the impulse buy.......

[E90freak]

Hi everyone hows it going?

Long time since I updated this but a lot has changed!

The original sell has since been sold
On as I bought another identical shell that has already had the work done.

I bought the shell for £600 from a bodyshop who had parted it off after the owner could not afford the bill so I capitalized and snapped it up. I have a full spec list for the build but I won't bore you with it unless you want to see It but basically I wanted a shaved bay, turbo vr6 with some motorsport inspired modifications but in a full interior/stanced/smoothed/show car (whatever you wanna call it).

so less of the talking and here are the pics of when I picked it up:









So unless you have been following my Instagram (if not, why not? @alex_shaveallthebays ) then you will of been missing out due to my lack of updating on forums lately so I thought I would start having a catch up and bring you up to speed.
I started by jacking the car up and Tetrosealing the underneath. The floor and sills had already had the hard work done and been welded up in the usual place and then stone chipped but this is porous and needed protecting. I had removed all the fuel pipes, rear beam and fuel tank.




I then had the rear beam powdercoated and I have polybushed it so I refitted this with the new BC racing extra low coilovers and fitted the fuel tank to begin wiring for the fuel pumps and fitting the Bosch 040 in tank pump:








I then fitted the battery and washer bottle into the boot and fitted the sound deadening into the spare wheel well and fitted the underlay and carpets:








once the carpet was fitted I started with the rest of the interior:








I then started to finish off the engine once the tubular front end had been finished:








and fitted it into the car:






and that's as many pictures as I have on my photobucket as my phone has died so this story will be continued tomorrow.

[E90freak]

So as promised here are some more pictures,

once the engine had been fitted i carried on test fitting the tubular front end with the radiator and intercooler, the reason why i went for a tubular front end was to shave having to butcher the front bumper and start rad support ot get everything in, and it also looks pretty cool!





as you can see from the above picture i have installed some motorcycle into the front bumper now to make everything legal but these can removed for shows etc and will be tinted so not as visible until illuminated.

in the meantime SSautowerks had finished the exhaust manifold and had the flange skimmed and vapour blasted so when the car has had a few heat cycles it will come a lovely even colour. (fingers crossed)









i also fitted a mixture of lupo and polo 9n parts onto the rear beam so i can run mk4 golf 256 brakes:



and i had a test fit of the wheels!





After around an hour of searching with the knowledgeable bloke at my local GSF i managed to finally finish my driveshafts and install those for the 6 speed swap and fit my CAE shifter along with modifying the centre console which i was very nervous about!





and thats about it for now! the engine wiring is complete and just waiting on a few little details to be finished and the interior is nearly ready once the rest of my carbon comes to be fully built up!