it's making engine temps a bit high for my liking - going to get it back off and modify it with a dremel / drill when I get time 
Sit's about the same as before imo:
But ride quality is far better. Camber is now more than before, but got Eibach camber bolts. Need to get a spare day to fiddle around with them and see if they can be fitted without making the wheels catch the arches.
Couple of bay shots whilst it's looking marginally cleaner than before. Needs some bits cleaning up and painting etc. The rest of it will stay as it is. Good to see the lack of rusty strut tops though finally 
Want to get a battery bag to tidy that up too 
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J200RSA
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looking good, is there not anything you can do with the airbox? just looks like its been thrown in
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Rich H
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Registered: 26th Oct 05
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Cheers
Do what sort of thing mate? It's a mega tight fit. And actually less of a bodge than a lot of them! I want to try and tidy up the piping / connection between the AFM and the box but that's about it. The bracket for the airbox was cut off during the conversion so it isn't sat on those, and I've bolted it through the original bottom bracket to keep it sat down. There is literally a cm between the box and the cam cover though so space is limited to do much with it!
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J200RSA
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make it level? looks really wonky, what happend to the green cotten induction cone phill had on it?
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Rich H
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Without the brackets on the suspension turret that's as level as it sits tbh, I have tried!
Green cotton filter is in the bin. Was as rusty as hell as sat above an open arch for 18 months or so soaking up everything thrown at it. Also gave the car a pretty nasty flat spot in certain gears.
Box back on and it pulls nicely through all the gears and has a nicer induction noise to it.
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Rich H
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Forgot to update this the other day.
Car is now booked in for April 19th at Longlife Basingstoke for a new downpipe back system. Jury is still out on what tailpipe to go for, I've done the usual search of pic request threads but that hasn't really helped
Will probably end up deciding on the day!
Pics to follow somewhen after that
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Rich H
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A few of you who are on my FB will already know about this as I had it done almost a month ago, but been too busy with work since to make the effort of cleaning the car up and taking some photos etc lol.
Managed to grab 30 mins this evening to give it a quick wash down and Red Mist wipedown, then went out for a little drive for some photos before it got too dark.
Is a full manifold / downpipe back Longlife system, as there isn't many choices around my way - all the powerflow ones near here have a bad reputation or I wasn't impressed when I went to see them (didn't trust leaving the car with them etc) so trekked up to Basingstoke instead. I wanted it as quiet as possible. They reckon they've done that; unfortunately it's not that much quieter than before! Is a bit beter when sat at a constant speed though.
Couldn't decide what tailpipe to go for, so went for stealth in the end. Big thanks to Tom @ Lemass for redoing the rear bumper too - removing the cut out from the previous 6x4 and getting rid of some light scuffs that were on it when I bought it off Phil.
(asked them to spray it satin black to hide it lol - need to get jiggy with the hammerite on my rear beam and ARB now!)
Also sprayed my parcel shelf black as it was the last bit of grey trim:
And a couple of other shots. Couple to show the camber you get from running Bilstein B10's too:
Amazing how many cars I now get trying it on with the lack of tailpipe - never really had it when the old exhaust was on! Even tonight I had a Cooper S and some Kia 2.5 diesel thing attacking me
The old 6x4 system will be up for sale once I've cleaned it up, next up on the list is a decent clean up and swirl removal on the car, and get the wheels refurbed, then it's up for sale as I need to save money for a house and am cutting back down to just the van
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corsadonk
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I really like the exhaust, grill wise if you haven't already done it, just get a big flat blade screwdriver in between and be brutly
First thing I did when I got my Sport home
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Rich H
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I'd forgotten about the grill actually Will do that when it's off the road with the wheels being refurbed - plan to do that, paint rear beam, ARB, calipers and drums
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Rich H
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Few pics I've had on my phone for a while, so may as well chuck them up on here to bring the thread back up to date ahead of this weekend!
First up a couple of shots of the bumper before it went to Lemass as to why I had it resprayed:
Crack:
Scuffs:
Cutout for old exhaust:
More recently, Tom's been a good lad and refurbed my wheels for me as they were Phils track wheels towards the end so had picked up a fair amount of chips, 1 had a big kerb mark and were basically looking worse for wear:
Tom also tracked down the perfect centre cap badges for me from a Meriva VXR. Not cheap though!!:
Wheels were resprayed in Citroen Slate Grey 
Also got on the bandwagon with a sCeNe sticker:
Then last weekend after refitting the wheels, I found myself hungover with most the day ahead of me, so set about machine polishing the car
And a couple from the other night when I was waiting for mates to turn up:
Plain plates are back on rather than bike font ones, and I've finally got round to derestricting the V Grille - now runs 2 degrees cooler
Car is currently (as I type!) in a local garage having the Eibach camber bolts fitted finally, then full alignment, tracking and balancing done
Oh and I have painted the rear drums, rear ARB etc, but have run out of time and hammerite to do the calipers before PVS. Ah well.
Really ought to get some proper photos rather than ghey Blackberry pics now
[Edited on 11-06-2010 by Rich H]
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Darryl H
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looking good always is so clean
looking foward to seeing it on the weekend
[Edited on 11-06-2010 by daz1492]
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Rich H
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Cheers mate. You convoying up with us on the Sunday at all?
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mattievRS
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just read this all mate! love the sleeper look, on the note of spraying the grill matt black, get some black plastidip.Its basically matt black rubber spray paint and wont stone chip!
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Darryl H
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quote:
Originally posted by Rich H
Cheers mate. You convoying up with us on the Sunday at all?
was planning to but taking a couple of passengers and they fancy a stop at the little chef on the way so thought we'd not hold up the convoy and come see the cars when we're up.
hopefully will meet you when i come to look at it did you get it back today or is it tomorrow you get it back?
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Rich H
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Cheers for the comments guys.
Will leave the grille chrome probably - suits the sleeper look more as from the front to most people it looks totally standard even with the black depos.
Daz - Got it back last night luckily - they ended up having it all day as they didn't work on it till they were closing  And found an excuse to take the car out for a "test drive" after alignment - pretty sure you don't need to do that?!  But all's good No scrubbing as I was warned may happen now the cambers corrected etc.
Final scrub up today to get it looking presentable tomorrow. Will be there For Sale
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Darryl H
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so they left it til last so they could play with it. but atleast its all good are you just using your van as an everyday car in the future or planning on a cheap run about?
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Rich H
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I'm adding a 3rd tier to the business and looking at upgrading the van at the end of the year / beginning of next year so will just use the van. Looking at Focus ST interior for this one atm to make it a bit comfier
This is being sold to free up some more funds for the house fund though tbh as I want to move out! Another car will be bought in the future, but once the business is flourishing further and I've got a house
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Darryl H
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fair enough mate, good luck!
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Daveskater
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Just read all through this, don't know why I haven't caught up sooner You're quite welcome for the grille and pics mate
I'll make sure I get some more of it tomorrow
Numberwang!
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I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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StueyBoy1989
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have you got a for sale thread up yet? I'd post the link in here Rich.
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Rich H
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No I haven't yet. Would appear most people think it's well overpriced anyway so may look at removing all my new pricier mods. Haven't got time to split it fully but considering I've spent over £1800 since I owned it and got it running right, I don't feel my asking price is OTT!
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StueyBoy1989
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What is your asking price?
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Rich H
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£2500 but will consider sensible offers
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