Hey everyone. I've got most of you guys on Facebook but thought I'd stick a thread up anyway as it's way better to keep track of everything I've done, and also to say hi again to the people I haven't got on there. Safe to say I'm back and this will be my big project for the next few years.
I picked up this white 1.3GX last week for the grand sum of £175.
Pretty sweet right? It ticks all my prerequisites. Awesome colour, 1275 dizzy engine, 3 door, manual, low miles. The perfect base for a K11 if you ask me. It's kinda lame but I'm chuffed to have a white one, as it's in total contrast to my old black one, so it looks different from every angle. Same car, different perspective.
The car is solid, both sills have been done and painted black (eurgh), but it's tatty, the interior is nasty and stinks and the paint has faded like a MF. If anyone has any tips on how to get a white k11 gleaming, please share, as I don't think I've ever seen a white one without flat paint.
It took 5 days and I ended up buying a Super S body kit for it, in white, from a lovely chap in Swansea from the facebook group. I'm currently staying in Port Talbot and it was a 10 minute drive to collect all the bits so I felt like I'd hit the jackpot. I've got both bumpers, fogs and towing eye cover with a spoiler, plus the dude was generous enough to chuck in a pair of white wings and a pair of headlights. Doesn't hurt to have some spares, and If the wings clean up nice I'll probably replace my current ones as they're marked.
I started fitting the kit the night I got it, and it was a nightmare. Both headlights had deteriorated at the back where you tighten them into the front, so I basically had to rip them out as there was no way of un tightening the bolts. Once that obstacle was out the way I started attacking the final nuts on the front bumper, all of which snapped.
So the car currently looks like this, as I don't have all my tools in port talbot, a mate is popping over at the weekend to drill the ends out and chuck me a bunch of new hardware at the same time. Nothing is ever simple! Poor little thing!
Luckily the rear bumper was a doddle!
I'm here in Wales at the minute staying with family and working in their shop, hopefully I'll have enough cash for a set of coilovers and wheels which as always are the first things I'll get done, expect to see it low and on 15s by mid September.
For now, while I'm here, the focus is on getting it tidy. It's by no means in a bad state, it just needs a lot of love. I've given it a once over and a hoover out, once the body kit is finished it'll get a t-cut which I hope will bring the paint up nice and get the panels a little more evenly coloured. I'm removing all the stickers, side strips, side stripe decals and getting the paint as flat as I can. There's a few little bits of surface rust here and there which I've already got the paint and sandpaper to fix. My goal really is to get it as clean and mint as I can before the fun stuff starts. I've ordered a fresh set of alloy pressed plates which, when it's tidy with the body kit on, will finish it off and have it looking really smart.
I'm also looking for SR decals, I can find Super S ones but not the SR badges. Anyone know a place? I want to de sticker but that red and black SR badge will finish off the look perfect.
Also expect boost... This will be the second boosted Micra in the house...
OH also follow me on Instagram I love seeing what you lot are up to, I'm @harlenk11, I'll follow ya'll back!
I picked up this white 1.3GX last week for the grand sum of £175.
Pretty sweet right? It ticks all my prerequisites. Awesome colour, 1275 dizzy engine, 3 door, manual, low miles. The perfect base for a K11 if you ask me. It's kinda lame but I'm chuffed to have a white one, as it's in total contrast to my old black one, so it looks different from every angle. Same car, different perspective.
The car is solid, both sills have been done and painted black (eurgh), but it's tatty, the interior is nasty and stinks and the paint has faded like a MF. If anyone has any tips on how to get a white k11 gleaming, please share, as I don't think I've ever seen a white one without flat paint.
It took 5 days and I ended up buying a Super S body kit for it, in white, from a lovely chap in Swansea from the facebook group. I'm currently staying in Port Talbot and it was a 10 minute drive to collect all the bits so I felt like I'd hit the jackpot. I've got both bumpers, fogs and towing eye cover with a spoiler, plus the dude was generous enough to chuck in a pair of white wings and a pair of headlights. Doesn't hurt to have some spares, and If the wings clean up nice I'll probably replace my current ones as they're marked.
I started fitting the kit the night I got it, and it was a nightmare. Both headlights had deteriorated at the back where you tighten them into the front, so I basically had to rip them out as there was no way of un tightening the bolts. Once that obstacle was out the way I started attacking the final nuts on the front bumper, all of which snapped.
So the car currently looks like this, as I don't have all my tools in port talbot, a mate is popping over at the weekend to drill the ends out and chuck me a bunch of new hardware at the same time. Nothing is ever simple! Poor little thing!
Luckily the rear bumper was a doddle!
I'm here in Wales at the minute staying with family and working in their shop, hopefully I'll have enough cash for a set of coilovers and wheels which as always are the first things I'll get done, expect to see it low and on 15s by mid September.
For now, while I'm here, the focus is on getting it tidy. It's by no means in a bad state, it just needs a lot of love. I've given it a once over and a hoover out, once the body kit is finished it'll get a t-cut which I hope will bring the paint up nice and get the panels a little more evenly coloured. I'm removing all the stickers, side strips, side stripe decals and getting the paint as flat as I can. There's a few little bits of surface rust here and there which I've already got the paint and sandpaper to fix. My goal really is to get it as clean and mint as I can before the fun stuff starts. I've ordered a fresh set of alloy pressed plates which, when it's tidy with the body kit on, will finish it off and have it looking really smart.
I'm also looking for SR decals, I can find Super S ones but not the SR badges. Anyone know a place? I want to de sticker but that red and black SR badge will finish off the look perfect.
Also expect boost... This will be the second boosted Micra in the house...
OH also follow me on Instagram I love seeing what you lot are up to, I'm @harlenk11, I'll follow ya'll back!
