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Avar
Posted on: Sunday, May 31st, 2009, 6:53:15am Quote Report to Moderator
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Hi  I thought i'd start a repairs and works thread for my cappo.

Here's a few pics to get started

The driverside arch with rust cut out and awaiting arches to arrive beforefinal cutting and welding.



A replacement driverside front sill piece almost ready to go on after rust cut out.



and another few of the same part



more pics to come.
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grant4561
Posted on: Sunday, May 31st, 2009, 10:26:03am Quote Report to Moderator
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Glad I live out here, the rust over there is unbeliievable.
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capgun
Posted on: Sunday, May 31st, 2009, 11:13:16am Quote Report to Moderator
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All cars over there should have fiberglass shells!

Nice fabrication
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Avar
Posted on: Monday, June 1st, 2009, 12:58:59am Quote Report to Moderator
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Cheers, not bad for my first.

It's taken about 2 yrs but the rear bumper is finally finished

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Chernoby1
Posted on: Monday, June 1st, 2009, 10:02:18am Quote Report to Moderator
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Oooo i like the look of that! Very close to my idea of the ideal rear bumper!
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Avar
Posted on: Monday, June 8th, 2009, 8:36:04pm Quote Report to Moderator
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Another sand down, a coat of paint and the front bumper will be completed.  I'm really happy with the grill.


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lord
Posted on: Friday, June 12th, 2009, 12:10:53am Quote Report to Moderator
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I love the rear bumper too.. like the take off one..how comes it took you two years?
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Avar
Posted on: Saturday, June 13th, 2009, 11:52:08am Quote Report to Moderator
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Quoted from lord, posted Friday, June 12th, 2009, 12:10:53am at here
I love the rear bumper too.. like the take off one..how comes it took you two years?



A, cause i'm a lazy git
B, cause it kept getting damaged
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C, cause i never could decide what colour i wanted

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lord
Posted on: Wednesday, June 24th, 2009, 11:36:00pm Quote Report to Moderator
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get some more pics up.. the idea of the grill is a wicked idea!!!!

trust me.

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Avar
Posted on: Thursday, June 25th, 2009, 1:39:44pm Quote Report to Moderator
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Ricou
Posted on: Thursday, June 25th, 2009, 4:54:38pm Quote Report to Moderator
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Seems nice.

I wonder how it looks on a the car !

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lord
Posted on: Thursday, June 25th, 2009, 8:23:49pm Quote Report to Moderator
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i like it when you get a dark grey gun metal lip..that follows the lines of the front grilll down to the bottom of the bumper...looks nice! Try this? then get it on the car..
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Avar
Posted on: Saturday, June 27th, 2009, 1:33:30pm Quote Report to Moderator
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Gonna keep the lip red as (funds allowing) i want to put some writing in that section.  £13 for 2x "kei inside" intel type graphics for the sides and £13 for another cappuccinosport.com logo.

The bumper should look good on the car, another 2 days work on the rusty cills before the now painted skirts go on, and about 3 days to attend to the arches.  A days G3'ing and polishing and she should be looking good for the Ace Cafe day 
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Andy
Posted on: Saturday, June 27th, 2009, 2:43:36pm Quote Report to Moderator
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Surely Dany will give you the cappuccinosport one

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capgun
Posted on: Saturday, June 27th, 2009, 2:48:18pm Quote Report to Moderator
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Where's the clubcappo one going?
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Avar
Posted on: Saturday, June 27th, 2009, 6:30:39pm Quote Report to Moderator
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Nah the cappo sport stickers are all the graphic type ones, i want a plain web addy type one and the club cappo sticker sits pride of place in the rear window 
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Andy
Posted on: Saturday, June 27th, 2009, 6:40:42pm Quote Report to Moderator
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Pretty sure he did have the web address type ones   wonder what happened to them? (If I haven't dreamt them up that is )

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capgun
Posted on: Sunday, June 28th, 2009, 12:54:00am Quote Report to Moderator
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There's a few places on eBay that do stickers from jpgs I think - maybe you can supply the file to them and they will laser cut it?
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Avar
Posted on: Sunday, June 28th, 2009, 3:35:39am Quote Report to Moderator
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Theres a company in town that does it, it may be a lil more expensive but it's good to be at the machine for any last minute changes etc.  Plus its a good chance to have an hour chat about cars and stuff

Another pic of the rear bumper, i think the colour match is fairly good, after G3'ing i think it's gonna be spot on.


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fxdlidon
Posted on: Sunday, June 28th, 2009, 11:48:50am Quote Report to Moderator
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Looking good

Looking forward to seeing it at the Ace Cafe at the end of next month
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Avar
Posted on: Sunday, June 28th, 2009, 2:36:20pm Quote Report to Moderator
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Looking forward to going, last time the car generated some interest but most of the comments were about the oily engine bay and the body kit was a bit tatty imo.

This time its got a spanking s2 engine with fancy cappo sport pipework, un ripped seats, fantastic looking body kit and hopefully a colour restored shiny bodywork.  I might even get around to re painting the calipers, it should get quite a lot of attention.
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lord
Posted on: Sunday, June 28th, 2009, 4:27:01pm Quote Report to Moderator
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ha ha.. I'm sure we have met????

were you at the ace cafe about two years ago? You had the black body kitt? and you sat right by the entrance!? I'm sure we had a lengthy chat? There was a mint white swift turbo on the day and most of us were in Ignis sports??

