PegGTS' officially low and slow ST204, Now featuring low! Options

[Box]

You should have E. Honda doing the hundred hand slap on the side of the bezel.

[JasonTX]

Finally got a chance to update this from the other day.

I've been wanting to do something different with my license plate bezel lately and thought of this and just had to do it. I thought about doing the whole bezel black but wanted to do something a little more original that hasn't been done. I ordered the decal from JasonTX a while ago and just got the chance to put it on. It was my first time working with a decal this big and with something as corner-y and complicated as the license plate bezel Considering that I think it turned out pretty well, other than a few spots that are only noticeable from right up close. I'm going to try and touch up a few spots and maybe eventually completely redo it, but for now I'm happy with it.

I love how it looks, not too obnoxious but definitely different. Threw on the vanity plate for a quick shoot, let me know what you guys think

if use have a couple of air bubbles under the vinyl you can poke them with a small safety pin and use a heat gun (lowest setting) and a little pressure on the bubble to work it out.

very nicely done for your first larger decal.

if you do ever redo it i'll make that bottom ray a little thicker since some of it is lost in the bend

This post has been edited by JasonTX: May 3, 2014 - 10:44 AM

[PegGTS]

if use have a couple of air bubbles under the vinyl you can poke them with a small safety pin and use a heat gun (lowest setting) and a little pressure on the bubble to work it out.

very nicely done for your first larger decal.

if you do ever redo it i'll make that bottom ray a little thicker since some of it is lost in the bend

Thanks for the decal, it looks great And if I redo it I might get you to make all the rays a little longer because I ended up having to stretch the vinyl quite a bit with a hairdryer to get it to fit, it did turn out well considering though.

[PegGTS]

Another quick update (Pictures ahoy):

Got my SSIII front splitters and door sills from Josh not too long ago. Got the door sills installed right away and finally got around to installing the splitters on Saturday before going to a meet. I also repainted my rear splitters and installed those along with my rear mudflaps again. I need to get some better double sided tape to hold the splitters on because the stuff I have now is cheap and doesn't hold them lol. I also want to repaint the rear splitters because they turned out a lot more yellow than the rest of my car. I'll probably repaint the front ones too when I can find a paint that matches lol because they're a little scratched from shipping I think. But overall I'm happy with how everything looks, just need sideskirts!

Oh and I "fixed" my door handle from when it got broken into until I can get it to a shop to get fixed for real haha. This tape matches better than the paint on my rear splitters, maybe I'll just wrap them in this!



Parts!


Door sills in!


Just to show the colour difference


And finally here's some pictures from the meet with jordisonjr's car. My camera got a smudge on it at some point and I didn't notice so some of them might be a bit smudged















And here's some shots of kloudkicka's sexy car



Oh yeah, and I played some limbo too


This post has been edited by PegGTS: Jun 2, 2014 - 11:56 AM

[PegGTS]

I guess I can update this, been a while lol. Long post and lots of pictures incoming!

Where to start...well first of all, I finally filled my riser blocks and repainted them flat black. Then I wasn't happy with my filling job and redid it. then I wasn't happy with it again and am in the process of redoing them again I'm also currently redrilling the holes to mount the blocks to the spoiler because they were slightly off and it was bugging me lol







Next I decided to grind down my brake hubs and repaint them because they were unbelievably rusty from last winter (I had just replaced them over the winter so they're pretty new brakes)

Before:



After (I wasn't too worried about the overspray on the rotor since it would just rub off when I use the brakes):



Next I took apart the front end to try and see what was going on with the bumper bolts. The whole front end it pretty beat up so it was a huge pain in the ass to get it off. This picture sums up how I felt after getting the bumper off.



Turns out one of the bolts on the bracket that mounts the bumper to the fender is broken. I'm just going to saw them all down and weld new ones in when I get a chance.


Installed my clear highs while I was at it as well.






Also tested out my custom lows and found out that they're pretty much toast. One of them is missing a tab, the other one has fallen apart inside and was rattling and the projector glass has a crack in it, they don't have any way to secure a bulb into them...I am going to try to make them work because they would look really good but I don't know if I can...





This is how the socket looks on the lows



Oh and I also mounted my fog lights while I was at it. Didn't have the time to wire them up so they're just there for looks for now haha until I can get a chance to do it




Then I finally replaced my shot hatch struts...that I just replaced in the fall already. I tried talking to RockAuto about it but they only had a 3 month warranty on them No more holding my hatch open with my head!



