The 105bhp Track Flatarch; 18months out. - Page 3 - Saxperience

Hopcraft · 23rd March 2008, 14:18

SEPTEMBER ? lol, why wait 5 months, wack it on now

Roy-VTS · 23rd March 2008, 21:53

same brace as me

shooorn94 · 23rd March 2008, 22:16

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Originally Posted by Roy-VTS

same brace as me

Your bay is pretty swish mate. I love the "vts inside" cover

The pic makes me want to get it on. But I'll be just the same when my springs and wheels are orderred and finally arrive... gotta hold on.

S1AN3Y · 23rd March 2008, 14:24

smoked headlights look really good mate

if you did them yourself you deserve a pat on the back! will look better when the smoked indicators arrive!! i have a omp strut brace on my car

not authentic colour though as im going for the black and red theme haha! good stuff buddy keep up the good work

shooorn94 · 23rd March 2008, 21:24

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Originally Posted by S1AN3Y

smoked headlights look really good mate

if you did them yourself you deserve a pat on the back! will look better when the smoked indicators arrive!

Cheers mate

Yep resprayed the headlights inserts and resparyed the grill myself too was really worth it, however close up the grill is white in places where I had masking tape

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Originally Posted by Hopcraft

SEPTEMBER ? lol, why wait 5 months, wack it on now

I wish mate! My insurance will be void if I put it on now, CIS aren't allowing any modifications after several phone calls begging to allow me to purchase some new wheels they turned me down

It's killing me looking at parts that I can't fit to my car, I knew I should of gone with Quinn direct but CIS were a better price and I just wanted to get on the road.

S1AN3Y · 23rd March 2008, 21:31

looks good from the pictures matey keep up the good work

stevo67 · 26th March 2008, 22:20

Colour coded mirror caps would look nice m8.

Steve.

shooorn94 · 20th April 2008, 20:20

A little random surprise in store. Had them in around a week now and my god do I love them!!!

Here's some pics for the time being:

I'll get some pics of them asap

p.s. ignore the random black blob

Bentonsaxo · 20th April 2008, 22:51

smoked headlights always make a car look meaner in my opinion
which is why mine are gettin done asap!

Adam_Q · 21st April 2008, 10:36

New headlights look great bud! Will look even better once its slammed

shooorn94 · 21st April 2008, 10:48

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Originally Posted by adz21

Will look even better once its slammed

Only another 5 months to wait till renewal

On another note suki is a huge inspiration for my sax, I can go two ways-white wheels and colour code, or black wheels and smoke theme...

I was with my mate the other day:

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I really can't imagine you without a saxo now, it's weird but whenever I think of saxo's I think of you. Bruce is going to be with you for ages, I have no doubt a vtr/vts engine will end up inside your bay

And he's not half wrong, over the next few years the cosmetic mods are on, and breathing mods for the 1.1-gaining barely any power.

And when my insurance bumps down a vtr engine may be the way forward-whilst keeping the slammed 1.1 look

Adam_Q · 21st April 2008, 11:22

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Originally Posted by shooorn94

Only another 5 months to wait till renewal

On another note suki is a huge inspiration for my sax, I can go two ways-white wheels and colour code, or black wheels and smoke theme...

I was in the same boat as you... couldn't wait for my renewal, i was gonna mod my old vtr, but Suki became available at the time of my renewal so bought her instead lol!

I recon you should save your pennies and get a vtr/s and mod that... would probably last longer for ya, your only get bored of having no power

shooorn94 · 1st May 2008, 00:37

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Originally Posted by adz21

I recon you should save your pennies and get a vtr/s and mod that... would probably last longer for ya, your only get bored of having no power

Just took your advice and had a look at a few quotes for a VTR next year with quinn direct and Bell.

MK1 VTR: £1660, which worked out £147 a month or something

Tbh thats a bit pricey for me.

2000 plate Furio: £1258

The 1.1 red beast: £1258

Same price for both cars? Tad strange considerring the difference in engine size. Fair enough it's "only" a 15bhp increase but I'm considerring a new purchase

Everything in the sax atm can be returned to standard easily, even removing the 106 gti leather interior... oops did i let something slip there

Will grab a pic tomorrow

Sneakydevil89 · 1st May 2008, 18:27

looking nice mate.
was thinking glad im not the only one doing things with a 1.1 til you started thinking about getting a new one!

FITZY · 1st May 2008, 18:53

Looking nice buddy
Love the colour

shooorn94 · 1st May 2008, 22:27

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Originally Posted by Sneakydevil89

looking nice mate.
was thinking glad im not the only one doing things with a 1.1 til you started thinking about getting a new one!

Its a big decision matey for me, selling up is the only problem for me. This sax has caused no problems for me (that I haven't been able to fix) in 8 months of ownership, and it passed it's last MOT aswell.

I may be keeping the 1.1 for another 3 years depends how insurance goes. Tbh I would love to turn the red sax into a nice sleeper in a few years (not a major one). I'll just have to see how it spans out, was a quick thought really-was tired and probably delusional, love this car too much tbh

Rootyuk · 1st May 2008, 22:45

car is coming on nicely mate and looks awesome, keep up the good work.

always good to see another 1.1 progress thread.
love my 1.1 to bits too mate gets me down to cornwall every other week so im happy as it costs me less in petrol if i was to have a bigger engine.

need to pull my finger out and do more work on my sax, got loads of ideas but little funds at the moment so its gonna be cheap or free mods

anyway keep it real! keep it flat arch!!!!!

Ben_L · 1st May 2008, 23:25

man looking at the front of that reminds me of my car. lol. wish i still had a red car. they are so nice when clean

looks like you have the plans sorted

MattWilliams · 2nd May 2008, 09:40

Looks really nice mate. Great colour. Keep up the good work

shooorn94 · 6th May 2008, 19:06

Bah I don't need a bigger engine (yet) I'll sit it out, best bet imo. I love my 1.1 atm anyway

My engine bay's needed a work over the last couple of... months, It looked like it had never been cleaned in all it's driving life. Sad really as my old 1.1 came with a steam cleaned bay, this one has always been disgusting so I tackled it in my NOOB form and got scrubbing:

Quite dirty eh? ^^^^^

Not too bad for a first attempt. Could do with some hints though tbh, should of read through the polished bliss guide, but was determined as it was such nice weather.

Anywho I've kept these rather secret (scared someone was bidding with me all those weeks ago maybe?) but I bought 106 GTI seats

Not bad nick for the price I paid here's some basic shots of my interior and the seats

Complete with blue chavspeed mats and the 1.1 clock dial

Tweeter location and silver vent.^^^

I love them they're so comfortable compared to the old ones Best mod so far tbh