[quote="TheRealMobiius"]Just a shame it's not on your car! lol (But your loss is my gain )[/quote]
haha I love my own bodykit more than enough!

The white is very tidy though

Wow Phil..

I am stunned! You know how much I love white BA's and yours turned out to be so awesome!

I am glad you did not go through with the black and white theme :P Keeps mine original hehe.. But I have to admit, seeing the car totally white is really amazing. Love the alloys, they match great.

You bet I will admire your car at JAE, maybe we can even park next to each other.

looking forward to it. Just can't wait till it's all sorted!

Here's some more pictures I took yesterday!

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It had just been washed and it was a nice day, so why not!

Looking gd, just wondering with ur car so low now, does ur side skirt ever catch any speed bumps or any funny slopes around newcastle?

It's only caught once, coming out of the gate car park, then on the first speed bump after it. But that was cos I came out straight, rather than at an angle, then hit the bump a little bit too fast!

LOL the gate is terrible to get in and out. I need to enter it at an angle. Coming out is fine, but the 4 huge speed bumps are a nightmare across china town. My mid exhaust section will just scrape if i have another person in the car.

I can get in no trouble, and the speed bumps are OK if I take them slowly enough. It's just getting out that I have to take a wide turn.

When you got some spare time to assist with fitting of my spare seat?

nice pictures looks awesome

Thank you. I can't wait till pay day so I can make it even nicer! lol

wanna come over to stockton? Possibly sunday if weather permits?

I'd love to, but funds are very tight till I get paid next week. it might have to be the weekend of the 25th after I get paid if your free then?

I love the green additions it really works well against the white.

Keep up the good work

Just as you decribed them Phil, looking awesome

shouldnt b a problem that week, confirm later on

Coolio. Can't wait.

Thanks for the nice comments guys! Keep them coming! lol

loving it mate...

Phil, the grren really looks good mate, looking forward to seeing it again at Japfest 2. Just 3 weeks.

Can't wait for it! Really looking forward to fitting the drivers bucket seat, fitting the harness and fixing the knocking noise and gearbox issues. Hopefully, I'll be able to give it a proper ragging rather than just drive round fast.

Hated being overtaken by [i]everyone![/i]

Righto then, time for an update. Although most people on the forum already know, my gearbox has exploded so the car is now un-drivable. I have a new box but not the skills to fit it so the car will be off the road for some time until it's fixed. (And taxed)

Got a few new bits to be sprayed and fitted (listed below) so guess I can work on those until the cars back on the road.

Owned parts:
Cusco Front Lower strut brace. (Needs refurbing and spraying)
Whiteline rear upper strut brace. (Needs spraying)
Reversing camera. (Needs fitting)
Rocker cover. (Needs cleaning and spraying)
DRL's (Needs fitting)
Door handles. (Needs spraying)
Mazdaspeed suspension. (needs spraying, and rear struts fitting.)

Parts still to get:
Double din head unit cage
Stainless exhaust. (Likely, cat back. Possibly, custom manifold as well)
Boot build. (Already have the xbox 360 and TV for it! )
Front mounted camera.


Even though I won't be at Japfest2, I still aim to have the car finished by JAE. (I can't wait!!!)

Bloody hell Phil! have i been gone that long! Massive fan mate. Ive got the same front bumper but ive got a feeling its gonna look better on yours!!!

I'd have done more to it since my last post, I haven't had the time to fit the replacement gearbox yet. I am however off for the next two weeks from Monday so I'll have plenty of time to ask someone else to do it for me! lol

I miss driving it so much though.

hurry up and get your gearbox sorted, thn u can come to mind and i'll do the seats for u, im off on tues nxt week

What you doing with the seats? buckets? ive got a set of buckets to go in, just debating how to do it first and they need a retrim.

I hope to get the 'box in next week (fingers crossed) And yeah, buckets! As soon as they're in I can fit the sparco harness!

Thats cool. should make a nice drive down to JAE with all of us. Also Ant said that he still has you bumpers and stuff waiting at the shop for you to pick up

Cool. I'll need to go over and pay the last instalment. Hopefully in my own car.

Hello everyone!

Been a hell of a long time since I was last on here, and such a lot has happenned. Some good, most really bad.

First off, I'm now involved in a custody battle for my daughter. Having to travel to court on Portsmouth twice a month is really taking it's toll on my time and finances.

And as some of you will know, my car was vandalised a while back. Woke up one Saturday to find this. A bloody great brick lashed through my window.
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Fortunately, thanks to cleanie, I replaced the tailgate on Saturday afternoon.

Then, that Saturday night, all 4 tyres were slashed. Just what I needed

Then last week, I came out to go to work and the car was covered in raw eggs. Why me?

It's taken me over a month to sort out, but today I finally decided to replace the tyres with some nice Toyo Proxes T1r's. But because it's me and I get all the bad luck in the world, I lifted the car onto the axle stands, then when jacking up the last corner, it promptly fell off.

So there I am, car balancing with 3 axle stands collapsed, two sissor jacks bent unable to be moved, and no way to lift the car up without the disks hitting the floor I had no chance but to refit the slashed wheels.

But, one phonecall to a mate of mine, I headed to the scrappy and picked up a set of (tiny) 16" wheels, all fitted with what looks like brand new tyres for £100. I carefully replaced the damaged wheels with the new ones with no further incident.

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Not my style, but I kinda like them. Then when I was driving the car back and forward to un-seize the disks it died on me.

Turns out one of my dodgy bodged wires to the MAF had come loose, and I don't seem to have a small enough flat screwdriver to connect it back in. Typical. I wedged it in and the car started first time.

All I have to do now is properly fix the wire, hoover all the tiny bits of glass out of the back seat, fill it with petrol, wash it, have the rear window tinted again, splice the plug from the old tailgate into the new one, (as for some reason they're different?) spray and fit my new LED tail lights I got from JAE and I'll ALMOST be finished!
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Lets hope nothing else goes wrong again!

Phil mate thats awful!
did the car get damaged when it fell off the axle stands?
glad to hear your not giving up and coming back fighting!
we've had our fair share of vandals too its a horrible feeling walking to your car seeing it in such a sorry state.

[quote="323F Rock"]Did the car get damaged when it fell off the axle stands?[/quote]
I don't think so. It all looks good and solid under there so I think I dodged a bullet on that one.

And yeah, that feeling when you walk out and see it. Just makes you want to fall to the floor breathless, and not in a good way. It's never a good feeling, but to feel it 3 times in 4 weeks?

Almost gave up and got rid. Glad I pushed through it!