My mk2 metro, track and show weapon. PIC HEAVY!
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Hi there,
Hope im ok posting this if not please feel free to delete it but this is my preety damn mint mk2 metro.
The pics are in order and show how its progressed

This is at the last owners, before the work started MUHAHAHA!




as soon as it arived i fitted my 6x12's they were in need of a refurb so i set about spraying the centres vauxhall moonaland grey with a polished lip (there still one more to do)









Then i decided the 4x4 ride height wasent for me so i set about lowering it

Edited by MINIMON on 10th May, 2009.

the small ones were doorcrds out the mini I've chopped up to fit perfectly, (quite abit of chopping so a fair amount of c/f left)
the large one is a front doorcard but as I'm not using mk3 on doors in the mini so the cards are redundant so there getting put to use in the metro, the line at the bottom (ish) is where i will cut the card the piece below the line will be a boot trim panel as i dont have a rear window wiper i dont need ht ebig bulge in the std plastics so its getting replaced.

basically so far I've done:
pulled arches (back)
smoothed boot spoiler holes
removed boot (75%) sound deadening
removed interior (found rust in footwells (about the size of a 10p in each
removed front nearside wing (spotless behind it)
cut and perfected boot trim panel...
recieved my oil cooler bits and bobs
lightweightified the rear bumper

i couldnt stand that dirty arch so i had to sort it :p stone chipped, and componenets got a coating of satin black extreme chassis coat calipers and arb... red... the arch will soon be painted i just wanted to see it abit more presentable :cool:
oh and can anyone say C-A-R-B-O-N.....





Before:


After:


when i get bored i clean (im on detailing world its that bad!) and how can i put this... all week I've been BBBOOORRREEEDDD so the cleaning commenced :cool:

the engine needs more work but the engine bay area is preety much sorted, heres a few random hard to reach bits that I've cleaned and general bits

oh and stone chipped chassis blacked and sprayed my offside arch.
lacquered and polished my two finished wheels aswell









well, more carbon in and my go faster momo race wheel with gold bolts :p floors in satin well 75% of it is, BUT where i couldnt get in with the spanners or nuts to fit some of the bolts I've had to drill holes so i need blanks... 1 1/2" blanks... anyone shead any light on where i can get some?

opening rear windows and no cards, lets see how long it takes before the ear defenders come into play!

a quick list of whats removed so far:
boot trim panels (replaced with carbon)
wheel well cover
parcel shelf
rear seat
rear seat mounts
b pillar belt covers (replaced with carbon)
rear doorcards (replaced with carbon)
front doorcards
a pillar trims
carpet
ALL sound proofing
doorstep/side wall plastic trim
seat crossmember trim
whole speaker system (every wire e.t.c)
arm rests (replaced with alloy door pulls)
window winders (replaced with alloy winders)





debadged grille anyone, still W.I.P but getting there, abit more plastic to weld in on the lower rail at the back and fill two holes but its goin well, only the lower bit to do, plastic filler, std plastic primer and some satin black to add :unibrow:

FRONT:


BACK:

Bits welded up so far:
rear wiper hole
passengers side door lock
LHD wiper hole
side repeaters on the turbo wing (offside)
aerial hole (offside wing)






^^ thats the general condition of all the panels before fillering so they hardly need anything, thats a pic of the aerial hole that was ontop of the offside wing.


wing ready for fillering


boot needs more flatting back but is all marked up for filler e.t.c

just a random pic of the arch which was doen with a hammer and yet to be smoothed, its about 2" wider than std


i then tried on some 7x15" mims i had purely to get width and offset ideas, i think this is perfect so I'm going to get soem 13's in this size i think





bootlid internal section and drivers wing are 75% done, theyve been red oxide rollered just to protect them , the whole thing will be flatted and high build primered when al the fillering is done

In a an affort to save weight i decided the bootlid wasent all that structural so out came the the hole saw... the recessed bit you wont see as its under the carbon sheet, its the outer bits you will see :thumbsup:


the wing was all rolled with the aid of a hammer and a block of wood, no dollies or fancy equipment, proper pikey enginering :lol: but tbh i dont think its turned out bad

WOW! ok now i need to go lie down haha, as i said if this has to be deleted then so be it,

Thanks

I've never liked a metro before but that is awesome! Well done

Edited by GaryOS on 27th Oct, 2008.

