Perhaps ;) Was tempted to put : y : (:y:) in the feedback just in case it was a sax-p member. Cheers for the smooth transaction

Considerring white buddy and I know it'd look pretty awesome, I'll get the wheels on and decide colourwise from there on.

Tbh buddy I would have loved a VTR but the insurance is awful for me, I'm in one of the worst postcoded areas and at the moment I'm only earning £25 a week due to work not fitting hours around Uni (which is only 5 hours work) but in the long run I'm going to enjoy having a sleeper a little bit more :A: Plus I'm earning in my third year of Uni so that should help me save and spend a bit more towards the car. The car should be lasting me five years. So by the time I'm done with it it'll be 14 years registered. :fcuk: And hopcraft don't worry I'm quite safe with my money and genuinely look for bargains.

Essay ftw!

AFAIK it will cost more to insure this with all the changes than it would a standard VTR.

What post code are, Northampton aint bad ?! :S

Im NN11 and i pay 1 k FC on my Clio Sport and im only 20.

3 years no claims bud (driving since 17)? I don't even have one yet buddy. You're paying less on your insurance than I am on my 1.1 TPFT :p When the engine is dropped in it may cost a substancial amount more, but the vtr lump won't be happening till 2 more years. Hopefully with 2 years NCB. :y:

And plus the 1.1 x is alot lighter than a vtr as standard, I doubt the extra 120kg is in the engine. :wink:

nice tidy car

LOL. Thank you!

Nah only got 1 yncb in 3 years driving and that was from my VTR.

On my VTR i was 19 with 2 years driving no no claims and the fully comp on my own. T'was 1200 FC.

looks like a nice plan mate

the spax springs are pretty good
with the dampers they do the job quite well

and yea sam(piggy123) is a legend for doing bars
right laugh too

should look sweet when its all on

Cheers bud, I don't know why but it means alot coming from you alex. It's proving quite hard to source a decent set of dampers at the minute, but I'm a tad worried about the ride if I don't source any by the time I get my struts.

I'm just itching to get it all sorted now. Luckily I have a week off Uni (nicknamed assessment week) where I should get the car sorted :p

Work have sadly just cut my hours, so my raceland 4-2-1 and supersprint full exhaust are after christmas buys.... plus in about 2 months I have my anniversary, the girlfriends birthday, christmas, the sisters 18th, then valentines... seriously tempted to ask the girlfriend to buy me the 4-2-1 ;)

Snow ftl
 

Good stuff mate. Snow looks bad! Hope it come up this way - reallly want the day off work lol (just so I can get on with my car lol)
Have tried Koni and Spax shocks. Konis gave a slightly softer ride imo, but both are ok. Have heard the Apex are good for the money. Can't really comment on the Bilstein as I have never had anything to do with them

Snows awesome, means I don't have to commute to Uni on the trains as one usually hops off the rails due to "leafes on the line"

Spax over koni then? Hmm thats intresting, cheers for that bud. Ideally I want to get the car on track next year sometime at least once anyway so want a decent enough setup for the miles I do on the british (bumpy as f*ck:bump:) M and A roads and a set up that will be decent for track use.

I prefered the koni's tbh. Soft ride but handled really well

i think it needs some body work :D

Getting excited-and annoyed.
 

looks good this progress thread some good mods made, them pics from the snow storm look abit mad, msut of bin crazy driving in that

how easy were the head lights to tint yourself btw?

the handbrake will be changed ith the rear beam mate (as its part of the drum) so that should sort that out lol

rest of it looks good though man

Yeah I'm going to speak to Sam about it soon and tell him it sometimes feels a bit shifty and sometimes feels properly engaged, cowboy mechanics ftl.
Just needs a general clean inside and out before it's in sam's hands.
Just waiting for the delivery on the axle, worrying when the company doesn't email back.

Cheers smogie, the lights were really easy to do, just gotta be careful that they don't get too hot in the oven ;)

Sound like its coming on well mate, despite the problems. Hope it gets sorted :y:

Rear axle f*cked.
 

Rear axle took a decade to arrive, came on friday midday (was meant to arrive tuesday) took it out the lorry as the trucker was too lazy, checked it over and there were no drums, no wheel bearings, no cables, and only one side had a set of shoes.

I was fuming, anywho went to the motorfactor to grab as much as possible and trucked it to leicester to speak to piggy about what could be done about it.

Came to the conclusion that really for £115 I have been sent junk, which I wasn't expecting from a company. Should get all my money back as it wasn't as they described.

Getting a new axle after the new year, I believe Sam is snatching one from Alex just means the cars going to look like a door wedge; with it being lowerred 40mm at front on vtr wheels and rolling on standard 3 stud steelies until after christmas. :wall:

Front conversion underway
 

Just got back from 5 hours in the garage with lots of breaks and discussions over what could be done and several seized bolts later I'm home.

One suspension leg is off and out, I'm playing around with the 3 stud hub right now to snatch anything I can from it. I may just reassemble and sell.

Sadly the lowerring springs have yet to be fitted as we are missing a t-40 bit :n: which was a bit of a kick in the shins, however I believe I have found one laying in the house.

So the car currently has one suspension leg missing and is sitting in Pauls garage waiting for both sides to be completed, which hopefully should be done tomorrow (as long as no other bolts are seized).

With citroen a job can take 20mins or 20 days!!!! :panic: