nice colour! (same as mine :p )

plans sound good, if you go for the vt kit then i'll have your bumpers off you as mine arn't colour coded :oops:

just keep it subtle and it will look sweet! :y:

Photoshopping ideas
 

Ok I'm not brilliant at chops but had a go, So I:
lowerred my car around 40mm all round (looks lower at rear I know)
and found some nice wheels dependant on price I may be buying,

What does everyone else think, fave pic and why?

white wheels.


Colour coded, with white wheels.

thinking of the wheels to be sprayed black too^^^


two tone sax, sprayed half the doors, probably going to be pricey :n:


two tone black wheels


all comments are welcome even suggestions on improving my awful photoshopping :y:

I think it looks good in the 1st pic. Lowered with white alloys:y:

Black bump strips ftw! What about one with gloss black bumpstrips but still red on bottom?

Driveshaft fitted
 

Some of you may know that my insurance company has banned me from doing any exterior modifications and those that enhance performance in any way, so I have not bought the wheels :n: However in september I shall be renewing my insurance and doing everything at once (lowerring, wheels, and exhaust) In the meantime I'm going to focus on that won't affect insurance.

Also you may remember that I have just fitted my new driveshaft. I was well chuffed that I had done it myself. However the gearbox drain plug got cross threaded! :wall:

Once that was sorted I needed to give the car a drive and I did that today, so a little photoshoot was in order as it was such a nice day. The cars in need of a clean though













I'm not a photographer or anything but the driveshaft was thoroughly tested :y: and everything was Smooth.

FLAT ARCH.....FTW LOL yeah your car looks nice and clean black badges look good to:y:

Stay Flat arch matey and you will be all good :P

Will do dude, you're a inspiration to us all ;)

I'm going to go about smoking my headlights when the weather is warmer, along with fitting an older style MK1 grill (needs spraying, in bedroom atm), fitting 106 mirrors then concentrating on the ICE-But I'm tosh with electrics.

Nice mate, Looks exactly the same as mine, and tbh never try to put a VT kid on
a 1.1 yourself, ive learned the hard way :P Actually dont put one on atall, looking at yours now makes me want to rip mine off!

nice bit of progress there mate cars looking spotless !

Nice mate,black wheels

Found some a while back, annoyingly they stopped selling them :n: I'm tempted to go for some nice second hand and refurb them in time for fitting.

Had the nicest feeling driving into leicester yesterday. My car was the cleanest for a good mile till a car left a car wash at the side of the road-but still; my sax was lovingly hand washed :p

So agigtated really want to find some nice wheels and get her lowered. Only another 7 months to go... :panic:

Some new bits
 

So just the other day I ordered some new front comps with the advice from pred. Cheers for that dude :y:

they came on wednesday:



excited like a little kid I wanted to set them up so today with the help of pred again I got working.

And although originally put off by the fact the tweeter would stick out I settled on them like this:



I can't wait till saturday to get them set up and playing. Watch this space I'll tell you how good these SBL's are :cool:

Good progress.

how much did they cost? nice thred.

the SPL dynamics crossovers were from car audio direct and cost 69.99 :y:

May as well do a little update anyway whilst I'm here.

Yesterday I had a house full of fumes and I was worn out from a shed load of sanding... but:





from the two images you can guess whats going to happen to the car. :p

Pretty basic stuff but it's going to improve the cars look so much.

Old skool mark 1 grill ftw.

New front.
 

After having a few days off Uni and work I decided it was best to get spraying some bits that needed doing. The smoked indicators are just on the way ;)





I forgot to write about my new part for the sax I bought from Snewham a while back.

My OMP strut brace :A:



It'll be fitted in september :y:

strut brace looks nice mate.

SEPTEMBER ? lol, why wait 5 months, wack it on now :S