In recent years I've usually been found driving and drifting cheap RWD cars, which leads to a viscous cycle of buying, modifying, crashing, repair, repeat, which did sapped a lots of my money. Due to a fairly recent house purchase, I needed a little economical run around which I could have fun with, but wouldn't cost me the earth and free funds up for my long term Chevette project and the house. Which lead to the purchase of this little K10...
The policy I had on my previous car was a modified policy, Adrian Flux said that the Micra needed to be modified or they would cancel my policy and start a new one. The new policy option proved to be quite expensive, so given a 14 day deadline and having to provide with photographic evidence the car was modified I got to work. Sounds stupid but Adrian Flux said the car had to have at least three modifications. Soooooo I listed a change of wheels, lows and a steering wheel. I already had a angle grinder for lows, the XXRs from my previous car and a Richbrook steering wheel. All I needed was a steering wheel boss and a bit of time.
So I made the XXRs fit and cut the springs...
As you can see the 8.25x15" 0et wheels didn't really fit that well, even with smashing the crap out of them. The 185/55 tyres didn't help much either lol!
So out came the grinder and welder, I cut the arches out and fitted some universal overfenders I had originally bought for my Chevette...
Oh and I bought a dildo gear knob, seemed rude not too...
Then some bellend in a Transit van hit me in the lanes near my work, if I'd gone through the insurance it would have gone knock for knock so given the little damage to his van. We agreed to not claim. However it left the Micra looking a bit sad...
I managed to cable tie stitch the overfender back together...
I rolled around for a few weeks like this, until I found a replacement wing and light...
Doesn't look too rusty...
Tat-dar!!!!
The tyres on the XXRs were by now pretty knackered So I had two choices find some stupid sized 15" tyres to try and make the wheels fit properly or change the wheels. Markbognor of this parish tipped my off about a guy local to me who wanted to swap some 8x13" Wellers for some 15" wheel. So we did a deal which saw the Micra sitting on some more suitable wheels...
The 13's should allow for more lows once I've sorted some coilovers. As for the coilovers I had planned to go down the usual Polo route and use the top mounts from some broken S13 coilovers which I bought some time ago, for a different idea that never happened. Then I thought I might as well adapt the S13 coilovers, as they already have very similar style mounts to the K10. All I need to do was find some slightly more suitable springs, find some suitable inserts as one of the S13 ones was beyond repair and then make them fit! These are the coilovers...
So far I've found some suitable damper inserts (well once the bottom mount has been removed that is)...
Swapped the S13 springs for some Corsa and mk1 Golf springs...
And assembled one of the front coilovers...
For the fronts I need to cut down and redrill the bottom mount, but other than that it should be a pretty straight forward fit. These coilovers should offer a few advantages over Polo ones, mainly the fact they are pre-load adjustable. Which should give mega lows (once the arches have been cut out more), but still have plenty of suspension travel and not just sit on the bump stops.
Anyway advice and opinions are welcome
The policy I had on my previous car was a modified policy, Adrian Flux said that the Micra needed to be modified or they would cancel my policy and start a new one. The new policy option proved to be quite expensive, so given a 14 day deadline and having to provide with photographic evidence the car was modified I got to work. Sounds stupid but Adrian Flux said the car had to have at least three modifications. Soooooo I listed a change of wheels, lows and a steering wheel. I already had a angle grinder for lows, the XXRs from my previous car and a Richbrook steering wheel. All I needed was a steering wheel boss and a bit of time.
So I made the XXRs fit and cut the springs...
As you can see the 8.25x15" 0et wheels didn't really fit that well, even with smashing the crap out of them. The 185/55 tyres didn't help much either lol!
So out came the grinder and welder, I cut the arches out and fitted some universal overfenders I had originally bought for my Chevette...
Oh and I bought a dildo gear knob, seemed rude not too...
Then some bellend in a Transit van hit me in the lanes near my work, if I'd gone through the insurance it would have gone knock for knock so given the little damage to his van. We agreed to not claim. However it left the Micra looking a bit sad...
I managed to cable tie stitch the overfender back together...
I rolled around for a few weeks like this, until I found a replacement wing and light...
Doesn't look too rusty...
Tat-dar!!!!
The tyres on the XXRs were by now pretty knackered
So I had two choices find some stupid sized 15" tyres to try and make the wheels fit properly or change the wheels. Markbognor of this parish tipped my off about a guy local to me who wanted to swap some 8x13" Wellers for some 15" wheel. So we did a deal which saw the Micra sitting on some more suitable wheels...
The 13's should allow for more lows once I've sorted some coilovers. As for the coilovers I had planned to go down the usual Polo route and use the top mounts from some broken S13 coilovers which I bought some time ago, for a different idea that never happened. Then I thought I might as well adapt the S13 coilovers, as they already have very similar style mounts to the K10. All I need to do was find some slightly more suitable springs, find some suitable inserts as one of the S13 ones was beyond repair and then make them fit! These are the coilovers...
So far I've found some suitable damper inserts (well once the bottom mount has been removed that is)...
Swapped the S13 springs for some Corsa and mk1 Golf springs...
And assembled one of the front coilovers...
For the fronts I need to cut down and redrill the bottom mount, but other than that it should be a pretty straight forward fit. These coilovers should offer a few advantages over Polo ones, mainly the fact they are pre-load adjustable. Which should give mega lows (once the arches have been cut out more), but still have plenty of suspension travel and not just sit on the bump stops.
Anyway advice and opinions are welcome
