Sancho's nb8c

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sanchodotdj
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Re: Sancho's nb8c

Postby sanchodotdj » Sat Jan 07, 2012 5:20 am

xxr's are on their way to my place hopefully in the next week or so.
i masked them so there is still a ring of amber when it flashes, and i used tint spray so you can still see them flash.
yes i used an oven, 150degrees for ten minutes (then used high temp paint)
i added a bead of silicone all the way around when resealing and they seem to seal fine

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Re: Sancho's nb8c

Postby sanchodotdj » Mon Jan 30, 2012 3:38 am

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Re: Sancho's nb8c

Postby Lokiel » Mon Jan 30, 2012 11:39 am

The black headlight surrounds look great on a black car - billybunter painted his white to match his newly-painted white SE and it just looked like "too much white" - maybe if they were painted black the contrast would have looked better?

I suspect that your side indicators may be deemed "too dark" by the "blue boys" - they do look good though.

I bought a set of clear indicators and gave them 2 coats of VHT Niteshades to tone them down a bit - I didn't want to tempt fate by going any darker:

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Re: Sancho's nb8c

Postby slimx » Mon Jan 30, 2012 4:09 pm

Looks great!
It looks like the wheels are flush with the guard, doesnt ever scrub?

Thought of an Air Splitter?
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They make it for nb8b/c without the SE lip too dw, its like $180 or so.. though
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sanchodotdj
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Re: Sancho's nb8c

Postby sanchodotdj » Mon Jan 30, 2012 11:22 pm

Doesn't scrub at all. But its very low to the ground to speedbumps hurt!

I'm going to make custom splitters all around cos I'm a tightass and I like doing things myself lol

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Re: Sancho's nb8c

Postby Hjt » Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:52 pm

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Re: Sancho's nb8c

Postby Hjt » Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:54 pm

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Car looks great BTW. Nice alignment

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Re: Sancho's nb8c

Postby Hjt » Tue Jan 31, 2012 11:58 pm

http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/7001/dsc0729o.jpg

Just curious, if you have not done guard work to make the wheels fit... don't you bottom out over bumps?

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Re: Sancho's nb8c

Postby sanchodotdj » Thu Feb 02, 2012 1:27 am

my alignment is way out lolz! will be getting done this week,
thats the only time the car got dríven

i rolled all 4 guards with a heat gun and rubber mallet
i will be raising the front a tiny bit as it does bottom out on humps but drives better than i expected actually

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Re: Sancho's nb8c

Postby elitee » Thu Feb 02, 2012 1:27 pm

Just need more angle going over bumps shouldn't be bottoming out at that height

needs more lows


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