As the title suggests I have just taken delivery of Belle formerly Maddy. Her name had to be changed as I promised my daughter she could name my next car. Not got many plans for her maybe just put her back on coilovers at some point.

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I know the photo is bad but it's dark and the weather is rubbish.

I know the photo is bad but it's dark and the weather is rubbish.......

perhaps but still a very nice car happy driving take care of her

Nice car you have there matey A very well loved car too:)

glad shes stayed in the club mate and gone to a fellow F lover. Pretty sure ill be seeing her soon anyway if your coming along to the shows and meets

have fun with her dude

[quote="Lerch"]glad shes stayed in the club mate and gone to a fellow F lover. Pretty sure ill be seeing her soon anyway if your coming along to the shows and meets

have fun with her dude [/quote]


I will try my best to make some meets and I will defiantly try hard to make it to japfest as I've always wanted to go and now I have a car worthy of being there.

get your name down on the list then dude in the events section matey

[quote="Lerch"]get your name down on the list then dude in the events section matey[/quote]


When is it?
Just been looking at coilovers and you were right I found them for just over £300. I might order a set in a few weeks.

After scaring the crap out of me this morning when she wouldn't start, she now has a brand new battery. I was planning to put a new battery in anyway as she won't be driven much, I was just hoping I'd be able to buy my coilovers before I had to buy anything else for her.

Had a bit of spare time before work today so I thought I'd have a little play with Belle. First up I put a whiteline strutbrace on.
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Then came the rear strutbrace, while I was fitting the rear strutbrace I decided to change the boot mat as the one that was in had bits cut out. Before anyone says I know there's abit of mould on the mat but I didn't realise till I put it in. It will be cleaned soon though.
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I swaped the original sidelights for some tinted ones that used to be on my old v6. They don't look to bad but they will be getting changed soon to fit the new look I want for the car.
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Then there's my favourite change. The momo steering wheel I absolutely love this wheel I may just change the horn button at some point for a plain black one.
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And that's about it so far.

looking good mate. u liking the new wheel?

[quote="Lerch"]looking good mate. u liking the new wheel?[/quote]


I love the steering wheel it one of my favourite things on the car.

Just got home from work to find all this waiting for me. Trying to decide if I should start fitting it now or tomorrow.
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Very nice mate, I love that steering wheel

Ive always liked that BA

Started fitting the parts that arrived yesterday. I fitted the orange side lights at 1am today so I could see what they looked like in the dark.
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I wasn't sure I'd like them with the black detailing on the bumper but they don't look to bad. Still at some point I want to change the bumper back to a standard red one and hopefully get a mazdaspeed front splitter.
I also swaped the black rear reflector for a lantis reflector and swaped the tinted lights for standard ones. Again I like this look but I think I will have to swap to a red spoiler to finish off the rear.
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As you can see I also need to find a badge for the centre.
Lastly I put my new tax disc holder on, which as I suspected it would fell off as soon as I closed the door so I will have to try and get more sticky bits for it tomorrow. The picture is not the best I know.
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I'd be interested to hear people's feed back as I know a lot of people liked this car the way Lerch had it, hopefully you will like the way I want it to look.
When I finish work tonight I'm going to pick up some fk coilovers and hopefully in the next few days ill be picking up some mazdaspeed style skirts.

Think ive got some old style badges somewhere you can have mate

[quote="Roy le Waa"]Think ive got some old style badges somewhere you can have mate [/quote]


Thanks mate that would be a big help

No worries mate, I think I've got a couple lying around for the front and rear

Il dig them out and drop u a pm

Hopefully worked out what is wrong with my coilovers today. There's a noise that sound like a bush has gone on the drivers side. But I've just remembered before I fitted them there was a cable tie on it so I'm hoping that the cable tie is stuck and squeaking when I turn that way it will cost me no money to fix. Ill have to have a look at it in the week while I'm fitting the rear coilovers.

After waking up late today I had 30 minutes before work to try to swap my rear suspension over, obviously it never happened. I did however manage to swap one corner over so there's only one left now. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be but I did make a few mistakes. The corner I swap is only 15mm lower than the other side so I definatly need to get some adjuster spanners. See if you can spot which is which.
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The car now has coilovers fitted all round. It's set up with between a 25mm to 30mm gap.
I also found out why people recommend you don't work on your car using a scissor jack. I lifted the car and the large screw through the middle snapped in two and drop the car. Luckily this was before I took the tyre off.
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that is a decent height and will still be completely usable

I'm thinking I can drop it another 15 to 20mm I rarely use the car so it doesn't have to be to comfortable

well its not a matter of it being comfortable. it is going to be the same ride at this height or if you lower it that extra bit its more wheels hitting the inner arch and scrapping the front splitter or chassis over speed bumps that I am on about.

I never thought about the wheels rubbing. I will run it like this for a while and see how it goes. Thanks for the advice

Go lower =D put 15's on and stretch the tyres

15s are too small I am thinking of swapping to 16s though

Ye white or silver not fan of black wheels anymore

Probably gun metal grey

i agree with philleh, you would be surprised how good white will look , then again im biased as i love white wheels, as soon as i find a cheap n cheerful project set mine will be going white

I love coming home from work to find packages waiting for me. My new fog lights arrived today and I can't wait to fit them tomorrow if I can't get her booked in to sort the suspension.
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