My new L.

You might know my tourquise LX - pics whored at every available oppertunity - fender mirrors, kidney beans etc. Well I bent that a while back and it got replaced with an AJ4 L.



Which stayed as it left Sunderland for a few weeks untill Friday when this started happening...











Short springs from the LX, 7x13 kidney beans all round - I picked up another pair a few days previously re drilled them to 4x100 got some tyres on ready for the swap. Other than the wheels and springs its just had the bump strips removed and been cleaned of all the spec/dealer stickers. (theres a couple still showing in those pics, that are now gone) It'll come down a bit more if I can ever afford a set of coilies at some point. It wont be getting the fender mirrors - dont worry Ben I wont be making it the same as yours!

looks clean :)

Nice. I wish mine wasn't in such bad condition, I'd go and do that sort of stuff to it.

Its actually a bit battered body wise, the pics must flatter it. A wash and polish always helps.

it honestly doesnt look that bad aye.... pics must flatter it because it doesnt look to bad bro

That looks awesome... what offset are the wheels?

7x13 +5 (though this is meningless on the rear, the wheel on the wide side after the panhard rod shift is et0 with a 10mm spacer, the wheel on the narrow side is et5 with the 8mm or so axle shift) - unfortunately I didn't notice that the et of the "pair" I bought ages ago was different.

It has worked out well for now though because it means I can get away without an adjustable/modded/eccentric bushed panhard rod at the moment and effectively have a wide track rear end - all be it a bit heath robison.

The base spec centre hubcaps are on full time now (trial pic above).





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Looks neat.Its all you need on a micra cosmetically,a big drop on wide 13's,its simple like the rest of the car,have seen big bodykits with big 17's here in the UK and look awful.Its a japanese mini :D.

where abouts in england are ya would be sick to get a hole micra thing going. heres my lovely L

I'm down on the south coast Chris - check out the MSC www.micra.org.uk if you haven't made your way over there already.

There's been some changes with mine. I had to clear some debt so the slots went (but are living on on another micra) and I rocked stock steels and trims for a bit. My nice dishy retro steering wheel, and Super-S dials went too.



However just after Christmas I found a breaker Super-S in AJ4, I managed to bag the bumpers and dials for a pretty nice price :)





A pal has donated some nicely styled, but very narrow - 5x13 - wheels to the cause, so I might go retro and bulgy with the tyres eventually. But my next step is to get these new wheels on after a bit of a refurb.

Edit: Whoops double post.

A couple of pics from out and about today.





Still no further with the refurb of the wheels, which are the same as these:



The flat face of the spokes will be polished, as will the lip. The rest will either be black or gold.

I happened across a picture of some nicely refurbed cromodoras the other day, here is what I an aiming for with the wheels...





And after a bit of PhotoChopery...

Wheels look good, will look better once on the car haha

Indeed.

Cromodoras went to a new home, they are returning to a small old Fiat.

In the meantime I've been taking pictures to celebrate the springtime...



Trying out 15"s...





And finally getting round to painting steels black...

just needs plates... FATNLOW

:)

The shonkey straight through box I made a while back has finally rusted out internally and has be making an awful rattling for a couple of weeks. Today I finally got round to getting the near new box off of the old LX to swap it on. Both boxes came off without argument - copper slip is the business - then the re-fitting ground to a halt at 8:30pm, my exhaust putty had gone rock hard.

Never mind it was sorted the next day.

I've also been playing with a stripe idea I've had for a while.





It's only black electrical tape at the mo, just to try out how it would look. When I draw up a plot path for them propperly I'll put some text in to sit at the front of the door. I'm currently torn between MICRA and C.G.10. I think the latter is going to get it.

One of the chaps on the MSC also chopped this together...



Which bar the asymetric grill I love. I need a set of A3A's in my life.

New wheels!

Nice Mark, what size rims/offset are those?

7x13 Et0 with 165/55s.

Silly 'zorst.



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A few pics from the other weekend...

flanked by an R35GT-R and a 350Z... awesome!! i've driven all 3 of the nissans in that picture and my opinion of which is the most fun to drive... Micra!!
your car looks perfect between them!!

Cheers AB-NRML.

I've made some "high quality" audio additions.....

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Wheels have gone black....

That audio is so retro!! I love it!! Please dont be offended if I copy you.... now to find the same thing in Australia...:o)
The wheels look great!

Cheers,

I'd only be flattered if you were inspired to carry out the same mods.

But I have a stupidly expensive high end system to put in... that weighs a lot, thats why I haven't installed it... a little over 7kg per amp!!

What does your 'high quality' system weigh... roughly?

Less than a Kilo per speaker box in the back, standardish size speakers in the doors - just tiddlers 120W or something, basic car store replacements pioneer or jvc or sony cant remember! and a regular head - no external amplification.

It's rubbish really, I haven't any money to spend on luxuries like good quality audio.

And if I did it would get spent on wheels or proper suspension :)

I don't seem to have stuck anything in here for a while....







Then were some issues when it's MOT came around, be gone holey bits...



Tyre swapping to get through the test meant I ended up with slots on one side and the eight spoke steels on the other...



I've been playing with wheel trims most recently, but not the mankey flat silver OEM sort...

Big changes since those pictures were taken I've fitted modified Corsa coilovers to the front to bring it down some more, taken another coil out of the rear, oh, and swapped the Wellers for some Revolutions. These are in 13x8 et20 flavour, so fitted substantially better than the 7"s.

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