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Re: Custard’s Tart

Postby Custardtart » Fri Aug 10, 2018 7:38 pm

After the dead roo smashed my Garage Vary front spoiler I finally got round to fitting the replacement today. No idea how effective it is but it does make the NC1 front end a bit more purposeful.

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Re: Custard’s Tart

Postby Custardtart » Fri Aug 10, 2018 7:45 pm

I’ve also started a bit of a customising thing! First up I plastidipped the mirrors matte black. Easy to do and a good finish despite the crappy nozzle on the spray can. :frown:
Got a few other subtle cosmetics coming soon.
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Re: Custard’s Tart

Postby ozace » Fri Aug 10, 2018 10:31 pm

Nice work
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Re: Custard’s Tart

Postby Custardtart » Thu Aug 16, 2018 7:38 pm

Christmas came early this year :D
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Re: Custard’s Tart

Postby lightyear » Thu Aug 16, 2018 8:33 pm

I would be happy if those boxes turned up here. With the wheels in them of course. Where did you get them?
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Re: Custard’s Tart

Postby Custardtart » Thu Aug 16, 2018 10:23 pm

lightyear wrote:I would be happy if those boxes turned up here. With the wheels in them of course. Where did you get them?

I got them from Autotechnik. They were good on price and had them in stock. I did look at shipping them in from the US but they ended up nearly $2k with shipping and duty.
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Re: Custard’s Tart

Postby ManiacLachy » Fri Aug 17, 2018 10:00 am

I got mine (15x8 +28 4x100 Silver) earlier this year from Autotechnik too. Good company, get their stock in regularly and you can't beat the price if you wanted to import yourself (which is a rare thing indeed!)

They're going to look great on your car :mrgreen:

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Re: Custard’s Tart

Postby MrTurkey » Fri Aug 17, 2018 11:38 am

Love the new wheels, what size did you go?

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Re: Custard’s Tart

Postby Custardtart » Fri Aug 17, 2018 7:06 pm

Thanks for the nice comments. I went with 17x9 45 offset
I weighed them and the tyres today, the wheels came in at 15.2 lbs and the Nitto NT01’s 24.2lbs so total weihht was 39.4 lbs or 15.8kg.
I’ll weigh the oem set up this weekend.
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Re: Custard’s Tart

Postby Custardtart » Sun Aug 19, 2018 5:09 pm

I really wanted to replace the white stripe with a matte black centre stripe so I got out the plasti dip again!

First up it needed a good clean.
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Then off with the old stripes
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Next I removed the emblems, not as hard as thought it would be. Just a bit of gloop to clean off.
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I decided to do the windscreen frame as well.
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Turned out pretty good, just need to fit the emblems.
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Re: Custard’s Tart

Postby Custardtart » Sun Aug 19, 2018 5:13 pm

Did the rear for good measure.
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Re: Custard’s Tart

Postby Okibi » Tue Aug 21, 2018 9:06 pm

Looks good!
If you had access to a car like this, would you take it back right away? Neither would I.

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Re: Custard’s Tart

Postby StuwieP » Tue Aug 21, 2018 11:43 pm

Custardtart wrote:Christmas came early this year :D
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I had the same feeling! They are damn nice looking wheels.
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Re: Custard’s Tart

Postby Custardtart » Wed Aug 22, 2018 10:27 am

StuwieP wrote:
Custardtart wrote:Christmas came early this year :D
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I had the same feeling! They are damn nice looking wheels.

Thanks guys. I do love them but they may not be black for much longer :lol:
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Re: Custard’s Tart

Postby Custardtart » Mon Aug 27, 2018 11:24 am

Looking for a bit of JDM green goodness for the track wheels. Should match the Takata harness :D

Best to start plastidip with a light coat.
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Perfect spraying conditions!
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Perfect, except somethings missing....
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