My VTR Progress thread

[BruceybabyVTR]

Originally Posted by Predator_VTR

is it me or does the centre console look like it aint finished, theres paint missing from round the headunit???

I see wot u mean mate, that must just be the flash glaring off the head unit cos its all painted fine! Everyone seems to love it so far! Just gave the car a massive clean today, all polished, protected and ready for winter. Muight remove the lights tonight and spray the inserts black so it gives that smoked effect

[BruceybabyVTR]

First update of the year!!!!!

Ok so shortly after my last post i Diy smoked the headlights, Very pleased with the results

Also painted and fitted my Dimma Grille! Quite likeing the front end now, will have to smoke the fogs though to complete it!!

so i washed her today for the first time since my last post, The results are as follows!!!












As you can see, it's still standard at the back!!!! I was toying with the idea of leaving the lights standard as i do like them like that, but with the front lights painted, i think smoked would look better

On a more depressing note, Some little fucker turned the heat right up on the jet wash at work so i ended up with this!!





All these polish valeters

Time to paint them black me thinks!!!!

This is with smoked lights, so i think with painted badges it'll look pretty good ??????



I have a lot of plans for my baby now this year, I've almost halfed my insurance premium so that is helping my monthly outgoings!!

next up:

Lowering -50mm (would prefer -40mm spring) getting the kit for £100 off my mate who's never used it, plus the guy at the shitroen dealer up the road will do the torsion bar for 60 bucks!!!!!

Wheels- Still in two minds about this, the one thing the rozzers notice apart from a screaming exhaust is your wheels, only have two wheels in mind, S wheels or a set of rare after market Kosei Racing wheels, these are the only aftermarket wheels i really like but cannot see them on any site, anywhere!!!

And they look a little like this :







I think they are the absolute sex, My mate had them on his 11 turbo, which was subsequently prohibited by the British transport police, so he sold them to another guy at my work who had them on his wee Micra which was stolen, returned and now they are gathering dust till i can get the money to buy them!!!!

Which leads me tooooo :

Cashflow crisis

Fecking skint from christmas, spent far too much money and its gonna take about 3 months to sort it taking 5 days a month off work hasn't helped either

So time to knuckle down and take all the hours god sends and no more drink

and to top it all off, The R now need the following:

Investigation of non operating washer jets, most likely a fecked bottle from where some tart crashed into me.

Sort the extremely annoying noise from the de-cat exhaust pipe rubbing the heat shield or sumit.

Gotta lube the gear linkage its getting really stiff

Gotta service her

Check the tracking and wheels balance she's starting to judder at high speeds

New tyre needed for both the O/S/F (currently borrowing my mates wheel!) and for the spare!

and there is Cv grease behind the wheel!!! im sure u can only get driveshafts and not just a joint



So hopefully. By March/ april, we will be in full flow and big things will hopefully be happening

I love saxos

[BruceybabyVTR]

ps, ne1 know where i can get these clips? i burst it putting the light back in

[Richie2104VTR]

Cars looking really good!! you can get them clips from shitreon, just ask one of the parts guys, you can get them for free if you ask the right person!!

Also i'm sure i bought my VTR from same place as you, foxhunters industrial estate innit??

[Steve]

you got a video of that exhaust mate? i had the same backbox but couldnt get it too fit! is yours for the vts or vtr? the omp one in one of the pics!

[rushy_23]

Looks very nice, but not sure on those wheels!

[BruceybabyVTR]

Richie - Correct mate, whitley bay. Funny wee place, the guy did say he bought and sold more saxos than nething else, Not sure if thats a good thing!!

Stevey - Will get a vid, very loud mate, Not an OMP one though, Ashley, Ebay Jobbay! Very cheap, very loud at full throttle but not too bad at idle! Suspect its mild steel though!!

Rushy - Cheers mate, i like em cos they're different, was thinking, spray them a similar colour to your superlegs in the middle pat and leave the lip the sort of chromey colour it is.........

Whats everyone think?????

[Steve]

Originally Posted by BruceybabyVTR

Richie - Correct mate, whitley bay. Funny wee place, the guy did say he bought and sold more saxos than nething else, Not sure if thats a good thing!!

Stevey - Will get a vid, very loud mate, Not an OMP one though, Ashley, Ebay Jobbay! Very cheap, very loud at full throttle but not too bad at idle! Suspect its mild steel though!!

Rushy - Cheers mate, i like em cos they're different, was thinking, spray them a similar colour to your superlegs in the middle pat and leave the lip the sort of chromey colour it is.........

Whats everyone think?????

when did you get the car was it foxhunters or ramside if was 5 - 6 month ago i was going to buy a red vtr from there! he had a few in mainly furios, one i sat in had 43k miles i think it was! might been 63k sure was 43k like, could been your car lol

[BruceybabyVTR]

nah mate was like end of march beginnin of april 06. Was a silver one there as well but he wanted about 4 grand and it had done about a thousand miles less than the red one! was a good boy though, talked 250 off the price,

It was this or one for 2500 v plate on the other coast, this one is in mint condition bar the niggles that have just come up so im chuffed

Where did u get the gold one? nice car mate!

[Steve]

private it may have been that time, it was way before i had a job, nd there was a silver one in, silver furio and a red furio. mines got its problems wish had shopped around more instead of rushing into it. got to fix my leak which think may be solved now, new raditor, new driveshaft needs fitting, then new wing on. then its get it lowered getting grill c/c'd when getting the wing done, black or gray alloys then i dont know what after that.....

[BruceybabyVTR]

My mate with the GTi-6 in that pic used to have a gold one, was very nice. I waited a while to find the right one, think i was pretty luvcky wwith this cos ive seen a few dogs since and this was the first one i actually decided to view, bar a blue one i seen beforehand! how much u lowering mate?

[Steve]

40 all round! hope looks good the gold nd black!

[BruceybabyVTR]

Yeh it always does!!! I rly wanna go 40 now, just seen stevenet15's S on std rims -40, looks the nuts!!

[Hopcraft]

should definally go down 50, looks great !

liking the smoked lights,

personaly id go for vts rims rather than those, but you seem to like them, so thAats what counts

[BruceybabyVTR]

yeah well i think they are nice but not sure if i will go that route yet, like i say, got a few things to sort first of all, including ca$hflow!!!!

Not gonna get S rims, if i kept them silver it wud basically be yatesy's car or twenty other people on here, if i paint em black its like landy's so.......

i think aftermarket is the way, but wheels are the last thing on my mind ATM i'll cross that bridge when i come to it

Cheers for all the comments guys

[Simonp]

Think you should go for black badges, just used Tcut on mine to thake the silver off

[Dan]

Some nice updates mate.

[foxervts]

would look nice with chrome switches an that but lookin well m8

[Steve]

you still got that ashley exhaust system? any more pics of it on the car or a video? what is the fitment like? i had an om one for a vts just nearly didnt fit, came out at an angle and looked the dogs......

[BruceybabyVTR]

Will get vids at some point, it sounds the tits when driven hard, not too sure at low revs bit too noisy but cant have it my way all the time!

Mines does sit at a slight angle, but the brackets on the rear box are adjustable so i'll sort it eventually, too lazy at the moment! U got the OMP one on now then?