shearermax Posted March 3, 2014 Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 right finally after a year being on here getting round to posting this after having abit of time on my hands,im abit cross with myself as i haven't pictured all the stages i have done with it but hey ho ill show you what ive gotso i bought the car of ben on here it was off the road so thats how i got it i started off with a good clean inside and out, which to be honest didnt make much of a difference then popped the hood and realised for some strange reason the shocks where poking through the car so after alot of head scratching and cursing i figured out that it was just sitting of the springs and i needed to take parts of the standard suspension and put it on the coilovers, so i was happy with that, i then got the new bumper which i needed spraying and i wanted a few panels spraying aswell and doors because the side strips where took off and there was a step in the paint, i decided to just get the whole thing sprayed, and a cheeky debadge while it was there, it came back from the spray shop and i attached the bumper and had a quick run over all the lights and little things as it had its mot. it passed with flying colors, kind of. i needed to fix the blowing exhaust. i then gave it a service, all the usualls; oil filter, oil, fuel filter and so on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shearermax Posted March 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 so i bought some wheels for it and thought i would refurb them before putting them onso im please with the out come Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shearermax Posted March 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 this is it on its first voyage on the roadso after traveling anywhere and everywhere in a white car it got pretty mucky so after 2 days had to clean it, in the snow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shearermax Posted March 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 so i got the old polish and wax out after the paint fully dried and im pleased with the beeding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shearermax Posted March 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 so i had abit of a night mare whilst going round a corner when there was rubble on the road and well basically i didnt go round the corner so met someone called a curb so yeah its not supposed to look like that after a bumpy five miles an hour home i stripped it all apart and wrecked the wheel crushed the wishbone and bent the drive shaft so left it to the morning to salvage some partsi bought a new wishbone and ball joint and went to Guisborough to get a drive shaft got all the way home and it didnt fit, brilliant, had to wait till the monday to go again, so went came back and it fit because one of the wheels was recked i had to put the tatty ones back on that came with the car, so i gave them a quick refurbish on the sunday when i had some time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shearermax Posted March 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 i was pretty pleased with the resultthat was until i pulled out of a car park and i hurd a massive noise and couldnt move well this happenedso what happened was 'my friend' who is apparently a mechanic had 'forgot' to tighten the ball joint bolt so they just ripped off and pulled the drive shaft out lucky i was with the so called mechanic so he road over to my house for some tools and went to lt motors to get a new ball joint so in the middle of tesco car park in rush hour with people coming over left right and center i jacked it up took off the suspension changed the ball joint and for some strange reason i thought i could kick the drive shaft back into place well yeah that work for about a mile then came out againso then the hunt went of for a tow rope finally got one and a Peugeot 206 began to tow me so i got it home and took the drive shaft out i looked at it and all the barings and the baring housing had shattered so i had a little think and i thought a bodge job could come of this so i cleaned all the bits out and got the old bent drive shaft and prized the barings out and got the old hammer out and started smashing them into the new one, i thought i was a brilliant idea, which i was for about 2 days then it came out again. kurt in the subaru came to the rescue and towed me home, i was getting the hang of this breaking down lark. so the next day went to see my friends at guisborough again, when i came in the shop he said 'the usual?' so yes i got ANOTHER drive shaft and fingers crossed its all been sweet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shearermax Posted March 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2014 going to leeds festival in this wasnt the brightest of ideas i got stuck on several occasions so i give it a good clean and got a few rolling shots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danyutz Posted March 4, 2014 Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 I think that loops look better in rolling shots than standing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shearermax Posted March 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 hahaa i think it might because a proper photographer took the rolling shots haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shearermax Posted March 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 had a go at photoshop for the first time because i was board and i came up with a lupo harlequin hahaand a lime green lupo with a smoothed bumper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shearermax Posted March 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 so i bought some BBS and they came abit tatty so gave them a quick spray, i need to give them a good refurb at some point they needed two new tyres (strech) ive never fitted stretch before some came across a few problems, my main problem couldnt get the buggers to inflate after trying various methods like spraying brake and clutch cleaner in and lighting it they didnt work however i came up with a ingenious solution of pushing the tyre down getting a bike inner tube inflating it abit and putting it between the tyre and the wheel (where the air is escaping) and begin to inflate the tyre and as the side walls push out they push the inner tube out anyways this is what it looks like with them oni want it lower but i cant yet as i need my arches rollingso i was looking for some bbs center caps as the ones on these where cracked but after finding out they where £80 i went off the idea so took it upon myself to do this which cost me nothing so i wraped it matt black then cut a outline in chrome wrap and the letters in brushed steel wrap and i think they look amazing saving myself £80+ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shearermax Posted March 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 so after much debate i finally got my wheels refurbed, a brave choice of colour i must say.i got them back without the center caps but to say the least i was happy and couldnt wait to get them onthe first thing i did was trial fit them . But i wanted more lows so i grinded my rear arches off (i didnt want to roll them) i got the back sitting pretty nice i thinkmy next job was to see what to do with the bbs plastic center cap as i wrapped them before i thought i would do it again but a different colour, it was fate that i had a little bit of the exact same blue left over so wrapped that and it was a excellent colour match Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danyutz Posted March 4, 2014 Report Share Posted March 4, 2014 Love it! Oh you have a speedhunters sticker! I also have one, but it's a smaller one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shearermax Posted June 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 this needs some serious updating but it just wont let me upload pictures anymore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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