One for the Summer

household items win everytime!

Ill leave this here



a little 9j loving. Will update more when im back from my hols in sunny wales

Rear 9j




Front 8j






As you can see the rears need some work to make them fit. Im thinking 195 tyre with a few degrees of camber, fronts sit fine. Pics were taken with both corners jacked up so a little natural camber of them on the floor should help aswell.

Anyone know where i can stretch a tyre on? None of my mates will do it for me

my mate Ben will do it for beer tokens. ill text him today at some point when hes awake and see if he can sort you out. hes a mobile tyre fitter so can probably come to you aswell.

do you need him to supply the tyres too?

I just need him to put 1 tyre on just to see if I can make it work

195 onna 9j thats gonna be bitchin, you may have to go 205

depends on profile i guess a 195/50 might do it i would take advice

no tyre fitters gonna be'happy' to fit them your fitting a tyre for a 7j to a 9j

but the main thing is they dont leak

am lovin yur work

Cheers dan!

Little update from today, there was some surface rust going on in the boot so I put an end to that.







After a sand and a wipe





"Borrowed" some awesome primer from work today so dabbed it about





Finished off with a little filler primer until i buy some silver paint.

your skills grow by the day

its a steep learning curve!

loads of pics here.

decided to spray one of my banded steels but actually do a half decent job and not just chuck a load of paint on and get impatient and then ruin it all.

heres the wheel after a clean



Had some flaky paint




hit it with some grade 40




Then some 120



Then 600




Then gave it a wash and a wipe down


Primed


Wetsanded with 1200




then added some colour played it safe because im not 100 percent sure if im going to keep the wheels.




thats just after i sprayed it, as you can see there is some lines from the flaky paint probably shouldnt have gone from 120 to 600 but its not that noticeable.

Tomorrow im gonna wetsand and add some clear.

love this thing i got off ebay, no more achy finger

Good effort on them man! When's the tyres going on and the test fit? That eBay jobbing is awesome!!

i was RIGHT THERE WITH YOU TILL YOU PAINTED THEM SILVER

and said you may not keep them....................................................................................


to quote Point Break Break 'you cant just call time out and walk into the beach dude'

make it work xxxx


and you should have sanded to 600 and used filler primer

Cheers matt and dan, change of plan now guys ive decided to piss a few more people off at work and get them powdercoated. Any thoughts on colour?

Gave the car some lurrrrvin tonight

-colour of your interior

-navy blue colour of your hood ?


-matt red same asrear clusters

-orange like indicators

depends on how lairy your feeling

well got the wheels coated, bit of marmite colour but its all good fun.

dude they look wicked i love them

cheers just need some 195/45/14

nice one marmite showing your true colours

have you spoken to apsley tyres 01442412323

tell em your a nomad sent by dan ;-)

Some serious camber needs to be going doooown

struggling to find tyres, been ringing around only place that can get them is apsley tyres for £68 per tyre

thats pretty good price dude , any cheaper and they either be part worn or silly soft and last amonth

bear in mind that includes getting the fookers on there too


and for that sort of stretch you want new rubber , the biggest issue with mine was getting them to seal

ddooooo it doooooit

try r-tec hatfield road get all my tyres there