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A few months back I purchased ashlee old car off the forum, it needs some tlc but thought I would be a good project

Here is how I got the car

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Plans for the car were Sort bodywork out Re fit arches beta Smooth arches Lower it more Fit new gearbox And see wot other things I come across that it needs I will update with some more pics tomorrow

[Acidpopstar]

Hi, I guess you're new here. Seems like that car has already been quite a project for the last owner. Can I ask why you want to lower it more?

[flamingcorsa]

Hi, I guess you're new here. Seems like that car has already been quite a project for the last owner. Can I ask why you want to lower it more?

 

i just felt that with the larger wheels it sort of looks like it sits high sometimes so wanted to get it looking more sleek and more factory looking.

 

i am fairly new back to vx220s, i had one vx220 back in 2006-7 i think it was that looked like this after i repaired it from being a cat d

 

 

this was then sold due to funding a pub i was going into

 

few years letter after pub was running ok i bought this, which maybe known on here

 

 

which i repaired

 

 

then modified and changed colour

 

 

 

you may know this car from the forum also

 

i then sold that car to help fund buying a house, thats was a few years ago now

 

last year i bought a black vx220 again as a project with head gasket failue, so it had a new engine put in and various other bits and a respray and now looks like this, i will have to sell this once new project is done

 

 

 

so there is abit about my history with vx220s, 

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so back onto the wide arched vx now

 

i lowered the suspension down a little and rear arches were removed and cut away a little more, and arches trial fitted again

 

 

 

 

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it then turned out that both front arches were fitted at slighly different height, not sure y but it was quite obvious, so these had to come off, they were not easy to get off to distroyed to remove so new arches were ordered

 

before

 

 

old ones off

 

 

arch cut back and rubbed down for beta adheasion

 

 

new arch on

 

 

new arches were then fitted to the rear also

 

 

 

 

 

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Love projects like this, the black one.. astraVXR's old one.. about bloody time that was fixed

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wheels taken off, this pics shows different in width

 

 

 

arches were then rivet and fibeglassed on

 

 

fibreglassing extra to smooth the shape of the arches out

 

 

rear arches

 

 

 

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front splitter had taken a knock and had some craizing

 

 

so it was ground down, re fibreglassed and smoothed out

 

 

 

[Duncan VXR]

Welcome back, stance looks better now 😉 DG

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arches then started to get smoothed into shape

 

 

 

 

 

wheels back on

 

 

 

 

 

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few pics outside, i was a little worried how things were looking now, looked very heavy. but hoped it was because of the multi colours on the car now

 

 

 

spoiler off

 

 

 

 

a pic with my astra van track car in back ground, neglected now :-( but runs vxr engine and 6 speed box and lots of other goodies

 

 

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you may have noticed a air duct below the turbo ears, this was just sort of stuck on, but looked bit silly sometimes so ground edges down

 

 

glassed it in then started to smooth it into bodywork

 

 

like so

 

 

few other parts of rear clam getting worked on also

 

 

 

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then comes the bit i dont really enjoy

 

mecanical side of things

 

 

exhaust off, one hanger needing attention and bend blowing a little

 

 

suspension off, nice to see it was all polly bushed tho

 

 

i was planning to only take the gearbox out but few things on the engine needed checking so engine out also

 

 

 

 

poorly looking car

 

 

 

syncros were going in gearbox so replacement box had lick of paint

 

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genuine cambelt and water pump etc went on, clutch looked a bit worn so replacement went in :-( was hoping not to have this expense

 

 

new slave cylinder also and engine was built back up

 

 

and went back in, with my professional engine hoist, lol

 

 

front clam came off, nice and easily which was nice suprise, plus everything looked good underneath

 

 

 

 

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more bodyworking was done now, arches getting close to shape i wanted

 

 

 

 

 

i was also not sure if to keep with the spoiler, change it or go without so smoothed the holes up

 

 

and shaved the ariel off also

 

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then for a really small detail that i think changed the look of the car, i decided to take a angle grinder and cut in lines to match where the stock vx220 has i guess panel lines, so this was done, i tried to copy the angle of a standard vx to a point

 

 

 

this also makes it so rear clam can be removed if need be

 

 

 

interior came out