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Added some orange vinyl tape to the wheels, this will split opinion I think but for £6 I think it looks great 
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I think that looks good, breaks it up a bit.
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Caporegime
The orange matches nothing, why choose it? It draws me to the nothingness that is the alloys, which is not good
Soldato
It does stop the tyres swallowing the alloys though, which all black does...but even so, not to my taste, would rather have coloured (ie not black) alloys to be honest.
Soldato
Soldato
I like the orange rim-tape 
. In a way I guess it hides the colour-mismatch between the black wheels and the tyres.
. In a way I guess it hides the colour-mismatch between the black wheels and the tyres.
Caporegime
Thumbs up from me.
Not a fan of the black wheels however, never liked them as black hides the lines of the alloys.
Not a fan of the black wheels however, never liked them as black hides the lines of the alloys.
Caporegime
Which is lots of orange, yours is tiny and as I said it draws eyes to the alloys
Caporegime
Soldato
Already been done:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marknauta/2584711523/
That would involve taking the armourfend off the front which will pull the paint/lacquer off, starts to get real expensive at that point!
Neil.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marknauta/2584711523/
That would involve taking the armourfend off the front which will pull the paint/lacquer off, starts to get real expensive at that point!
Neil.
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I wouldn't go that far, whilst not a fan of the light colour, i actually think that is a very good quality interior for the money your paying for the car
I like itAdded some orange vinyl tape to the wheels, this will split opinion I think but for £6 I think it looks great
Neil.
+1 - never a great fan of all black wheels, i feel they are a part of a cars statement and hiding them like that is not right somehow !
I can see where he is coming from, and agree a little bit in regards to the "nothingness" of the wheels
hahaha, never thought of it like that, but fair point !
+1I like the orange rim-tape
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Also not a fan of black wheels. Ace car though.
Soldato
I really love the colour of that Exige. Keep thinking about getting my Roadster resprayed in that. Really shouldn't as the job would cost more than the car but I young, dumb and living with mum (and dad).
Dark wheels do look lost, better with the tape but would be nicer in white i'd say.
Dark wheels do look lost, better with the tape but would be nicer in white i'd say.
Neil, wheels look ace
Quick run down of some things happening with my 7...
It had a fairly comprehensive strip-down and re-build during the summer, including a few upgrades. From this:
To this:
New suspension components throughout, lots of fresh powder coat. Transformed the car from a handling point of view, and I achieved my target weight with half a tank of fuel too:
Had a few sessions at Rockingham at Japfest (still quite involved with the Honda boys), but was over-heating the rear brakes quite badly.
The general consensus on the braking problem was that the Sierra calipers aren't really up to the job, once you add sticky tyres and start giving it 100% on track. Cue an upgrade to the race package - twin pot AP calipers and vented 10" discs:
These things are mind-bendingly good. Unfortunately though it leaves me with a little too much rear bias, so one of the jobs to do over the winter is a bias adjust lever on the transmission tunnel. Here's another job I've just finished doing:
A little extra weight but this added scaffolding should stiffen the chassis up a little more and obviously offer much more protection than the roll bar did.
Back on the road in March hopefully
Quick run down of some things happening with my 7...
It had a fairly comprehensive strip-down and re-build during the summer, including a few upgrades. From this:
To this:
New suspension components throughout, lots of fresh powder coat. Transformed the car from a handling point of view, and I achieved my target weight with half a tank of fuel too:
Had a few sessions at Rockingham at Japfest (still quite involved with the Honda boys), but was over-heating the rear brakes quite badly.
The general consensus on the braking problem was that the Sierra calipers aren't really up to the job, once you add sticky tyres and start giving it 100% on track. Cue an upgrade to the race package - twin pot AP calipers and vented 10" discs:
These things are mind-bendingly good. Unfortunately though it leaves me with a little too much rear bias, so one of the jobs to do over the winter is a bias adjust lever on the transmission tunnel. Here's another job I've just finished doing:
A little extra weight but this added scaffolding should stiffen the chassis up a little more and obviously offer much more protection than the roll bar did.
Back on the road in March hopefully
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Looks like a lot of dedication and hard work, not to mention time
not entirely sure you'd get me in one of those things, i've seen a few of these "home built" chassis things in the past (and have re-welded a few areas on more than one because they simply looked dangerous !)
not entirely sure you'd get me in one of those things, i've seen a few of these "home built" chassis things in the past (and have re-welded a few areas on more than one because they simply looked dangerous !)
A lot of the one-offs and things you see at places like the Stoneleigh show are utter death traps. This particular Caterham chassis though is one of the thousands produced by Arch Motor who also build the Atom chassis, so it's as good as they get - and with me at the wheel, I can assure you, nothing could possibly go wrong 
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That is very true, the one that came to mind after my last post was having a look at a gearbox mounting on one and ending up re-welding the mounts and repositioning them, before he dropped the box half way down the road !
Well thats a little more encouraging, you'd hope they know what they were doing, as for the comment on the driver ....This particular Caterham chassis though is one of the thousands produced by Arch Motor who also build the Atom chassis, so it's as good as they get - and with me at the wheel, I can assure you, nothing could possibly go wrong
that's torn it ! .... famous last words !LOL .... that's maybe not so encouraging !!As long as the chassis isnt built on a friday afternoon, ive seen the state of the Arch Motors boys coming back from the pub
Soldato
2.0Tdi S-Line? 
Neil.
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