mattbrom Posted May 15, 2014 Author Posted May 15, 2014 Today was so nice and the zed was real dirty My mate gave me some carnauba wax that he had I gave her a wash and applied the DoDo juice pre wax and then the wax I am real pleased on how it came out Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote
mattbrom Posted May 25, 2014 Author Posted May 25, 2014 One thing that I believe ruins the front end on these cars are the number plate holder so I set out putting a vinyl one on I filled in the four holes with fibre glass and smoothed it out. I haven't got any pictures of the process but got final outcome The 'F' looks out of place but it isn't it's the curvature of the bumper As you can see in the picture I went about polishing the headlights Got myself some autoglym interior cleaning kit I'll start it tomorrow Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote
Pete87 Posted May 26, 2014 Posted May 26, 2014 Car looks good and I use dodo juice on mine I love the stuff. Quote
chunky Posted May 26, 2014 Posted May 26, 2014 Love this! And that exhaust makes it sound beautiful! Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk Quote
mattbrom Posted May 26, 2014 Author Posted May 26, 2014 Very nice, anything else planned? I'd like to get wheels next my candidates are.. BBS CH reps Calibre GTR XXR 527 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote
mattbrom Posted May 26, 2014 Author Posted May 26, 2014 Also quick one I took the back box off my car and it sounded awesome! My mate took a quick vid of it Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote
daveallen1999 Posted May 26, 2014 Posted May 26, 2014 The exhaust sounds great, I have to get one. Quote
WhackyWill Posted May 26, 2014 Posted May 26, 2014 Nice mods, love the washer covers, great sounding exhaust.. Black is the best colour. Needs Rays. Quote
pjf1985 Posted May 26, 2014 Posted May 26, 2014 Omg that sounds lovely Looking good mate, some new wheels would transform the car, I like the BBS reps or the XXR's best Quote
GMballistic Posted May 26, 2014 Posted May 26, 2014 Agree with the others as that exhaust sounds lush. Quote
mattbrom Posted May 26, 2014 Author Posted May 26, 2014 I'm going to make myself a slam panel out of carbon fibre this week I have some carbon left over from when I made some bits for my racing car It's a 1.4 rover k series turbo which was a prototype engine that came out of the factory producing 400bhp in a 400kg car I have an onboard video of a test day. Anyway I might use this biaxle weave carbon with the red tracer in it Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote
mikejbry Posted May 27, 2014 Posted May 27, 2014 Hey, sorry to say I'm not that impressed by the washer covers, I too work in carbon, but made out of pre preg they would look so much better, I'm sure you could scrounge some off cut material from work and chuck them in the clave. Most places I have worked (im a contractor) are pretty easy going and would unlikely to put up much of a fuss. Though I'm guessing you have made them from wet lay, the weave is quite distorted, I know its tricky with dry cloth.... Otherwise, I think its time my black zed got the same polish/wax treatment, yours looks very shiny! Mine is a swirly bastard Quote
mattbrom Posted May 27, 2014 Author Posted May 27, 2014 Hey, sorry to say I'm not that impressed by the washer covers, I too work in carbon, but made out of pre preg they would look so much better, I'm sure you could scrounge some off cut material from work and chuck them in the clave. Most places I have worked (im a contractor) are pretty easy going and would unlikely to put up much of a fuss. Though I'm guessing you have made them from wet lay, the weave is quite distorted, I know its tricky with dry cloth.... Otherwise, I think its time my black zed got the same polish/wax treatment, yours looks very shiny! Mine is a swirly bastard Yeah I know! When I put them in a vac bag the weave distorted I'm going to try a different way of doing them I'd rather not ask if I'm honest mate they might not like it :/ Yeah get on it! There's nothing better than a clean black car...until you take it 2mile down the road and it's crapped up again Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote
mikejbry Posted May 27, 2014 Posted May 27, 2014 Hey, sorry to say I'm not that impressed by the washer covers, I too work in carbon, but made out of pre preg they would look so much better, I'm sure you could scrounge some off cut material from work and chuck them in the clave. Most places I have worked (im a contractor) are pretty easy going and would unlikely to put up much of a fuss.Though I'm guessing you have made them from wet lay, the weave is quite distorted, I know its tricky with dry cloth.... Otherwise, I think its time my black zed got the same polish/wax treatment, yours looks very shiny! Mine is a swirly bastard Yeah I know! When I put them in a vac bag the weave distorted I'm going to try a different way of doing them I'd rather not ask if I'm honest mate they might not like it :/ Yeah get on it! There's nothing better than a clean black car...until you take it 2mile down the road and it's crapped up again Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Haha too right, Ah Nottingham, I'm guessing you are at either EPM, KS or Cobham? They are roughly in your area anyway! If so you might know a few mates of mine Quote
mattbrom Posted May 31, 2014 Author Posted May 31, 2014 My mate just bought himself an Evo MR 360 HKS edition. Which I must add is an absolute beast! It came with xxr 527s - brilliant! I thought i'll get him to sell them...to me He is looking for the original MR speed lines now. BONUS! So I went to try his wheels on to see if I actually like them. Took pictures! I like them a lot the car will need to be lowered possibly on springs. What in planning on doing is I read that you need the fronts to be thinner in width than the rear otherwise it messes up the traction control so I was planning on putting 245 width on the front and 265 on the rears hopefully that'll work Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote
mattbrom Posted June 5, 2014 Author Posted June 5, 2014 Had an MOT today and it's all clear!! Wooooo Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote
mattbrom Posted August 15, 2014 Author Posted August 15, 2014 Not been updated in a while because I've been quite busy so my mate is selling me his xxr's the ones which I pictured on this thread a couple of posts back! Woohoo! Going to go for either 265/35/18 or 275/35/18 on rear and 245/35/18 or 255/35/18 on front So I parked my car up for a meeting outside an engineering place and one of the employees come running saying my window has been smashed! The t**ts lobbed a rock through my passenger side window!! I was raging at this point so I got on the phone to police and reported it all the usual stuff then contacted admiral for my glass cover and they sent out autoglass who were brilliant! Got me a genuine nissan window in no problems only £75 excess and doesn't effect my no claims Anyway! I have bought some bits I've got a zunsport grille from tarmac! Some extended wheel nuts for my XXR's The grille fitted! Easiest mod I've ever done took literally 20 minutes! I should have the wheels next week as my mate is getting his new wheels sprayed up before he sells me the current ones he's got on his Evo Can't wait to be hit with a fat tyre bill! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote
mattbrom Posted September 4, 2014 Author Posted September 4, 2014 Got my new discs today from MTEC they came with a package deal of £135 off MTEC's eBay store for the discs and mintex pads. I don't know if the black some sort of coating? Now I was planning on running grooved discs with EBC yellow stuff pads but I thought for the price why not try the mintex! I was surprised how big these things are! Then in preparation of my new rims I have ordered 275/40/18 tyres and I've just picked up some Bridgestone potenza 255/40/18 and it's surprising how big these are compared to the original size! I hope they fit with the XXR's. I know the tyres will fit on the rim because that's 9.75 but I just hope I don't get rubbing from the tyres. Has anyone put these sizes on their car? Any advice? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote
mattbrom Posted September 6, 2014 Author Posted September 6, 2014 Got my wheels fitted today! absolutely love the look of these! They fill the arches lovely! So then fitted my new discs which was the easiest thing I've ever done on these! Brembos ftw! Then gave her a clean because I'm going Trax tomorrow! Should be a good laugh! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote
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