My S body

Did some more today:

Loom arrived with fusebox and relays/fuses, even had bulbs on it lol, bonus! although i havnt started fitting it yet.



With the help of duane we made cardboard templates for the bits that need patching up, was suprisingly more of a ball ache than i thought:









should be borrowing a welder tomorrow, if anyone can hook me up with some sheet metal for these patches i would be very thankfull

Random but try B&Q for small sheets of aluminium or steel??

Whilst your buying sheet metal you should do what Gaz is doing get a sheet of thin pliable aluminium and pop rivit or seal it over the loom under the front arch to protect this loom?? just an idea... speak to ben about it ..

Iv heard about it, id rather just remove the loom from the arch completely seeing as im relooming, they are both higher up than me so have more room to put metal sheet, I dont lol, atleast until i tub the arches.

Ahh no worries, but a cracking idea tho "Emperor performance paten pending front arch loom protector's" lol

yeah I wouldn't know where else to suggest for sheet metal ezz, when u getting the welder tomorrow?? Working?? or not?? Im down at Bens most of the day swapping the gearbox and clutch out of the ED2 if ur around??

just do what i used to do when patching up old minis and mg metros...i just cut up old panels....

^ that could work, if you had access to a donor car

all i have is a oem EK spoiler and wing, i thought about it.

Now i have patterns though il offer them up to the spoiler see if theres enough there...

pattern wise i found using breakfast boxes easier...that corigated stuff youve used is a ball ache to trim etc..lol

skyrocket wrote:

pattern wise i found using breakfast boxes easier...that corigated stuff youve used is a ball ache to trim etc..lol

exactly what my dad does. much easier to manipulate

I did think about it but i thought it would be too thin, oh well, its done now and i know for next time.

Got some more done today, disregard honda aquire metal



btw EK wings have the two skins bonded together :S was a bitch

I NEED a welder

Just read your whole thread, car is epic. really puts me in the mood to by a RWD turbo and make it pure function... for skidding that is

Keep up the good work man

thanks man, Theres alot of hard work ahead but im stoked

I went down to image wheels with one of my wheels so they could check 100% they can make me lips and to go get my lips priced up, i wanted 5" rear's and 3.5" fronts.

Last minuite i decided to fark it and go with a 11j front so 4" front lips

the damage is about £1200 inc bolts

If i can find some similarly sized rims soonish il get them instead.

expensive...

sure you'd be able to get them cheaper then that mate

Dude an 11" front would legit drive like ass. Go for a ten at like et10 so the rears look more pronounced

cus If you can find somewhere to get big boy 18's or get lips for cheaper then please do let me know because iv looked and looked.

I thouhg that too gary but i have done a bit of research and there are a few pro drifters running 10.5j with minus offset, also found this guys specs out:



-20 offset 18x11 in the front and -48 offset 18x12 in the rear

Money

damnnnnnn, rock the wheels as they are they still look really nice, sort all your loom, arches roll cage, make the car fully sick to drive the way you want, then when your happy u can just put your extra fund toward the wheels?

I WAS going to swerve doing the wide wheel thing for the time being and get some 'mean time' rotas or mb's but its back oooonn

ignore the ugly ass front

same overs front and rear

If youve found some mad way of making £'s fast I want in please!

Update:

My dad got me an early birthday present:


(not my actual one)

Best dad ever? Came with large gas bottle (not sure how empty/full), mask, ear defenders :s , wire brush and G clamp (only for G's)

Im exited, been thinkin of all the shit i can do now i have a proper welder!

Havnt started using it yet but this spured me on to start getting the interior dash etc out so i can sort the loom/wiring.



sound deadening is double layered :s



I cant decide whether to strip the insides or not, or how stripped if i do strip

Lurking behind the dash was this, the computer for the emanage, so releived to find out the loom im replacing doesnt mean i have to mess with this.



There are all sorts of wires back there for all sorts of shit, theres even something that should plug into the fag lighter :s i have no idea what it is as its been tucked away undet the centre console for what looks like years, i wouldnt be suprised if i find some gay ass 'JDM' neons or some shit

needs a roof rack imo

Ned wrote:

needs a roof rack imo

x2 Roof rack would look so cool on this..

Roof racks are turning into a fresh new Rota style debate, lol, I was amazed when watching ezz strip the dash last night, unbelievable amount of random wires. Fair play though, and the pic/video log was an ingenious idea for the reassembly!

Semi stip it see how you feel? Cmon ezz WTF you know for a fact you just want two seats, dash and maybe nice doorcards done.