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[tommobot]

There are some really nice details on that Badster thing... Well its just bloody lovely to be fair!

 

Made some more progress on mine.. New wheels fitted after waiting what seemed like an age for the wheel bolts to turn up..

 

Front 'extension / vent' on fitted to both sides, though they require tiny bit of fiddling to match but thats no biggy...

 

At the rear, the new wheels have 20mm spacers (as do they front) and the rears would have caught the bodywork under severe cornering / compression etc.. So, wheel arches required to be bulked out a bit... There a copy of the existing arches, flexed out where required, riveted on, glassed it etc.. and then i'll cut out the existing clam where required beneath. In the area to be flared out they are unsurprisingly 20mm wider...

 

When the photos were taken it had the standard rear billies on, hence why there is such an arch gap!

 

 

 

 

[Kieran McC]

How many tins of P38 have you used ? Lol

[tommobot]

How many tins of P38 have you used ? Lol

 

54,000 

 

Probably turned 53,999 tins into dust...

['Buchos']

I've been reading through this with interest, that's a LOT of work. I modified every panel on my S1 to let things hinge differently, get more air in/out, unclippable roof etc, massive amount of work and really hard to keep an original look and not add heavy fibreglass, so I appreciate the work you are doing.

 

I wouldn't have thought about the S1 engine cover on a VX with it being so curvy against the hard lines and would have thought it would look a bit bread van from the side when finished, but that's coming together really well.

 

Not fussed on the lower rear clam treatment imho and please don't get carried away making it look like a Lotus, keep as much VX styling cues in there as you can, that's why the Badster works so well.

[Baron Von Scubadaddy]

I want this 

pistonheads

 

 

['Buchos']

I want this  pistonheads    

You've stumbled onto my all time 'perfect for me' car. Even flew over to Ultima and got a run in a GTR about eight years ago...... divorce stopped play though

[tommobot]

I've been reading through this with interest, that's a LOT of work. I modified every panel on my S1 to let things hinge differently, get more air in/out, unclippable roof etc, massive amount of work and really hard to keep an original look and not add heavy fibreglass, so I appreciate the work you are doing.

 

I wouldn't have thought about the S1 engine cover on a VX with it being so curvy against the hard lines and would have thought it would look a bit bread van from the side when finished, but that's coming together really well.

 

Not fussed on the lower rear clam treatment imho and please don't get carried away making it look like a Lotus, keep as much VX styling cues in there as you can, that's why the Badster works so well.

 

I remember looking through some of the build of your S1 and that looked fantastic!

 

In terms of design, this is it... No more cut outs, no more extensions just these wheel arches at the rear then boom.. done. The photos don't really quite show the wider rear particularly well, the original lines are still there, just a bit more vague as such.. But from the rear view, in person it definitely looks right (imo anyway) And the side profile in person looks bang on aswell imo, though through limited space on the drive I can't get far enough back to get a good photo   

 

Its taken far to long so far, but hopefully a month / or two and it'll be back on the road!

['Buchos']

If I was going to remodel the back, I'd look at ditching the flat and finned style diffuser and moulding a chunkier design that sits up into the section cut out of the rear bumper.

Helluva job your doing though

[chez]

Love the exige style coupe..... looks really good, and with those new wheels, wow!!! This is how I'd want mine, keep it calypso red, it's the best colour!!

[tommobot]

So spent some time at the weekend on the exhaust backbox. It is / was a standard turbo backbox that's been cut about to result in well, whats shown. The pipes are only tacked in place at the mo, it was pretty much guess work in terms of distance to protude out, so they will be reduced a bit but overall pretty damn happy with it. Unfortunately with the turbo U-bend it gets in the way of the diffuser mount I previously had but already got a few ideas how to get around that.

 

I think few months down the line I'll probably get a proper backbox made but for time being and initially this should suffice..

 

 

 

[Graeme Lambert]

Need to push your pipes further out to the corners mate

[tommobot]

I agree, but this is about as far in the corners I can go with modifying the existing backbox, so will require a custom piece to do that really 

[tommobot]

So i've got it all back together...

Just waiting for the exhaust to get welded up properly and then I'll take it for an MOT and get it back on the road. The suspension needs sorting aswell as thats sitting higher than my land rover at the moment, but I think its that they haven't settled at all as the cars only been forwards and backwards on the drive so far..

 

Overall, fairly happy with it. Far, far better than my previous efforts although, I should admit that i'm not a bodywork expert by any means so obviously there are a few iffy areas of it. But saying that, I absolutely love the shape of it and how it looks. Plus, the photos don't do the colour justice, it looks far better in the flesh. Once its off the drive I'll get some better photos of it, but for now...

 

[smiley]

I really like that

 

Backbox in black heatpaint, diffuser horizontally alligned, and some tasty mesh and it´s all perfect.

 

[Aerodynamic]

Re painted?

[tommobot]

Re painted?

 

Nope, plastidipped again. Much better finish that previous effort and used some of their 'flakey' bollox which I was skeptical of, but has actually turned out very nice and given almost a satin finish as opposed to the normal matte colour that plastidip gives.  

[tommobot]

Probably overdue a bit of an update. 

Cars been back in use for about a month now, no major problems apart from squeaky belt tensioners. Still not entirely finished, but 'it'll do' for this year at least. Need to do a small repair to the front end as it rolled down the drive and crashed into another car. Luckily the V took the most of the damage, which was a copy of the original which I'd made so not tooo fussed about that. Will get repaired eventually. Anyways.. Ride height is now at a much more sensible ride height as opposed to the 4x4 look from before!

 

 

 

[CHILL Gone DUTCH]

That is a very good result

[Baron Von Scubadaddy]

           

 

     

[Bargi]

Got any pics of the rear closer up? Like the look of the exhaust/diffuser