[Mk2] [Generic] DIY MODS ??? pics please guy

[Ryan S]

ok me and my brother resprayed my car recently, this is probab;y my biggest DIY mod

we're not painters by any stretch of imagination, i just thought, feck it, it's bound to look better than the crappy pink colour it is now, i have about a hundred pics of the respray but i'll just stick up a few!!!

oh, it was done in his shed using a compressor that was about 70 years old!!!

here you go!!!

[GTS GAV]

very nice dude,always wanted to try spraying how did it first come out did you nead to buff or flatten it much

[Ryan S]

very nice dude,always wanted to try spraying how did it first come out did you nead to buff or flatten it much

we didn't touch it, i intend to flatten it a bit and buff it, to be honest it wasn't too hard, the most difficult thing is keeping the crap off the car, it was done in a shed so there was all manner of crap floating around, we were VERY limited for space too so it only got a couple of coats

[tarmac terrorist]

I wanted a to mount my (rather expensive) wideband and EGT gauge somewhere prominent and hate 'bolted on' gauge pods.

So I made this...

I started with the top half of the steering cowling and moulded on a cheap £3 52mm gauge pod..
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Then when it was perfectly smooth I sent it away to be flocked..
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..and this is it fitted (sorry, best pic I have at the moment

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It allows for full steering column adjustment in any direction without interference.

nice where do you get your stuff flocked is it close to us

[Whippett]

nice where do you get your stuff flocked is it close to us

I sent it off to Spoox Motorsport in Leicester http://www.spooxmotorsport.co.uk/

[Moo]

My favourite mods are the chargecooler, rear diffuser and temperature monitoring. I did the temperature monitoring myself but can't claim the others as my handywork.

[GTS GAV]

farrari crackle effect on a rev 2 rocker cover, it looks a bit pinky in the photos but more of a deep red in real life







my first go at polishing

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i have recently sold my polished rocker cover to kongaroo on an exchange, i fell in love with the red ferrai crackle rev2 rocker cover,so decided i would set about getting my very special contact to try and track down some extreamly rare black marinello crackle paint it come out exsactly how i wanted and decided i would share some pics what do you lot think

[Neptune]

where do you get this "crackle paint"?? im quite liking the look.. is it somthing you can spray on yourself?

[GTS GAV]

hey buddy i managed to get the paint through a very special contact it marinello who supply ferrari, its damn exspensive and extreamly hard to get hold of the fact i managed to get hold of some for the 2nd is remarkable, theres a special and exspensive nosel that neads to be bought for the spray gun to be able to achive this affect even with the right nosel its very difficult to get this affect but imo was worth the ball ache

heres some more things iv been working on a GTO rocker cover and a rev3 inlet mannifold and throttle body iv just this min put together

[lockys96]

make your own death lip, i did.



im thinking of making this?


been thinking exige, lol

[C50]

where do you get this "crackle paint"?? im quite liking the look.. is it somthing you can spray on yourself?

you can buy wrinkle effect VHT spray from eBay

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[GTS GAV]

^^^ been there and tried that cheapo paint you dont get the same affect trust me it looked awful then you wana try getting the stuff off i gave up an through the cover away