Winnys Euro Saxobrown continued! New owner - Little Bro ;)
 

Hi Guys,
Long time reader first time poster. I thought I'd show you what I've been up to althought little progress has been made to what plans I have. :p

This is how I bought the car.


I started shopping afterwards and picked up some GAZ coilovers off a friend.


After a huge amount of wheel browsing, I had my heart set on some Schmidt TH lines, but its been done so I went for some Keskin KT8's. 15" x 8J with 195 tires.


This is how my car sits at the moment with 25mm H & R spacers on the rear wheels.


I don't have any decent pics from the rear but you can see the rim in my mirrors so I'm happy with the stance at the moment, could do to be lower but the cars a daily.

I've started to smooth the car, going to pick up a new boot to smooth and work on this saturday, meshing my grill at the moment too. ;)


New exhaust and center pipe is on its way;
http://www.kamracing.co.uk/kam-racin...r-saxo-16.html

I'm undecided between mid silincer or a straight through Supersprint though any input would be great!

I hope to try and keep this thread updated but that depends on my bank balance, and I hope you like the changes so far!

Cheers,
Winston~

looks good so far keep it coming

What's the ride like on those coilovers bud?

Looks nice so far!

Thanks Rob, I'll try get some pics up when I get this new boot prep'd.

The ride is really good Lee, I'm running them hard with the adjustable stiffness, dropped about 50mm - 55mm. Corners 100% better I just crap myself when I hit a cats eye overtaking, feels like I've run into a curb lol. :fcuk:

Looks a very nice car there :D

Very good,but not as good as my car haha xxxxxx

Car's looking good mate, nice to see your getting your hands dirty on it.:y:

Looks nice, will keep my eye on this :)

Wicked choice on the tyres!

how much did the set of 4 cost you?

:)

Lol my girlfriend forgot I stayed logged in on her iPod and thought anyone could reply. :homme:

Sunday fog light progress!

Reinforced the fog light hole by welding wire mesh behind the hole with some cut offs of plastic, because the plastic is quite waxy, didn't think it would be best to fibre glass straight to it.


A quick skim of fibreglass front and back.


And lots and lots of filler.:bored:


Ready for primer now. :drink:

They set me back £700 from Rimstyle.com, plus the H&R spacers were £110 for 2 x 25mm.

The rims wouldn't actually go on without less than 20mm spacers I don't think, but I was going for the 50mm trak widening regardless so it worked out.

Bump! Been busy.:bored:

Meshed and primed my grill.


Also got online and did some shopping, got a mid silencer 2" Supersprint exhaust!


Really please with the result, subtle but mighty!


Then got to work on smoothing the boot and cleaning the rear and to do this I had to find a new home for the number plate.

New number plate recess mould.


After fibreglassing a mould made-to-measure, I cut a hole in the rear bumper and pop rivetted brackets on the inside to put another skin of fibreglass over to hold the recess in place. ;)

Inside view.


Outside.


All of the rivets are countersunk and will be invisible when finished. I'm gonna try blend the box in tomorrow with fibreglass and filler.

** Many thanks to my Grandad and Uncle for having hundreds of miscallaneous tools and lots of time on their hands to help me!:y: **

Comments welcome.

looking good mate!! loving what youve done so far what else u got planned??

brilliant mate, good to see you getting your hands dirty and doing the work yourself! plans sounds good i look forward to seeing the end product! have you got a date in mind?

looks awsome so far mate keep the good work up!!

Thanks for all the positive replies!

I'm gonna smooth out the locks and badges on the bump strips, relocate the washer jets all along with the 2nd boot panel I picked up to smooth, in the wooden mould pic. :)

@ Dsh, I've booked my car in with one of my Dads friends who owns a bodyshop in August, but if I haven't finished the work and prepped it for spraying it'll be September probably.

could probably get at least another 10mm lower and will look spot on then :P

one thing though... i dont personally think a saxo suits a fully smoothed boot :n: needs the number plate to break it up imo

but nice work on doing it all yourself btw :y:

I want to wind down the coilovers a bit more but the wheels are too wide to tuck and I'm already scrubbing at the back with half a tank of petrol.

As for the smooth boot, it would be rude not to!;)

Your wheels arent too wide mate, you tyres are! You need some 165 or 175 tyres on there, then the stretch of the tyre will allow you to go lower :y:

Yeah LOL I'm going to try 175's next I think,was a bit unsure of ordering them with 165's on, it's a big stretch for a daily and I'm unsure where to get tyres that stretched fitted.:fcuk:

nice car buddy keep up all the good work :)

Thanks, tts put my iPod down and go do my bumper lol.:bored:

Got the recess bolted into place, counter sunk 25 holes. :wall:




Gotta blend it into the rest of the bumper with fiber glass and filler still, then prime it and jobs a good'n. :drink:

good progress mate. looking forward to seeing the finished bumper

go 175's all round, check my progress for an idea of stretch, i've ran 195/45's, 185/45 and 165/50's all on a 8" wheel and would opt for 175's if i where to do them again

this is going to be a nice one when finished!!! keeping an eye on this thread lol

Looks cool this dude, fair play for carrying out the work yourself.

looking good, some nice work put into that.

looking forward to seeing this progress. :)

Kudos for doing it all yourself buddy, gunna look spot on. Don't leave us all hanging lol

looks pritty damn good :y:

Thanks all, and thanks for the advice on tire stretch going to try 175's next. ;)

Small update, slow and steady on the bumper, but its gotta be right!



and some new center bumper brackets.



and... pressed plates ordered!

looks really good mate, looking forward to future progress :)

i like it, look forward to seeing this finished!

that bumper looks awesome mate. look forward to seeing it complete

that bumper looks soo good, cant wait to see finished job!

Small update, got the bumper almost ready to prime, been sanding the rounded edge all day with the wooden cut out on the right of the picture. :y:



Spent the rest of today playing with my new boot!

Fitting two bolts to the inside of the recess to attach the solenoid to.


The new boot panel, ready to smooth, more filler... :fcuk:

lookin good mate

looks good mate. look forwed to seeing ur rear bumper finished...

Thanks for comments guys, I'm looking forwards to seeing it finished too, its been an epic job getting it smooth lol, should be different though.

Then I can start on the washer jets and door's. :drink:

fucking epic work mate hats fully off to ya. love to have some of them skills, but sadly just wouldn;t have the patience for that bumper.
but looks top work mate well impressed to see finished work.