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15 April 2014, 09:50 PM
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Nope. Upgraded my poo wrx brakes to sti brembos a long time ago. Far superior.
Bear in mind though, if you decide to do that too you will need 5mm spacers for Rota grids to clear brembo calipers.
Bear in mind though, if you decide to do that too you will need 5mm spacers for Rota grids to clear brembo calipers.
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15 April 2014, 09:54 PM
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15 April 2014, 10:12 PM
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4 pots? With a descent pad and disc combo they should be satisfactory for the majority of drivers and at your power level, give Alyn at AS Performance a call/email (he dosent mind replying to e-mails or pm's ) , he has a wealth of knowledge and will point you In the right direction and give you a very good price I'm sure.
But an RA only weights 1190kgs
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15 April 2014, 10:18 PM
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Yeah i upgraded mine to four pots a few years back now, i do get them to fade now and again but only after sustained abuse over the likes of llangynidr mountain or epynt. On relatively cheap mintex pads aswell.
The weight diffence from newage to classic is circa 200kgs from
Memory (excludinng spec c's etc ) , and im not familiar with desent newage setup's so thought it best to refer jamie to alyn who is always keen to help and responds/calls back when he says he will. :-)
16 April 2014, 07:49 AM
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Thanks boys I will give Ayln a shout because mine are terrible, thery worse than my old civic type r brakes and they were pretty shocking.
Williams.84 - the plasti dip is really good once you get the nack of it. In terms of prepping I literally washed the car down, clay barred it to remove any contamination etc then dried it. I masked off the windows, wheels and trim. I applied two very light coats of plasti dip then 8 fairly heavy coats. This was done using the aerosol cans and as I said I couldve done a better job im not happy with the bonnet or roof but im redoing them before japfest.
I bought my cans from a company called cardipuk. They sell them for £7 a can instead of the plastidip £16 a can and they are UK based so delivery within 2 working days
Williams.84 - the plasti dip is really good once you get the nack of it. In terms of prepping I literally washed the car down, clay barred it to remove any contamination etc then dried it. I masked off the windows, wheels and trim. I applied two very light coats of plasti dip then 8 fairly heavy coats. This was done using the aerosol cans and as I said I couldve done a better job im not happy with the bonnet or roof but im redoing them before japfest.
I bought my cans from a company called cardipuk. They sell them for £7 a can instead of the plastidip £16 a can and they are UK based so delivery within 2 working days
16 April 2014, 06:24 PM
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Welcome to Scooby ownership, personally I think your car looks ace, nice to see something different..one thing to keep in mind no matter what you do to your car there will always be someone who does not like it, don't take it to heart..! not to different to the VAG forums..
16 April 2014, 09:19 PM
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Welcome to s-net. If from aberdare as well. Even though I dont reply much on here ☺. Plus I dont drive my scoob much, even less now with my baby boy just born.
Car looks nice. Keep up the good work.
Hopefully 1 day I will get an chance to meet you guys and girls.
Car looks nice. Keep up the good work.
Hopefully 1 day I will get an chance to meet you guys and girls.
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16 April 2014, 10:12 PM
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Welcome to S-net mate.
love the look of that in matt black plasti dip. Must have took you ages doing it with those small aerosol cans lol.
It might have been more cost/time effective to get paint spray system such as Wagner or Earlex type machines and bought the paint in 5L containers.
Plus everyone beware of using plasti dip on dodgy repaired body work as my mate discovered the hard way after he had done a bmw 320d (e90) for this lady in hot pink lol.
When she removed the pasti dip of the car , for some reason just a week after having it done. The dodgy filler job door repair she had done from someone else, came of with the the dip lol.
Which then she tried to take court action against my mate for, that he caused this damage lol
love the look of that in matt black plasti dip. Must have took you ages doing it with those small aerosol cans lol.
It might have been more cost/time effective to get paint spray system such as Wagner or Earlex type machines and bought the paint in 5L containers.
Plus everyone beware of using plasti dip on dodgy repaired body work as my mate discovered the hard way after he had done a bmw 320d (e90) for this lady in hot pink lol.
When she removed the pasti dip of the car , for some reason just a week after having it done. The dodgy filler job door repair she had done from someone else, came of with the the dip lol.
Which then she tried to take court action against my mate for, that he caused this damage lol
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Welcome buddy
Each to their own as the saying goes, I know a couple people who used that stuff now and said it's not bad tbf, and if it's easy to remove then jobs a good un
No doubt catch you at a meet sometime and I'm not far from you up in Hengoed.
Each to their own as the saying goes, I know a couple people who used that stuff now and said it's not bad tbf, and if it's easy to remove then jobs a good un
No doubt catch you at a meet sometime and I'm not far from you up in Hengoed.
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looks really good that. but I have heard some horror stories about Platidip tho: http://www.iwsti.com/forums/gd-exter...ip-w-pics.html
Having said that there have been loads of people using it with no issues
Anyway nice car and the alloys look superb
Having said that there have been loads of people using it with no issues
Anyway nice car and the alloys look superb
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