June is the month

June starts tomorrow.

I have the whole of June to myself, which means I have the whole of June to restore the sarge to his "former glory." There's quite a lot to do actually, also going to correctly setup the ride height / caster / camber / toe, which was never done before. So, by the end of June, it should be better than ever! Hmmm... like I said;

June starts tomorrow.

Oops!

Meh, shit happens!

Photoshoot - March 2007

Finished odds n ends on the car, so went for a lil' shoot.

Interior - B.Spec.

^ Just need to get my hands on some Ek9 Recaros!

^ Sunroofs are awesome for pics. ^ NRG rule.

^ Without the wheel on. ^With the lock on.

^ Momo tuner FTMFW!!!!!111111111111oneoneone

I think the colours match the ek interior colours quite nicely. Looks almost-OE.

^Word.

^ A little video showing how quick it is to attach / detach.

Parking Tickets

Parking tickets. Not the "you've been naughty" kind... but the pay-to-park kind. I cleaned my car, and this is what I found inside. £208 worth of parking tickets, lol. Swish. Just think what I could have spent £208 on! :(

Woah!

Hmm... what am I installing? Looks messy.

Oooh. Delivery! :)

After payin' off Mr Customs and Excise... Parcel Force decided they'd deliver my parcels.

Hmm... Boxes...

... Four Boxes. Black. Black. Black. Red.
What could be inside?

Oooh!

YaY! 320mm Momo Tuner FTMFW!!!!!!!!111111111oneoneone

From left to right:
NRG Quick Release Lock
NRG Short Hub
NRG Quick Release Mechanism - Gen 2.

It's a Thursday... not much happens on Thursdays...

Got bored. Took this today. Yeah.

Cleaned.

Well, the paint-match SUCKED. Thanks bodyshop!
But, if there's anything I've learned from this project so far, it's that the ingredients to success are experience, hard-work, patience, and doing everything your fother-mucking self!

So, I had to make the old paint match the new. Quite a challenge with 9yr old paint. The process:

-Washed the whole car with a bucket of water + washing up liquid and a whole bunch of elbow grease!
-Clay-bar'd the car to stop myself from "rubbing-in" any crap into the paintwork.
-Cut the paintwork back with Farecla G3 cutting liquid.
-T-Cut the car with good old carplan T-Cut polish.
-Waxed the whole car with Carnauba wax.

I'll post up a side-by-side before and after later. But these pics show the shiny factor.

From the ashes...

and so the Phoenix rises from the ashes. Well, okay, more like the Panda crawls from the deer-accident damage, but... that just doesn't sound as cool, ya know?

Oh, you KNOW I'm bad.

S0 JDM! y0!

Still need to do the bumpstrips!

Rar!

Fresh

s0 fresh.
Main reconstruction complete, just tidbits to do! (bump strips, handles, the like)

Back to Black

Okay, the bodyshop painted my shiz, but they painted the fact brake ducts and the main intake struts white. It looked hella-lame. I masked it off, and sprayed the stuff black myself. DIY fo' lyfe, y0!