Nic Barnes
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Registered: 5th Apr 04
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Eh?
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Cole
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Registered: 11th Nov 02
Location: eastbourne Drives:zafira sold now a qashqai
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Huh?
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Nic Barnes
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Registered: 5th Apr 04
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need maybe another coat of shine then glued and clipped on next saturday. hopefully colour match will be near enough. normally isnt too far off.
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Linch
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Registered: 4th May 06
Location: Whickham, Tyne and Wear
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in my experience halfords smoke gray is miles off, there other colours seem ok, I dunno why but the smoke gray is the only one lol
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Nic Barnes
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will see what it looks like next week. its only a corsa so it wont matter.
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bigron1988
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Registered: 29th Aug 09
Location: Southport, Merseyside
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quote:
Originally posted by Nic Barnes
will see what it looks like next week. its only a completely std corsa with an engine so it wont matter.
 
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Piér
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Registered: 4th Jan 10
Location: Gloucestershire
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 I cant believe 3corsameal said that! I love your car nic  Its awesome!
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DannyB
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Registered: 6th Feb 08
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They'll look fine Nic, once the car gets dirty you wont even notice a slight colour shade difference, rattle cans are the way forward
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Nic Barnes
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aye. half the L shape bits and other things were all rattle can jobs and they never really looked any different shades. if they do look proper shite, will get them done by bodyshop when i get the rusty bootlid fixed at some point.
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Tom G
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What grit paper do you use to sand it down? i need to do my mirrors and bumpers!
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Nic Barnes
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80, 180, 400, 800
probably havent got all the scratches out really from the course grain but i did it in the dark.
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Tom G
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The higher the grit the smoother? When do you decide to change to a smoother one?
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Nic Barnes
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went over it all with one level. then with another. once i had done 400 i primered them. let that dry, then went back over with 400 again, primered again, dry, over with 800 then paint.
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Nic Barnes
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todays scrap yard purchase
rear hub assembly off and ready to be made into a rear disc beam in the next few weeks. will clean surface rust off and give it some black hammerite once the plates have been welded on for the disc hubs.
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Rick Draper
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Registered: 10th Feb 01
Location: Cheshire
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TBH with skirts on it this car would have been a track idle at oulton, up there with the hurninators motor.
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Nic Barnes
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thanks mate.
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SportBoy
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Registered: 5th Oct 01
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i dunno .. the man that allways said drums are the way 
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Nic Barnes
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quote:
Originally posted by SportBoy
i dunno .. the man that allways said drums are the way
for every day road use, yeah, more than enough
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SportBoy
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Registered: 5th Oct 01
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that much is true . cant say how mine is on track with them yet but deffo feels better braking from 100+ .. on a private road of course  .. still think i might need to bias the front more tho. but it doesnt lock up.
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Nic Barnes
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mine was ok for a while, then started to fade quite a bit. rear drums got very very hot hence the thought for a change. think i will just get an in car bias valve and do it that way. you set yours up on brake rollers first or just bias it all front then keep adding back in?
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SportBoy
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ive got those shitty inline valve things .. not adjustable .. its somthing i may have to look into if i need to back it off more.
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Nic Barnes
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i keep debating pedal box still. cant really understand a major benefit of it for me really though. in car valve and a line lock for peel outs. might work quite well.
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SportBoy
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Registered: 5th Oct 01
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yeah i dont really see the point in a pedal box unless going for brakes so big the mastercyl wont be good enough. i like servo assisted brakes .. i used to have a polo years ago with no servo and it was scary sometimes
[Edited on 16-11-2010 by SportBoy]
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garyhurn1
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Registered: 13th Mar 10
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quote:
Originally posted by Rick Draper
TBH with skirts on it this car would have been a track idle at oulton, up there with the hurninators motor.
rick you are an utter utter wanker.
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Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
Location: Worcestershire Drives: Defender
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quote:
Originally posted by Nic Barnes
might leave the novice sticker on the car. quite like it in all honesty. gutted i didnt buy an oulton park sticker to replace the neverbeen nurburger ring one, seen as its now been round a race track. im officially elite now.
you wouldnt have had much luck tbh we tried to buy one the race shop didnt have any and the canteen shop and fogarty center werent open but they had them on display. The manager was walking round at the fogarty center but he just told us to get out the shop as it wasnt open, useless cunt
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