sensible styling tips please
29 August 2002, 03:46 PM
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I have a bog standard 1994 impreza WRX, ive colour coded the side skirts and back trim around the bumper. Anyone got some cheep (preferably!!) styling tips!! Can anyone tell me how to put pics on this message board and ill give you all a laff!!
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upload your pics to some web space (turbosport uploader or some personal web space)
then use the following code to display the pic.
{img}http://your_pic_url{/url} replacing the braces with square brackets.
click edit to see how I did the following example
My scoob - lowered, 17" wheels, front splitter & sti spoiler
then use the following code to display the pic.
{img}http://your_pic_url{/url} replacing the braces with square brackets.
click edit to see how I did the following example
My scoob - lowered, 17" wheels, front splitter & sti spoiler
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02 September 2002, 04:37 PM
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Colour code the mirrors, if they're not already done.
Infill the "subaru" lettering in the wheel centre caps with paint (colour code, or red if you've a silver car etc), then polish the excess off with T-cut/Mer etc for a super finish. Sounds daft, looks great.
Mesh your grill/lower grill, if not done already.
Chin spoiler, then move number plate to spoiler for an aggressive open front.
Take the grill badge off, clean black(?) paint off the inside with Wickes paintbrush cleaner, wash, spray it pink, refit.
Morrettes??
Most of these are relatively cheap, and can be done, or partly done, at home.
Hope this is of some help.
Infill the "subaru" lettering in the wheel centre caps with paint (colour code, or red if you've a silver car etc), then polish the excess off with T-cut/Mer etc for a super finish. Sounds daft, looks great.
Mesh your grill/lower grill, if not done already.
Chin spoiler, then move number plate to spoiler for an aggressive open front.
Take the grill badge off, clean black(?) paint off the inside with Wickes paintbrush cleaner, wash, spray it pink, refit.
Morrettes??
Most of these are relatively cheap, and can be done, or partly done, at home.
Hope this is of some help.
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Try the tinting of the indicators in the rear light cluster! There is another thread in members gallery about this and is deffo a v.cheap and effective mod that il be doing soon! 
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"Mesh your lower grill, if not done already."
OK I've got a meshed mroscoobystyling grill but is there any advice - of a step by step kind - on how to mesh your lower grill? I regret to say I'd like to mesh the lower grill but it has to
(a) be relatively easy to follow
(b) be within the powers of ham fisted prat like me.
OK I've got a meshed mroscoobystyling grill but is there any advice - of a step by step kind - on how to mesh your lower grill? I regret to say I'd like to mesh the lower grill but it has to
(a) be relatively easy to follow
(b) be within the powers of ham fisted prat like me.
12 September 2002, 10:34 AM
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I did mine after buying a TSL chin spoiler, and putting the No. plate on it, it left the grille clear except for the bits that hold the number plate in place.
I unbolted those (VERY difficult, the bolts were very tight, I knackered one doing it), then went out and bought a piece of mesh from a local carshop, abt £11.
I then measured the aperture fairly roughly, and cut the piece of mesh to a rectangular shape, slightly oversize, using wifey's kitchen scissors ( She was out, and they're easier to use than tin snips!)
Choose which way up you want the grille- it does look different according to which way up it is- try leaning it against a wall, and standing back from it.
I squared off the bottom edge, so that it looked right (ie: not cut half way across a diamond etc), as this is the bit you'll see.
Now, using trial and error, cutting off a bit at a time, fit it into the gap until you are happy with the fit-- mine fitted and stood in place without me holding it.
I assume you have the front upper grille off? Buy some thin black (or whatever colour your mesh is) zip ties abt 100 mm long. Pass the zip tie through the mesh from the rear, around one of the existing bars/slats in the old lower grille, out through one of the diamonds on the new grill, back in, and pull up tight from the rear. Small hands help, or use short pieces of enamelled copper wire, bent to a long thin "U" shape, passed through from the front, and twisted up from behind. Mine is done with wire on the lower one, and zip ties on the upper one, both invisible from normal viewing distances.
Doing it this way takes longer to write about than it does to do, and can easily be removed at a later date if needs be.
the upper grille was done the same way, except that the piece of mesh is cut into 2 bits to leave the Scooby stars in place, and you need to be really careful to get both of those bits the same way up, and the same as that in the lower grille, or it'll look daft.
Hope this is of help?
Alcazar
I unbolted those (VERY difficult, the bolts were very tight, I knackered one doing it), then went out and bought a piece of mesh from a local carshop, abt £11.
I then measured the aperture fairly roughly, and cut the piece of mesh to a rectangular shape, slightly oversize, using wifey's kitchen scissors ( She was out, and they're easier to use than tin snips!)
Choose which way up you want the grille- it does look different according to which way up it is- try leaning it against a wall, and standing back from it.
I squared off the bottom edge, so that it looked right (ie: not cut half way across a diamond etc), as this is the bit you'll see.
Now, using trial and error, cutting off a bit at a time, fit it into the gap until you are happy with the fit-- mine fitted and stood in place without me holding it.
I assume you have the front upper grille off? Buy some thin black (or whatever colour your mesh is) zip ties abt 100 mm long. Pass the zip tie through the mesh from the rear, around one of the existing bars/slats in the old lower grille, out through one of the diamonds on the new grill, back in, and pull up tight from the rear. Small hands help, or use short pieces of enamelled copper wire, bent to a long thin "U" shape, passed through from the front, and twisted up from behind. Mine is done with wire on the lower one, and zip ties on the upper one, both invisible from normal viewing distances.
Doing it this way takes longer to write about than it does to do, and can easily be removed at a later date if needs be.
the upper grille was done the same way, except that the piece of mesh is cut into 2 bits to leave the Scooby stars in place, and you need to be really careful to get both of those bits the same way up, and the same as that in the lower grille, or it'll look daft.
Hope this is of help?
Alcazar
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