SaxoMuffin's Awesome Throttle Bodied 8V.....Bodies and Suspension Fitted and Collected..But There's Problem's...19/05
 

Howdy,

Been on here a while but thought the time has come where I think a progress thread has to be made so I can get opinions and views on the car. :y:

The Start
So, back in December '08 I bought a 51 plate Silver VTR which had 22k on the clock for £1900 which I thought was a bargain.

This is how it looked back then.(Sorry don't have many standard pics)



Chavs
After having the car for a week and a half, the below happened. I went to make a U-Turn in an industrial estate and was greeted by a group of chavs. As I was driving away after turning one of the idiots decided to throw a brick at the windscreen. Lovely:n:





Thank god for windscreen cover on the insurance, but was a mess and to the day I'm finding tiny pieces of glass everywhere....:wall:

So the first thing I did to the car was T-Cut the back badges.


Rear End
Next up was some smoked jewels and a Sax-P sticker :y:



After I was impressed with these I got hold of some smoked fronts and fogs.



Also got some medium tints which suit it well and don't look tacky like limo tints do.

Engine Sounds
Then came the exhaust I got a 3" Piper Outward rolled backbox with a supersprint race centre section.

Wheels
So then came the big purchase which was the wheels but imo the best purchase as when lowered (AWAITING COPIOUS REPLIES "NEEDS LOWERING"). They are 15" Anthracite Speedline Turini's which were bought new with Yokohoma S-Drives on them tyre's aren't the best but seeing as I mainly do motorway miles they are good as they wear slowly. :y:

Today
So gave the car a good seeing to yesterday with a clay and wax (Didn't really need a polish tbh) and came out every so shiny :P So went and took some pics today :D













Only time will tell for the rest:y:

But opinions please? (Good or bad)

Domo Arigato....(Mr Roboto)

nice can man... love it ;)

Tbh i think it looks really smart and the plans you have got sound good, your on to a winner here bud.

car looks sweet nice saxo

Bloomin hell only just posted it but cheers for the comments

Looks good mate, liking the wheels. Sounds like you have a few ideas in mind so should be good.

Gracias, Yeah but the thing is the plans in my head change daily on the long drive to work thinking about it.




Forgot to mention i have a centre console waiting to be painted, I'm going to be painting it Anthracite'ish and eventually will be the same as the half cage..

That is nice :y:
How much the wheels set you back?

liking wat uve done with the car mate. looks real mint. just needs lowering now!

looks good!

Fucking chav's! hate them! Nice looking mota mate

£630 with tyre's delivered, took a nice big bite out of my bank balance :(

But worth it :P

Cheers, and it will be soon enough.

Do you guys think 40mm will be OK as I want it on the balance on looks and handling because I will be taking it on track in the long run...?!?
:detective:

35mm i would say mate

that looks very nice mate and those wheels suit it well

nice.
yes defo lower

Would it be better to save for THESE rather than the lower spec Apex/Spax seeing as it will be on track in the long run?

niceee (y)

Also, need more advice (Good job I did start the thread lol)

Thinking of painting these calipers, opinions on what colour would be best I was thinking yellow?

red for the callipers!
you need to put in your sig 'my progress thread' or something as I didnt think it was a progress thread lol
Looks good so far! like the wheels!

Lol thought the blue hyperlink colour might have give it away :P...

I'll change it just for you dude lol..

Red is such a standard colour I must admit red is good yeah but ...meh i don't know

Looks really nice that :y:

i laughed so hard at you covering up the jizz ;) haha

nice car though dude, looks smart :y:

Cheers mate

Yeah, don't know what the hell the last owner did but its one hell of a stain lol...

Won't even come out..oh well lol

Ok, so time for a couple of little updates

Firstly, i have finally got round to de-wipering, which has made a big difference to the back end and.



I just need to try and get rid of the crappy ring that is left around it, will give it a try at some stage today.

Secondly, I put on some black chevrons to go with the theme of the car which I think makes the front end alot nicer.



Thirdly, got my components fitted which are awesome and the sound quality is immense they are Rainbow 13cm Dream Line SAX230.20 and are powered by a Hertz EP2 amp. Also got some Dynamat Extreme around the speakers :y:

Sorry for these pics were taken in a hurry will get better ones later including ones of the boot :y:


The tweeter is mounted here as my the mirror plate which was going to mount them failed.



That is all for now more updates coming soon.:D

really really good prgress, looks stunning, The speedlines go really well with your theme!

Cheers mate, will look alot better once its been lowered... :D

Love the tweeters, good progress so far will look a lot better when its lowered!

Thanks will get some better pics, looks nice on the door card as they are quite subtle tweeters but would of preferred them in the mirror adjuster bit :S

looks nice :y: back end looks so much cleaner de-wipered

Cheers dude
Yeah it does, didn't it would make the difference it has, and also forgot to mention dissaster has struck, will post info and pic tomorrow.

"Chavs
After having the car for a week and a half, the below happened. I went to make a U-Turn in an industrial estate and was greeted by a group of chavs. As I was driving away after turning one of the idiots decided to throw a brick at the windscreen. Lovely
"

nice place feltham lol, in the early pics ( before you de wipered it) you car looks just like mine from the back lol, same lights and sax-p sticker in the same place


car looks great mate, and nice to know thers any other sax-p member in the area

Cheers mate, yeah its a real crap place lol..

Need to move asap..!

Seeing as it has been bumped may as well add some definite future plans..

Engine (Yay)

Bike bodies and inlet courtesy of Sandy Brown
PH3 Cams
ECU (Please luthor 3 plug me!! :P)
Some lovely machining going on..

Please leave the 16v conversion replies to yourself.. As 8v are for the hardcore :P

Bilstein B8's all round for now....future Group N upgrade is likely...
Rear cage
Wilwood's or Hi-Spec's

Then myself and the car go on a little diet :P

I like the plans :y:

Hi-Specs rule :y:

Needs Lowering :P

nice sax.

honestly is the whole chav situation that bad in the uk???

we have pikeys in ireland,but ive never heard of that kinda shit

I know Bilstein's soon... :D
Cheers mate, yeah its quite bad where i live as there is a young offenders place...

So you get all idiots thinking they are cool but really are only douchebag chavs...

Personally I think this is one of the nicest saxo's going. Its quality! Love the alloys, surprisingly because I don't tend to like black alloys. Nice work man.

Cheers mate, but to be honest I haven't even started yet... :) Watch this space..

Oh and its anthracite :P

haha what happened to the tbs mate or was it carbs? i dnt no anyway good pics lol nice to see our cars together in your thread! get lowwww!!!xx