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[alparks]

right, another load of work has been done and the car's overall progress is well on its way! once again im so sorry for the pic quality!

i decided to do the heater box (advised earlier in the thread). so with this i removed the rad housing and rad also meaning draining the water system - think it needed some nice new fresh water! then obviously battery etc.......


By alparks, shot with W350i at 2009-03-07

was a mess in there so gave that a good clean!

with the heater box out i saw how bad a design it was (held together in a poor way) so got out the silicone sealer and went mad! can never have too much if you ask me, and you dont see it, so made sure no air could escape.


By alparks, shot with W350i at 2009-03-07

By alparks, shot with W350i at 2009-03-07

next decided to start to spruce up the engine bay. so to kick start it off i decided to paint the rocker cover and exhaust heat shield in high temp silver paint. really pleased with the result


By alparks, shot with W350i at 2009-03-07

By alparks, shot with W350i at 2009-03-07

most parts have been painted now just showing a few images, and you can see how it changes from dark to light in certain lighting!! most images were taken under full bright lights...........so will look darker in ull light


By alparks, shot with W350i at 2009-03-07

By alparks, shot with W350i at 2009-03-07

By alparks, shot with W350i at 2009-03-07

By alparks, shot with W350i at 2009-03-07

By alparks, shot with W350i at 2009-03-07

all parts still need to be flatend and polished, these are pics straight after painting. it has had 3 coats of paint, a final dust coat then 3 coats of laquer.

[alparks]

also you can now see what the door handle will look like, really pleased with how this mod turned out


By alparks, shot with W350i at 2009-03-07

By alparks, shot with W350i at 2009-03-07

[182ian]

What grey did you go for in the end?

[alparks]

What grey did you go for in the end?

audi r8. just loved it when i saw it for real.

[alparks]

forgot that i also had my dash plates painted the same colour as the car.



By alparks, shot with W350i at 2009-03-07

[182ian]

What grey did you go for in the end?

audi r8. just loved it when i saw it for real.

Cool looks very nice. Do you do the paintwork yourself?

[Astranomical102]

Looking good An amazing transformation

[alparks]

What grey did you go for in the end?

audi r8. just loved it when i saw it for real.

Cool looks very nice. Do you do the paintwork yourself?

thanks

i have only done the some of the prep, priming, i painted the dash plates, rocker cover and lights. i only work at my mates paint shop on weekends and when he is busy or i can get away from my job! i do some paint work, but i wanted this done as best as it can be.

[alparks]

Looking good
An amazing transformation

thanks well pleased.

[182ian]

I have recently become a fan of a colour called steel blue, we have painted 2 cars at work in it at the moment, the pictures below being the first to be finished.

As you can see it is a bluey grey, but when you get the car in sunlight it also has a lot of red in it. Very difficult to imagine it on a vx though!

[182ian]

What grey did you go for in the end?

audi r8. just loved it when i saw it for real.

Cool looks very nice. Do you do the paintwork yourself?

thanks

i have only done the some of the prep, priming, i painted the dash plates, rocker cover and lights. i only work at my mates paint shop on weekends and when he is busy or i can get away from my job! i do some paint work, but i wanted this done as best as it can be.

It certainly looks like you have got yourself a nice job on the car! Well Done. Credit where its due to get rid of such a messed with vx and put it back to how it should be!

[alparks]

just a quick update, took the afternoon off work to do some more to the motor, way things are going i will hopefully have it done by the weekend!

well first job i wanted to do was a complete oil change, nice and straight forward, and easy when all the clams are off, glad thats done before the nice summer of motoring.

2nd job of the afternoon was to paint the brakes, wanted to spruce them up - just used smooth finish hamerite...


By alparks, shot with W350i at 2009-03-09

then i thought i would spruce up the engine bay a little more - carrying on from my last post. so painted a few brackets and the support bars in smooth black hamerite. as before i like little things like this this..........


By alparks, shot with W350i at 2009-03-09


By alparks, shot with W350i at 2009-03-09

and finally started putting bits back together, just a pic with the door on, sorry for the crap quality of this pic (didn't take many today). had the car out under normal light today (not this pic, still under major bright light here) and the paint work looks so dark (black at some angles) will get some pics this weekend so you can see how it looks. im so pleased.


By alparks, shot with W350i at 2009-03-09

[mandarinvx]

I seem to be getting lots of red X's Edit - working now

Edited by mandarinvx, 09 March 2009 - 09:21 PM.

[techieboy]

Which grey is that - is it Lava grey or Daytona? Can't really tell from the pics but as you say it's almost black I guess it's Lava? If I go ahead and order the new S4 in a couple of months, I think I'll probably go with Lava.

[rsg]

with the heater box out i saw how bad a design it was (held together in a poor way) so got out the silicone sealer and went mad! can never have too much if you ask me, and you dont see it, so made sure no air could escape.

By alparks, shot with W350i at 2009-03-07

top work that man! It mkes a massive difference, and I couldnt believe how crap the design was!

[alparks]

Which grey is that - is it Lava grey or Daytona? Can't really tell from the pics but as you say it's almost black I guess it's Lava? If I go ahead and order the new S4 in a couple of months, I think I'll probably go with Lava.

daytona grey. if you have a look on the previous page on the r8, you can see how dark the colour goes and that pic is still taken under good light.

[alparks]

top work that man! It mkes a massive difference, and I couldnt believe how crap the design was!

thanks , it was because of you. cant wait too see what difference it has (hope so) and yeah the design was shocking!!

if this doesn't help i dont know what else to do, but with your response im feeling confident.

[alparks]

spoiler has been fitted, but i didn't like the way it fitted, just seemed a bit gappy for my liking.........so changed that


By alparks, shot with W350i at 2009-03-10


By alparks, shot with W350i at 2009-03-10

also finally had the tyres changed and fitted the wheels.


By alparks, shot with W350i at 2009-03-10

shouldnt be long now

[GruFF]

Are you going to spray your window surround, V and petrol cap black also? cant wait to see the final result!

[alparks]

Are you going to spray your window surround, V and petrol cap black also? cant wait to see the final result!

yeah the window surround and cap are going to be painted satin black like the wheels.

and yeah i cant wait too see it all back together, you start too see it when things go back on (like the doors )