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yes I agree with that on the chop with the kit and flares buit the other chop with just the wheels looks almost the same as in reality
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Here it is. The wagon is now on 20's.
 I am only runing spacers on the front but thyey are an extremely short term thing as I placed an order today for a custome set of adaptors in 45mm for the front and 15mm for the rear. the reason for theose sizes are to have the wheels sit out a little more to suit the flares and the small ones for the rear are because it will soon have an au xr ute lsd diff under it |
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here is a pic of one of the front flare on the car. I need to play with it a little more and then work something out for the front, but all in all not that hard. The other side is also on along with an un painted skirt and I fitted up nicer
 
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Ok both skirts are on and I started to attempt to modify the rear flares but in the mean time a few quick pics
   
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Well today I chopped up the venom rear bar and because of this being my first attempt at modifying/ making a kit plans kind of changed. I am trying to retain as much of the standard rear bar as possible, I was unable to fit the sides of the venom bar to the standar bar as the vent made it sit out to far at the bottom. So what I have done is use the bottom of the venom bar and started attatching it to the standard bar.
Now as I said I havent done this before I have been using expanda foam as a way to fill the gaps on the rear flare and rear bar to form a supports structure on which I can then use to do the fibre glass work. Is has done ok so far on the rear flares and unfortunately I ran out on one side of the rear bar, but hopefully this weekend I can get more and also get some fibre glass and get stuck into it. I have only 20 days to have the car ready for its first ever show and the flares should be done by sunday, but the rear bar could take a couple of weeks to sort out. Anyways here is a picture of the rear bar and flare awaiting more funds to complete  Now the top of the rear flare is not done. I had just put some vinyl over it to help with seeing the shape and to make it a little less dodgey looking when I had to drive the car. The bottom was covered as well but hasnt liked all the wet weather |
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The photochops look good man, can't wait to see it done for real.
Cheers ToranaGuy
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Still alot of work needed but can now start to see the shape its gonna be. I have to play around with the bottom of the rear bar to get the sides to flow with the flare, but hopefully by the end of the weekend it could be done
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spac wrote: Here it is. The wagon is now on 20's. I am only runing spacers on the front but thyey are an extremely short term thing as I placed an order today for a custome set of adaptors in 45mm for the front and 15mm for the rear. the reason for theose sizes are to have the wheels sit out a little more to suit the flares and the small ones for the rear are because it will soon have an au xr ute lsd diff under it There is NO WAY!! I would ever put spacers on a car  Ive seen what happens when they come undone and it's not pretty and VERY dangerous and they have to be tourqued up every couple days to stop the nuts coming loose. Not to mention that spacers are illegal and unroadworthy.......
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Thumpdaddy wrote: spac wrote: Here it is. The wagon is now on 20's. I am only runing spacers on the front but thyey are an extremely short term thing as I placed an order today for a custome set of adaptors in 45mm for the front and 15mm for the rear. the reason for theose sizes are to have the wheels sit out a little more to suit the flares and the small ones for the rear are because it will soon have an au xr ute lsd diff under it There is NO WAY!! I would ever put spacers on a car Ive seen what happens when they come undone and it's not pretty and VERY dangerous and they have to be tourqued up every couple days to stop the nuts coming loose. Not to mention that spacers are illegal and unroadworthy.......especially having 2!!! on each front wheel |
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The 20's were on the car for less the 36 hours. They arent on the car at the moment as I am waiting for billet adaptors to arrive. The rear wont be running any spacers or adaptors as its getting an au ute lsd diff and I am looking into doing a front au suspension job or using adaptors to just use on rare occassions untill I can do the au front suspension or an aftermarket big brake upgrade
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Ok, over the last few day alot of progress has happened. I an now at the stage where a fibreglass and bog mix are now being applied to the car. As you will be able to see in the pictures I have done something for the rear of the bar, started filling in the area on the front flares where the indicator goes, started intergrating the front flares in the the front bar, repairing the only visable dint on the car, started making the fuel filler cover smooth as well as working on the rear flares and the sides if the rear bar to make it look like it all belongs together. Once the main mods are strong enough on the rear bar I will be cutting out the center section and removing the moulds so I can then make the bar smooth.
So here are the current pictures. As you can see from the side shots, I have changed the side of the rear bar a bit since the last picture in order to make the rear flare and the rear bar flow together nicer     
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Ok well with crappy weather up here I have been limited but today decided to risk it and removed the moulds off the rear bar and started smoothing it all out. Still hoping to have it all done and painted by the end of the weekend
 
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By the weekend dude? Sounds like you will be pushing it, but work hard & you might get there.
Cheers ToranaGuy
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Yeah shouldnt be too hard as I have already got the shape at the front and the rear isnt to far off. Once I have it rough sanded it will be ready for a good coat of body filler prior to a good sand by hand and then paint. If I had a sanded I would be out there now getting it ready for the final few steps
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Yeah shouldnt be too hard as I have already got the shape at the front and the rear isnt to far off. Once I have it rough sanded it will be ready for a good coat of body filler prior to a good sand by hand and then paint. If I had a sanded I would be out there now getting it ready for the final few steps.
I only have until next friday to have it done anyways so I can spend the next day cleaning the car. I really want to have it painted this weekend so it has a week to sit before I give it a good cut and polish for the show |
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