Then I decided to repaint the rising sun on the license plate bezel rather than a decal because it was starting to peel in a few places because I suck at applying big decals I mixed up some paint for cheap at work and sprayed it. The paint is Mazda Velocity Red, paint code 27A. I scuffed up the white then masked off around the decal, peeled the decal, scuffed up the paint underneath it, shot it with the red a few times, then peeled off the masking tape and re-cleared the whole bezel to give it an even shine throughout. Pretty happy with the results.




At some point I also managed to bend a rim on a pothole despite the amount of meat on my tires...



Last week I had my door handle repaired finally from when it got broken into, they did a really good job on it.




Right now I am currently working on fixing the rust all the way around my car, then hopefully going in for paint!

This spot wasn't too had, just surface rust. Grinded it down, treated the metal with Picklex 20, body filler, glaze, and primer.



This spot turned out a lot worse than I expected. started to grind it down then I went right through the metal...found lots of body filler there already. So then I had to make a decision; quick fix, or long-term fix. Decided it wasn't worth it to weld new metal in at this point so I just grinded it down as much as possible and treated the rust, filled and primed it. Perhaps when the rust comes back I'll weld new metal in, but for now it just doesn't seem worth it.



And lastly, I received my spacers on Friday and installed them! 25mm in the rear, 20mm in the front. Pretty happy with how they sit now, I just need to lower it a little bit now. Although the back tires rub when I go over bigger bumps so I will need to get the fenders rolled.










And that's it for now! Wow it's been a while since I've updated this lol

[enderswift]

Great work. Looks good. Any links to picklex? I'm always on the lookout for new stuff to fight rust with

[PegGTS]

Great work. Looks good. Any links to picklex? I'm always on the lookout for new stuff to fight rust with

Here's the website for it. Not sure where to buy it in the states but I work at a automotive paint store in my city and that's where I got it. It's awesome stuff, we have a rusted rad shell on display that was treated with it on one half about three years ago and it's still clean. And the floors get mopped like 5 times a day in the winter so that thing should be rusted to hell lol. It's super easy to use too, just spray it on and leave it wet for about 10 minutes then wipe it off.

http://picklex20.com/

This post has been edited by PegGTS: Aug 10, 2014 - 12:23 PM

[RoadRage]

nice update!

Shame about the rust

hopefully it doesn't come back any time soon lol

[PegGTS]

With the winters we have I'm sure it will be back within a couple years at most...I'll deal with it properly then

[malpaso]

Damn that rear license plate frame looks awesome. I'm glad giving you vote for Celica of the month

[PegGTS]

Damn that rear license plate frame looks awesome. I'm glad giving you vote for Celica of the month

A little late to reply haha but thanks!

It's been a while, so time for another update I guess

Where to start...well, I wanted to do something different with my interior for a while, started looking at hydro-dipping it, but I didn't want to try the DIY kit and screw it up, and the cost to get it professionally done is a little pricey so I decided to paint it in the mean-time. Nothing crazy like blue or red, I wanted to keep it subtle and still OEM-looking. So I got a SEM metallic grey spray bomb from work (technically for plastic bumpers but it's all the same stuff). I took apart my interior and replaced everything with the spare set I had (which is actually in better condition than my stock set so I decided to paint my stock set) and got to work. Sprayed everything with SEM plastic adhesion promoter, then gave it all a few good coats of the grey.



I gotta say, I'm really impressed with the SEM paint. It goes on very nice, even when I tried laying it on a little thicker I did not get any runs. And it's held up for a few months now with no signs of wear so far. I'm happy with the results, nice and subtle.





Next, I decided I wanted to do something a little different with my trunk as well. Not sure why, but I fell in love with the hardwood trunk look. So I went to the hardware store, bought some MDF and some hardwood, and got to work. Stripped the trunk and it was filthy underneath



After trying to clean it up a bit. Don't know where that black stuff on the right came from lol.



Glued the hardwood to the MDF, took the carpet out of the trunk, laid it down, traced it, then cut.





Next, I attached my 10" JL sub and Phoenix Gold amp.



