EU-Mania

It all started at the begining of 2007

Bought the car and started doing little bits, used it as an everyday car

Then since March 2008 I decided to go euro..... but with a twist

The phirm have been knocking out some gorgeous dubs with the backseats missing and a roll cage

Love this look so I took it to the extreme by stripping the whole lot, removal of sound deadening......... EVERYTHING lol





I wanted the roll cage to stand out so decided to go with an orange theme inside

Bought a set of cobra monaco s in black with orange embroidery and orange harnesses.





Then orange dash bits



Then orange roll cage, rear strut brace and front strut brace and engine bits





Then fitted FK coilovers



Then bought a set of pirelli p-slots, refurbished them diamond cut face gloss black inserts and wrapped them in toyo proxes t1-r 195/45/14.







On the car







And the car has stayed in my garge for the last 3 months

Then decided it didnt look right

So bought some new wheels off of wheel-whores.com

OZ turbo's 15x7j

Split them down ready to be painted



First job was to slit the head of 120 bolts using a slitting disc on a grinderette without damaging the wheel or burning my hand.







Ah too late!!! lol



Then using a hammer and chisel/punch I had to take the heads off



Then punch out the bolts





Then using a blade had to cut the old glue out, then using a heat gun, warm up the glue and gently tap the lip off using a dead blow hammer.



all four wheels split down



THE NEW 3" LIPS TO MAKE THEM 9j!!!!!!



Test fit the lips





Comparing the old lips to the new ones

Old lips





New lips





My new Toyo proxes T1-R. going to stretch 195/45/15 over a 9j




Back from the refurbishers



Built them back together

First thing....... the powdercoat meant the centre caps would not fit so i took a dremel to them



Then using sikaflex to seal the lip to the wheel and torqing up the bolts

Heres the finished result













STRETCHHHHH!!!

















Then into Xquisite for full re-spray and alot of smoothing

All the panels smoothed and a test fit of the wheels









The whole car





Smooth bonnet



Smooth wings



Smooth doors, keeping the handles



Smooth boot



Smooth rear washer jet



Smooth aerial



Smooth recess on top and bottom of spoiler





The roof painted in aston martin anthracite to match the wheels, aswell as the scuttle panel and the headlight inners being painted the same colour
Boot in primer



Car





Paint on the roof, top of boot and spoiler and show plate. Bottom of spoiler will be the same colour as the rest of the car









And as the car stands as of last night

Still needs the front door glass to go in, spoiler, handles, rear window strips,bumpers roof rails, and sideskirts......... then the wheels!!!









Few little probs such as where the shit bodyshop before smoothed my rear bumper, the filler didnt set properly and they painted on top of wet filler.

I have got brand new glass all round, so went to xquisite last nght with a couple of mates that work for autoglass to fit it, whilst putting the screen back in the sucker fell off and the screen landed on the bonnet so have got to get the bonnet re-sprayed. nothing to serious

Will hopefully be picking the car up on wednesday

Then starting the interior next weekend.

Flat door cards made from ply trimmed in alcantara as well as the boot panel, and going to smooth the lumps, lines and pockets in the dash and get it trimmed in alcantara.

And a little boot build in the spare wheel hole, with the wires and amp all hidden away.

Should all be completed by the end of the month hopefully

Thanks for reading

Derm

you legend so glad i've decided to keep mine now, also running 9j on mine looks like i've got competition!

could you pm me the price of all the bodywork done at xquisite?

I can't wait to see this car finished.

My Mk2 might not be euro but it doesn't stop me appreciating how much it suits the Punto.

OZ Turbo's with stretched tyres are just an awesome combo,

Awsome, nothing else needed to say

it duz look phat wot srta money did all that smothin nd respay set u back
cus im gettin a polo in january nd planin on smoothin an respayin it

the car looks hard man....dangerous...

btw, u got a m8 called josh...with a green polo kinda gay looking...lol

WOW, Really diggin the car dude, cant wait to see it finished.

Oooh love the contrast of the orange inside looks sweet mate bad ass :p

looks sick! very nice indeed!

yeah man looks great, keeping an eye on this!!!

stunning punto mate really like what your doing good job

lookin good m8 and wtf is that yellow car behind urs ??

yeah mate!! 195 on a 9" it's so fucking beautiful!!!

Geth wrote:lookin good m8 and wtf is that yellow car behind urs ??

Its a custom honda civic mate

Nice work mate Loving the wheels too

That is fucking sick! I saw it on the P slots and thought no way that just doesnt work but on the turbos it looks awesome.

Ive got a 195/45 on my 9's and it does give a nice stretch.

wow

thumbs up mate, cars looking phat

Didn't realise you were on here dude! Nearly there

wasnt feeling the p slots. these new rims are sex!
loving your motor!

Pea wrote:Didn't realise you were on here dude! Nearly there

Yeh mate getting there

cant help but think the centres should have been orange tho

victim wrote:cant help but think the centres should have been orange tho

It was considered mate, but I wanted to keep the orange inside.

It has also been suggested that I orange chequer the roof, but I have blown that idea out aswell

down to personal taste i suppose but i think both those suggestions sound awsome along with orange detailing on your show plates

loving that mate, those wheels are awesome