Up until now I never thought about blogging about my little blue turd but it seems the time has come. I bought it with around 50k on the clock and more dents than I could count... cracks in the bumper... rusty wings... and paint with more swirls than a 2 year olds canvas...
After many hours in the bay I polished the paint up the paint to an inch of its life and got some decent photos out of it.
Aaaaand then decided to scream bugger it and purchase a preface swap along with a set of alloys off a Mystique I had luckily found at a local scrappy.
Soon came the preface swap which I badly rattle canned in the freezing cold due to impatience. This followed by reinstalling my facelift bumper until eventually I got my hands on an SR bumper and wrap around spoiler
To skip through the rest the interior swap was from a 1.4 sport+ which is now getting the addition of EP3 Type R seats due to them being a much more supportive seat than stock.
Performance wise we have the CG13DE married up with a 1.0 gear box, giz fab lower braces, gizfab panhard, gizfab strut braces front and rear (coming soon), a cheapo boi intake with a duct running from the grill to the filter itself. And although not a performance upgrade as such the exhaust has had all heatshields removed and replaced with titanium heat wrap leading to a sportex back box.
The future?
Lowering is 100% on the list. Oil cooler plans may go ahead for behing the cutouts if the plate holders dont get sold and I return to a standard sized plate. Grill and bumper need to be resprayed and mesh redone. Small carbon accents will be added in various places including dash and door cards with the rocker cover being resprayed.
I have probably missed a few things but I shall try to keep ontop of updates now both here and on instagram (@franken_mikey)
Happy reading
Sent from my SM-G930F using Micra Sports Club mobile app
After many hours in the bay I polished the paint up the paint to an inch of its life and got some decent photos out of it.
Aaaaand then decided to scream bugger it and purchase a preface swap along with a set of alloys off a Mystique I had luckily found at a local scrappy.
Soon came the preface swap which I badly rattle canned in the freezing cold due to impatience. This followed by reinstalling my facelift bumper until eventually I got my hands on an SR bumper and wrap around spoiler
To skip through the rest the interior swap was from a 1.4 sport+ which is now getting the addition of EP3 Type R seats due to them being a much more supportive seat than stock.
Performance wise we have the CG13DE married up with a 1.0 gear box, giz fab lower braces, gizfab panhard, gizfab strut braces front and rear (coming soon), a cheapo boi intake with a duct running from the grill to the filter itself. And although not a performance upgrade as such the exhaust has had all heatshields removed and replaced with titanium heat wrap leading to a sportex back box.
The future?
Lowering is 100% on the list. Oil cooler plans may go ahead for behing the cutouts if the plate holders dont get sold and I return to a standard sized plate. Grill and bumper need to be resprayed and mesh redone. Small carbon accents will be added in various places including dash and door cards with the rocker cover being resprayed.
I have probably missed a few things but I shall try to keep ontop of updates now both here and on instagram (@franken_mikey)
Happy reading
Sent from my SM-G930F using Micra Sports Club mobile app
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