[AWX85]

Thanks,

I made them at work, I am a graphic designer for a sign company.

Although they have now been replaced with matte white and carbon ones which I have domed.
I did produce a few variations before I settled on the white and carbon ones.

I will get some photos up of them as soon as I can

[RESTELL]

looks pretty awesome Ad, cant wait to see the new wheels. All lining up nicely for some track action!

[AWX85]

Time for the wheels, I have spent a lot of time working out what wheels will look best on the car, I settled on some Team Dynamics Pro Race 3's
I bought these from a company call Mad Motors, who were offering a deal on wheels and tyres unfortunately they wouldn't put the parada's that I was after on the wheels due to Yokohama owning TSW.



I had initially planned to fit these last weekend but due to the brake issues I had to put it back a week. Started out nice and early by giving the car the wash and waxing it badly needed.
some before and after pictures.


and some pictures of the wheels fitted. I am very happy with the stage the car is currently at. I did bring the front up a couple of coils to prevent the wheels fouling the arch under hard cornering but I am going to drop it a bit again as I feel it looks a little to high now.




I have also made alterations to the badges. I have added custom puma black decals to the windows and the center panel replacing the standard puma ones.


Originally I had some matte black and yellow stickers over the ford badges on the front and rear, these were ok but had started to peel up so I decided that I would remove the original ford ones and fit my own domed ones, I made up a few variations before I settled on the final ones.


In the end I went for matte white and a carbon vinyl backing. The domed badges also fitted nicely flush on the rear of the car.


The next step will be to fit the strut braces in prep for the cars trip to Bedford.

[Big Boy Al]

its looking really good mate, them wheels are lovely.

did you do the tickford arch mod cause trust me they will cut into the tyres

[AWX85]

Big Boy Al, on 14 February 2010 - 10:31 PM, said:

its looking really good mate, them wheels are lovely.

did you do the tickford arch mod cause trust me they will cut into the tyres

Cheers Al, That is going to be one of the preparations for Bedford, especialy after you made it sound so easy.

[Big Boy Al]

Yeah it is mate honestly I'll send you over a couple of pics this week straight from the tickford factory to show you it :-).

P.s fancy making me up a couple of st orange badges ;-).

[FlashBastd]

Those wheels look mint, what size did you go for, and what rubber?

Liking the badges too, you made them yourself?

[AWX85]

Big Boy Al, on 14 February 2010 - 10:45 PM, said:

Yeah it is mate honestly I'll send you over a couple of pics this week straight from the tickford factory to show you it :-).

P.s fancy making me up a couple of st orange badges ;-).

Thats great thanks. I will see what I can do I think we have some electric orange vinyl.

FlashBastd, on 14 February 2010 - 10:58 PM, said:

Those wheels look mint, what size did you go for, and what rubber?

Liking the badges too, you made them yourself?

Thanks

I went for Parada spec-2's, I am keeping the rain sports on the F1 wheels for the winter time.
The wheels are 15's I wanted to keep the same rolling radius as standard they are also 7inch wide.

I did make them myself they are just cut vinyl with the domed gel over the top.

This post has been edited by AWX85: 15 February 2010 - 08:31 AM

[Big Boy Al]

Thankyou mate will be great if you can :-)

[AWX85]

puma33, on 15 February 2010 - 08:15 PM, said:

Hi, very very very good loocking, I find your car wonderfull but there is something that I do not understand (sorry, I'm french and nobody's perfect). So, how many mm have you lowered the car?

Cheers for the comments.

To be honest I have no idea how much I have lowered the car by, just set the coilovers to there lowest setting and worked up from there.

[AWX85]

puma33, on 17 February 2010 - 10:41 PM, said:

do you use some rear axle spacers and if, which size?

Yes I used 15mm spacers.

[FlashBastd]

12.5mm surely?

[BurfyBoy]

AWX85, on 18 February 2010 - 08:57 PM, said:

Yes I used 15mm spacers.

FlashBastd, on 18 February 2010 - 09:13 PM, said:

12.5mm surely?

Both wrong, they are 11.5mm Ka spacers

Can you guess who Adams Chief Mechanic is??!

[Big Boy Al]

some weird bloke

[matt752]

Hello mate

I've just read your build thread and I have to say, this is one of the best Puma's I've ever seen. There is nothing out of place. It's a very clean good looking car and you could be forgiven if you thought it came out the factory like that. Awesome.

[AWX85]

BurfyBoy, on 18 February 2010 - 10:12 PM, said:

Both wrong, they are 11.5mm Ka spacers

Can you guess who Adams Chief Mechanic is??!

Should have known that

Big Boy Al, on 18 February 2010 - 10:14 PM, said:

some weird bloke

He does do very good work though despite this handicap

matt752, on 19 February 2010 - 10:16 AM, said:

Hello mate

I've just read your build thread and I have to say, this is one of the best Puma's I've ever seen. There is nothing out of place. It's a very clean good looking car and you could be forgiven if you thought it came out the factory like that. Awesome.

Thank you very much.

[BurfyBoy]

matt752, on 19 February 2010 - 10:16 AM, said:

Hello mate

I've just read your build thread and I have to say, this is one of the best Puma's I've ever seen. There is nothing out of place. It's a very clean good looking car and you could be forgiven if you thought it came out the factory like that. Awesome.

Come on Ad, who is this and how much have you paid him??

[AWX85]

After inspiration from Pat_T's thread that I would remove my rear wiper and motor.

The car looks a lot better without it and the boot now pops open with ease.