Fro
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Location: Rainham, Essex Drives: A3 2.0TDi Sport
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Thought I'd start a progress thread as I'm bored I havn't really done much to it but here goes....
This was how she was when i got her, Already lowered 60mm rear and roughly 60mm front on Spax rsx Coilovers, Tints, 17's and stupidly loud powerflow exhaust and lexus lights 
First Thing was to get rid of the gastly orange side repeaters.
Then on went my private plate with a fabulous playboy symbol 
Stayed like that for a while, was itching to fit rid of the lexus lights and i was offered MHW's from P1CK4D (£40  ) on here and couldnt resist Goodbye lexus, Hello MHW 
Then i got some 2.0 brakes, should have painted them before fitting really 
Then i had an airport journey and would never have made it on the 17's so the standard twin spokes went on after chasing my mate to give me them
They were then removed again in favour for the 17's, but the ride was so much better with the 15's, was kinder on my little bum!
Gave the car a really good clean up took about half a day but was well worth it 
Then it was time to paint the erar drums as they looked horrible!
Picked Hammerite smooth black....Which came out grey
Before
Up she went
During
After
It matched the arches so was all good  Will be redoing when the weather is decent.
Then my love for the twin spokes started, was getting fed up with 17's so i decided to make the change permanent
Looked much better, felt quicker and the ride was softer
Next up was the SE Rolling road day
In the queue
On the rollers 
It made 111.7 Bhp and 107.2 lbs/ft Torque Which was down on standard 
After
Had to get a picture next to stavs blue beauty!
On the journey home
Bought an E-tec polished strut brace also from P1CK4D, and we fitted that.
Need to take a pic of that this weekend.
Also fitted some bonnet lifters
Then Mum kindly purchased me some FK headlights from rimstyle for christmas
Before...
After
Hit a kerb due to some Pr!ck in the early hours of the morning which resulted in a very very kerbed wheel and a blow out, so on went the 14" steelie which just covered the front brakes!
Took a trip to Elite to get a new tyre put on
Then took some pics of how wide the rear arches were made for the 17's
Loads of room!
I then purchased a Gsi front bumper already in black from J200RSA
Got this fitted straight away
During
After
Used this as a chance to get rid of my horrific plates and get some plain ones with a border
And here is how she stands...
Going to pick up a smooth black rear tomorrow night. Bought some Gsi skirts and arches with all bits and bobs in smoke grey for £80 quid in excellent condition (Also from P1CK4D ) Hoping to get those sprayed before PVS and also try and find some 16" twin spokes and start saving up for an engine conversion
All comments welcome!
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P1CK4D
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Registered: 19th Jun 06
Location: Around Essex Somewhere
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To a top guy and a quality car. That P1CK4D is abit of a legend, selling you some great stuff for cheap prices! Well done matey..
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Fro
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Can't deny that!
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Ben G
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very nice mate, small things over a long period of time make such a big difference will be a very nice gsi replica in black
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Graeme
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looks very nice and subtle, the bumper makes so much of a difference!
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Fro
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Cheers guys
Yeah i love the front bumper stops it looking like every other corsa in my area
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Nick A
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awesome fro, did u manage to get your fogs wired up???
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Fro
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Cheers nick Nope not yet matey Dad picked up a cav with all the loom i needed but he scrapped it so I'm still hunting
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Gareth T
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looks good amte Ive got the same split rims on my car which I sprayed black but unfortunalty need redoing as they wernt done well : thumbs:
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Fro
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quote:
Originally posted by g@z
looks good amte Ive got the same split rims on my car which I sprayed black but unfortunalty need redoing as they wernt done well : thumbs:
Cheers mate, do you have any pics of them when they were done, as i want to spray mine but not sure what colour yet.
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J200RSA
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Registered: 23rd May 05
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That bumper is MINT!!!! my dad did a good job on that bumper just need to get him to do my new one now, looking good though fro, you decided to go for valver power?
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andys sxi
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Registered: 19th Jan 06
Location: Chester Drives:Scirocco tdi bluemotion
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looks nice mate. what have u had done to make it 111 bhp
April 08 feature car
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Wonderboy
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Registered: 30th Dec 06
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Looks really nice, much better with the 15" in my opinion. Those rear lights are a huge improvement as well.
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VegasPhil
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Registered: 16th Jan 05
Location: Fareham, Hants Drives: Octavia VRS
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That's a lovely car mate! Nice one!
Corsa 2.0 16v Vegas - Sold
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Liam
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Registered: 19th Jan 06
Location: Stafford
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Nice car. Massive improvment from when you got it
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SAL
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looks nice fro takes time to get things how you want them look at mine it has taken nearly 3 years and im still pissing around with it if it doesnt sell for the right money im sure i will do more aswell ...
good stuff, keep it up
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Scotty C
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Registered: 6th Nov 05
Location: Kidderminster Drives: 1.6 16v Sport
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Stunning motor. Come along way, Would be uber cool if you sprayed the wheels black
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Fro
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J200 - Yeah, hoping to have that in a running by PVS, Funnily enough that is more than likely also coming from P1CK4D
Andy - all it has is a BMC closed induction kit and a completely straight though exhaust (Have a feeling this is why it has lost torque but not sure.
Cheers guys for all the nice comments people, makes it more worthwhile Wonderboy i couldn't agree more they're a million times better than the chavvy lexarse poo!
Definately going to respray them monster but was trying to try to get them in 16's first as sometimes i think the 15's are too small But i can only find 2 at the mo
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deano87
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Registered: 21st Oct 06
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Looks good, love that. Much better with the Twin Spokes on. I think they suite the car in silver because of the white numberplate and side repeaters. IMO also the brakes look awesome in red.
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Fro
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Cheers matey Will probably do a few photoshops of my wheels before i get them done to give myself a rough idea, need to do something with them though as they a kerbed pretty bad
Yeah the brakes look good in red but if you look closely you can see the dodgy paint job the guy i bought them from did, bits of yellow in there and all sorts
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Fro
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Took a trip to the pod yesterday
Started off getting consistant 17.5's then a few just above 17.00. Finished up gettin a few high 16's then finished with a 16.53. Definately need a quick shift as 2nd to 3rd wastes a lot of time!
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VegasPhil
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I'm going to make it if my car ever comes back on the road
Corsa 2.0 16v Vegas - Sold
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Fro
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quote:
Originally posted by VegasPhil
I'm going to make it if my car ever comes back on the road
How's the conversion going?
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Fro
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Done a couple of little bits today Ordered some calibra sunvisors in the week as they have a mirror both sides and they can light up
After the passenger door speaker finally driving me round the bend rattling i decided to take the half decent speakers out of Wombat corsa. Took a trip to halfords to get the adaptor kit and swapped the speakers over
One very very dead speaker
Swapped with this
Hopefully going to wire up the sunvisors tomorrow morning as I'm sure i have some wire laying around
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geebs2006
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I like those sun visors - how do you go about wiring them up?
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