Duddley Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 I vote factory front with no airdam, de-bumpered, and pig cheek flares... oh man; The first thought I had was to give it flares and the works like them ones in the photies you posted.. but the guards are still in really good nick! Seems a shame to chop em up. I might leave em as is for now and possibly get some down the track when I have more time/money to add them. I'm thinkin of making it look similar to this in terms of airdam + bumper and with a nice set of watanebes/superlites: I saw a shot of a 2002 like the one above that had the airdam with bumper but didn't have the rubber mount things and spotlights. Looked real clean. I vote stick with a BMW fourbanger. Cammed and on ITBs or something wild! M44 is sweet too man, and easier found in good nick than it's older sibling. Just swap the sump and oil pick ups if need be. Hells yeah that sounding real neat. Can't wait till I can look at engines knowing I can buy! Ahh well. Dry ice works lush, at least it has on old Alfa sound deadener and on Mazda Lantis sound deadener so far. Put dry ice in large bag, sit bag on top of area to remove sound deadener. After some time (5 mins or so) thwack with a hammer and the shit just breaks up and lifts off the floor. Clean residue with prepsol or turps, job is done. Thanks Richo! Might give this a crack this weekend 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berjjj Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Shit yeah bumpers + chrome trim maketh the car! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berjjj Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Also, when you do have some spending money I highly recommend http://www.wallothnesch.com/ They have more stock than what's listed, so just flick them part #'s and you're usually in luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyfive Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Bag of dicks. Nah, good work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rookie Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Good work Duds, for the love of god though, don't just strip all the bog and shit off every panel unless absolutely necessary and you will just end up putting it all back in and it is a cunt of a job. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duddley Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Cheers Wookie, I was thinking about it.. but will only do that if the bogging is starting to crumble away and replace with nutech/fibreglass. Haven't seen any so far though! yay! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rookie Posted July 1, 2014 Share Posted July 1, 2014 Yea, I made the terrible mistake of bare metaling the bonnet of the alfa, and it took me ages to do it, and ages to put all the bog back in hahah. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cazza Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Good to see you're still playing around with this thing, keep at it young man, keep at it/open a secret account and start hiding money for engine transplant, don't let Cazz see this post. yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaah NOPE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R100 Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 If mazda then why not rotor? There was a bad as black one of these kicking around the north shore in the mid 90's with a12a in it. Used to really upset old people. Seriously though I have always wanted one of these and love them long time. Must of been a conversion i did. Back in 1994 i put a 12A turbo into a 1602 BMW it was a red one. Later we changed it to a 4 barrel and lost the turbo due to never getting it to run right. After it was sold it changed many hands. I saw it again a few years later, had an automatic fitted to it and was being driven by a disabled guy who had it set up with hand controls. Apparently he loved the car and rotaries. So it was perfect. Just had to change it to an auto though. I haven't seen it for nearly 20 years now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duddley Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 I'd like to imagine that there wouldn't be too many 2002s out there with mazda engines.. So maybe this is the same one?! If this had a 12a turbo in it, I woulda at least got it going again and had a hoon with some laughs. Any idea what a 2ltr mazda engine's worth? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparkle Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Mazda be gone! Choice work man. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 Yay for updates. Screw the posh wedding- overrated way to waste a lot of money in one day. Get married on a beach and bbq Spend monies on car instead. My 2c Love these cars! I want one but always pricey. Top car. Watching with interest. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 Posting about how theres rust and stuff is little consolation for my lusting of 2002 ownership. You should sell it to me to help pay for your wedding, go on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rookie Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 Duds if you are serious about having a paneled trans tunnel then I would seriously consider chopping it out and putting a new one in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 I think it's a terrible idea.Well, it does look cool in those pictures posted...But there are so many awkward nooks and crannies, even if you're just trying to do a shit job painting the inside of a car is a terrible job to do.Especially for the areas under the underseal, where you have to get it perfectly clean before paint prep.Thats like 80 hours work just for that haha.Seems like a good way to bust your own balls when throwing down some carpet will look IMO better take 1000th of the time.Most of the time cars just end up looking ghetto without carpet on the floor.It's a shitter of a task to finish, if you end up losing motivation 20 hours in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaMpylobacter Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 super glitter metallic spec floor paint PLZ 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyteler Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 If you were wanting something so smooth and clean like that your best option would be to run a false glass floor/tub atop your Ellen Ripley (VG) one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spencer Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 Yea or just put down some carpet. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duddley Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Carpet is easy to get and not too spendy. So will take your guys lush wisdom into account and ponder further. Most of the time cars just end up looking ghetto without carpet on the floor. Ahh that reminds me.. An old mate had an 808 made to look like an rx3 with bare floors. They looked choooice when he got it back, but they did indeed look ghetto after a few months of fat laps at the mount etc. Although the floors were unmolested bare floors and not smoothed off or anything. I think I'll concentrate on fixing the sills and shit before worrying about the floor. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Gel coat the floor. I dont think itl work. But i like british cars so what do i know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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