Barcelona Green EF9 - BIG Update...

[mattj]

Excellent news mate

[Tahir]

So a call from these lot woke me up early morning saying we're waiting by your unit. So I got there half asleep to let him in and get on with it. He was pleasantly surprised to see the windscreen was already out.







Proper seal, not bullsh*t universal one...



Fitted some freshly painted satin black wiper arms and Bosch wiper blades.

Waited an hour and took it for MOT...

One lower ball joint boot split and NSR tyre worn on outer edge. Will sort these.



Quite shocked to see the plastic head lights had a proper beam pattern, the buffing really cleared them up. Set the head light aims...



Passed brake test with flying colours, he was actually quite surprised to see handbrake lock up on the test as the rear brakes are usually quite crap on these cars.




Fitted a plug cover, Tegiwa master cylinder stopper and a front upper strut brace. The bay will stay like this now, only i'l clean it up a bit...



Fitted OEM SiR front lip and it makes such a big difference!



Found out why the car was driving so crap, it had the wrong size toe arms in there, they were almost an inch shorter than the original ones that were in this car. So I refitted them and even though the car will get proper 4 wheel alignment the car drives so well and feels very tight. I also oiled all the bushes as it was a bit squeaky since it has been stood for over a year and low and behold, squeaks gone.

Also on the inside fitted a nice Alpine head unit, a new clock as it wasn't showing one digit, a new hand brake as the ratchet mech was taken out the other one in there, fitted OEM EF9 gear knob.

Also stiffened the damping on the GAZ coil overs as it was pretty bouncy and now the ride is nice a firm but not crashy at all. I raised the rear a bit and now the suspension will stay at this height.



Just a couple of small things left, main things being a full session of paint correction at the body shop, 4 wheel alignment, wheels balanced then a full inside out valet.

More soon...

[R3H4N]

Love that pic..Barcelona Green makes me think i should have done mines in that colour,might to the vt in it lol..

you keeping colour coded bump strips? they look good colour coded with dark colours imo

[Tahir]

Yep, it looks very nice there

Bump strips are staying colour coded, they don't look too bad colour coded on dark cars.

[perfectionist]

Lip

[Tahir]

Big difference Nas

[bryan]

oh wow!

[Tahir]

It's coming along now aint it

[bryan]

really is! your next challenge will be bringing yourself to sell it!

[sabvtivtec]

really is! your next challenge will be bringing yourself to sell it!

X2

[Tahir]

I know.

Today me and Momin (just Momin really!) went over a bit of the 1/4 panel with some G10, the shine

It's going to be fun sorting this paint out, the colour is awesome!

[jonny f]

I want it so bad. looks awesome dude

[Site]

As said having to let this go will suck but at least you knew you built a pretty damn nice car

[Tahir]

Part of the plan

[SuperDOHC]

This is perfection on a plate the whole comes together very well ill be interested to see the shine it produces soon

Cue's EF9 was unbelievably very nice and shiny and the paint work was second to none flint black is an awesome colour let see how Barcelona green compares is your other EF9 flint black or a different black ?