Shinny's Caribbean Blue Tubby - The End :(

[shinny]

A number of you probably already know my car either from facebook, MR2OC or because Flamby used to own it a few years ago. However, it dawned on me I've never really posted about it on here, so it's time to correct that!

1994 L-reg rev3 GT-S TBar in Caribbean Blue

Engine:
ST205 ECU
ST205 charge cooler system
Custom Injen-Amsoil nano-fibre nduction
Berk Technology exhaust and downpipe
38mm external wastegate
Fidanza flywheel
Unknown clutch-type LSD
Oil cooler with thermostatic sandwich plate
Walbro fuel pump
Bits4Twos clamping delimiter
Custom detailed in blue, black and red

Wheels, suspension and brakes:
17" Volk Racing TE37s in white
BC Racing coilovers (corner weighted)
Whiteline anti roll bars
Phoenix Power roll centre adjusters
Eibach rear camber bolts
High & Tight prothane full suspension bush kit
Falken 452 tyres - 215/40/17 front, 245/35/17 rear
Goodridge stainless steel brake hoses
EBC Grooved discs, zinc plated
Red Stuff Pads
Brake Stopper
Rev5 Speed Flaps

Exterior:
Automatically retracting mirrors
Rogue rev6 quad headlights
Detobleroned
Crystal clear indicators
Switchback fog / reverse lights
Quad taillight mod
Engine bay and frunk gas rams
Engine bay lighting

Interior:
Half leather, half alcantara retrim
Gizzmo MS-IBC
Defi boost, oil pressure and oil temperature gauges
Custom widebang AFR and voltage gauge in speedo cluster
Custom charge cooler and engine coolant temperate gauges above stereo
Chrome dial rings
Blue and black Ektor steering wheel

ICE:
Alpine head unit
Alpine amps in frunk
Focal component door speakers
Rainbow rear speakers
Phoenix gold sub behind passenger seat

After getting some nice photos at JAE, I decided I was going to enter Show and Shine this month. So I popped out of the office at lunch to a location I'd scouted out the previous evening and the resulting photo set has left me spoilt for choice of what to enter!

JAE 2012:









Lunchtime Photoshoot:





















Drive in the evening:













Timelapse Videos

Daytime: http://youtu.be/UMkb9Vr4yEM

Nighttime: http://www.youtu.be/1yd-bd7uSdQ

Custom Mods:

Mirrors retracting with door locks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZZIVFzEdXE

Custom speedo clock faces: Not EL Glow / Speedhut

[Magic Beans]

She's a beauty! I'm a sucker for an 8B6 tubby with TE37s, for obvious reasons.

Nice photos etc. Did you use a GoPro?

[shinny]

Thanks

All the moving and timelapse shots are done with a GoPro Hero and everything static is from a Sony HSC-50

[Magic Beans]

Must get one ordered then. It's been on my "To do" list too long

I very much like the car though. Reminds me of Mule no.1 but with much better paintwork.

Any plans for the future with it? Although it's pretty much perfect as is

[alan_uk]

thats gorgeous mate

what is sizes and offset's on your te37's ?

[shinny]

Alloys go in for a refurb tomorrow - it also needs some engine bay tidy-up and maybe some improvements to the chargecooler system. After that, I start to run out of plans that aren't either pie-in-the-sky (eg. a DIY EDFC for the BCs) or just mainanence. I'm sure I'll think up something else at some stage though

Thanks Alan. The wheels at 17x7J and 17x8J, but for some reason don't have offsets stamped on them, so they'll have to remain a mystery.

I'm gunna try some 5mm spacers on them when the wheels are done, although I'm a little concerned there won't be much centre-bore left for the wheels to sit on!

[alan_uk]

im ordering a set same wheels same colour as yours but they are all 8x17 and et42 so im going to add 15mm spacers rear and 5mm front and if calculations are correct they should be 4mm in of flush rear and 1.65mm in from flush front but i have extended studs on hubs already so im ok there

[shinny]

im ordering a set same wheels same colour as yours but they are all 8x17 and et42 so im going to add 15mm spacers rear and 5mm front and if calculations are correct they should be 4mm in of flush rear and 1.65mm in from flush front but i have extended studs on hubs already so im ok there

Sounds good

Just one thing... studs are not the same as the center bore

[alan_uk]

very valid point, i didn't realize what you meant at first but it just clicked,

ill get them and see how it goes fingers crossed ive got hubcentric 10mm rear spacers on now so just gonna add 5mm shimms on each corner and give it a whirl

car looks amazing btw my fave colour

what did you do with your single exit and iirc didn't you have rp01's at 1 point ?

nice touch with the dials too

[shinny]

Single exit exhaust was sold as I never liked the look of it... and it was too quiet for me!

Still got the RP01s - they're my track wheels, so haven't seen much action this year. However they're on the car at the moment as the TE37s are in teh back of the BMW

[alan_uk]

lol

they look ok maybe not as good as the te37's i just realized yours are volk te37's mine are cheapo inovite rays lol

still look the same might just get the volk stickers made up only down side is mine will have 10 holes not 5

[synXero]

Really coming round to RP01s. I used to hate them, think they were too boring looking, but definitely considering for the Beams...

[shinny]

Really coming round to RP01s. I used to hate them, think they were too boring looking, but definitely considering for the Beams...

It's easy to mistake clean and simple for boring...

Dunno about you, but I can never be doing with over-complicated wheels. They're there to compliment the car, not distract you from it IMHO

I put some really simple 17" TSWs on my old rev5... they weren't a quality wheel or that much of a departure from stock, but they really worked nicely on what what a very neat, almost completely standard car...



Of course there's always' Tony's blue tubby sat on 17" RP01s:



Never underestimate the power of understatement

[mr2sparky]

Lovely car and liked the time laps vids

[shinny]

Another simple mod last night.... a proper rear foglight tell tale:



http://www.imoc.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1451304

Also did a write-up about my speedo clocks:

http://www.imoc.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=166187

[craig]

Great car/pics mate, I remember when Fizz owned this car.

The Carribean blue/white wheels is a nice contrast

[Magic Beans]

Nice work

[synXero]

I'd love a set of 17" RP01s, but they're always up for sale in 16".

[alan_uk]

I'd love a set of 17" RP01s, but they're always up for sale in 16".

snap or in 5x100

[shinny]

Just completed my LED mods to the HVAC controls, bringing them inline with my red/blue interior theme from a badly bodged blue LED conversion (don't give up the day job, Flamby!). After I found my LED bulb and blue tint gel method didn't work here, I took a different approach. The light channels were removed from inside and individual LEDs plus two LED strips have been carefully placed inside to light everything up adequately. Not the simplest mod I've ever done...





Next I need to learn how to take a non-blurry photo