matts xsi euro project

[taylonm]

Cool project fella, Its moved along really quick considering the time you've owned it.

[Matt]

It did move pretty quick but has slowed abit now, due to weather and no money lol.
Hopefully in the new year I'll be able to sort all this painting out lol

[Gunge]

Looking good mate

I wouldn't go with a massive stretched tyre the wall is made so weak with a stretch, i had 8x18s with 205/35/18 and that bulged the side wall after less than 1k

[Curt]

Brace looks good mate, bolts look a bit better too

[Jimmyboycheck]

what you doing with the induction up there? it was good where it was with lots of air flow.....

[Niall]

If he had it down behind the rad, then if his has the same top hose as mine then I suffered from horrendous heat soak!

[Curt]

what you doing with the induction up there? it was good where it was with lots of air flow.....

And lots of potential to suck up some water... Especially in this weather, I wouldn't have left it where it was and Matt thought it best to be safe so we moved it.

[Matt]

Yeah was moved as it was so wet. It will go back in the summer with a cold air feed

[sam]

Good move tbh mines near enough touching the floor lol

[procta]

looking good there! got me thinking about angel eyes again for my 306, i had a set for the phase1. but one of the LEDs died and it was a right sod to get a replacement, which put me off getting after market lights again.

[Niall]

Oh yeah that was a reason why mine was moved. Drove it through a few puddles and the bottom of the filter was getting damp :o

Btw Matt loving the new colour scheme!

[Matt]

Thanks for all the comments

Yeah Niall I love the new colour scheme can't wait to get it all on there.
Future paintwork to be done:

Repaint rear bumper
Smooth and paint front
Paint grill and hockey sticks
Possibly paint the bonnet too
Sort the bloody keying out

Then paint the wheels

Then strip out the back

Few things to fix:

Throttle cable
Exhaust need a new clamp
Fix weird knock from engine bay

Things to fit:
Ecu
Amp for front speakers

Possibilities:

Black headlining
Paint the black strips on filler cap purple
Dtm mirrors

[Niall]

Matt you know you wanna do the black roof lining. Makes the car feel so much nicer inside!!

[Matt]

I really want too. What paint do you use?

[Niall]

Paint is for gays. It goes all crusty with paint. I used suede material and some proper retrimming glue.

[Gunge]

along with black lining you need phase3 cabriolet visors

[Matt]

already got cabby visors in there may retrim it now. Going too look at material

Also going to spray my inlet. But worked out it will take me 4 days to paint the way I want, with removal, cleaning, painting and refitting. So going to see if anyone near me has a crappy inlet that they wanna swap for my silver one, I'll get the spare done, then stick it on. That way car will only be off the road for like a few hours while I do the swap

[Bananalad]

Car looks great! Lensos suit it down to a t... I want to do my headlining black to but i think it will be too tricky with my sunroof

[Matt]

Sunroof should be fine, if your painting it should be okay, but if trimming it will be a little difficult but do able.

Love my lensos refurbing them at the moment

[karl1989]

nice car mate. really like the rear bumper. did you smooth the line across the top too?

[Matt]

Yeah smoothed both, front is in the process of being done

[karl1989]

im trying to get a ph3 rear bumper to do the same. had my front ph3 bumper number plate smoothed but the gf rolled into a taxi and cracked it . should have done a better job really lol

[Matt]

Just fill it and do it agian. That's what fiberglass was made for

[karl1989]

cant do fiberglass to save my life lol just use filler

[Matt]

Use fiberglass filler, that p40 stuff. Strong as fook

[karl1989]

i cant do it tho haha. im clue less on using it. al see if i can find a video on how to use it

[mark_airey]

i cant do it tho haha. im clue less on using it. al see if i can find a video on how to use it

See here
http://www.306oc.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.p...38&p=7523&

But basically, key with sandpaper, skim with P40 to just below where you want the finished surface (don't put too much on as its a bastard to sand back again) and then skim over that with P38 filler and sand back to a nice smooth finish..........

[sam]

i spoke to the blokey whos doing my spray job hes going to get back to me in a couple of days with a quote for you

[Matt]

Cheers mate

[sam]

no worries boyo