[car_upgrade] Platty's Road/track Car Gti-5

[Headling 0]

Yes great project, coming along well! I'm up for a south meet some time, my turbo needs a run! Me and my mates in exiges do a run from tenterden to dungeness, fish and chips and back home. It would be cool to have some fellow 205's in convoy.

 

Keep up the good work!

[platty 1]

 

Edited March 19, 2009 by platty

[NeilGTi85 5]

Awsome....from France??

[platty 1]

Nope, well yes. Came to me from the land where men wear skirts

 

Sorry Ali

[Henry 1.9GTi 36]

mint, i want some!

 

Whats the weight of one wheel?

 

Henry.

[timmsy19 3]

I see a trend in where you going with this

 

love them wheels

 

Mark fancy preping me a shell?

Edited March 19, 2009 by timmsy19

[205freak 7 1 Cars]

sl343 best wheels on a 205!!

[platty 1]

mint, i want some!

 

Whats the weight of one wheel?

 

Henry.

 

8.3kg.

 

1.9 speedlines are 8kg, SMR's are 9.1kg.

 

Timmsy.......Nope! this one has nearly been the death of me

[GTI6BOY 29]

Nice wheels

Edited March 20, 2009 by GTI6BOY

[platty 1]

Cheers buddy.

 

I'm just off to get the tyres fitted.....wish the fitter luck. If he scratches the wheels, his children will lose a parent today!

 

'6BOY, I'm sure you posted up about an Exhaust manufacturer recently. Can you remember who it was?

 

Cheers

[platty 1]

A bit of progress over the last couple of days.

 

I've had the tyres fitted to the SL's. I tried 7 places all of which wanted £10 per tyre. I eventually had them fitted for £35, still expensive!

 

 

Being able to get it out of the garage meant I could clean and paint the N/S front wheel arch, replace the passenger door which had a ding, for a straight one I had instock, and start removing the glovebox ready to mate the two looms together.

 

I then spent a couple of hours swapping over the phase1 clusters for the later ones.

Girlfriend commented on the cars 'love handles'

 

 

I also gave the fuel tank a once over

 

 

 

Still miles to go though

 

Edited March 21, 2009 by platty

[miamichris 9]

the sl434's and 309 width look the dogs bollocks mate

[platty 1]

Yeah 'looks' good, but I think the tyres will be all over the plastic arches like a cheap suit

 

I might have to change the trailing arms for a pair of ZX items to pull the tops in a little

 

Bloody cars.

[BackStreetRacecars 3]

notice you have zender valnce on your white board there.... might I ask where you got it from?? Loving those speedlines too.... muchos gorgeous.....

[platty 1]

ssshhh, its a secret

 

I got it from a forum member. Bit his arm off when he offered it to me.

 

Pics tomorrow.

 

Your dampers will be on their way to you monday morning

[miamichris 9]

zender valance?

 

is it me or are you taking a lot of styling inspiration from espens 205 platty?

[platty 1]

[Rom 0]

Looking good chap !

 

Espens is gorgeous.

 

Seems me and you are doing pretty similar

[platty 1]

A little something I was lucky enough to come by thanks to Timmsy. When he offered me his Zender valance, I snatched his hand off.

 

 

It needed some minor repairs, and as with all bodykits I've seen, a little smoothing round the edge's.

I attacked the rough bits with 120 grip, to get them smooth, then applied a thin layer of P38, rubbed that down, and repeated a further 2 times until I was happy.

The whole valance then got a rub down with 320 grip to give the primer a key to stick to.

 

 

Then it was into the garage, cable tie the valance up in the air, and set up my gas heater. Panel wiped all the dust off of the valance and hit it with 3 coats of 2 pack primer I had mixed in the local paint shop. Then a final light coat of satin black as a guide coat for the wet flatting.

 

 

I may well go through the primer process again, depending on how 'straight' it looks after a rub down with 600 grit.

Edited March 22, 2009 by platty

[timmsy19 3]

Coming along nicely Mark. Glad the valance went to a good home though.

 

should look spot on

Edited March 22, 2009 by timmsy19

[platty 1]

Graham, it looks marvellous

 

Im planning on a thin carbon blade to fit to the bottom of the valance. All I have to do now is find some nice driving lights.

[timmsy19 3]

Nice one.

 

You'll have to email me a high res pic once its all on.

[platty 1]

No worries. But better still you can either come and have a look, or I'll come down and show you when its done

[timmsy19 3]

yeah either way is fine with me

[willmounsey 1]

Your build looks amazing mate such a tidy job and not to mention the wheels they look sweet!

 

I'm ready to pop the engine back into mine but think after seeing yours i'll take the time to respray the engine bay its mad how well it looks.

 

Keep up the good work man