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Me & My More Door, The Little Blue Beast

Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 7:11 pm
by BigBenson14
Hi all,

Joined the forum recently and just thought i'd start a thread where i can upload the progress of my first car. I've had this car since September last year when i bought it off of a colleague at work, he'd already bought his next car and wanted to get rid quick, so it was mine for £300!

Yes it's a piece of sh** but it's my piece of sh** ;)

There's some slight rust on the body work which i'll eventually get round to sorting but other than that the car's pretty solid. I'm not too sure exactly how i want to go about modding the car at the minute; currently i'm just doing some small mods/repairs but i aim to push the boundaries a little sooner or later.

So far i've fitted bluetooth , colour coded some of the interior trim, and given the engine bay a good clean.

Apprentice wage is next to nothing at the minute, so as when i get the funds i'm slowly going to keep going. The next thing i'm thinking is remote locking & electric windows as i'm getting sick of forgetting to lock my car

I've just bought an accident damaged 1.4i Corsa off eBay (gonna' collect it soon), i aim to do an engine conversion using the that car as a donor! The rest of the car will be stripped and sold if anyone needs any bits PM me. I'll put a post up about it sooner or later:)

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the Little Blue Beast;)

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Engine Bay Before

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Engine Bay After

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Interior so far

Re: Me & My More Door, The Little Blue Beast

Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 8:11 pm
by johnny
Looks a good base to start with:) look forward to the updates on it

Re: Me & My More Door, The Little Blue Beast

Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 8:15 pm
by andy w
Welcome mate liking it so as a fellow more door owner i never care what people say bout mine lol

Re: Me & My More Door, The Little Blue Beast

Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 8:40 pm
by BigBenson14
Cheers Fella's :)

Re: Me & My More Door, The Little Blue Beast

Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 11:52 pm
by Domwhitex
What paint did you use for the interior? You did a good job!


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Re: Me & My More Door, The Little Blue Beast

Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 1:07 pm
by BigBenson14
Thanks man! I used halfords primer, and Arden blue paint which you can pick up for about a £10, then I had some lacquer lying around which I finished it off with :)


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Re: Me & My More Door, The Little Blue Beast

Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 3:59 pm
by Domwhitex
Looks good man i like it might have a go myself


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Re: Me & My More Door, The Little Blue Beast

Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 5:31 pm
by BigBenson14
It's worth it, i think it makes the inside a lot better, i also carbon fiber wrapped the crash panel but i was thinking about sticker bombing it..not too sure yet! If you need any help though man either post here or PM me, i'll help as much as i can :D

Re: Me & My More Door, The Little Blue Beast

Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 5:38 pm
by Barraclough
I want to carbon wrap that part but ran out after doing my pillars. Here's how mine looks ImageImageImage
Need more paint for the MFD and the part above the clocks you done

Re: Me & My More Door, The Little Blue Beast

Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 6:15 pm
by Domwhitex
I do like the red was wonderig how red would look


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Re: Me & My More Door, The Little Blue Beast

Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 8:47 pm
by BigBenson14
That looks pretty sick actually mate, you say you've carbon fiber wrapped the door pillars? that doesn't sound like a bad idea, you've done a good job on the paint though, i like it :)

Re: Me & My More Door, The Little Blue Beast

Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 9:03 pm
by Barraclough
The front pillars, can kinda see it in the first pic. Looks miles better than cream :)

Re: Me & My More Door, The Little Blue Beast

Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 9:14 pm
by andy w
Lol this is so true mate done my front and centre pillars around the dash clocks and mfd cover all in carbon vinyl and coloured panels in Río verde

Re: Me & My More Door, The Little Blue Beast

Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 9:15 pm
by Barraclough
Sweet, any pics?

Re: Me & My More Door, The Little Blue Beast

Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 9:20 pm
by andy w
Tbh mate really need to show everything interior wise been done im gonna do loads of pics of the interior so i will defo do all pics in next week or so for u guys to see in my project thread with pics of the sticker u showed which ave bought off ebay and the exhaust after its fitted. Also the mfd surround is coloured Río Verde as well and the part of the mfd cover which goes into the mfd digitals