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bigrich690
First off, i have a previous project thread from last year but its kinda messy and hoping that this time it will go a bit better, so bare with me.
I'll get straight to it, I have a Arctic 182 that i bought summer 2007 so coming up 3yrs of ownership, and still going strong.
A slight jump from a VTR to a 182sport was a nice leap and never looked back since.
She is a 2004 so one of the first of her kind (182s)
She was pretty much standard without either of the cup packs, but the previous owner had lowered her, was never sure exactly how low but after a few years i'd worked out the back was low by 30mm and still guessing to this day about the front but would say 50mm-ish?
So here she stood in the beginning.
After owning her for a while and getting used to the power i bought some aero wipers and also got me a cup spoiler, her she is along side a standard silver one.
A few more months went by and i started to really like the look of the Trophy wheels, but 16" wasn't enough for me so i bought me a set of Speedline Corse Turinis in anthracite and in 17" which i love even to this day.
Then i decided to upgrade my Discs and pads and colour my calipers yellow, here she sits next to my old mans porgi.
Here is what the wheels look like with my home made centres with the diamons, waiting on spray by this point.
And here is with them done.
And this is how close the bumper gets when leaving the works car park!
Thank god i dont have a cup splitter!
Then i got me a new exhaust system.
Old one!
This is how she sat for a while.
This on my 22nd birthday last year an old woman decided to give me a birthday pressie i wouldn't forget!
So after messing around with insurance stuff finally got her in for repairs...
Once she was fixed she stayed the same for a while, went to a few shows with some V-DUB friends of mine, there were some nice sunny days
As you can see my exhast had started to sag by now.
She was doing good for a while, then as summer came to an end last year i did a TUR-D in the road and "SCRATCHED" my front bumper on a curb and did this.....
Also got a crack in one of my speedlines so luckily i had a set of 182 cup wheels in my garage which made the car park at work even closer on the front bumper!
So as you can see i was rolling on 182 wheels for a bit and the speedlines started gathering dust in the garage waiting on my move on what to do?
Exhaust still hanging down here.
Then on way to work hit a chuffin rat with feathers!
Dam think pushed my grill outta place and made a mess grrrr....
Anyway hit another dry spell so here were a few pics when my mate bought his Meggy 225.
Here he is NOT doing the photo any justice at all, his car is wasted, as he cant drive for s**t!
This was at my first yorkshire meet back end of last year, not many turned up but was still good for me, put the speedlines on for this day as it usually takes a few days for the airs to go down on the cracked rim.
Then i had a bit of a bump in my speedies in the cumbria area with some mates on a country drive, ended up with a wheel like this.....
....which i wasnt crazily upset about as this was the wheel with the crack in it which was only gonna push me to buying a new rim.
This was the more expensive part....
Luckily it wasnt that bad i needed a new shock absorber, a new wish bone and wheel(and a new tire)
Here she is going away to be repaired at my dads.
Once that was all done and repaired i was stuck driving with 2 speedlines and 2 182 wheels as one of the 182 wheels now has an egg growing on the side of it and the other had a bald tire.
So my next plan whilst saving up was to lower the back some more, i was always wanting to do this but never got round to it so didnt take me long to find these.....
90mm custom lowering springs.
I had to swap the wheels round as the speedlines where catching to f**k in the arches so swapped them round.
By this point i'd bought new hangers for the backboxes which was just as well or i might have had an accident with the works car park and the back boxes!
As you can see it was just a little bit too low for my taste, if i had front coilovers then it would have looked better but i liked the front as it was, plus the ride was way too harsh for me, 3 days and my back was killing and as soon as i had a passanger it started to catch in the arches, as i said in the beggining of my thread, i worked out what springs i had at the back, this is my technical data lol
So i did a deal with a guy on here and we swapped and i know its a crap photo but this is how she stood when fitted at work, i also fitted a cup splitter too, which mean i had to park at the front car park at work.
Then these arrived for my speedlines.....
.....and a few days later this arrived......
Everything was all good again all through christmas and the snow, think everyones got a photo or two of theres in the snow at some point
Then had to do this......
Because my alternator went and see the picture, as many of you know its a b**ch to pull out if you got aircon!
Once that was done, had my Full service done (finally) cost me an arm and a leg but its done now all stamped up and also got another crack in the speedlines, is there a common fault with these or something coz thats the second one now? so back to 2 speedlines and 2 182s.
Anyway, took the tail pipes off the other day....
Gave them a scrub up and took them to my papas and he buffed them up on the machine for me.
And now they are gleeming!
And this is how she stands today......
Got a few more plans for her still,
Gonna get my standard 182 silver wheels refurbed and sprayed another colour(not gonna say what colour, keep for a suprise)
got these ready and waiting to go on them
Also want to get my speedlines sorted out two coz i miss having them on full time too.
Need new brakes so gonna get those done at some point but the ones i have on are ok just on there way out.
Got her in for MOT next week so waiting on a hazard switch as mine dont wanna work anymore.
