Tom5190's Flat Arch - Progress (16.09.2013)

[Tom5190]

Page 1:How It Started, Tinted Rear/Head Lights + Side Repeators, Black badges, Tinted Fog's
Page 2: De-wiperd
Page 3: New grille, Headunit + Speakers, Rear Sax-p sticker
Page 4: Boot Build, Sax-p Window stickers
Page 5: More Rear lights
Page 6: Window tint finished, Front end lowerd, New Aerial
Page 7: PiperX Air Filter, French Plates, Smooth boot Handle
Page 8: Rear Lowerd
Page 9: Rear shocks
Page 10: Rocker Cover Sprayed, Alloys on the way
Page 11: Alloys on
Page 12: Photoshoot with JAM
Page 13: De-Pinned, Front Wide-mouthed VT* Bumper, Wheel Bolt Covers, Rear Ibiza Splitter
Page 14: Rocker Cover Badge, Boot Popper, Front VT* Brakes
Page 16: Black A, B, C pillars & Sunroof console
Page 18: Damage pictures, Black Headlining, Sunvisors, Smoothed ariel, Re-sprayed boot handle & VT Bumper
Page 21: More damage! New Headunit, Meshed bumper, final pictures?
Page 22: Loads Fixed, BMC, Uprated Linkages
Page 23: Custom Backbox + Video
Page 24: L.E.D Bulb's, De-cat, Spax PSX, 70mm Pi Springs
Page 25: Photoshoot
Page 28: Photoshoot
Page 29: Stickerbombed and Standard parts fitted
Page 30: 6000K H.I.D's
Page 32: Photoshoot
Page 33: RW - High Tech 1's
Page 34: 306 Half Leather, Disc beam
Page 35: Donor Car
Page 36: 16V Engine, green cotton filter
Page 37: OMP Upper Brace
Page 38: Raceland 4-2-1 Manifold + race centre section, New cam covers, Dimma grille, Magnex rear box
Page 39: New Photos
Page 40: Vts Box, Vts Shafts, 708's
Page 42: CatCam trial, 743's 144bhp
Page 43: JP4 cam covers, New centre pipe
Page 43: 151bhp, Port & polished TB
Page 45: Back from the bodyshop, Quickshift, Detail
Page 47: Photoshoot with Jeffchiz
Page 49: Supersprint, Piper & video, SMD Blue/White Dials
Page 52: 141bhp Dyno Dynamics RR
Page 55: Santa Pod/Fast show update
Page 56: 266mm Brakes, Powerflex Mount, Gearbox Trouble
Page 58: Supersprint 2" Rear box, ASW Photos 'Oxford'
Page 63: New gearbox, clutch, linkages, beam, braided hoses etc
Page 65: Olite rear beam, Piper 3" Inward rolled rear box, Powerflex rear beam mounts, R-tec Grill
Page 66: General repairs, engine bay tidy, change in direction
Page 68: Start again

I decided id put a spec list up of the car, i will update this as new mods go on with the car, as it is now this is the spec list:

Spec:

Stats:
Power - 151bhp/127whp
Torque - 114Lb/ft
Weight - 832Kg
Power/weight - 181bhp per ton
Quater mile - 15.1s
0-60 - ??

Interior:
Sony Xplod CD/USB/BT Headunit
2 x JBL front tweeters
2 x JBL front comps
2 x JBL crossovers
Black A, B & C pillars
Black Sunroof Console
Black Sun visors
Black headlining
Boot popper
De-pinned
106 Gti Front seats
Blue SMD White dial Vtr Clocks

Exterior:
Rw - High Tech 1's Custom painted
Black bolt covers
Tinted fog lights
Tinted headlights
Tinted side repeators
R-tec grille
Black rear badges
De-ariel
De-wiperd Rear
Smooth boot handle
French Pressed plates
Aero Wipers
1.1i side badges

Engine/Performance:
1.6 16V TU5J4 Single Plug
Raceland 4-2-1
Supersprint Race centre section
Piper 3" Inward rolled Rear Box
Carbon Fibre Enclosed Filter
Red Rocker cover badge
JP4 cam covers
Port & polished Throttle body
Catcam 743's
Re-mapped @RS Tuning
Red Engine Detailing
Powerflex Bottom Engine Mount

