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Hi All,
I thought I'd share my long weekends project with you as I had a play around with a few things that I've had on my growing list. I had a little break from work so kept my self busy. A few late nights were had though..
I've had the car for 7 or so months now and the only changes I had made were LED lighting throughout from the guys at Bling Auto Works in Clayton South VIC. Those guys were legends.
1) Exhaust
I went down to the Muffler Man in Prahran. After reading up on another thread. I told them I was looking for a little more noise. They cut out my middle suitcase and replaced it with a "J-pipe". It only took them 45 minutes and seemed to have quite a bit of experience with this setup. Basically resulted in me grinning from ear to ear [emoji51]
I will try and get a good video for you to upload. There is some drone in certain driving situations but I say the pros far out way the cons for now.
2) Blacked out the chrome trim (used 3 coats of black and 3 coats of glossifier plasti dip)
- window surrounds
- tailgate
- doors
- front grill upper thin strips and nose insert
What do you think!?
Taping up was a never ending story as I didn't want to get over any spray besides where I needed it.
3) Smoked lights
I also tried smoking the tail lights, front indicators and mirror indicators using plasti dip smoke.
I removed the tail light dip as I didn't like it.
4) Anthracite Grey Plasti Dip rear VW emblem, roof rails and front grill.
After going to the effort of taping and spraying all this up I again decided against it and removed it. I had a big hair fall in the grill which caused a hole when I pulled it off and so I cracked the ****s. I was also out of enough plasti dip to finish the job from scratch again.
Removing the grill was easier than expected but putting those parking sensors back on was a bitch. The wires are so short!
5) Air Intake added (Pod filter, pipe, clamps, heat shield and mounting bracket) and Engine Bay Degreased
It looks cool and sounds cool under throttle but not sure if the engine seems happy with it. It runs a lot smoother with the original intake setup so I have returned back to it. Any ideas?
6) Front licence plate holder delete
It already had two holes from previous owner drilling to far though. Just added two black caps I had for now. Might try and get some colour matching bumper plugs. Any idea which colour to order?
7) Additional foot well Red LED light bars
I ran the wires from the cigarette lighter in the back seats so tucked all the wires away through the centre console and then double sided taped the lights in. Forgot to get a photo of this. I will get one soon.
Clay bar, Scratch X, Polish and Wax.
Wanted to be sure all plasti dip residue was removed.
Didn't get finished;
- I had a rubber front lip to install but my double sided tape was useless. It says to use screw but don't really want to do that. Any ideas?
- Off car wheel and break clean/detail
- Painted brake callipers (thinking red) anyone had any luck with this?
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I thought I'd share my long weekends project with you as I had a play around with a few things that I've had on my growing list. I had a little break from work so kept my self busy. A few late nights were had though..
I've had the car for 7 or so months now and the only changes I had made were LED lighting throughout from the guys at Bling Auto Works in Clayton South VIC. Those guys were legends.
1) Exhaust
I went down to the Muffler Man in Prahran. After reading up on another thread. I told them I was looking for a little more noise. They cut out my middle suitcase and replaced it with a "J-pipe". It only took them 45 minutes and seemed to have quite a bit of experience with this setup. Basically resulted in me grinning from ear to ear [emoji51]
I will try and get a good video for you to upload. There is some drone in certain driving situations but I say the pros far out way the cons for now.
2) Blacked out the chrome trim (used 3 coats of black and 3 coats of glossifier plasti dip)
- window surrounds
- tailgate
- doors
- front grill upper thin strips and nose insert
What do you think!?
Taping up was a never ending story as I didn't want to get over any spray besides where I needed it.
3) Smoked lights
I also tried smoking the tail lights, front indicators and mirror indicators using plasti dip smoke.
I removed the tail light dip as I didn't like it.
4) Anthracite Grey Plasti Dip rear VW emblem, roof rails and front grill.
After going to the effort of taping and spraying all this up I again decided against it and removed it. I had a big hair fall in the grill which caused a hole when I pulled it off and so I cracked the ****s. I was also out of enough plasti dip to finish the job from scratch again.
Removing the grill was easier than expected but putting those parking sensors back on was a bitch. The wires are so short!
5) Air Intake added (Pod filter, pipe, clamps, heat shield and mounting bracket) and Engine Bay Degreased
It looks cool and sounds cool under throttle but not sure if the engine seems happy with it. It runs a lot smoother with the original intake setup so I have returned back to it. Any ideas?
6) Front licence plate holder delete
It already had two holes from previous owner drilling to far though. Just added two black caps I had for now. Might try and get some colour matching bumper plugs. Any idea which colour to order?
7) Additional foot well Red LED light bars
I ran the wires from the cigarette lighter in the back seats so tucked all the wires away through the centre console and then double sided taped the lights in. Forgot to get a photo of this. I will get one soon.
Clay bar, Scratch X, Polish and Wax. Wanted to be sure all plasti dip residue was removed.
Didn't get finished;
- I had a rubber front lip to install but my double sided tape was useless. It says to use screw but don't really want to do that. Any ideas?
- Off car wheel and break clean/detail
- Painted brake callipers (thinking red) anyone had any luck with this?
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