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hi my names dan and i live in cornwall in the uk i found your forum on anouther forum you have loads off information on here thats not in the uk. i thought i would post up my project and see what you guys think

ive had my car for almost two years now and i think its time for a change alot of saving to be done as i want to go for 400bhp and a full body kit and respray i will probably do the engine first unless some thing lands on my lap at the right price lol heres afew pics of when i first got the car

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gettin a wash

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the car still looks more or less the same just afew scrapes on it now ahhhhh bloody cornish headges lol

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looks good

thought of doing any little things here and there to make it just that bit better, like cleaning front lights( getting rid of yellow ) .painting the black plastics all of the car making them look new again

dash LED's

as time whent by i started sourcing a few parts

hks bov on a hard pipe i thought i would blank off the std recic

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home made recerc blanking plate

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i bought a secondhand apexi air filter

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this is when a saw that i had a apexi afm B)

then i put in my head unit and crappy boost gauge just to keep a eye on things

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ave put some dls mids and tweets in the front doors with a full skins kit

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got a alpine 12" sub and amp in boot only 350 watts got given a blown up 1500w alpine amp will cost me 120 to get it fixed then will have to find some speekers so i can have some bad ass bass

some more goodies to put on

hks ajustable actuator

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hid lights

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one thing that used to wind m up was that my interior light would turn off as soon as the door shut

so i fugued out this light stays on for ten secs after my door has been shut

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ran a wire up from this to the map reading light and connected the two LEDs left over from my dash conversion

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this is what it looks like at night a nice subtle light

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in the day

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with the other light on

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this is only temp at the mo will mount the LEDs in there properly on the week end

me other mod a festoon 31mm 4 led light for the light in the middle of the car

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in and working

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well bright now with the defuser back on

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both light together

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clocks minus the plastic cover

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you have to take the rev bit out and take the mmg gauge off

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new dials going on

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i put all the faces on the dials then realized i didn't have anything to stick the new faces down with so it was off to the shops minus a dash and clocks that was a bit weired lol right then got no pics of it going in because it was getting dark so ive got the dials in and wired up will be off in a moe to put it all back together this is how they look

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right a few more bits done

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got these changing all the bulbs behind the clocks to LEDs

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the difference between the whits LEDs and the yellow stock clock bulbs

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did this mod as well so the dipped head lights stay on when the main beam is on

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got this oil cooler to fit soon and a gtr style grill

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