project mayhem UPDATED
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:50 am
So you might remember this from the for sale thread, I brought it as something for me to do! just to sort out a few little bits and to go and have a little fun driving!
Well turned out to be a different story, once i scratched deeper than the surface, realised there was going to be alot more work that i figured!
Basically the bodykit bumpers and side skirts had wood screws holding them on, removed the front bumper to find the front valance was basically missing, rear bumper had been modded to fit standard brackets, but still had the wood screws through the side! so project mayhem began.............
Was a bit crap on the photo taking side of life, but i stripped the whole car of anything in my way and got started-
Treated all inner arches/wells etc with waxoyl and sorted the floor with a shed load of hammerite!
Got my hands on some replica mtec 2 bumpers and got to fit them, with a great deal of difficulty! then gave the car a mammoth rub down and alot of filler and filler primer! then skirted over with white primer-
After that I thought that i like the whole matt white thing, so set about making it a better finish, but im having to build this project outside and due to weather im having a mare! but managed to finish the boot area so you can hopefully see whats its going to look like-
as you can see ive made a few purchases, like all red lights, mtec 1 spoiler and the red number plate surround! have a few more goodies being prepped and ready, like my image 3 peice split rims, they are at the refurbers right now but this is how they looked-
Now im also aware that this is not everyones cup of tea, but im feeling pretty positive that when im finished it should look pretty different and above all I should be over the moon with my efforts!
will post more bits as i go along, but this is really taking so much longer than i planned!
cheers guys.
Well turned out to be a different story, once i scratched deeper than the surface, realised there was going to be alot more work that i figured!
Basically the bodykit bumpers and side skirts had wood screws holding them on, removed the front bumper to find the front valance was basically missing, rear bumper had been modded to fit standard brackets, but still had the wood screws through the side! so project mayhem began.............
Was a bit crap on the photo taking side of life, but i stripped the whole car of anything in my way and got started-
Treated all inner arches/wells etc with waxoyl and sorted the floor with a shed load of hammerite!
Got my hands on some replica mtec 2 bumpers and got to fit them, with a great deal of difficulty! then gave the car a mammoth rub down and alot of filler and filler primer! then skirted over with white primer-
After that I thought that i like the whole matt white thing, so set about making it a better finish, but im having to build this project outside and due to weather im having a mare! but managed to finish the boot area so you can hopefully see whats its going to look like-
as you can see ive made a few purchases, like all red lights, mtec 1 spoiler and the red number plate surround! have a few more goodies being prepped and ready, like my image 3 peice split rims, they are at the refurbers right now but this is how they looked-
Now im also aware that this is not everyones cup of tea, but im feeling pretty positive that when im finished it should look pretty different and above all I should be over the moon with my efforts!
will post more bits as i go along, but this is really taking so much longer than i planned!
cheers guys.
