Had a really good day today. A mate recommended "Roll Centre" as I needed another bar fabricated onto rollcage for the harnesses.



















Can't recommend these guys enough. They even opened up on a saturday just for my job and was at a bargain of a price. While I was there (John) the fabricator was telling me all about his uncle that owns the company and showed me round the other parts.

I was in for a proper treat. His uncle is a successful race driver and have an epic race car collection. Several single seater le man cars, tones of sexy carbon fibre and a secret ferrari 458.

I was able to get a couple of shots they'd just finished an 86 prep



A very impressive trophy collection, they finished 4th one year at LeMans



I will defo be going back there. Gonna add more to the rollcage and I've got a few ideas for some aerodynamic mods they'll be able to make. Cheers guys, I'll be back soon

 

Holly molly Gez!, you have completely transformed the car from what it was when I first met you 2 years ago. Great work though

 

Epic read and great work fella....

 

Thanks guys, appreciate the comments

 

A few days back I had the new wing fitted. From this:



To this:





And to quote Duncan "Gez your car is minging mate" I gave it a good wash and tried a new wax called "harly wax" a few people at work recommended it. It's brilliant stuff. It's 100% carnauba wax, it's like spreading butter and so easy to rub off. It left the scoob looking spotless





Ryan; you've done a brilliant job mate. Matches perfectly

 

On Sunday I was at Snetterton with some friends. The new harness bar worked well for tying down the 888s



Got there the night before to claim our garages. What a beautiful site


The scoob handled brilliant, couldnt fault it at all. Handled like a dream, the 888s were amazing. All in had a superb weekend. Great company and a great track

 

Been doing a few cosmetic bits over the last week or two. I wanted to paint the new harness bar.

Who needs a fancy spray booth



A few coats of etch and normal primer



and then a hole load of colour and then some lacquer



I wanted to tidy up the look of the rear now the back seats are out. After seeing what other guys had done. I decided to try and carpet the wheel arches and floor and make an ally rear firewall.

First job, tidy up the arches and carpet


I bought some self adhesive carpet, with a lot of measuring and back and forth


after I was happy with the fit, made a template for the reverse




I'm pretty happy, its not perfectly smooth. I could of stripped off all the sound deadening but the actual metal work is still bumpy.


Next was the firewall. But before removing all the isa fix and sound proofing I took a load of measurements and transferred it to some mdf to make a template






Ended up a great fit but I still wanna tweak the shape a little. The ally is arriving monday, will tweak the template then.

I'm not 100% sure what I'm gonna do on carpeting the floor. Thinking of getting a different type of carpet. You can get the stuff that you can mold with heat just like the original floor carpet. Thinking of getting a pro to do it, don't want it to look ****.

The other weekend I was able to pick up a set of 2005 wrx door cards, they're the only black hawkeye style door cards apart from the Spec-C. There's nothing wrong with the originals but just prefer black

From this


To this




All was going perfectly but the drivers handle surround split when removing, ordered another from subaru.


Looking forward to finishing the firewall and then painting

 

Great work there Gez, your hawk is coming along nicely

 

Looking good Gez and no worries on the wing,glad it matches up well fella

 

Cheers guys

Ryan its brill mate, that harly wax was amazing. Totally recommend it

Martin, you wouldn't believe I've still got that dash. Officially sold it twice hopefully meet up again one day

 

Really!! Didn't think it would be that hard to sell. I am going to try and come to a track day to see what it's all about before I take the plunge myself so may see you there.

 

You'll love it on the track mate, it's very addictive it was brilliant at snetts, car performed brilliant and it makes a massive difference being in a group of mates. I'm not, but everyone else is going Cadwell. Get a passanger lap with pete and si.

 

The ally sheet arrived this morning, I was able to get a little done this evening



It was pretty easy to cut the ally, never really cut large sheet metal before


It took a lot of back and forth but it's a great fit




I was able to drill the. Bottom holes but lost the light but will start to prep and paint tomorrow evening

 

Pete did day he would take me out when ever I do go, sounds like the best guy to go with.

I won't put mine on until I can afford coilovers though.

Nice work on the ally

 

Great read fella - got half through and realised I met you at Andy's go karting, car looked great then!

 

Cheers mate. Don't tell pete he's the best guy, he already thinks he's quick

Thanks, small world ay. The karting was fun apart from all the cheating. Don't think anyones gonna go there again. Hopefully meat up again

 

Recently been trying to sort out the back after removing the back seats. Its been a bit up and down, but I think its gonna work out in the end.

First up was painting the new rear firewall. Another expensive spray booth set up :loll:



Couple of coats of etch and normal primer went well



But the colour was a disaster, its almost impossible getting a good finish on that size area with just rattle cans. After a lot of farting about I gave up and thought I'd give the carbon wrapping a go. Took a while but got there in the end, and pretty happy with the finished look





Next stage was to sort out the seat floor, due to regularly carrying track wheels I needed something a little robust so decided on carpet. Initially I brought some carpet that can me moulded with a heat gun, but looked **** and wasn't mouldable enough. I went back to using some of the self adhesive carpet.



I ran out of what I had left but should have it finished by the weekend. Its a bit bumpy due to following the metal work underneath but I'm hoping when all the parts are back in it looks pretty smart

One mini disaster I've had but might just end up working out well is: this morning I hit a stupidly small low bollard in a car park. Bad enough I was going to the bloody dentist then I do this in the car park




Straight on the blower to Ryan (prodrive rules) he's gonna sort and re-spray the hole bumper and while its with him its gonna get a full machine polish

Bit of a kick in the nuts but can't wait to see the results. See you saturday Ryan

 

Every cloud has a silver lining and all that Gez
Looking forward to it mate

 

just passed you on your way to Ryan mate, i was in the ancient brown toyota land cruiser on the other side of the road, towing an empty trailer, yours sounds very nice mate

 

Cheers mate. Had a stinking hang over and with the new ubber hard springs it felt like an epic journey.

I saw your blob, looks nice mate. I really like your side skirts, nice and chunky but not over the top, where did u get them mate?

Looking forward to seeing Ryan work his magic

 

lol i bet that was just what you needed with a hangover!!! I got the side skirts from ABW

 

Cool, I might give darren a bell

I've only just started to feel bloody human again

 

That was a nice read mate.

Thanks very much.

 

cheers mate

 

So after Gez caught the front bumper on a little post he got the car down to me for it to be repaired,unfortunately with my booth filtration playing up it has taken longer than planned to get it done but today I could finally paint,so in went Gez's bumper with refit tomorrow afternoon.
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That's what I'm talking about Ryan

Can't wait to see it mate, missed the scoob loads

Your a star mate

 

All buttoned up and ready to rock Gez
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Looks lovely Ryan, top job

I'll be over midday tomorrow mate, see you soon

Thanks mate

 

Where is Ryan based mate? Looks to know his stuff