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k11 micra ally progress thread

what colour wheels


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IM BACK...
so i have came back to the micra world and some of you may or may not remember me. i oust to have a green k11 sr but stupidly sold it making it my bigest regret to date
heres a few pics
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so anyway after owning a corsa for a while and driving it into the ground i decided it was time for a new challenge. so out came the auto trader, ad trader, ebay, gumtree etc.....found a few bargains but they al seemed to be sold. then came across this micra. s reg 1.0l ally 71,000 miles, tax til the end of next month and mot till the end of december fsh and loads of receipts for 595. i went to view it and 10 mins later he accepted 550. he even borrowed me his house phone so i could swap my insurance so i drove it away there and then :).
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some of the service parts that also came with the car
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progress will be slow atm the minute as money is tight however simple jobs like de-badge, paint wheels etc will be done over the next couple of days.
all feed back welcome
thanks and great to be back :D



quick edit....
plans for the car are as follow:
1.tidy body work up, possible respray
2.coilovers wound as low as possible
3.lenso bsx alloy wheels on stretched tyres
4.3" roll tip exhaust
5.wind deflectors
6.rear led lights
7. possibly buckets or sr interior
8.1.3 16v dropped in.

theres loads of other things i want done but atm there the biggies so far
 

Dave_Ally

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Nice clean looking car (I love the Intense Blue colour on these cars!). I have the 5 door 1.3 Ally with the S/R and it's a lovely car. Will be watching this thread with interest. (Y)
 

micras69

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aye lol. going to take my time with this one. rushed into the last one lol. how much are coileys for the micra?

Good lad (Y) if you need a hand with out just giz a shout and I'll give you a hand with it. Coilovers your looking at about 600 big ones, I've got loads of parts I'll be getting rid of soon like that you might be intrested in

Martin
 
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Good lad (Y) if you need a hand with out just giz a shout and I'll give you a hand with it. Coilovers your looking at about 600 big ones, I've got loads of parts I'll be getting rid of soon like that you might be intrested in

Martin

yeah mate well let me know what you have got, as said money is tight atm as i have just got back from hols and bought this car lol

nice car, good news btw your car is still going about up here. i was nearly the owner lol

loved that car, wish i had it back lol
 
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well the sun is shining so decided to give the inside of the car tidyed up as there was grease and brown sticky patches, crisps and leaves and allsorts on the carpet and plastics lol.
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soon the be tidyed up
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also put a magic tree airfreshinger to freshing things up :)
cheers
 
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what a stressfull time i have had with my cd player. i didnt work when i got it so i thought it would just be unconnected. i was right. hoever there was a reason and this being the fact it needed an extra adaptor link thing. so off to halfords i went to buy one only for them to be comletley diffrint positions when connectedso that didnt work. i then used some old wires i had and sat there all day guessing which wire needed to connect to the other. just finished it now.
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waited all day to see this desplay lol
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not a big update but a worthy one considering the effort that went into it lol
 

Dave_Ally

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I had that problem with the headunit with a cheap Sony and the ISO adapter, I just let it reset itself everytime it turned off and lived with it for a few weeks - my Pioneer replacement fit right in without changing any wires. (Y)
 

micras69

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bsx rims eh? nicking my wheels now, carnt be seen with the same rims as a NE member :wow: gess ive got to find some other ones now
 
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I had that problem with the headunit with a cheap Sony and the ISO adapter, I just let it reset itself everytime it turned off and lived with it for a few weeks - my Pioneer replacement fit right in without changing any wires. (Y)
mine doesnt reset or anything its works perfect just without the adaptar lol.

whey nice one steve why a facelift though? i think you should aim for a prefacelift conversion.
i was wanting a pre facelift but everyone wanted stupid money for them and tbf i would only get a sr/super s pre facelift and i couldnt find one anywhere. if i did do the conversion i already have a sr/super s open mouth bumper ready lol. probly will stick with the face lift though as its more of a challenge to imo.
bsx rims eh? nicking my wheels now, carnt be seen with the same rims as a NE member :wow: gess ive got to find some other ones now
lol, i was thinking of ronal turbos but there far to expensive and will only be getting some if they come up cheep second hand lol
 
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just a quick question. do all micras only have an ajuster on the drivers side for the wing mirrors. im sure my old one had it on both sides. seems a bit silly really havin to open the window to ajust or even get out and walk around
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I had that problem with the headunit with a cheap Sony and the ISO adapter, I just let it reset itself everytime it turned off and lived with it for a few weeks - my Pioneer replacement fit right in without changing any wires. (Y)

I had that problem with a sony head unit before,the yellow and red wires should be in bullet connectors,just swap them over
some cars have them in different places on their connections and changing them over usually solves the problem
 
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My 93 LX had remote door mirrors on both sides.
im jelous:( lol
My Ally has both sr_steve. Maybe your passenger side was broken at some stage? :(
probably, trip to the scrappy is in order
I had that problem with a sony head unit before,the yellow and red wires should be in bullet connectors,just swap them over
some cars have them in different places on their connections and changing them over usually solves the problem
i have it all sorted and have had two different cd players wired up since then. cheers anyway mate (Y)
yea brand new with 195/50/15 tyres
thats canny like, its a 3 way race between bsx's, ronal turbos or 14" almera steelies painted white on 195/50/14. how do i go about getting tyre stretch, just buy a 185/50/14 instead of the 195. cheers
 

micras69

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A very good mate owns foxhuners tyres and alloys let me know when you want tyres and well go down and he'll do the strech for nowt
 

markbognor

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http://www.tyrestretch.com/index.php is a good resource for checking out how tyres will look.

