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[Nev]

Why does it matter what it looks like? Nobody will see it when he shoots past.

Thanks Nev, you would be hard pressed to notice the bulk heads when stationary  and then they just look like large blanking grommets, and on a black car.....well, neigh on invisible!

Haha yea, at times you have to ignore the garage queens. Function over fashion is what concerns most passionate drivers in my experience.

[CocoPops]

So why did you spend all the money on bodywork Nev? You could have just had some stick on arch extenders?

[Ormes]

The car was pretty badly damaged when the bodywork was done... all four corners I believe... so new clams required anyway... think they were already wider when purchased.

[Nev]

So why did you spend all the money on bodywork Nev?

You could have just had some stick on arch extenders?

I needed a complete new front clam and the one I bought was just £500 (about 4 times cheaper than a Vauxhall one and no waiting list), it also had wide arches already incorporated for my intended wider wheels and was several KG lighter, so in that case it was financial and functional.

The rear arches on my car are arch extenders bolted onto the old rear clam and were ludicrously cheap and once again allowed me to install the wider wheels Nipper badly needed. Again, financial and functional.

The paint job I had I asked for was the cheapest they could give, cost £450 for the whole car, kept to black colour too as it was cheaper.

 

The wing was intended to be fully functional too (before you ask), the fact is that it's too effective really and in retrospect I wish it were smaller as it creates massive drag.

 

Anyone looking closely at my car with a wooden airbox, filthy engine bay, holes cut in everywhere, muck oozing out of bodywork cracks, barely washed, rusty metal bits, homemade bits all over it etc might be forgiven to think it was a "ebay special" as JG puts it. However, 2 minutes in the passenger or drivers seat and the "looks" don't even come into the equation. And lastly and most relevantly, nobody notices such details when you bomb past them, all that happens is they get confused why their £xx,xxx car was decimated by a lowly Vauxhall !

Edited by Nev, 30 March 2015 - 07:22 PM.

[smiley]

 

That's a very odd solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

I suppose you can always remove the peep holes and fix the holes back up with fibreglass

Having read through some of the posts on the forum, regarding the installation, at least one other person has cut out an apperature in the foward part of the sill to ease the process. If I recall it was a square opening which was later filled with the cut out section.

 

 

Mine

 

Was done due to time pressure. If you have plenty of time, small hands with plenty of skin, it can all be done without cutting.