1L Micra, loads of ideas, even more fun!

Okay, so I have had my Micra a year and a half now, and it is safe to say it as had a fair few changes, paint related, But, now I have a clear understanding of what I want to achieve on it before the gearbox goes.. (Gearbox whining) And I will run through with yall what has been done on it previously.

It was designed to go full Rat when I got it, but times have changed and so has the ideas It will still e going part rat at least..
 
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As I got it, Completely standard, with horrible wheel trims.. all for £500 with only 2 previous owners.

Now the fun begins.

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Trims went first,
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Then along came my paint, Colourful I must say o_O



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When I bought it the driver side head light had a massive chip in it, So I replaced it with a standard one, then I took bot apart and sprayed the interior shiny bits black
Heres a before and after
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I redone my Interior as well, from The horrible grey to black, I see a theme going on here..
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It has been sitting for about 8 months by this time and would stay that way till Christmas 2014..


By then, (I have a love of stickers by the way :oops:) I was aiming to have it pretty much covered in the things.
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Then I actually took my driving test :D Passed first time and got insurance for the next week, leaving me with a bit of a shock, (It had a Black box fitted £1000 off insurance..) The car had to be completely Standard :eek: for it to be fitted, So with less then 7 days before it was fitted I had to convert it back, as much as possible to standard :eek:o_O which meant all the speakers had to come out, Sub out, all wires, I had under seat lights that I fitted as well they had to go.. all the green had to be Black or Grey.. I went with Black since I hate Gray trim with a passion, And to my by now horrible situation, all the stickers had to go.. :mad: I worked through out the week day after work, in the dark removing them buggers and that weekend was plain spray painting..

And the finished result was, to my disappointment rather dark and non-colourful looking.

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Once the Box was fitted Them horrible trims came off, that Night in fact! and my Sub and speakers went straight back in, wiring up in the dark ftw :oops: I also fitted the 30mm spacers I had for it on the rear.
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I bought another K11 in March as well
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I sold that a few months ago though, it was only brought to sell.
 

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It got a new wing, and a couple of other extras..

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Colour matched by Halfords!

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I got a 4-2-1 manifold from a kind fellow at Rat-Look going by the name of KlingKlangMan

and bought it a present, a new back box
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Only problem with this was, It sat too damn low, and then it happened, Reversing into a parking space with a bush on the curb, Bang, bye bye exhaust.. :eek: I had to get a new center and rear box and currently have it as standard :eek:


As you can see from this photo, when I removed the visible Green the spare wheel did not cross my mind, and thus it still has its green, this was my experimental wheel so it does have a "Banger-racing" style design, in keeping with the Rat side of this car.
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I am looking at getting the after-market HID headlights for it, which are £300, I'm still deciding on whether to fork out on them though..
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I got some alloys for it,15"s that had 185 65 15 tyres on them, so I had scraping galore or the rear and scrubbing on the front, they are currently off the car awaiting tyres which I will be getting after I have finished with my other Boot and doors.
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I'm also refurbing the alloys in Matt again but to a better quality, as they where they was only on the car for a week so I only gave them a quick spray over, but I'm getting 165 50 15s for when I finish them, which will be once I finish my boot and doors, which I am keeping closely under wraps from any forum till ;) I have had some lowering shocks and strings made for it as well which again will go on with the boot and doors, along with a smoothed rear bumper and a new rear exhaust box (Centre is already De-boxed)

That's it for now guys, Will get some pictures of it as I have not washed it in a week :p
 

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Thanks man, when I eventually finish the boot and doors it'll look even better, I've had part after part arriving this week, and I'm taking it into work Saturday to do a oil and filter change, rocker gasket and find out where the hell some damn knocking noise is coming from, Have a feeling it is the o/s Track rod end and n/s strut top mount..
 
Just found a two door sport plus, in black, up in Worthing YAY!!!! That's the one I really, really want.
Will speak to the geezer tomorrow hopefully. Watch this space (I keep saying that!)
Anybody want a 5 door sport plus, in black?????
What's the nearest airport to Worthing?
 
Yes great paint work. I have a t reg one I've been wanting to do sooooo many paint jobs to but haven't got the skill. I have practiced on few parts tho but you have definitely inspired me to go ahead. :D
 
Yes great paint work. I have a t reg one I've been wanting to do sooooo many paint jobs to but haven't got the skill. I have practiced on few parts tho but you have definitely inspired me to go ahead. :D

I can offer the advise of not using Halfords paint, I'v found it is really thin and all the cans I have had have come out crap..
 
Oh no lol. I've just bought a second can of red flexible paint from halfords. Whats the best brand to use in terms of spray cans?
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Wanted to see Wht a bad boy bonnet would look like. So I thought I'd try using vinyl wrap. Dosn't look too bad.
 

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Just got these off davyboy. Now looking sweet. Plus I've got a rev counter (finaly) :D
 

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I agree it did look bad when it was green :p but I used to love watching the commoners staring at it and reading all the stickers, would be there about 10 minutes :confused:
 
Tbh it's not as bad as a pug estate I was behind yesterday... Had lower than your nans nipples all over it and it was only dropped like 35mm


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I have turned to the dark side and am buying a 1.9 tdi Renault megane scenic mk1 facelift, may start running 2 cars for the shear hell of it :p
 
Right, that's the number plate relocated, new headlight and LED H4 bulbs for them, passenger door swapped back over and other, small unnoticeable things like new door locks and new handles, scoured Halfords for AW6K lava red paint with no luck, But, heyhoe, that's the problem with having an abnormal paint code.. looks like imam have to seek the body repair shop over the road from where I work..

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I promise pictures tomorrow, But I fitted and wired the front fogs up, sprayed the interior cluster surround, fitted front splitter and added a bung to where the rear wiper used to be.

Lowering kit arrived, dunno when I will be able to fit it though
 
It finally stopped raining, so I took a sneaky picture of the outside and sprayed the inside of my rear wheel arches :) When I get the chance I'm going to re paint the black trimmings since the greens coming back through :/

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Following on from what is currently being a crap week, the timing chain on "SuperBat" (as named by my Cubs) has now developed a rattle, Anyone have any rough ideas how long they can last like this? Thinking of doing the 1.3 conversion earlier then expected, maybe even buying the rotten 2.0 P11 Primera that's around my way for the engine..
 
Thank you for that bit of reassurance Infinity, I fitted my new rear "Door" cards today
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They are actually a darker purple then what they appear..
Also, I'm two weeks away from lowering, going to try and get my new tyres ordered soon as well, I'm going with 195.50.15 Yokos :)

Also I'm getting stared at again, not for tyres scraping on wheel arches tho, for the engine sounding like a tin of broken bearings, atleast I can't hear the knock from the lower arm :oops:
 
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