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Hello and welcome to my build thread.
I never thought I would have enough work done to the nine to warrant a build thread but here it is!
I bought the beauty in October 2010 and it was awesome! It felt great to be back in a nice car which had some poke and handled like a dream.
Here’s how it looked
One thing was really bugging me as I saw it every time I got in and out the car. It was the missing piece of plastic from the top of the gaiter. Soon got that sorted with a trip to the eBay.
After xmas I was thinking about changing or modding the air intake. Before I could decide what to do Livvy had a Top Fuel whale intake for cheap so I snapped that up straight away! Also sorted a CAF for it to.
The nine came with PIAA HID’s which was a nice bonus but the wiring was a complete mess! A lot of it was just wedged under the old air box. After about a day I was finally done.
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Having only owned the nine for a few months and even though I had kept the driving down to a minimum over the winter the dreaded tin worm had worked its way in!
So I made my way to a local body repair shop for a quote on the rusty arches. After letting the guy have a look round the car he noticed a lot of other problems with the paint work. There was filler on the inside lip of the arch, there where micro dots in the paint (Trapped moister under paint), rough edges around the windows from masking and overall it didn’t look that great.
So after getting a quote I had to save up for a few months before I could get it sorted. I was hoping to get the work done before Japfest but they where too busy!
While I was at Japfest I bought myself some treats. A new Oil filler cap and a Carbon plug cover.
Anyway here are some pictures of the work I had done over the last 3-4 weeks to get the paint and body sorted.
He found that there was a lot of filler used and most of it for no reason!
2k paint was used and it went on a treat!
As both bumpers had the odd mark they got a new lick of paint for no extra cost! He also said he could underseal/Shutz the rear arches and along both sills with 3M Shutz. The lip would also get some treatment to protect against the stone chips.
The day finally came for it to be collected! Monday 13th June to be exact! This is how it looked. It was painful not having driven the nine for soo long but was totally worth it!
I never thought I would have enough work done to the nine to warrant a build thread but here it is!
I bought the beauty in October 2010 and it was awesome! It felt great to be back in a nice car which had some poke and handled like a dream.
Here’s how it looked
One thing was really bugging me as I saw it every time I got in and out the car. It was the missing piece of plastic from the top of the gaiter. Soon got that sorted with a trip to the eBay.
After xmas I was thinking about changing or modding the air intake. Before I could decide what to do Livvy had a Top Fuel whale intake for cheap so I snapped that up straight away! Also sorted a CAF for it to.
The nine came with PIAA HID’s which was a nice bonus but the wiring was a complete mess! A lot of it was just wedged under the old air box. After about a day I was finally done.
Before:
During:
After:
Having only owned the nine for a few months and even though I had kept the driving down to a minimum over the winter the dreaded tin worm had worked its way in!
So I made my way to a local body repair shop for a quote on the rusty arches. After letting the guy have a look round the car he noticed a lot of other problems with the paint work. There was filler on the inside lip of the arch, there where micro dots in the paint (Trapped moister under paint), rough edges around the windows from masking and overall it didn’t look that great.
So after getting a quote I had to save up for a few months before I could get it sorted. I was hoping to get the work done before Japfest but they where too busy!
While I was at Japfest I bought myself some treats. A new Oil filler cap and a Carbon plug cover.
Anyway here are some pictures of the work I had done over the last 3-4 weeks to get the paint and body sorted.
He found that there was a lot of filler used and most of it for no reason!
2k paint was used and it went on a treat!
As both bumpers had the odd mark they got a new lick of paint for no extra cost! He also said he could underseal/Shutz the rear arches and along both sills with 3M Shutz. The lip would also get some treatment to protect against the stone chips.
The day finally came for it to be collected! Monday 13th June to be exact! This is how it looked. It was painful not having driven the nine for soo long but was totally worth it!
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