Beans black VTR with plans - Saxperience

Bean · 25th September 2012, 14:08

So here we are, i've gone and bought my 5th saxo! after owning 2x1.1 eastcoasts, a mk1 vtr and a mk2 vtr iv gone and bought another! she is a 03 plate black vtr, its totally bog standard with a lot of history mainly used as a rep car doing motorway mileage, it has covered 100k!!! but you really cant tell, the interior is immaculate and its feels and drives nice and tight with great pull from the engine, i gave 850 for her with 10 months mot and 6 months tax.

here is my first vtr

then my silver vtr which i still currently own and now breaking for parts,
she started off like this, monster stickers horrible shopping list the lot

i then removed all the horrible stickers sorted all the gash wiring and interior out and gave her a good valet

i then went onto buy some vts wheels which i refurbed in gloss black and some fresh numberplates

so they are my old cars, i never did a thread on either of them hense putting a few pics up of them.

so here she is in all her glory, she has a few scratches and a minor dink in the bot but i can live with that for now.

the car is totally standard because i wanted a decent base so i can make it mine, it seems to come with what looks like factory fitted citroen sports extras ie fuel cap which takes the ignition key, gear nob and aluminium pedals, i thought they were boled onto the existing but the pedals are solid aluminium coming off the arms.

so i couldnt keep my hands off moding for long so i fiited my headunit in ( missed listening to my ipod), replaced the standard wipers with flat bladed wipers and most importantly addeda 2" kam racing backbox

the tip could do with a clean up, so thats how she stands for now

thanks for listening to me ramble

scott

Wozzavtr · 25th September 2012, 22:07

That green vtr looks very familiar, oh yeah it was mine lol you've took over me now as Iv only just got my 3rd vtr

Bean · 25th September 2012, 22:27

See not that hard to use is it

picking up a little present for the Saxo tomorrow! You should start a thread on your Saxo, a de barrying thread haha

Luke-saxo · 27th September 2012, 01:06

seems odd seeing bits of my saxo on loads of peoples cars now lol looks good dude i was going to clean it couple of weeks ago but the somebody killed the car so never bothered

saxokid100 · 27th September 2012, 03:54

Looks very clean the black saxo!!

BullockXR · 27th September 2012, 10:11

looks a good clean base to start with dude!

Bean · 27th September 2012, 21:53

Cheers guys! Hope to get some progress started this weekend! Going to nut my vts wheels on for now while I refurb my vtr wheels, can decide what wheels to use?! Then she will e getting a straight through middle box next week, I also have new discs and pads to fit along with a o/s drive shaft! Busy Sunday for me!

Bean · 3rd October 2012, 16:55

Right then its been a short while with no update, but ive been a little bit busy breaking my old saxo etc, but i have a slight amount of progress on the vtr

right so first thing was first, my brakes were about shafted on the black vtr and were sightly warped! luckily before i decided to break my silver saxo i put new discs and pads on the front! she had been standing about a week or two so a slight bit of surface rust is on them as you can see in the pics but that soon wore off!

old discs!

new ish discs, covered about 350 miles!

and pads

then when id finished mucking around with that i put my vts wheels on her! look sooo much better than the standard wheels! just need a refurb as edges have gone silver from putting new tyres on etc

then i put my 6x9 infinity reference in! couldnt cope with standard speakers anymore lol

and then today ive picked up something a little bit special

these will be going on in the near future

just funding as per usual

these are carbs off a pre-injection yamaha R1 1999 model

ive had a manifold quoted for them at 180 pounds plus the vat! so soon they will be sent off for seatign and set up!!

just a little update let me know what you guys think

bobertmate · 4th October 2012, 15:33

looking good mate!

Bean · 4th October 2012, 17:52

Cheers dude not massive progress but some is better than none I guess

Bean · 9th October 2012, 17:32

very small update, been and treated myself to a new straight through middle box and fitted it yesterday, sounds a lot better! more tone and a nice bit of rasp! still no progress on the carbs im just going to save and do it all in one go! save bitting and bobbing! while i save for that i will still be doing little mods to the vtr

Bean · 9th October 2012, 17:32

i will get a pic up of my new centre pipe tomorrow

Bean · 9th October 2012, 18:06

also i have two A4 shets of carbon wrap, cant think what to use them on? i dont want to do the mirror caps though

Bean · 13th October 2012, 08:11

Right little update for you, with the R1 carb idea on the back burner until I have the right amount of funds I've decided to sort out the way my car looks! I started off by spraying my grill to match the body of my car (gloss black) I'm hoping to achieve the stealth look but I don't want window tint, I feel the car looks much cleaner without it! So I've gone and got my car booked in to be lowered on next Saturday! Pretty excited because I know this transforms the way the car looks! Going for a 50 mm drop with as little revers rake as possible! Also today I will be de wipering the rear and nipping to the scrap yard to pick up a Laguna splitter! Photos will be added ASAP! Hope for some feed back

Bean

Bean · 15th October 2012, 16:39

Here's how my new grill looks! Not entirely happy with the finish so going to get my spare one professionally sprayed and have the chevrons in gun metal grey rather than gloss black

Then a friend got a pic of me when we were on the way to a French car meet in derby

Then I've took a few pics of how it looks at the minute

She is in desperate need of a good clean but there isn't much point in spending too much time cleaning her as I'm working down some country lanes at the minute!

Also she is getting lowered Saturday morning!! And also I will be replacing the drivers side driveshaft as its started to get a bit noisey! So some progress

Bean

Bean · 15th October 2012, 16:43

Also my vts wheels are going in for a professional refurb a week on Saturday possibly in gloss black again?!

Prickle^p · 15th October 2012, 16:45

Not black :/

Bean · 15th October 2012, 16:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by Prickle

Not black :/

I keep my tyre shine up to date

What colour do you think? I was going for the "stealth look" you see

Bean · 16th October 2012, 23:04

Sent my spare grill of to be professionally sprayed, I've wrapped my chevrons wit the spare carbon wrap I had knocking about, the finish doesn't look too bad! I'm going o attempts lacquering them, I've heard if you give them a fair few coats it looks alright?

Bean · 20th October 2012, 20:03

Small update!

Lowered my car today by 45/50mm, such a massive improvement! I do miss what ride comfort my Saxo had though!! The torsion bar was an absolute whore!! Took forever to do but got there in the end! I will give it a good clean tomorrow and take some pics to show you all!

Also I changed the drivers side driveshaft while things were off