On 12th Nov, 2009 Paul S said:

I think Gary OS has taken over my role as the forum smart arse

YEAH !!! I like it alot ! Low and wide very cool.

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"Same thing we do evernight Pinky!"
"Try to take over the world!"

Thanks guys, everyone has said that spanner, to be honest i could see past the granny image ok ok its still a metro BUT they are preety similar to a mini so i couldnt see why i couldnt make something of it.
The look im going for is ''euro'' which for anyone unsure is low, wide and smooth. a VW thing mainly but many others do also do it

Thanks again

Looks ace, but jacking up on grass... scary!

oh haha, i used a BIG piece of hardwood to jack on then just put the axle stands in the grass.
the jack is in the grass as the block of wood was too big to leave there and still work on the car comfortably so i removed it. i wanted abit more protection so just threw the std jack back under

Thanks mate

Thats very cool!! Going to look fat!

Nice one!

i like it, somone on here did a Metro hle in a cream colour it was also low on wide ass rims it looked awsome i do like metro's :) i would love to do a cream one with the 13" force rims in black if i had the money

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looks good mate. just one thing. is it s turbo? from your earflier posts i thought it was an N/A but its got all turbo clocks and boost gauge in it. i dnt know owt about metro's so.

i would imagine its not otherwise you wouldnt be asking about oil feed/drain on turbo's.

i look at metro's more and more and think they are actually pretty sweet. started with slaters i think.

Paul, that was slaters.
he was my main reason for wanting one, ive got plans for banded steels too but thats when the conversion is finished, which leads me to james's question...

No atm it isent turbo'd its a MINT 1.3 BUT i have started to fit everything the clocks are there as the std clocks dont have a rev gauge, the centre clock is there as there was a spare hole with nothing in it that needed filling haha!
Ive just fitted the dizzy, turbo oil return tomorrow its the carb (minus a accelerator cam if anyone has one they want to get rid of? ) and the fueling side fo everything

Thanks

looks a nice shell.. and good project

I run a supercharger and I don't care the TB is on the wrong side.
VEMS + 12 PSI + Liquid Intercooler = Small Bore FUN!

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Thanks guys, got a few VERY poor pic you may like

minispeed wanted £55 for a oil turbo feed pipe and £30 for 1 mocal hose 2 foot long for the block to oil cooler. i went to my local hydraulics place and got them BOTH and 12 8.5mm p clips for £25 SCORE

The pics are abit poor due to no heating in the workshop and it being 4 degrees

im tempted to relocate my washer bottle and move the header tank facing down the wing instead of out of it (make a custom alloy tank) just so i can fit some silicone induction hose.

Cant think of any other way i can get the induction hose to the front of the bay where the fresh cold air is, i coudl leave it floating about in the bay but if i can i would much rather have cold air feed.

how about joining the intake hose into the heater box and adding one of theose metro gti bonnet vents?

it had one to start with i didnt liek it BUT i was planning on chopping the fins out of one for a custom look, i also thought about that but then thought about water (moisture mainly) getting in the pipe....?

theres LOADS of room on the offside area and there is no reason it cant haev its own custom box and own bonnet vent its just getting the piping over there that ruled that one out

i would so have a metro as an everyday car and do the odd little bit like this it looks the tits cant wait to see final piece

Jack Jones

I like the mods and plans so far.

I had a mk3 vent on my GTA which I smoothed the fins out.

Edited by mayoturbo on 29th Oct, 2008.

uwww, thats great! There was a thread on metropower i was going to copy, so is that just for looks and your heater or is it actually for your air intake?

Cheers

OHHH! single wiper, any info on that dude, if i do that then i coul smooth off my other wiper :p

If youve got pics or a how to or something that would be great, gives me something to do after thr turbo conversion is in