And thats it for now, hope you had fun reading this as much as i did writting it, All comments welcome, can't wait to see what you all think!
I'll get straight to it, I have a Arctic 182 that i bought summer 2007 so coming up 3yrs of ownership, and still going strong.
A slight jump from a VTR to a 182sport was a nice leap and never looked back since.
She is a 2004 so one of the first of her kind (182s)
She was pretty much standard without either of the cup packs, but the previous owner had lowered her, was never sure exactly how low but after a few years i'd worked out the back was low by 30mm and still guessing to this day about the front but would say 50mm-ish?
So here she stood in the beginning.
After owning her for a while and getting used to the power i bought some aero wipers and also got me a cup spoiler, her she is along side a standard silver one.
A few more months went by and i started to really like the look of the Trophy wheels, but 16" wasn't enough for me so i bought me a set of Speedline Corse Turinis in anthracite and in 17" which i love even to this day.
Then i decided to upgrade my Discs and pads and colour my calipers yellow, here she sits next to my old mans porgi.
Here is what the wheels look like with my home made centres with the diamons, waiting on spray by this point.
And here is with them done.
And this is how close the bumper gets when leaving the works car park!
Thank god i dont have a cup splitter!
Then i got me a new exhaust system.
Old one!
This is how she sat for a while.
This on my 22nd birthday last year an old woman decided to give me a birthday pressie i wouldn't forget!
So after messing around with insurance stuff finally got her in for repairs...
Once she was fixed she stayed the same for a while, went to a few shows with some V-DUB friends of mine, there were some nice sunny days
As you can see my exhast had started to sag by now.
She was doing good for a while, then as summer came to an end last year i did a TUR-D in the road and "SCRATCHED" my front bumper on a curb and did this.....
Also got a crack in one of my speedlines so luckily i had a set of 182 cup wheels in my garage which made the car park at work even closer on the front bumper!
So as you can see i was rolling on 182 wheels for a bit and the speedlines started gathering dust in the garage waiting on my move on what to do?
Exhaust still hanging down here.
Then on way to work hit a chuffin rat with feathers!
Dam think pushed my grill outta place and made a mess grrrr....
Anyway hit another dry spell so here were a few pics when my mate bought his Meggy 225.
Here he is NOT doing the photo any justice at all, his car is wasted, as he cant drive for s**t!
This was at my first yorkshire meet back end of last year, not many turned up but was still good for me, put the speedlines on for this day as it usually takes a few days for the airs to go down on the cracked rim.
Then i had a bit of a bump in my speedies in the cumbria area with some mates on a country drive, ended up with a wheel like this.....
....which i wasnt crazily upset about as this was the wheel with the crack in it which was only gonna push me to buying a new rim.
This was the more expensive part....
Luckily it wasnt that bad i needed a new shock absorber, a new wish bone and wheel(and a new tire)
Here she is going away to be repaired at my dads.
Once that was all done and repaired i was stuck driving with 2 speedlines and 2 182 wheels as one of the 182 wheels now has an egg growing on the side of it and the other had a bald tire.
So my next plan whilst saving up was to lower the back some more, i was always wanting to do this but never got round to it so didnt take me long to find these.....
90mm custom lowering springs.
I had to swap the wheels round as the speedlines where catching to f**k in the arches so swapped them round.
By this point i'd bought new hangers for the backboxes which was just as well or i might have had an accident with the works car park and the back boxes!
As you can see it was just a little bit too low for my taste, if i had front coilovers then it would have looked better but i liked the front as it was, plus the ride was way too harsh for me, 3 days and my back was killing and as soon as i had a passanger it started to catch in the arches, as i said in the beggining of my thread, i worked out what springs i had at the back, this is my technical data lol
So i did a deal with a guy on here and we swapped and i know its a crap photo but this is how she stood when fitted at work, i also fitted a cup splitter too, which mean i had to park at the front car park at work.
Then these arrived for my speedlines.....
.....and a few days later this arrived......
Everything was all good again all through christmas and the snow, think everyones got a photo or two of theres in the snow at some point
Then had to do this......
Because my alternator went and see the picture, as many of you know its a b**ch to pull out if you got aircon!
Once that was done, had my Full service done (finally) cost me an arm and a leg but its done now all stamped up
and also got another crack in the speedlines, is there a common fault with these or something coz thats the second one now? so back to 2 speedlines and 2 182s.Anyway, took the tail pipes off the other day....
Gave them a scrub up and took them to my papas and he buffed them up on the machine for me.
And now they are gleeming!
And this is how she stands today......
Got a few more plans for her still,
Gonna get my standard 182 silver wheels refurbed and sprayed another colour(not gonna say what colour, keep for a suprise)
got these ready and waiting to go on them
Also want to get my speedlines sorted out two coz i miss having them on full time too.
Need new brakes so gonna get those done at some point but the ones i have on are ok just on there way out.
Got her in for MOT next week so waiting on a hazard switch as mine dont wanna work anymore.
And thats it for now, hope you had fun reading this as much as i did writting it, All comments welcome, can't wait to see what you all think!
