QUOTE(grim_d @ Aug 23 2008, 09:34 PM)
told you mate, she scrubbed up well, looks 1000 times better, paint acctually looks red in the photos. Infact she loks brand spanking man.
Looking forward to seeing that lump in, should be a bit of a monster. what you SHOULD do is forge the fooker before you even put it in, quaife/ppg high ratio gearset and a 3071, but thats the dream lol.
p.s if anybody ever asks you to help them with their saxo/106 suspension, just say NO and run a million miles in the opposite direction.
Yes mate, she came out well, took a few days though to be honest to get it that good, i personally think it needs a little extra work in a couple of areas to compliment the rest of the car, though i'm very happy with it at the moment.
Yeah i'd love to get some forge internals from the start, but surely it'll be nice to abuse the almost new 7,000 miles engine in general before upgrading, plus it would seriously dent my wallet
In the future though, it'd be easy enough to drop sump and head off, take out the crank, rods and pistons, and then drop some new rods and pistons in while the block stays in the car, saves messing around craning it out again. You never know, might go for an uprated crank too
On the other hand, ive got alot of money to spend on mods for it as it is, i'm pretty certain i can run close to 300bhp on standard internals without it blowing up within the next few thousand miles.
Whats up with saxo or 106 suspension? lol, guessing youve ran into some problems with them recently? to be honest i'm not a lover of either car, but got to admit the 106 GTI is a pretty fast car, though my brothers car rips them to hell.
QUOTE(missda-sik @ Aug 25 2008, 01:03 AM)
Alryt mate Ive been lookin at this thread for a while now so i decided to make an account. Your astra looks mint! Loven the colour too (Y)
Im guessin by the time you've finished with this one 1 we'll all be whatchin it on TV lmao!! Good choice in the lights yeah i love them angel eye's too nothen better
I was never too keep in the grill but ohh well ;P Yeah I would get the carbon fiber bonnet with the cut grill slot because wit got a sick littlescoop xD
Cant wait to see some pic's of thoes big clampers dressin in with thoes wheels!!
Would you ever consider putting a simple kit on this?? I guess you would have to re-ajust your dampers lmao!!
You'de be scraping the ground till you took off in that monster!!
Keep us updated :: And lots
more pikkkkyyyz!! John
PS. Im luvven that bertone centeral collum.,, If your ever upgreading check this out
http://cgi.ebay.co.u...id=p3286.c0.m14 <-- took ages to find that!! Dont loose the link
Alright mate, nice to see youve joined up to have a chat, yeah got to agree with you, i too love the colour and the angels, go together real well in my opinion, shame your not too keen on the grill, though i do personally love it, makes a hell of a difference to the appearence of the car and gives it more of an agressive look.
Its quite supprising, finding a decent seller of carbon bonnets to fit my car is very difficult, though i think i may have found someone who can get one for me, ideally i want an OEM type with the standard grill slot so i can fit my grill. I can imagine how it would look with a OEM type carbon bonnet against the red, should look stunning.
The brakes won't be going on for a little while sadly, instead for the time being i'll be upgrading to the 308mm disks and calipers i got with the engine lot that i bought, i will however be going to the 4pots in the future, i have to fabricate some brackets for mounting them properly and need to figgure out what bells i'm going to use. I started modifying the others to suit my car but realised it would mean pushing the wheel out more than i would allow it to, as such the tyre would have scraped to hell in the front arches so i'm not going down that road, i need to give it some carefull thought and get them on in the future, for the time being however the 308s should make a good difference, might even paint the calipers up so they'll look nicer behind the wheels.
I assume you mean a simple bodykit? nah to be honest i think if i were to swap much i'd go for the GSI front bumper, i love those, but i also really do like my SRi bumper, oh i'd also consider a genuine SRi turbo bumper aswell. I had considered putting some GSI or simillar side skirts on to colour code it, but to be honest i like the black against red stuff, when its cleaned properly, it looks great. I used to be into really modified cars with alot done body work wise, i still like some of them, but i'd prefer a motorsport look rather than a 'show car' type look. Also as you pointed out, a major issue would be the ride height, it would mean raising the beast which is something i really wouldn't do unless forced to, i love the handling and the height shes currently at, i would hate to even consider having to raise it at all for any reason, so that alone i guess says a big no no to most body mods as they'd get torn to bits
Ive seen those center consoles you pointed out, and i do admit i deffinatly do like some of them, but if i were ever to consider going to something like that, i'd deffinatly build my own rather than buy one, i'd probably fit some gauges in there too. But at least for the time being, i'm more than happy with the center console ive got at the moment, looks spot on in the car.
QUOTE(Infamous Ob @ Aug 25 2008, 02:32 AM)
Wow. This Vaux really came together. Are those Wilwoods Standard or Aftermarket on those cars? If they Standard, America need to step it up. lol Anyway, I like the overall look of the car. You did the exhaust yourself. how hard was it to do? I been thinking about removing my muffler on my car and running a Straight Pipe for a better sound aong with a few more Horses.
Hello mate, yeah shes slowly coming together, got a long long way to go though before i'll be happy with it. I'll be much happier when i get the new wheels on, GSI spoiler painted and on, and of course get that turbo lump in, can't wait to feel the power, along with a few mods, should be running some decent power.
The brakes youve seen in the pictures are aftermarket sadly, would be nice to get some 4pots standard though
as above i was explaining they'll be going on in the future due to some complications which i'll be sorting out as and when i get time really, ive got far more important things to sort out first, so for the time being i'll be putting the 308mm GSI brakes on the front, who knows i might even get some better disks, we'll see.
Yeah i did the exhaust, pretty much any exhaust is a piece of cake in my opinion, if youve got a basic range of tools you'll have no problem swapping the exhaust, sometimes the originals can become stuck together depending on the type of fitting, but they usually aren't a big deal. If you can buy an aftermarket pipe for your car, should be dead easy to swap it over. Just watch out for how much of the exhaust you swap, and what type you swap to, or else you might find its abit too loud
Soon enough when i fit the turbo engine, i'll be swapping the exhaust completely on my car for a full tunned system for some good gains, i think i'll porbably be going with the milltek system so should be good.
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