The Plan...

[AL]

Right, I have changed my mind sooo many frickin' times now about what to do with my Astra - I think i'm going to stick with it and do the bodywork ASAP.

Needs a LOT of panel repairs to be fair, but this is the general list of what I hope to do:

Styling:

Colour Coded Bumpers, Electric Mirrors and Handles.
Steinmetz Skirts
Irmscher or Steinmetz front bumper/spoiler.
Not sure on rear bumper...
Carbon Boot Panel
Carbon Bonnet
Vented Front Wing

Paint:

Full respray in Vaux Ultra Blue (inc. under bonnet - door shuts etc...)
Roof and Spoiler Painted Vaux Black Sapphire - nice euro touch

As for the other bit's - new exhaust, bigger front brakes, rear discs - calipers painted red. Will do something to tidy up the wheels - and my mudflaps would go

Plus a set of Euro rear clusters.

Any other suggestions?

 

[Ben]

if your going with the euro look, get some nice wide 16s, and slam as far possible. i do like the euro styling on the astra, surprisingly its not very big over here yet.

 

[Cobbymk3]

yeh...... can i have the mud flaps....??

 

[AL]

yeh...... can i have the mud flaps....??

You can - but bright blue flaps on a green car?

Eurgh

 

[strad]

nice gear steinmetz stuff

expensive though and rare to find second hand

do it and be different

 

[Ben]

nice gear steinmetz stuff

expensive though and rare to find second hand

do it and be different

i saw a few steinmetz stuff on ebay a few weeks back, looks quite nice. the advert said they were genuine, but you never know on ebay

 

[Hendry]

what you want for a euro look are some deep dish 15s, like the ones on the black astra on the Tuning.co.uk website

 

[Astramarkus]

Right, I have changed my mind sooo many frickin' times now about what to do with my Astra - I think i'm going to stick with it and do the bodywork ASAP.

Needs a LOT of panel repairs to be fair, but this is the general list of what I hope to do:

Styling:

Colour Coded Bumpers, Electric Mirrors and Handles.
Steinmetz Skirts
Irmscher or Steinmetz front bumper/spoiler.
Not sure on rear bumper...
Carbon Boot Panel
Carbon Bonnet
Vented Front Wing

Sounds really nice, go for that. I´ve got fiberglass wings... And make sure you use a badboy´d hood! (eurostyle)

Paint:

Full respray in Vaux Ultra Blue (inc. under bonnet - door shuts etc...)
Roof and Spoiler Painted Vaux Black Sapphire - nice euro touch

Thats ok too, twotone looks good.

As for the other bit's - new exhaust, bigger front brakes, rear discs - calipers painted red. Will do something to tidy up the wheels - and my mudflaps would go

Plus a set of Euro rear clusters.

Any other suggestions?

Gaah! Red calipers on a blue car? No, paint them blue or black, silver maybe... Thumbs up for Euroclusters!

Go for it Al!

 

[Ben]

have you done any photoshops to give you an idea of what its going to look like? i'd be interested to see them

 

[Rob]

I say get some 13"s. Wheel size, and width

Then lower it by about 200mill.

Biiig deep dish split-rims.

I'm tmepted by those carbon bonnets and back panels, but not cheap.

 

[AL]

have you done any photoshops to give you an idea of what its going to look like? i'd be interested to see them

Getting a rather good mate of mine to do a chop for me.

Am now looking at 5 stud conversion and some very rare (and expensive...eek!) 17's