My EK3.

Posts : 251 Location : Leicester Joined : 2010-05-11

Few updates...

SOLD THE SPEC 2!! cheers

Bought myself a VTi mid-pipe & cheap backbox, sounds sooo much better, alot more driveable now too.... except for the fact it hangs about 1cm from the floor, mehhh!

Pictures from the today..

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Jacked up, it was a cosy place to be..

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Had to extend the pipe to fit with the de-cat & teg manifold...

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& on! Had to butcher the bumper lip abit, but its on.

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Sooo much better to drive, I actually hit VTEC without people hearing it 3 miles away! #winning

Ordered some ARC replica winglets in gloss black from thebooosh! too. So just waiting for them, gunna get some decals made for um, just don't know what yet!

After 6months with just door speakers, I thought Id wire my rear 6x9s back in! But without the rear trim to hold them, I had to make some boxes.

READY?!

Insert ghetto cardboard speakerboxes...

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They work a treat, Ill probably make them out of wood & carpet them at some piont, but for now, they are fine!

Oooooo another thing!

May have slightly won these on ebay..

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Not the best condition, but the plan is...
- Split um
- New dishes (15x8 & 15x9)
- Repaint them gunmetal grey
- Respray the bolts a bling gold
- ROLL MY RUSTY ARCHES!!!1!
- stretch some tyres over um
- put them on & hard park the shit out of it!!

Cheeeeeers Very Happy

Subject: Re: My EK3. Wed 13 Jul 2011, 6:06 am

If you need a decent polisher I know the dude at Rainbow in Bham that can polish them up a treat, failing that you could try Autosol and rub the shit outta the lip.

Nice rims dude. :-)

Subject: Re: My EK3. Wed 13 Jul 2011, 6:11 am

maybe just strip the paint off the bolts and polish em back up??

i had these rims on a mk1 golf...

i thought they were 2 piece??

Subject: Re: My EK3. Wed 13 Jul 2011, 7:26 am

good updates dude! they are RM's?

cardboard speaker box's rock lol

Posts : 251 Location : Leicester Joined : 2010-05-11

They are RMs! 2-piece yes Smile

I just gunna stand them down & get them powder coated... along with some new dishes! May be awhile tho, rather skint!

Posts : 7570 Age : 116 Joined : 2007-01-29

if your building them just get new bolts, its worth it, they do all sorts mate

will be the finishing touch for this car imo, real deal rims

Subject: Re: My EK3. Wed 13 Jul 2011, 12:09 pm

2piece =no new dish

the centre is one piece
whilst the welded lip/barrel is the other

Posts : 7570 Age : 116 Joined : 2007-01-29

nah the face and barrel are 1 peice and the outer lip is the second

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Posts : 825 Location : dudleeeey Joined : 2008-04-15

speaker boxs hmmm no comment...but the rest look good

Posts : 251 Location : Leicester Joined : 2010-05-11

I meant changing the lips, not faces, my bad Smile

Subject: Re: My EK3. Wed 13 Jul 2011, 11:19 pm

big-al wrote:: speaker boxs hmmm no comment...but the rest look good

Al you still build speaker box's dont you??

Westy you should have a chat with Big al re - speaker boxes as hes the mad mike of TOA

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Pimp yo ass.

Posts : 825 Location : dudleeeey Joined : 2008-04-15

drop me the speakers off ill build them

Subject: Re: My EK3. Wed 13 Jul 2011, 11:42 pm

plus for arch rolling go see Ben @ Emperor Performance

Posts : 251 Location : Leicester Joined : 2010-05-11

Yea man! I already know about the arch rolling, gunna drop him a PM when I get some $$

Posts : 251 Location : Leicester Joined : 2010-05-11

Massive thanks to thebooosh! for these little fellas....

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So I took my bumper off, mocked um up, drilled some holes, bolted & double-sided um on, bish, bash, bosh.

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I also tided um some scrapes on the front bumper & touched up the rear bumper from the Buddyclub had burnt it away...

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&& after looking at these photos, Ive just realised I forget to put my toe strap back throught the bumper grille, BRB.

Posts : 251 Location : Leicester Joined : 2010-05-11

Cleaned her up & took a few photos with a friend Smile

Posts : 2336 Age : 35 Location : Tipton Joined : 2007-01-29

Looks clean & nice

Posts : 7570 Age : 116 Joined : 2007-01-29

fark yeah!

How do you find getting around that low?
When i had connards they scraped like fark on everything

Posts : 251 Location : Leicester Joined : 2010-05-11

^^ I like that photo, shows how the front discs squeeze under the 15s!

Yea, they scrape like fark on everything! Glad they are only replicas now.

Posts : 251 Location : Leicester Joined : 2010-05-11

I said to someone about 3 weeks ago 'I've never had any trouble with my plate being in my window'

since then Ive had 3 different police officers mention it to me. One of which was nice enough to knock on my door & tell me too. Nice guy.

So, I spent today making a removeble bracket, that I can take off for shows & meets & I won't have to drill holes in my purposely smoothed front bumper.

Pretty much taking two sheets of metal, bending them, sticking them togther & bolting it to the bumper...

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Easily removeable Very Happy

Subject: Re: My EK3. Mon 08 Aug 2011, 12:04 am

great idea dude! looking good

Subject: Re: My EK3. Mon 08 Aug 2011, 1:00 am

I need 1 of those !! Good work Smile

Posts : 251 Location : Leicester Joined : 2010-05-11

Well simple, even someone a little retarded like me can make it Very Happy

Posts : 4852 Age : 35 Location : wolves Joined : 2007-03-29

notcied the rm's in the back ground haha when they going on??

its sittin real nice btw i love that the fronts down a tad more then the back.

Posts : 7570 Age : 116 Joined : 2007-01-29

looks good

i swear a UK style JDM sized plate actually looks GOOD on a car

imo it wierdly looks better than before