Transmisson:
Vts Gearbox
Roller bearing upgrade
Vts Split shafts
Compbrake Quickshift
Stainless uprated gear-linkages
Solid leaver bushes

Chassis Components:
266mm Bosch Front Brakes (Type 1 Bosch)
Front 60mm Spax Springs
Front Spax PSX shocks
Rear lowerd 40mm
G-max gas Shocks Rear
Olite Disc axle
Powerflex rear beam mounts
Earl's braided hose's

Hi, thought i mayaswell start one of these off, ive got a Mk2 1.1 desire at the moment (first car), not planning on doing any engine modifications to it as i am HOPING to get a vts this time next year. ive done a few mods to it so far, got a few more planned.

Havnt got any of the car as i bought it, but it was standard, basically these picture's minus the lights and petrol cap sticker.

So here it is last year:

[Sneakydevil89]

your pictures dont seem to be working for me. but what youve done sounds ncie!

[Tom5190]

The first thing i did was to ditch the sticker and the lexus lights, i tinted my old standard lights on the lighter bit (wanted to keep it subtle), and also blacked my badges and tinted the side repeators with the extra spray.

Rear :



Side:



Next was to change my grille and headlights, followed the guide to darken the inner bits, was pretty happy how they turned out heres pics. (there is abit of glue on the lights on this pic its on the outside i hadnt washed it after i had re-fitted them)

Headlights:



As you can see the grille is missing, i had a go at making my own, the mesh i bought was shite really and to thick to fit into the standard grille, so for the time being there is no mesh, looks abit of a mess but the citroen badges are sprayed black, and im hoping to sort out some black mesh this week.

Grille:



any ideas or pointers from any one would be great

[MrHoustonp]

Use photobucket mate, faster and will probably work. Imageshack is slow and crap lol

[Tom5190]

thanks alot amte ill give it a whirl, how do i edit that post now tho to put the new links in ? (soz newbie haha)

[MrHoustonp]

Think you need 100 posts to edit

[Tom5190]

aw nightmare lol. maybe thats why the pics arnt showin up too? owell ill get chance to get the window tint done for some new pics before i get 100 posts

[Bladen]

just start a new thread dude. Ask mods the to delete this one.

[Tom5190]

how do i contact a mod?

[Sammy-Boy]

Originally Posted by Smogie

how do i contact a mod?

Go to the bottom of the page where it says 'Staff' in white letters and in the middle of that section is a link called 'Forum leaders'.

All the mods are there

[Tom5190]

finally sorted out the pics in first post, managed to do a few more things today aswell. as i painted the rear badges first, they started to flake so first thing was to remove paint, then remove the silver paint, was guna use T-cut but i used Wet+Dry to remove black paint this took the silver off to. heres some pics. i think it looks 100% better :

Before:



After:



After this i decided to tint my fog lights, had to wait for my mam to finish usin oven to melt the glass back on lol. so no after shots yet but ill get them up tomora:

Before:



After:

[badasssaxo]

very nice mate, glad you got rid of pony lexarse lights, grill will look top notch when you add black mesh to it

[Tom5190]

Originally Posted by badasssaxo

very nice mate, glad you got rid of pony lexarse lights, grill will look top notch when you add black mesh to it

aye im hoping to get that sorted come friday.. pay day lol

[jamiecee]

i like it where are you getting your mesh from because im doing the same with my grill but i dont know where to get my mesh...

[Tom5190]

im not sure mate, ive already got some but its shite, the holes are too big in it too. got it off ebay for a 10er. i think halfords sell some better stuff with smaller holes guna go and have a look there when i get paid

[Predator_R32p]

looking very tidy mate

[jamiecee]

Originally Posted by Smogie

im not sure mate, ive already got some but its shite, the holes are too big in it too. got it off ebay for a 10er. i think halfords sell some better stuff with smaller holes guna go and have a look there when i get paid

tell me if you manage to get some decent stuff from there..

[Tom5190]

will do mate ill post it up in here when i finally get some, ill get some pics of the sound system up too and fogs hopefully tomora if i get time at college to take pics

[Tom5190]

Originally Posted by Predator_VTR

looking very tidy mate

thanks alot mate

[mjLvts]

looking good i aint seen u around.