100th Post finally
Anyway I had an OEM aerial blanking plate in my tool cabinet that I had purchased from Lings a year or so ago. I decided to fit it to the car.
Back in June I purchased a speedo cluster from Eternal Blue 2000. Great condition and at a great price.
The front calipers were removed ready for cleaning and repainting. Watch this space for updates.
If you cast your mind back to the beginning of the thread I explained that the car is a pre-facelift but I wanted to add the facelift look to it. The plan is to fully assemble the car to achieve the right fit and gapping etc before full disassembly ready for a bare shell repaint. The front bumper support brackets either side of the grill were cut back in order for the facelift bumper to fit correctly.
EK9 Facelift grill purchased from GramsN1.
Facelift bumper fitted in place with my brand new, box fresh headlights. Please ignore the missing fog lights!
Believe it or not but this was the only required modification needed in order to get the bumper to fit on the car correctly. The headlights, wings (fenders), bonnet (hood) and facelift grill all fit without any further modification. I managed to find another bargain on ebay in the form of a facelift bonnet and decided to finish the font off with a replica Mugen lip from Shaun@BuddyclubUK. All parts are subject to paint!
You will notice from the first 2 exterior images above that I had started a patch repair on the drivers door. Its currently in etch primer / primer ready for sanding and paint. Remember its all about assembly at this point, im not after winning any beauty prizes! The following images show the scorch on the drivers door prior to sanding and etch primer.
Borrowed an arch roller and spent the afternoon rolling the arches. Made a good job but unfortunately the following were the only photos I managed to salvage off of the camera. Compact flash card went wrong!!!