looking good. nice to see its being looked after. lol

Thanks mate :y:

Of corse mate! Thanks alot, glad i finally got round to doing the thread. I didnt realise you had edited it for me until the other day!

Got a few things coming in the post this week and a couple of bits to collect so will be a few more updates this week hopefully! Ported and polished the TB today, and removed the rear windscreen washer and filled the hole with a grommet :y:

Sold it to the right guy there adum, sean loves the car than he loves himself ha

Scott this is very much true mate! I worked on it all day without food and water lol then cleaned it afterwards forgetting about dinner until i almost fell over cause i was so hungry lol

Them dials look amazing, are they new or did you just modify the standard ones, if so how much to do mine :oops:

No mate they are new dials, called plasma dials from a company called visual performance. They sell them on egay aswel. They aint too bad to do, but id quite happily, walk you through it or give u a hand mate :)

yer sounds good to me, how much did they set you back?!

do you just swap the inserts in the standard dials with the ones from visual performance?

think i paid about £40 for them mate. All you have to do is take the dials out (not as easy as it sounds) and glue these ones ontop of the existing ones and wire to live, illumination and earth!

Yea that is very true mate, I think when ive washed the VTS then clayed, paint cleaner, polished, waxed, back 2 black inside and out, hoovered, polished the alloys and then even clayed the glass lol its been 8/9 hours...

Think bout it thou much more enjoyable 8/9 hours with the car than the bird lol.


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looks really nice mate engine bay looks incredible what i wanna do with mine even doh is only a 1.0i just get it looking clean and some colour coding but progress on car so really good i look forward to seeing new updates check mine let me know what you think

Lol cant say i spent that long on it mate but it was cold and dark by the time id finished the outside so have to allow that!

Cant quite compare between the vts and the mrs as the vts is my mrs lol

errrrrrrr what about me, i remember getting petrol all over me changing that poxy fuel filter, btw im getting new volt gauge but cant decided on digital or anolouge

Couldnt have done it without u mate so many thanks! U loved the petrol in your face eau de toilet paxo lol. Get digital mate looks nicer!

Thanks very much mate glad you like it. My engine bay is spotless now :D

Come on guys comments please!

hows it running since we ported and polished your throttle body, have you notice any real gains??

throttle response and it revs more freely mate thats about it, but for practically nothing its a good mod!

looks so much better now u have lowered it!

Thanks mate :)

Any other ideas guys? Will hopefully be widemouthing it on sunday!

gonna do it yourself now then??, with a little help from yours truely lol, i want to do mine too but dont wanna take bumper off lol, maybe we could look at doing it with it still on(lazy i know but anything to save time)

I will be doing it myself indeed mate, i will have to take the bumper off though because it needs to be fibreglassed otherwise filler will crack so fibreglass needs to be done from inside/out.

i might cut mine right back and mesh it wot you reckon,

there is a guide in the saxo modding book

Oh is there really? I may look when i get home tonight!

UPDATE!

Port and polished throttle body.

Right just a small update, after a random idea and the fact that i couldnt live without my car for a couple of days i decided to port and polish my throttle myself. This is what it looks like



I thought it came out pretty well and it is a well worth while mod as you do feel the difference, as much as people argue about it the throttle reponse is better.

New Brakes.

Picked up some new brakes, got 406 V6 coupe calipers, carriers and 283mm disks.

Am in the middle of painting so i will get some pics up of them once i have finished them, got some new brake hoses on the way so im hoping to have them fitted by next weeked but we shall see!!!

MK1 Rear lights.

After being told that MK1 lights would look a lot better on my car, the hunt to find a set was on! So i set my sights to ebay as i havent got time to go to a scrappy and the ones by me are pretty useless.



So i got myself a set think deals for £4.75!! I took a pic with one of each on the car so comments and thoughts please!!



Thats about it for now, will be some more updates end of next week

Comments please guys!!! :hug:

Looking good mate

The mk1's are defo better mate but better still would be smoked jewels, go on you know it makes sense lol

Thanks very much mate :)

Yea i know mate, just think rather spend the money on other things at the moment £50 on lights just seems a bit much lol

yeah your right there, ive done things a little backwards i suppose.

2nd that :y: £50 for something that arent that much better than standards, in fact i prefer the mark1's

love your saxo mate nice work !

I think i might have to agree with you there mate!

Cheers Andy, alot of changes are on the way! Hopefully get them done before the next SE meet! :S

nah sean a nice set of lexarse lights would finish your car off nice lol,

nice work

Scott please remove this crazy comment lol.

Thanks though buddy, glad you like it!

SMALL UPDATE

Well after much talk of widemouthing i thought well today on my day off id do it :clapping:

Well heres the pics so let me know what you think :y:



Say goodbye to the slats :n:



Once it had been cut out :fcuk:

The next bit was the pain in the arse, a hell of alot of sanding and about 2/3 hours later this is how it looked......................



For now thats about it, i am going to pick up the paint etc 2moro but i wont actually be able to paint it until sunday which is my next day off.

I put the number plate back on as i have to drive it to work for the next 2 days.



Thats how it looks now.

I also gave it a quick clean, id already cleaned it the evening before but i noticed a couple of swirls so got some Meg's Scratch X involved and did the whole car, no more swirl marks or scratches :cool:



Let me know what you think guys :y:

(All pics are from my mobile so not really all that great lol :n:)

looks quality mate, whats your plans now? wire mesh?

looks good sean, widemouth is nice man.

Very nice mate are you gonna mesh it too

The plans are to fibreglass, paint and use black mesh behind the hole.

Glad you like it mike, thanks matey :)

Cheers markus, yep the mesh is going in there. Just got to fibreglass and paint 1st.

Im undecided on painting it gold or black, what do you guys think?

i really think you should do it black it will look awesome i reckon, think i might steal your idea too lol

Yea im thinking black would look pretty sick to, with black mesh aswel!

Anyone else?