Threw it in the trunk, installed my rear strut bar, and I was done! The markings were there because I was originally going to make a hatch to get to the spare tire, but I couldn't see an easy was of making it work, so I just left it. It isn't too hard to lift up in case I ever need my spare tire. I have not found the time to wire in the sub, so I'm not sure how it sounds just yet. I'll be having a wiring party in the spring so if it doesn't sound nice, I will build a box for it underneath.




Next, I had my fenders rolled because my tires were rubbing with my spacers. They still rub slightly, but not enough to worry about for now. When I do eventually lower the car, I may have to go with very slight negative camber in the rear, nothing crazy though. Just to avoid rubbing.



had some black plasti-dip laying around so I decided to try out the "angry eyes" look on my highs. Actually turned out pretty nice, although the dip peeled up a bit when I peeled the tape off, will have to redo them in the spring and not wait so long to peel the tape off.




Also got finished with all the rust fighting (for the most part, have a few smaller spots to do but the bigger areas are done). For the driver's side rocker panel, I had new metal welded in by a customer of mine, then painted and cleared it myself.



At the same time, while I was doing some painting on the back of the car, I peeled the tape off my bumper and this happened.



The paint should not have just peeled off that easily, so I took it back to the shop that had fixed the bumper in the spring, and they admitted it was their fault and they will be repainting it next week.




THEN, disaster struck. One day when I was leaving work, I went to put my car into gear, and it wouldn't go at all. Tried forcing it and it just grinded like crazy. So me and my coworker had to push my car into the work compound and I grabbed a work car. After getting it into the compound, I tried putting it into gear again and it finally went in but I decided I didn't want to take a chance and took a work car anyways.

I kept driving my car for a couple months with no issues. Fast forward to late September, on my way to work after getting gas I went to shift into second, and it wouldn't go at all. Put it in neutral and it wouldn't go into any gears, so I had to coast it onto a side street. Sat there for a few minutes trying to get it to go into gear, but nothing. Something was screwed. Luckily I was only a couple blocks from home so I left the car there, and walked home. My car sat there for a few days until we took my brother's truck and towed it back to our garage.



While it was in the garage, I decided I may as well take the valve cover off and paint it sprayed it with some VHT black wrinkle paint, although I think it was too cold so the paint did not wrinkle at all.




It sat in our garage, and I had my girlfriend's dad (who is a mechanic at Honda) have a look at it. He came to the conclusion that it had to be something with the clutch, great news...since we didn't have the time nor garage space to get that done, I drove it onto my street (started it in second gear and drove it) and it sat there for a couple weeks while we waited for a family friend to have time to replace the clutch.

Finally he had time to get it done, so I drove it down to his place in second gear the whole way, and he got to work on it. A few days, and $675 later, I had my car back and it was glorious. He showed me my old clutch, I had broken 2 of the springs.



Then the snow came and it was time to put the winter wheels on. It's crazy the difference in wheel gap between my summer and winter tires.




And that's basically it. This is mostly how she'll sit until spring.





Also, here's some random shots I took of my car over the summer / fall:






I wanted to get some fall shots of my car so I took it to a local park one day and messed around. Realized I forgot to put my front splitters on for it Also this was my first time editing with Lightroom and I love it!

[PegGTS]

Not really an update but I did this the other day when I was bored...just an idea of the direction I'm thinking of going

[JoshuaM]

What Is your obsession with tiny wheels! Haha... the 'shop looks great, but would look better with 17's

[PegGTS]

I prefer a little meat with my wheels haha. Plus our roads are awful here, even with the amount of tire I have I still managed to bend a rim on a pothole...

Also a little teaser of what I'm planning:




This post has been edited by PegGTS: Jan 10, 2015 - 9:57 AM

[Box]

Don't let him get to you, I'm Mr. Sidewall. I need at least four inches of sidewall for it to look right to me. I just can't get into the low profile look.

Also, GOLD!!!!

[PegGTS]

Yeah I've never been a big fan of the look either, sometimes I don't mind if it it's done right. Although I think with my next set of tires I'll go down to a 205/50/16 or something similar instead of the 205/55/16 I'm running now.

[jordisonjr]

I prefer a little meat with my wheels haha. Plus our roads are awful here, even with the amount of tire I have I still managed to bend a rim on a pothole...

Almost 5 years on a 40 series, and no problems. Must be user error

[PegGTS]

I've seen the way you drive though, swerving to avoid potholes and shiz

[Box]

^Generally that's the name of the game.

[cheela]

yup. I'm sure I swerve more sober than I would if I were drunk. lol.