172 cup project, ultraleggera content....

[jack_kemp]

^^^thought ultras were lighter? Looks nice jack. I'm sure my 15" ultras rub with r888 fitted. Can't remember the offset mind. Are you running spacers?

Cheers! No spacers yet, but it's only on Sportlines at the mo, may change when I get coilovers.

Haha I wa waiting for this update. Good effort!

I love it stripped Wish I'd done it a long time ago!

Sounds like you have some big plans - you got that engine yet?

No Basically I've had some issues with work over the last few months, they owe me quite a lot of money; so it's delayed my plans for now. Just hope they get their act together soon so I can get it sorted, I hate messing people around!

 

[lindleyp]

Nice work, its coming along nicely!

With regards to headlining, i havnt had any condensation issues as i have removed everything so the cold/heat passes right through the car on mornings so outside air and inside air is neutral more or less

 

[jack_kemp]

Nice work, its coming along nicely!

With regards to headlining, i havnt had any condensation issues as i have removed everything so the cold/heat passes right through the car on mornings so outside air and inside air is neutral more or less

Cheers
You say everything.... is that including the dash and what not?
I've taken all of the rear out and have just bought some carbon door cards. All the carpet is out, I've just fixed the mats to the floor with velcro.

 

[jack_kemp]

More updates!

Yozza race, ordered.
Bought some carbon door cards from Maynard
Ordered a Bimarco (as soon as I hear back from Tom with a revised price)
Ordered a TRS driftworks 4 point Harness (in orange) to go with the new seat.
Ordering new rear disks and pads on Tuesday as soon as places are open again!
Bought some Focus ST orange paint and will be going to town on the diamonds and bullets on Monday!

I'll post some pictures as things arrive / get done.

 

[Jekyll]

i love this little beast. every time i see this it makes me want to get rid of my standard wheels and get ultraleggaras. like it now its stripped (something else im contemplating). you say it doesnt make that much difference to noise, what about the way it drives? new upgrades sound sweet, i will be keeping an eye on this project.

 

[jack_kemp]

i love this little beast. every time i see this it makes me want to get rid of my standard wheels and get ultraleggaras. like it now its stripped (something else im contemplating). you say it doesnt make that much difference to noise, what about the way it drives? new upgrades sound sweet, i will be keeping an eye on this project.

Cheers dude
It's definitely made a good difference to the way it drives, feels much lighter. The balance is a little bit off at the moment but I'm hoping that getting buckets and a cage will correct the weight distribution again.

 

[jack_kemp]

Couple more small updates....

I decided I didn't like my odd coloured bullets, covered in little bubbles of corrosion, so I set about them with some spray paint.

I ended up getting some Orange enamel spray paint instead of the ST orange that I was intending to get but I'm not sure that I like the colour, it looks good in the sun, but too 'skin coloured' in the shade. I'm going to buy a brighter Orange (perhaps VW brilliant orange?) tomorrow and redo them.

My OMP boss arrived this morning so I finally got to fit my new wheel!

It looks beautiful and is an enormous improvement over the melted, electrical tape covered crap that came off. The only trouble is that, my horn wires somehow got damaged, meaning that, every time I turned left, my horn would sound. INCREDIBLY embarrassing and quite a few angry people later, i decided to just tear it off. So a job for tomorrow is now to repair the wiring that I should never have pulled off in the first place.

 

[Cupman29]

Wheel looks the dogs bangly bits. Cant wait for my name to get to the top of the list!

Hope you get your wiring issues sorted as I can imagine it could be quite embarassing.

 

[Fletcher]

Wheel looks good. I love mine. A massive improvement over the huge standard steering wheel.

 

[arney101]

ah thought i saw you the other day but then saw the orange and had wondered if it was you still, point proven

 

[jack_kemp]

Track day at Bedford....

I definitely need some track day rubber.

My <1000 mile old hankook's are now FUBAR.

Rears: ( and what the fronts used to look like)

And the post track day fronts....

 

[Stedman]

Sorry about that

 

[ROB91]

love the wheels......

 

[ZSCLIO]

I know this is so old but what off set are your ultralegerras?

 

[andyj007]

if op comes back whats the gear lever thingy...

 

[green]

I know this is so old but what off set are your ultralegerras?

I've got a set in ET 38, no rubbing at all and that's with coilovers and track tyres

 

[ZSCLIO]

I've got a set in ET 38, no rubbing at all and that's with coilovers and track tyres

Is that with 15's or 16's?

 

[green]

That's with 15's..with 195 tyres.