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Thats a 185/50 on an 8" rim. You wont be getting any stretch on an OEM steel, unless they are banded. 7" wide rims are going to be straight side walled with 175s and a bit bulgy with 185/195s No idea what width the BSX's come in and you are most likely to find R10's in 7" flavour. I think micras look good on em - why should dubbers get all the cool wheels to themselves!
 
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A very good mate owns foxhuners tyres and alloys let me know when you want tyres and well go down and he'll do the strech for nowt
cheers mate
http://www.tyrestretch.com/index.php is a good resource for checking out how tyres will look.

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Thats a 185/50 on an 8" rim. You wont be getting any stretch on an OEM steel, unless they are banded. 7" wide rims are going to be straight side walled with 175s and a bit bulgy with 185/195s No idea what width the BSX's come in and you are most likely to find R10's in 7" flavour. I think micras look good on em - why should dubbers get all the cool wheels to themselves!

ah thats a big help mate cheers

whats peoples views on making it a sleeper ie white steelies lowered 60mm. just plain and subtle. would it work? and would it be much of a sleeper with the 1.3 engine in or would i need more power?
 

micras69

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Lol if you want sleeper I could put a GA16 in for you or build a wild N/A 1.3? Although many dubs have them White ats classics or cups with a nice strech would look b!tchin on a k11
 

markbognor

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I so want to see a well done K11 on classics, white detailed or black detailed - whichever was best for the body colour, if it was running nice and low with stock body & bumpers and packing a GA16 punch, well that would be the absolute business.
 

markbognor

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You'll have to do some research first - I've not phoned suppliers or anything but I haven't been able to pin down what the centre bore is, it could be a dub specific 57.whatever - though I'm sure I've seen them on BMW 2002s which I think have a spigot larger than our 59.1.

My money would be on black, what with the ammount of dark trim on a micra, but against your blue, with as much as possible colourcoded blue the white could look epic.

Something Traditional,

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Or go mad...

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micras69

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Mark that would be canni nice, I think you will like mine when it's done ;)

steve, there the ones, if you had the money I would say go with some schmid rims from deuchland (Y)
 

micras69

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What would look awsome would be classics in White insted of the black and the same color blue as your car for the out lining insted of the silver
 
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well had another huge step forward towards modifying the micra, eventually got rid of my old corsa with no tax or mot. took a depostit yesterday and getting the rest within the next two weeks. hes a mate so dont mind waiting lol. few pics her
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anyway went to bodyshop yesterday and got a qoute of £400 for a full respray including taking about a dozen dints out of both rear quaters lol so think im going to get that done first. however im starting to collect the pre facelift front end as i want an open mout grill and bad boy bonnet and i already have the custom open mouth super s siting there waiting :)
 
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ive found some nice 13" superlites, polished dish with anthracite centre for a fair price however they are 4*101.8. will thes fit, if not could they be ajusted? cheers
 
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tiny update, im not dead, this project is still running. im just kind of siting in a dead end atm as the car has been of the road for the last 2 month with no tax or insurance and work has been slow so havnt been able to do much about it. however all is better now. getting plenty of overtime in and car should be on the road 2 weeks on friday + a few small mods for example smoked headlights, side repeaters, flat wipers..... but the biggest step will be payday after this when hopefully i will have ebough money to drop it 60mm all round then start looking into new wheels.
once again just thought id show my face. bye for now people
 
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(jeremey clarkson voice) GOOD NEWS, im insured :) ,going to tax it now then the modding will finally begin. nothing much will happen this month as im on a strict £50.00 budget, hmm weel see how that go's lol. anyway update with pics soon

£50.00
-£31.98
=£18.02 left :) hmm what now

£18.02
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=£10.23

next trip to halfrauds should wipe most of the 10 pound out then thats me done for the month. like i said only smal mods, pics to follow
 
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well eventually i have some mods to shout about...eventually :eek: lol. anyway i had yesterday morning off and have today off so i have been cracking on with the odd little jobs that needed doing. so with the weather being decent for england i thought its the perfect time to start. went a bit crazy with the cam aswell:grinning:.
i ordered a few goodies last friday and they eventually arrived over the last few days.
first to arrive
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i thought the first thing im going to have to do is get rid of the disgusting chrome grill:sick:
second was flat wipers, because they were cheap and modernise it a bit
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as you can see by the pics below the car was filthy. i had been down a dirttrack on the way to the scrapyard and it was covered in mud
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so first thing to do was give it a bloody good clean
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the new parts
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how high is it :down:
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ok that was all of yesterdays work, now onto todays work
had some spare ford olympic blue paint of what i painted my bmx with so i did my front calipers
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so then after that i gave the car a polish using autoglym and it came up lovely, re laquerd all the black plastic trims ( fully reccomended ) and put a bit of tyre black on
results...
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all this effort was down to a good dinner
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nothing massive change just a bit of tlc but i think the front end looks a million times better now.
more to come soon, all positive and negative feedback welcome. cheers sr_steve.
 
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