olly_vts Track Slag Progress: Stripped SLAG! Plus seats!!
 

When i bought it - 99% standard:


To this:



Synopsis

I Bought the vts in jan 2008, off a guy who had been banned for 2 years so sold it cheap! The Car was an X reg - 2000 with just over 64,000 miles on the clock. The car also had a few mods which were, - bmc cda induction kit, viper alarm system, kenwood head unit, and all the car speakers were JBL GTO's. 11 months Mot, 3 Months Tax, Full Service History- £2000 thank you very much.

Buying the car drained most of my funds as i was still in 6th form! and had been fired from my job a week before. - Worked in a pub and got fired for drinking my own booze at the new years eve staff after-party after working till 2am anyway - bit harsh in my opinion. Still, got another job early feb, so i could start the mods.....

For some reason i wanted to do the exhaust first, so i bought a savage backbox, which didnt fit, so sold that straight away - Schoolboy

The cars ariel had also been snapped off, so bought another and had to fit and rewire.

I next sold the door and rear speakers it came with and upgraded to a pair of alpines for the doors and kenwoods for the rears. The sound improvement was very good. I then bought a Sony Bluetooth Headunit, which is great as it connects straight to the mob.

I also bought new number plates as the current ones were mucky and cracked. The new ones were nice and plain, with 'vts' written in smallprint along the bottem.

Contents:

Page 1: Update 1 – New Exhaust System
Update 2 – Meshed Grille
Update 3 - Colour Coded Bumpers + Sprayed Rears
Update 4 - New Wheel + Headunit

Page 2: Update 5 - Wheels go Black, Calipers Yellow

Page 3: Update 6 - New black shoes on + Rear Smoked Jewels
Update 7 - New Idea.....
Update 8 - New Wheels!

Page 5: Update 9 - The Essential Mod
Update 10 - Little Changes
Update 11 - Stripped!

Page 6: Update 12 - Lowered!!

Page 7: Update - 13 – Dewipered
Update 14 - New-Look Front

And the Mods...

So far done:



Viper Alarm system
BMC CDA induction kit
Full exhaust system with 4" rolled out backbox.
Decat
Colour coded bumpers to match bodywork
Brake Calipers Painted Yellow
15" Team dynamics Pro Race 1.2s
Momo competizone gear knob
Sony bluetooth head unit
New number plates
New ariel
Smoked rear jewels
New door card speakers
Smoked headlights
Removed 16v badges
T-cut rear badges
Removed plastic trim down the door columns
Sax-p Stickers on
Half Stripped - Back-end
Lowered on 40mm Spax VSX Kit
De-wipered rear
Dimma front Grill
De-fogged, Replaced with mesh.
Breather filter added
Full Service + Cambelt Change
OMP steering wheel
Stripped Front Half of Car
Sparco Sprint 5 bucket seats in Black
Sparco Subframes
OMP 4 Point Harnesses

To do:

Shortshift
New Gear Linkages
OMP Half Cage AA/102
Big Brakes
Debadge boot

Complete


Finish

Thanks for reading :y:

dont try use facebook to host imgs, use photobucket !!

i would like to have a look but i cant see an image or the link to one :|

good colour mate like the wheels

ok i've set up photobucket so should work now

copy and paste img tags yeah !!!









seen this a couple of wks ago, i expect you got a billy bargain !!!

cheers for the assistance mate, still new to saxp, yer got it at a very good price.

Update 1 - New Exhaust System
 

I wanted it to be quite loud, so i bought a gt3 exhaust system off ebay for £130, which included backbox, centre section and decat and got it all fitted for £35.



Its 4" so bit on the big side but sounds brilliant.

cool cool, get it lowered ! will look rather nice !

not to big!!!!! lol looks ok a bit big for my liking, imo spray the grill up and slam it and your on to a winner

Update 2 - Meshed Grille
 

I also upgraded all the car speakers to alpines and bought a sony bluetooth headunit, which is wicked.

The next mods i want to do are

Lowered all round 50mm
15" Lenso BSX's
Tints
De-badged - pretty much going for the euro look.


But as i have a cashflow problem atm i decided to do cheaper mods which include...

respraying and meshing the front grill


colour coding the matt finish plastic on the bumpers and the sides which i havnt finished yet.

lol that was fast i only just posted it!!! looks good mate

also need to get that crack on the front splitter sorted out

cheers, lowered is the next thing on my list, im still not sure whether to mesh the lower bumper to give it a wide mouth and would match with the grill, would look good, but lot of effort involved.

saxo vts black...
 

Nice clean motor matey!! ....:y:

Very tidy example of a black VTS :)

looks tidy :y:

Update 3 - Colour Coded Bumpers + Sprayed Rears
 

Decided to colour code the front and rear bumpers, as the grey was annoying me




shot of the rear half done

Update 4 - New Wheel + Headunit
 

My mate had this lying around, so kindly sold it to me - for a good price. Also managed to come across a 106 boss kit in halfrauds for £15, which was a result imo.



Also bought a Sony Bluetooth Head Unit

no no no no no , them lights are shockin mate, you need to buy some smoked ones if your goin for that look, it just looks cheap an tacky now, that steering wheel is terrible too, exhaust needsa to be fitted correctly aswell otherwise bumper will get melted

Nice motor but you need to get some smoked tail lights... those smoked ones look shite lol!

cheers. yer i know lol, my mate sprayed them gloss black, before we realised they were illegal! so i had to sand them down, creating the matt finish, and had to scrape off the paint where the main lights were. Im guna just use some white spirit n take the whole lot off - back to original n start again.

Got rid of the crappy rear lights, back to the originals now

Good move fella!

i liked the black ones tbh

the black ones were illegal tho, got pulled over on saturday nite, they were'nt bright enough + looked shite lol

Looks alrite.

cheers fpr the feedback guys, once i have a bit of money i'm gona get it lowered.

Taken shape nicely mate!!How low you going on your motor??

cheers saxokid, yours looks sweet aswell dude.

im thinking 50mm all round, should sit nice on 15s maybe an apex or spax kit....

Next stage plans
1. Lowered 50mm
2. Alloys
3. Tints or Manifold

How cum you didn't get a bodyshop to colour code it?

I find when spraying by hand the finish isn't shiny, it looks dull, is that the case with yours?

Not a bad effort though, from what i can tell! LOL

It looks ok. Just wanted to get rid of the grey. If i could afford it, would have probably taken it to a bodyshop.

saxo vts black...
 

Good paint job!! will look good 50mm all round bud!!....:y::y:

I know the feeling! £500 a month means i always have to do stuff myself!

Credit to ya for having the balls do it!

Exactly. Its a pretty good job to be fair, and i think it makes the car look a hell of alot different.

Car is on bricks atm

1. wheels are going black
2. calipers yellow
3. Sidetrim being coloured coded to match the bumpers

Update 5 - Wheels go Black, Calipers Yellow
 

Jacked the car up today, to start spraying. Put the car on bricks to spray the wheels



cleaned up the wheel



Let down the tyre and masked it up



Sanded the whole wheel with 240 wet and dry then 1200, till it was completely smooth and matt.



I then applied 4 coats of primer allowing 15 minutes between coats to dry



I am now letting the primer harden and will spray gloss black tomorrow.

good idea with the wheels i might try that is it hard work?
nice car aswell keep the pics coming!

yer, its loads of hard work lol, takes about 2 hours to sand down each wheel. shud be worth it tho.

Next stage


This is after 2 light coats of paint.