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Avar
Posted on: Monday, June 29th, 2009, 7:39:23am Quote Report to Moderator
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Forgot to mention although it wont be seen, should have a temporary N1 fitted to the car too 
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Avar
Posted on: Thursday, July 2nd, 2009, 10:55:45pm Quote Report to Moderator
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Here's the driverside cill almost finished

Sorry no before pics, the camera didn't work well in low light.

Bit of advise when working with a grinder WEAR EYE PROTECTION, just had some really painfull chunks of metal removed from my right cornea.  Not nice.

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Ricou
Posted on: Friday, July 3rd, 2009, 12:47:09am Quote Report to Moderator
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Aw, sorry to read that Kei.

Weren't you wearing glasses by the way ?
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Avar
Posted on: Friday, July 3rd, 2009, 6:46:59am Quote Report to Moderator
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Yes, thats the trouble.  Normal glasses offer no protection.  My eye should be ok for more works later today.  The cills are nearly done, i just have to start on the arches.
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grant4561
Posted on: Friday, July 3rd, 2009, 7:32:27am
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Heres a tip for when you start welding

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mattjohns
Posted on: Friday, July 3rd, 2009, 9:52:14am Quote Report to Moderator
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While that is a funny pic,  during a safety induction at a mine site, we were shown much worse.  I'll see if I can find pics and put them in the fun section.


Bumpers look good Kei
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Avar
Posted on: Monday, July 6th, 2009, 9:52:43pm Quote Report to Moderator
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Spent a couple of hours on the bonnet, rubbed down with G3 compound, then that red colour restore turtle wax and a final super resin polish.

here's a 50/50


and the finished job


the colour match with the bumper is quite good i think.


and heres the passenger cill after rust has been cut off and removed from my eye  and 1.1mm plate welded back on.  Sorry about the quality of the pic and the welding, fortunately it's all being covered by side skirts.

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Avar
Posted on: Sunday, July 12th, 2009, 12:35:18pm Quote Report to Moderator
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Finally starting to get there, just a few more things to do, but here's the kit finally fitted, although the bumper needs a bit more work after driving down the newly resurfaced Walworth Road.



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Ricou
Posted on: Sunday, July 12th, 2009, 1:21:07pm Quote Report to Moderator
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Wow.... it's quite, hu, low, isn't it ?

I wouldn't like to drive that on the crappy road I got out here !
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Avar
Posted on: Monday, July 13th, 2009, 7:23:37pm Quote Report to Moderator
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Its too low at the moment, i need to increase the tyre profile back to 65, the extra 5mm could make all the difference.
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Avar
Posted on: Friday, April 16th, 2010, 10:13:38pm Quote Report to Moderator
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a few more pics from last summer







Just got these back from having new sport bushes fitted



and fitted

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Ricou
Posted on: Saturday, April 17th, 2010, 11:13:27pm Quote Report to Moderator
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Nice... but it would look better with larger wheels I think.

By the way, is that an exhaust or a food can ? 
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Avar
Posted on: Sunday, April 18th, 2010, 5:08:45pm Quote Report to Moderator
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Cheeky b*gger  its a blooming expensive 4" exhaust in white carbon, only can i've come across that size are the ones i get my confit in.

Yep it needs bigger wheels, but with limited funds its either the wheels or get Wayne to work his magic at the moment.
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lord
Posted on: Sunday, April 18th, 2010, 6:19:42pm Quote Report to Moderator
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Food can! That's one funny comment although a lil cheeky lol

This is obviously a little fun project on the side. I think it looks ok.

The moral of the story as cappos on here are most peoples second car so what ever funds you have left go on the cappo lol
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Avar
Posted on: Sunday, April 18th, 2010, 11:06:09pm Quote Report to Moderator
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Unfortunately this is my everyday car, so modifications are done on a two steps forward one step back basis.  For example the take off body kit is great and the suzuki coil overs are equally great, put the two together though and you get less great.  I've only just now got it so i can go over speed bumps without slowing to 5mph.

However i'm very chuffed with the new front bumper supports i made up last weekend (diagonal red things in the last picture) i can hit things now with some confidence that the bumpers not gonna rip off

Just got to repair all the kit again, specially the rear bumper after being ripped apart by a cats eye, refurb the rear coilovers and suss out why a few of my guage sensors aren't working, then book her in at chipwizards.
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Avar
Posted on: Sunday, May 2nd, 2010, 11:59:00pm Quote Report to Moderator
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About a month ago, i shot blasted, re-greeced, painted and fitted a troublesome caliper.



and last week i decided to do some much needed engine bay mods, made an aluminium heat shield for my filter, made a bracket to fit my oil catch can in the only place available along with fitting some nice braided hoses for it.  Fitted a loom, the 3 bar map sensor on a crudely made bracket and fuel pressure regulator ready for the adaptronic and also mounted the oil pressure sensor on another crude bracket fixed to my strut.  Space is getting a bit tight now.

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yoshiyuki09
Posted on: Monday, May 3rd, 2010, 7:34:38am Quote Report to Moderator
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nice mods, very colourful
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capgun
Posted on: Monday, May 3rd, 2010, 8:06:22am Quote Report to Moderator
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Looks nice - especially all the new mods


I think a really cheap things to do to make it look neater again in the engine bay is to buy some loom tube (the convoluted tubing that is probably sold at Halfords with a split all the way down one side for hiding wiring).

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