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[trecoll]

Well theoretically this isn't a splitter, its an apron, so its fine

[jonyb4]

its a splitter! lol

im two minds what to dow ith mine, smooth it? paint it red, or graphite?

[dontpannic]

Looking good Rob! Can't say I've seen one of those before!

[jonyb4]

St24, looks the spitten image of the bottom of the 24's bumper lol

[trecoll]

Ok, so this weekends progress....

Saturday.... RAIN, BLOODY RAIN! :twisted:

Sunday.....

Sprayed it red,



Roughly what it will look like (am masking the fog surrounds better, as they need another coat anyways

[jonyb4]

nice to see you wearing them good old painters shoes again

good finish on that mate, splitter is very big thou aint it

not saying its bad though

keep it up

[trecoll]

Missed a few of the small updates, but its just about making the fog lights fit. They didn't, so I got some driving lights instead




Here they are, as promised!!

Ok, so lets go back to friday...

I finished making the brackets for the spot lights.



And resprayed the black section...



Also I sprayed the meshing satin black




So, Saturday arrived, and eventually I managed to get the bumper off (one of the nuts is a different size!!)

Anyways, I marked out where I needed to cut, test fitting as I went along. Heres what was cut out


Unfortunately, despite all the marking and trial fitting, the curse of dean kicked in and I overcut, very slightly :roll:


So anyway, I just got on with it and tigersealed it in place...



In an attempt to fix the slight mistake, I decided to just smooth the whole thing in...




Whilst waiting for the filler to dry I come up with an idea, just needs a small plate I reckon...

Will do a photoshop a bit later maybe...


As I mentioned before, the car has had a small knock on the front before... So I removed the rust using the ever better hammerrite rust removal gel and primed up the areas.


Also this was for some reason on the crossmember too, was actually covered in surface rust, but it cleaned up well... (this was just before the last coat of the gel)


Anyways, on Monday I had to get the bumper back on as I ran of materials so had to pop to halfords anyways...
30-40 minutes later, the bumper was back on, albeit in miserable state


So popped down to halfords like that :roll:

And how it was just as I finished for the day, its not all completely smooth, but I can't be arsed with it at the moment
I also need to touch up around the light recesses too, but thats not an issue. I'll also fit the spots later too

[Minstral]

looks kind of like the cossie bumper for the mk3

[welshtony]

Looks good

[trecoll]

Yeah, now yo uve said that toby, I see it. Also beem told it looks a bit like Lightning McQueen from Cars!!

Thanks Tony!



Wired up the spot lights and went out and took some photos last night!




^Really like this one





Yes I know, my lights need aligning :roll: Sorry about the blur aswell

Done this photoshop too, needless to say, I wont be doing it now...


and another photoshop

[FiestaBen]

Awesome! That looks really good

[Ratspeed]

Like ive said before mate, fudgekin cool mk4! stripes would look good too i think

[jonyb4]

NO he cant get them strips thats my plan!!! (made it a while ago )

iw ant graphite grey ones, psh im still getting them even if you do rob SO NO MOANING!


that splitter actualy looks very good mate, i like it, pity you thought of it first eh?

does make the car look really high now though

black wheels also look good

[trecoll]

NO he cant get them strips thats my plan!!! (made it a while ago )

iw ant graphite grey ones, psh im still getting them even if you do rob SO NO MOANING!

I've had the stripes sitting on my window sill for nearly two years! They are going on!!!

I'm going to do my alloys either Panther Black or Satin.

that splitter actualy looks very good mate, i like it, pity you thought of it first eh?

does make the car look really high now though

Thank you

The front still isn't sitting as low as the rear, if it still sits high once the puma lump is in (can't remember the weight differences though) then I'll probably cut a coil off of each spring...


Oh and thanks Ben and Rat too

[welshtony]

Didnt think I would but I now really like that splitter. Looks loads better now its actually fitted.

But I agree it does look high. I hop the puma lump brings it down. But TBH I dont think it will much. And please dont cut the coil's.
I hate cut springs
Just spend the money and do it right. Not having a go I just hate cut springs.

