Ricco\'s Ride

[Brett]

Decided on a spoiler yet?  You know long and low makes sense

[kermit]

Russ, you got any pics of FD\'s in Montego blue with the kit fitted?!!!!

Same gesture, welcome to the wide club


Will look awesome.

Ive seen a few in red. and you bought the best one in the 2000 model front IMO. Front is very smooth.

There\'s going to be a lot of nice cars around soon.

Here is some red inspiration.

I love the one with White SSR Type C and red bonnet

RE-A Kit fits great My last one was good.

Russ.

[Ricco_04]

Same gesture, welcome to the wide club


Will look awesome.

Ive seen a few in red. and you bought the best one in the 2000 model front IMO. Front is very smooth.

There\'s going to be a lot of nice cars around soon.

Here is some red inspiration.

I love the one with White SSR Type C and red bonnet

RE-A Kit fits great My last one was good.

Russ.

Cheers Russ :cheers

Mmmmm I like the piccies :chat

Decided on a spoiler yet?  You know long and low makes sense

:Giggle   Honestly I havn\'t given it a thought still!  I have not even looked for pictures! :spank

Russ, you got any pics of FD\'s in Montego blue with the kit fitted?!!!!

I have a few of one with the 99spec Facer nose on which I have been using to guage different colours (I got them from the ReAmemiya website when I contacted them about the rep they did) - I could try and do a dodgy photoshop (but it would be dodgy!)

[Ricco_04]

Well thought I should update.  Booked a few days off work and have been working solid on fitting the kit with help from a talanted mate! We\'re just getting all the kit to bolt on and looking reasonable, shut lines have been tweaked ever so slightly to get the rest of it to fit but they will all be re-done again so I can be picky with them and get them all lined up as they should be.

The carbon undersweep really makes a difference and it is a good piece of aero kit.  Here\'s a few progress photo\'s :

The before work began shot :wiggle  :











Both rear arches have been seen too.  We got rid of the rust under there, wasn\'t too bad but bad enough if you know what I mean! :yes  Metal work has been moved into position, good clean up, acid primed and a couple coats of underseal have been applied.  Ready to start fitting the rear overfenders next.

Going to go out there now and get that diff brace fitted me thinks :wiggle

[RobbieRX-7]

Looking good Mate. Where you getting it sprayed?

[Spen]

Glad you\'ve started it mate:cool
Now I know why you wanted to get your lights out!
Can\'t wait to see it finished:D

[rextreme]

Giddy Up... Looking good.

[Ricco_04]

Looking good Mate. Where you getting it sprayed?

Cheers fella. I havn\'t decided, i\'m going to post up a request for reccomendations I think and see what experiences people have had with what bodyshop.

I see you have some skirts on the way :cool

Glad you\'ve started it mate:cool
Now I know why you wanted to get your lights out!
Can\'t wait to see it finished:D

Yeah, I didnt even think of saying why!  Sorry I disturbed you from your tea :chat   I\'m sure you got the thank you message :rollin   Would have had both rear arches on by now but we where working on Reece\'s MR instead (cant remember if you know him :o) and then had to take it for a play to check, via the pub and after retreiving the keys we locked inside :rollin :Hammer

Giddy Up... Looking good.

Cheers my man .  I thought I was going to cry when we started the rear arches but I wasn\'t too bad - well up untill I had to key some perfectly good paint :rolleyes:  :Laugh

[rextreme]

Sorry,

I missed your call for blue pics.

Not many around.

Most Montego cars are normal. Strange. but I guess hard to match that colour.

This one is the later colour

[Brett]

Would be interesting to hear where you found the rust?  Might be worth making a litle sub thread in the 3rd gen section so other owners know where to look.....

 Looking good though :god

[kermit]

Cheers Russ, really like it in Montego Blue!  Keeping my wheels Silver though - not keen on the gold look.

Ricco, its looking seriously good!  How have to found fitting the kit - Fairly easy?  Any pictures of the modifications made to the rear arches?

Cheers,
Martin.

[Ricco_04]

Rust is/was on the rear of the arches, It has had that problem since I brought it and only recently (in the last 4 months) did it all of a sudden accelerate so I was glad to have rid of it!  

I will upload the pictures of the rear arches, including ones showing it all cut out (this is when I find out I didn\'t take enough! :rolleyes: )  Even put a few spots of weld on it to make sure it was extra strong - probably could have got away with it but if it\'s worth doing and the tools are there to do it, you know.

The kit in terms of fitting is a joy - but a joy in comparison to a copy rear bumper I helped fit - that was a right royal pain in the arse and took best part of 20 hours to get spot on.  The hard work has not really been done, as always the pictures make it look better than it is.  There will be needed many more hours to get it how it needs to be.  All the shut lines need addressing and the whole car needs to be properly flatted before the respray.

I do need some help from the Widebody boy\'s though - I am a little stuck on how to relocate the filler flap (as it\'s the only lockable bit before the cap)  I have cut away the relevant metal (welded it again for strength) acid etched it and painted it but I for the life of me can\'t work how it all goes together.

The illustrations dont really give much away and I am not so good at reading Japanese! (although I would love to!)  

Does anyone have any pictures of their setup?  Or advice? Or methods? Please help, I feel all held back! :Giggle  

Here\'s what I have :




Thanks for the interest guys

[rextreme]

I actually cut the orignal one and used a spacer to push it out further.
But it still touched slightly. I had to make the hinge section very thin.
 I didnt recess the body like they say.

Here is the Amemiya initial D Replica in Build form. I didnt do this but I can see why they did. It allows the cap to open more.

http://www.re-amemiya.co.jp/old_cp/car_pic/fd3s_ini_d/fd_ini_d_03.jpg

[Ricco_04]

I got all the Initial D rep photo\'s off the Amemiya website - amazing car, love it :yes .  That\'s what I used as a starting point.  The bodywork around the fuel filler has been made the same but I still couldn\'t understand how it all works :o

Your other picture I think could help so I will have another look tomorrow also armed with a mug of tea!

[rextreme]

Move the mounting holes towards the exterior of the body

Carve out the hinge a bit more to make it thin and trim the original cap a little.

You have to carve it out so it opens more.