New Mods for today

[Gary H 2008]

I wasn't happy with my Calipers as the decals had faded and AP wouldn't provide the 'Walkinshaw Performance by AP Racing' without a total refurb...at £200 a corner so I did them myself using Aluminium paint and red ebay decals.



Time for a change and refresh and I'm chuffed to bits how the red on black looks and ties in with the panel under the wing vent especially with the badging



What else? Oh yeah - as my wheels, mirrors and bonnet panel are in Aston Martin Tungsten Grey I 'smoked' my wheel nut covers using a smoke tint spray normally used on lights.

I also painted the wing vent in the same Tunsgsten and smoked the indicator lens so it matches the indicator lens in my mirror caps



and a cheeky badge custom made:



So all in all a productive couple of days

[RiggzVXGTS]

Very nice fella

[jon1bc]

Looking good mate

[gsd2000]

Looks great

[StefanVXR8]

Very nice Gary. Did you get anywhere with the heated mirrors?

I've studied the wiring diagrams and connector blocks and no wiring exists for heated mirrors so I think I'll pop a relay in and take the switched feed from the actual 12V supply to the rear window, that way they will switch off when the rear window goes off too.

Just need to find the time............

Stef

[snowwolf]

Def like all your mods, but miss the spoiler

[ARAF]

Calipers look good.

With the 'mods' title, I wonder if Big Al has also looked in here?

[Gary H 2008]

LOL, cheers guys

Stef - that's exactly what I've done. You do need to bake the mirrors (80 degrees at 10 minutes) to be able to remove them and stick on the heated element.

I'm also in the process of adding a couple of tiny orange LEDs in line so that you know when they're on

Pics to follow.

[snowwolf]

I am sure my Astra van very wide angled mirror is the same shape on the R8 I will check tomorrow

[StefanVXR8]

Gary H 2008 said:

LOL, cheers guys

Stef - that's exactly what I've done. You do need to bake the mirrors (80 degrees at 10 minutes) to be able to remove them and stick on the heated element.

I'm also in the process of adding a couple of tiny orange LEDs in line so that you know when they're on

Pics to follow.

Thanks mate, by my calculations the feed for the rear window should be in a multi plug in the drivers footwell, is that where you took a feed or did you run one from the back?

Stef

[Gary H 2008]

LOL - both I tapped into the feed for the rear window until a friends who's an auto electrician gave me a slap and found the relay

[ARAF]

Gary H 2008 said:

LOL - both I tapped into the feed for the rear window until a friends who's an auto electrician gave me a slap and found the relay

I'm glad that you own up to being human, now and again.

[bradwil]

Nice work once again.

When are you going to let us know how much you'll be charging us for these mods?

[gsd2000]

just spotted the wheel spacers, how wide did you go?

[Gary H 2008]

Haven't used them - they're 20mm so will put a standard wheel right to the edge of the arch

[THUNDER STORM]

Looks brill mate

Ade

[j666eds]

What size are the stickers? i need some for mine!

thanks

[Gary H 2008]

I can't quite get my fingers and the tape measure through the spokes and hold the torch I'm afraid

(The fronts are larger than the rears and I got them off ebay - 'supergraphicsf1' was teh seller.)

[mikeyb1987]

Gary H 2008 said:

Haven't used them - they're 20mm so will put a standard wheel right to the edge of the arch

Where did you get the spacers from Gary?

[lee st]

never realised they made that many bathursts thought the badge looked a little low.