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Re: Big Al's slippery slope
« Reply #90 on: September 09, 2010, 04:30:30 pm »
Car looks well smart, love the rear lights   :jumpmove:

any part numbers and prices of the R32 rear?

Part # 1K6 807 433 C GRU for the bumper, (though its listed as a spoiler)
£200 primed for the bumper, £95 for the lower part, £15 per reflector.

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Re: Big Al's slippery slope
« Reply #91 on: September 09, 2010, 05:32:21 pm »
Car looks well smart, love the rear lights   :jumpmove:

any part numbers and prices of the R32 rear?

Part # 1K6 807 433 C GRU for the bumper, (though its listed as a spoiler)
£200 primed for the bumper, £95 for the lower part, £15 per reflector.
Thanks for that  :happy2:
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Re: Big Al's slippery slope
« Reply #92 on: September 10, 2010, 08:41:36 am »
just read through this thread, very nice looking motor  :happy2: nice mods too....

whats next then?

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Re: Big Al's slippery slope
« Reply #93 on: September 10, 2010, 10:00:28 am »
just read through this thread, very nice looking motor  :happy2: nice mods too....

whats next then?

 :wink:

Glad you like it mate, need to get it into town and put on some nice pictures.
New wheels next week, engine cover mod, matt black wrap for the front grille,  Hopefully a new splitter, and over the winter going to go for a Revo remap at some point. Think that's about it for now!

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Re: Big Al's slippery slope
« Reply #94 on: September 16, 2010, 05:32:29 pm »
Yet again, a small update (and another apology for hte crap drive pictures)

Firstly I got my windscreen fixed last week, fortunately the rain sensor was still intact, as that would have been another annoying expense.

Got a parcel on Tuesday off a dirty five. Dirty dirty stuff!!! My new set of AMG Aero alloys, which 20 minutes later were down at A1 being wrapped in the nicest tyres ever, Sessantas, feels much nicer to drive on already than the Falkens.
Wheels are 18", tyres are 225, wish I had been a little braver and gone for 215's maybe. 
As you can see from the pics, I think I need to have the wheels off shortly so that I can wind the Bilsteins down a bit to get a nicer stance, and possibly thinking of spacers at the back, though not sure if that will cause any rubbing.

Any comments,criticisms, and advice will be taken onboard, Some may not like them (most people at work keep asking why I have 4 space saver wheels on) Still trying to decide if they do work on a silver car, Though the pictures don't look as good as they do in real life.
And the wife says if I change them again then she may leave me!  :jumpmove: :jumpmove: :jumpmove:









Contemplating going back to the black sideskirts because of these wheels, and hoping to get a set of the RML retro wheel arch covers too.

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Re: Big Al's slippery slope
« Reply #95 on: September 16, 2010, 05:43:57 pm »
They look awesome!  :happy2:

i agree with tyre size, when lowered even more the 215s would look better with some lower profiles so can stretch them

keep the colour coded skirts also

you just need more low and stretch tyres  :happy2:
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Re: Big Al's slippery slope
« Reply #96 on: September 16, 2010, 06:50:15 pm »
Love it  :happy2:

Really like that and not just because i'm slightly biast  :grin: The AMG badges look so much better than the Merc ones!

Only other idea i have is you could paint the AMG engravings red to match the red detail on your grilled  :wink:

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Re: Big Al's slippery slope
« Reply #97 on: September 17, 2010, 09:23:01 am »
Those wheels look bad-ass! I'd keep the coded skirts myself, looks slick.

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Re: Big Al's slippery slope
« Reply #98 on: September 18, 2010, 04:05:38 pm »
that looks stunning mate. reaaly nice. :congrats:
 but man,do we need much better pics. :evilgrin:
215s i had on the lms and the drive was horrid.not fun to throw the car about always watching potholes etc so not only does this look the mutts its still far nicer to have the ride quality there too.
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Re: Big Al's slippery slope
« Reply #99 on: September 18, 2010, 05:15:45 pm »
Lovin' the rims!  :happy2:

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Re: Big Al's slippery slope
« Reply #100 on: September 18, 2010, 05:22:40 pm »
AMG rims are not normally my cup of tea but they look really good! Might look even better with black bolts.

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Re: Big Al's slippery slope
« Reply #101 on: September 18, 2010, 05:48:14 pm »
Might look even better with black bolts.
I'd have gone for gold bolts with gold detail on the rim.

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Re: Big Al's slippery slope
« Reply #102 on: September 30, 2010, 04:18:00 pm »
Few more pictures:
Decided to have a bash at matt black wrap on the front grille, smoothed out the holes, and then stuck this on, its not the tidiest when up close, and I also realised my red stripe had snapped when I took it off (anyone have a spare?) Gone for the magnetic number plate mod as Top Cat suggested.




Also got a forge twintake, ordered it last Monday, it came last Wednesday, last one in stock, once I finally fitted it, very impressed, got a bit scared by the noise at first, but used to it now, and love it.



Also, big thanks to Chris, drove over to Stoke a couple of weeks ago to get teh centre strip off an engine cover for my Evoms cover, but when I got there he gave me the whole engine cover, therefore as it will not fit with my forge, I have decided to hack off the sides, still got to smooth it off, and cut off a couple more bits, then send it away for a respray.



(sorry, can't figure out how to make my pics larger!  :ashamed:)

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Re: Big Al's slippery slope
« Reply #103 on: September 30, 2010, 04:52:09 pm »
Looking good Al, think im going to end up cutting my engine cover as im fitting a twintake tomorrow and really want to keep the engine cover on!

Everything ok for tomorrow still?

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Re: Big Al's slippery slope
« Reply #104 on: September 30, 2010, 08:03:59 pm »
Good luck fitting it, not the easiest thing in the world to do.
See you tomorrow and see how many fingers you lost!