Those look fantastic, Achilles! I love the little touches of red you have - nice work!

 

I think last night was the first time I have gotten into the ABS.

 

Good choice. KISS is the best look for a PW/B

 

Took my Mini to the Steven's Creek dealership to get a free oil change and 30K inspection. While I was waiting I asked the parts dept about getting a newer front bumper with brake air ducts. It just so happened that a service tech is about to install a JCW kit on his wife's clubman and offered to sell me the old kit for half price. It's a brand new kit off the 2012 S, comes with all the necessary mounts and hardware, and just needs to be painted.

I should install the front bumper, intercooler muffler delete, and 27mm front sway bar the first week of next year.

 

holly shizz ballz achilles those look fantastic! dope whip

 

Very nicely done Tata. Great photo op's. I just ordered my Helix IC. Your public garage install has inspired me! Bravo!

 

put on his santa hat.

 

Glad I can help... And it's not "public garage", sorry... It's condo underground parking...

 

Very nice Santa hat!

 

Thats my next task.. no more chrome

Yeah im trying to figure out if im gonna add more red in random places but im still thinking

yeah still a long way to go but im liking how its turning out

 

Looks great!

So, are you talking random in a pattern on various parts of the car, or random in a Jackson Pollack sort of way?

C ya,
Dutch

 

I love that power button on the side.. is that a sticker?
Can you please tell me where you got it from???

 

You need to put some coils on it and drop that bad boy

 

like center of the rims red and stuff like that just small random things but i doubt it ill prob just red out the engine bay, meaning hose and catch can and stuff

 

yeah im gonna get some ST coils and drop it in the summer
im riding on stilts right now lol

 

I washed it for the 1st time today :-)...and got to use a lot of my new products on her. I used "Black WoW" on the fender flares not thinking it would do much, but I was surprised how much it helped on a brand new car
Can tell that much in this pic but they have a lot more shine to them now (i just like this picture with the sun setting in the reflection)

 

Sounds like a good plan you have there: "keep it simple". I can dig it--you can go red as much as you want under the bonnet, and when you close it, you have a different canvas, on which you can paint a different, sparser picture.

Kinda falls in line with my two rules for life:

1. Never tell all you know
2. ...

Can't wait for pics!

C ya,
Dutch

 

That... is excellent. Just stole it and relayed to a friend of mine. A talkative one.

On the red accents: Red is a great accent color - used in small quantities. When overdone it can get to be FAR too much very quickly - and it is FAR too easy to overdo a small car like ours. There's not a lot of canvas, and it's already pretty crowded with accent features (spoiler, scoop, gutter, funny mirrors, body lines... heck, the whole car is an accent feature), so adding too many more accents gets cluttered quickly.

In that same way, I worry about doing much/anything more to my Checkmate, what with the checkered fenders and checkered mirrors and silver top on a black car... adding anything really gets to be "too much" very quickly. Example: I threw black covers on the light bar (4 driving lights) and was complimented: "What did you add? It looks great!", when what I did was effectively subtracting...

 

That is one bad-*** car!

 

What offset are the wheels please?

 

It's nice to see people w/ the same philosophy. I spent a lot of time and energy going very subtle on the exterior... color coding the arches, blacking out the "S" badges, powdercoating the wheels, de-oranging the bulbs:



Then, once you open up the bonnet, BANG! As much red as I can cram in there!

 

Today I almost got hit by a old old old lady that blatantly ran a red light and the proceeded to give me the finger afterwards... I'm sorry but it's hard to feel sorry for elderly being senial when they are giving you the finger

 

In my younger days (and on more than one occasion), I've chased those people home and scared the living sh*t out of them. Not so much anymore.

 

Ya I feel you my man I NEED some coils ASAP

 

Today i finally got the halos hooked up, For anyone who is doing this the black wire goes to the brown wire and the red wire goes to the blue when your splicing them to the side marker lights. But here is the video i promised everyone.[/COLOR]

Custom Front Xenon Headlight Halos