151 replies to this topic

[fezzasus]

Personally, don't see anything wrong with the wheels, however because the rear flared arch actually extends the amount of material from the top of the wheel arch to the top of the body, it makes the car look less low to the ground than standard.

[Ali87]

I love the wheels

[mbes2]

Looks great Do you have any photos from the front and rear?

[flamingcorsa]

not updated this for a while but have been making progress! 

 

made some arch splats, didnt get many pictures but here are the few i got:-

 

it started with masking up and drawing guide of wot i was wanting

 

 

this was fibreglassed up

 

 

filled with expanding foam and then trimmed to shape once it had set

 

 

fibreglassed over the foam

 

 

skimmed with filler and shapped

 

 

they were then painted to match wheels etc and fitted

 

 

one from the rear

 

 

one with the roof off also! sorry it was starting to get dark when i took pics

 

you have probabilly noticed that the exige spoiler has gone back onto the car, i just felt it needed something and the whole car is ott so may aswell have ott spoiler to match!

 

 

 

Edited by flamingcorsa, 14 March 2016 - 06:30 PM.

[flamingcorsa]

the car came with a sub and box behind the seat, but i felt it needed some tweaking to improve things, you could feel the box had flex in it so once a sub was gonna start working this was never gonna make the most of the sub!

 

so i added 3-4 layers of fibreglass inside the box so i could stand on it and it did not flex, also built the box out 12mm to be able to mount a deeper sub in the box! it then skimmed the front of the box with filler and smoothed

 

 

i then painted it to match the wheels etc,

 

this is how it sits now, i need to fit new rear speakers and have different amplifier coming cos the one in it is not powerfull enough to run the sub, ran new cabling to the amplifier also!

 

[flamingcorsa]

got a few pics of it outside today in the sun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[oakmere]

Top work they look great. Still think it would look better +10mm ride hight but you have transformed the car 👍

[flamingcorsa]

under the bonnet was given a clean so looks beta now

 

 

 

also got abs light off today and sorted mainbeam switch ready for mot time soon ish

[flamingcorsa]

this is how the engine was looking just after i refitted it, looked a mess!

 

 

so took various bits off and painted them up. looks much beta now

 

 

[flamingcorsa]

Top work they look great. Still think it would look better +10mm ride hight but you have transformed the car 👍

 

it will probabilly get raised up a little just cos i dont want to rip the arches off on the first trip out, lol

[The Batman]

Needs a black oil cap

[FLD]

  one from the rear     [/quote] You've met joes mum too?!

Edited by FLD, 14 March 2016 - 08:38 PM.

[cressey]

Looking good. I'd agree with raising the ride height slightly and painting the oil cap black. I think it'd be worth painting the coil pack cover black too. Top work. Looks loads better.

[Tommo]

Looks cracking! 

 

Always good to see people piling loads of time and effort into them.

[Andrew aka Stuwy]

thumbsuplooks great

[flamingcorsa]

Last engine bay I did black spark plug cover and coloured pipe work, so thought I would do this one a little different. I quite like whole rocker cover being orange with plug cover and oil cap matching but everyone has different preferences

[Hark]

That looks smart.

[ChrisS1]

It looks much better with the rear arch spats fitted.

 

Still a bit too extreme for me though.

[Mangham54]

Less time decorating, more time 

[fred666]

Incredible turn around mate. Looks like a well sorted car now.