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I sold the Nissan Micra as mrs wanted to learn in an Automatic car. Found this clean and well looked after EJ9 with 2 owners in the same family. Its gona be a mini project also as mrs want to modify it .

Time for paint! So I've got all the interior done besides the door cards. I've fixed as much as the drivers side wing as I possibly could with the little talent I have with body fillter. I've fitted a VTI-S splitter on the front. Unfortunately I was unable to source a rear lip or side skirts but when I re-colour the car I'll try and get them before I paint it. For now, I think it looks pretty good anyway. I still need to fit the lowering springs and exhaust back box so it does look like it's on stilts right now. I went for matte black full dip base (Similar to Plasti Dip), with a Midnight Blue Pearl top coat, finishing off with a gloss coat. Unluckily, I did get runs in the gloss, and my poor masking skills did present a few hiccups on some of the edges, but it's a learning process and I will improve on these next time I come to paint it again. The Process Here is the car prior to paint. Setting up the gazebo as my DIY spray booth. Car all cleaned and first coat of matte black base. Second coat on and starting to look good. Third coat of matte black. Final coat and ready to dry over night. Time to start on the pearl coats. Midnight blue pearl mixed in to 50:50 matte clear and glossifier. Dust coat already covering the black. First wet coat applied. Second wet coat. Final coats applied and looking awesome. I took off the tail lights and did a few coats of PlastiDip Smoke before applying the gloss. The smoke dries as a matte finish the same as normal dip, and I wanted to go over them with gloss also. Gloss applied to car, and left to dry over night. Jap2Jap Monthly Meet at Botany Bay, showing off my work. Before & After Thanks for viewing! Few more updates to come on exhaust, springs and any other mods I do.

Hi! Some of you guys may remember me from 3 or 4 years ago, I hope you're all doing well and so are your MB/C's! You might recall I used to have a Bronze MB6 that was really on it's last legs bodywise, but performed exceptionally well! I sold it and bought a Celica, and now the time has come to let that go! I am back in a Civic! Not a 5 I'm afraid, but I've gone for a FN2 Type R. If you guys are gathering at Dynodaze anytime soon, give me a shout and I'll fly down and say hi! Cheers guys! Scott

THE CAR IS NOW FIXED! it was the battery fuse! the car runs great now! thanks for replying!

Perfect they look about right... I presume I'll find the part number on my one if I remove it then match it to one on that link?

Stunning as always mate! Didn't realise you done a roof bar delete too, looks sweet!!

Ha ha, yer the arches have. It has lived most of its life on a farm I believe and had the water traps on the arches which started the rot. I don't think it has gone through, i need to inspect it further.

I thought they were suitable for family viewing! I only had my c**k out in 2 of the pictures

Any building suppliers, plaster mesh I think they call it... I got '2mtr x 1mtr' sheet from Jewsons for £8 mate

If you find a clever way to attach the mesh in the bumper gap let me know... I used filler along the edges on the inside but the vibration shook the filler off in about a week so mine is temporarily cable tied on at the moment lol

It worked this time!! Don't know why it wouldn't work last night though!!

I too would recommend you trickle charge the battery asap. Giving the car a good long run isn't advised ....... you could end up cooking the battery because of the massive input from a healthy alternator. Fingers crossed your newish battery recovers