haGGard
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Hey,
Never really got a thread up on here, probably because so far it would have been the least updated build thread on here!
Bit of recent history on the car. I bought my Puma back in April this year. its my first 'modern-ish' car after my retro fords lol. Bought it because i liked the look of it really, and there was something about the look of the headlights i love lol.
Car went in for a cambelt change in the summer, which my regular garage done for me. After 2 weeks, the cambelt came loose and basically ripped my 65k engine to pieces. Valves bent, cambelt torn, cams had huge chunks taken out of them. Anyway, the garage rebuilt the engine at no cost to me, and again, the engine destroyed itself. The garage rebuilt the engine AGAIN, and for the 3rd time the engine ripped itself to pieces. All this time i've been driving around in a courtesy vauxhall NOVA! Anyway, cut a long story short the garage just bought another engine and plonked it in the car, which im not too fussed about, as its a 55k engine and seems to give me a much better return in fuel. The garage blamed the mishaps on the VCT, but im not sure myself :/ I did get a free brand new clutch out of it though.
Anyway, i decided i wanted the stealthy dark look. I soon got my windows professionally tinited. Rears fully smoked, the sides half smoked. Also fitted some mondy 17" ST alloys.
I bought the alloys in haste and forgot to check the offset. turned out they were ET49 if i recall correctly and as you all know, thats waaaay out and they scrubbed pretty bad. I sold them on eBatty but was scammed by the buyer and ended up with no wheels, and no money for them as paypal decided to side with the buyer as usual. I even told the police and to this day they are still aparently working on the case....yea....sure. Back on the 9 spokes for now then.
Decided i wanted stealthy black alloys, but cant afford it at the mo, so i've settled for some nice propellers instead which ive not fitted yet.
Also bought a brand new cat back milltek stainless pipe, and my AP coilovers arrived today too. Happy days.
Thats it for now, will hopefully be riding low on the coilies soon, along with the milltek being fitted soon.
Never really got a thread up on here, probably because so far it would have been the least updated build thread on here!
Bit of recent history on the car. I bought my Puma back in April this year. its my first 'modern-ish' car after my retro fords lol. Bought it because i liked the look of it really, and there was something about the look of the headlights i love lol.
Car went in for a cambelt change in the summer, which my regular garage done for me. After 2 weeks, the cambelt came loose and basically ripped my 65k engine to pieces. Valves bent, cambelt torn, cams had huge chunks taken out of them. Anyway, the garage rebuilt the engine at no cost to me, and again, the engine destroyed itself. The garage rebuilt the engine AGAIN, and for the 3rd time the engine ripped itself to pieces. All this time i've been driving around in a courtesy vauxhall NOVA! Anyway, cut a long story short the garage just bought another engine and plonked it in the car, which im not too fussed about, as its a 55k engine and seems to give me a much better return in fuel. The garage blamed the mishaps on the VCT, but im not sure myself :/ I did get a free brand new clutch out of it though.
Anyway, i decided i wanted the stealthy dark look. I soon got my windows professionally tinited. Rears fully smoked, the sides half smoked. Also fitted some mondy 17" ST alloys.
I bought the alloys in haste and forgot to check the offset. turned out they were ET49 if i recall correctly and as you all know, thats waaaay out and they scrubbed pretty bad. I sold them on eBatty but was scammed by the buyer and ended up with no wheels, and no money for them as paypal decided to side with the buyer as usual. I even told the police and to this day they are still aparently working on the case....yea....sure. Back on the 9 spokes for now then.
Decided i wanted stealthy black alloys, but cant afford it at the mo, so i've settled for some nice propellers instead which ive not fitted yet.
Also bought a brand new cat back milltek stainless pipe, and my AP coilovers arrived today too. Happy days.
Thats it for now, will hopefully be riding low on the coilies soon, along with the milltek being fitted soon.