[trecoll]

I would cut the right way Theres a right way and a wrong way, and for one coil even the wrong way isn't soo bad.

Anyways, I'm not going into that debate.

[jonyb4]

tbh, id of cut it in this case too, justone or two,

the front and rear coils on these mk4's are straight coils all the way down, so it wont upset how it sits

[Ratspeed]

Megane splitter under it would look good too and bring it down a bit.

Dont cut the springs......
















Just warm them up and squash them a little!

[jonyb4]

haha

[trecoll]

Well, I sobered up abit on sunday and spend 5.5 hours cleaning my car, including a nice polish

I used some G3 on the rear bumper and where the doorstripes were, before doing the rest of the car with AG SRP. Only thing I haven't polished is the front bumper due to it being new paint and me needing to do a bit more work on it!

Also I haven't dressed the tyres as I want to start refurbing the wheels asap now.


During Polishing:


Mini-Photoshoot in the same carpark as before














Thats all for now folks

[dontpannic]

Looking good, but by God you need a spoiler on that thing.

[FiestaBen]

Agreed with Nick, that's the only thing missing now!

Does look good though

[jonyb4]

lol im not gonna bother with that arguement, hes never seemed to be bothwered not having one


dont mean to be negetive, but ive never liked them wheels

[Ratspeed]

I love the wheels! plus it looks really well without the spoiler i think

[hb69]

Looks good, only thoughts are

-Espace splitter would look good with that bumper
-Front needs to come down another 10-20mm
-Tyre profile looks a little large

Coming on nicely though, you going to be at fitp?

[jonyb4]

oh i agree on the tyres

[trecoll]

Looks good, only thoughts are

-Espace splitter would look good with that bumper

I was thinking that, just gotta find one

-Front needs to come down another 10-20mm

Agreed.

-Tyre profile looks a little large

Yep, will be going to 45's once the wheels are refurbed

Coming on nicely though, you going to be at fitp?

Thanks and yes.

Thanks to everyone else also.

As jony said, I've never been too fussed about the spoiler for some reason. I'm looking for a new tailgate (already smoothed) with one at some point though...

[jonyb4]

oh so the lazy nathan routine lol

[dontpannic]

I just feel that modified cars without the spoilers look "unfinished". They always look as though there is something missing. The Zetec spoiler will compliment the car very well - you may not care about it now but once it is on you'll think "How did I ever last so long without one".

[jonyb4]

"How did I ever last so long without one".

ha i know i did

[trecoll]

i feel ur new rear bench and stunning temp wheels are worthy of an update

I have a new rear bench which isn't in and am rolling on temporary 15" steelies. No pics though, they really dont suit the car.

I had the tyres taken off my alloys and put onto the steels. So I started refurbing the alloys...

One alloy I had to rub paint right through the mercury grey paint as it was that bad!

However, whilst doing so, I found the original O.Z markings on the faces, which I'll get remade in red


Revealed....



Revealed....





The insides are going Satin Black with the faces going in Panther Black. I'm not taking any pictures out in the sunlight, you can wait to see that once their done :nakkal:

[trecoll]

Ok, time for the wheely good update!! ( )

Anywho.
All four alloys now have their insides painted satin black.
All four alloys have had their faces scrubbed and are ready for colour to be added (allbeit black )
Two alloys have had their faces painted (no, not like lions or spiderman, just plain black, the racist fuckers!)
One alloy has had one coat of laquer.

Thats the current stage; a couple of pics to go with:


The two on top of each other are the two with only the insides done, incase you didn't guess :nakkal:

And a close up of the one that has had one coat of laquer... Sparkles!!

[jonyb4]

looking good man, althou gay bumper car sparkle

[trecoll]

Nowt wrong with a bit of sparkle




ok, another update!!

Three now have faces in black, all insides are black, and two now have laquer


(only one has laquer in this pic...)



(has laquer)

[jonyb4]

top work

i advise using ALOT of laquer mate,
take it from me mine chip so easy, and mine have 3 layers of it