E10 Corolla Something A Little Different

April 20, 2010

This is My 1st car.a 94 3dr 1.3 corolla. My brother and me bought it well over a 2years ago. I couldn't insure it (because I was still in school Hence "WE" bought it ) I decided hay borther dose body work it'll b cheap do it up so we started it

The car was like this

Then we decided to do sumthing we neva seen before on a corolla, but thats not sayin it has been done. we flushed the grill into the bonnet and did a kinda bad boy look.

We then started the front bumper still tryin do do something different buy not to mad so we flushed the repeater holes in the bumper and fitted a front spliter

I re primed the bonnet i always prime 2 times turns out better

Decided to flush the door mouldings but keep the line on top keep some of it genuine

:o) .

also got supra copy side skirts firber glass and flushing them on like you do

and agin primed 2nd time

Then i desided to do the back bumper again different. we'r putting a dc5 back lip and flushing it onto the back bumper

now iv started the other side but because its costin me money its now in the small shed and worked on wen im quite.

There is a few other ideas that ill keep shut bout and as soon as iv more don ill post them let me no your taugh's on it bad or gud thanx

its been a while since there was any thing done with this car so now things got quite so i got the finger out

now its filled, prime it up,

Blocked it down and primed it up again.

and an up close look

Right only really decided the colour today so decided to get some colour on, so preped the inside's of the door's and pillers

The colour, lacker, hardener, thinners, gun's and pre clean

After she all cleaned down and tacked she got her 1st bit of paint, the main layer (Ground coat)

After it was fully covered and flashed off, gun cleaned she got her top layer (Finished coats)

Its very Transparent but look's the job

April 20, 2010

Just another few quick updates because of lack of room i had to spray the rest of the stuff separate.

Now here is a few pic's just an update didn't get a hole lot done was a bit tired and lazy LOL! anyway

The brother had saved a small little bit (not easy wen you not working) anyway because i was making progess he bought

Lights

40mm Lowering Springs

Wind breakers

White Dial's

Should look well wen back together. All the small bits

add up.

After that i had a suprise for him

The paint Code HA! HA! (alot of lad's repaint cars and never put this anywere and its a pain in the @$$)

I was mad to see how the car looked painted just to be sure we picked the right colour so i painted a small bit of it to see

Straight looking if i do say so my self (you'd hardly think there was any filler:rofl:)

Then all we did was fit everything back so it kinda looks like a car again and there was a small bit of filling left to do so how it looks now

The interior

Inside the bonnet

Today i got an other small bit don with the car.

Masked and ready for Stonechip

After that i Primed the rest of the little marks, Door handle's and Spoiler

April 20, 2010

We decided we didn't like the back bumper it made the car look to square were mad enough doing the skirts. so we bought a 2nd hand one with mud flaps.

Got the inside of the bonnet and wings painted.

The middle of the front panel was black so i did the same looked better.

Test fitted the headlights.

How it looked last monday all ready for paint.

The man i rent the booth off couldn't give it to me till today, so nothing done all week. Then this morning we got going with it even if i had hoped to be finished by weekend. It'll just have to wait another week. So today

All masked and prep & ready for paint

Its Ground coat

And after 6 coats of red dye lacker and 2 coats clear coat (just over 3/4 of a gallon of lacker and 250g of hardner used)

April 20, 2010

Today we got the car sanded for the last time. Because there is 8 coats of lacker on the car, it was a small bit lumpy so sand the car down with 2000 sandpaper and repolish it back 2 a glass shine.It takes 28 days for the lacker to set properly thats way i left it till today to sand it down and ploish it back up tomorrow. So after it was sanded we stuck in the lowering springs and new drop links to drop it down a little on the new wheels he bought over the weekend tell me what you think.

The springs

The wheels (Rota Flashbacks)

and the car flatin and lowered

Right got the car buffed polished and fitted it back together, a lot of pictures And dont be afraid to give your opinion.

The difference between buffed an flated part

After the hole car was done

All back together and cleaned inside and out

The mud flaps trying to take the look off the back bumper been to high

The finished JOB!!!

And thats it (Cheeky monkey) For now

April 20, 2010

as i said before, lovely job, you owe your bro millions B)

any other plans, engine mods ?

still needs something on the rear bumper, even if you spray the mud flaps it will bring the bumper lower, but may look tacky, but needs something.

so you on the road now lad ? some motor to start off in :drool:

i started in a !Removed! punto, :ffs:

April 20, 2010

all credit to you - very nice work. i'm not a fan of kitted cars but that is well executed. my doors are smoothed on mine - but still need painting. luv the lights - are the the ones fe the states?

are those tein springs? the fensport springs give a much better drop and make the car look much better. nice choice of wheels :toast: