Darren198712
Just chillin'
corbs your a legend how many Almera's you had ?
Miriam and Stevo (B1 and B2 gone)
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Daaaaamn I need skirts too now
Ummm
1. Nymo - Black SRi - died of rust, body/suspension damage and gearbox/engine fail
2. Stevo - Black GTi - Tasha drives this now
3. Gizmo - Black GTi - my 'project'/pain in the ass
4. Red - Red GTi - Donor for Gizmo
5. Miriam - Blue SRi - this one
Although I've had 2 awesome cheap runabout K11s, one piece of shit K10 and a brilliant disposable mondeo.
I'd trade them all to have kept my first one though
This is the JDM tyte lightweight RACING 5 door sri, there's definitely less metal on it than mine...
Thanks Alan!
Phil - shut yo mouth, it wont be lighter for long! With any luck it'll be patched by next week. Might be off to the bodyshop after the MoT for 'longevity treatment'. (Just getting rid of the body rust, theres a few patches on the arches, tailgate and one of the doors, underneath it's actually in really good condition!).
Phil - shut yo mouth, it wont be lighter for long! With any luck it'll be patched by next week. Might be off to the bodyshop after the MoT for 'longevity treatment'. (Just getting rid of the body rust, theres a few patches on the arches, tailgate and one of the doors, underneath it's actually in really good condition!).
Ok, bigish update. Got up early this morning (I didnt even realise they made a 7 AM as well!) to drive up to Andy aka Streaky's workshop near doncaster, had a very surprising encounter with RaceworX on the M1 on the way up, unexpected and random!
Andy got cracking with the first sill, rebuilt with bloody thick steel.
Before
3 wheel motion
Ground back then welded
Then we turned the car around to start on the second, this was much worse and required a section of the arch to be reconstructed. Both sides also needed parts of the inner arch patching too. Then a coat of underseal for the trip back.
His words were 'is that all?'
The old sill
Protected
Going to do the whole sill before putting sideskirts on
Bloody good work, highly recommended. Fingers crossed for the MoT on thursday!
Andy got cracking with the first sill, rebuilt with bloody thick steel.
Before
3 wheel motion
Ground back then welded
Then we turned the car around to start on the second, this was much worse and required a section of the arch to be reconstructed. Both sides also needed parts of the inner arch patching too. Then a coat of underseal for the trip back.
His words were 'is that all?'
The old sill
Protected
Going to do the whole sill before putting sideskirts on
Bloody good work, highly recommended. Fingers crossed for the MoT on thursday!
Nom nom nom, delicious mot'd car.
Few clean pics:
Few clean pics:
Patched sills FTW! Looking good
happy to be of service, had to fabricate inner chassis rail under drivers rear arch on my lass's gti last week for mot which was lot harder to get to as it was up inder facing inner edge if that makes sense. if you look up under arch you can't see it. anyway 2 hrs later job done and its mot'd for another year
happy motoring mate
happy motoring mate
Good news then Andy, anyother GTi saved
Couple of pics from testing a few camera mounts yesterday
Pretty good actually!
Couple of pics from testing a few camera mounts yesterday
Pretty good actually!
Bored today so removed the 2.25" cat back and jap can backbox from the GTi and fitted it, way too noisy though (no raor, just bass) and I think its losing power, going to try the standard GTi exhaust tomorrow and see if thats better. I remember on my old 1.6 fitting a GTi cat back smoothed out the power so hopefully it'll be the right diameter for the engine.