Hi all,
found this forum via via, and seemed interesting to put my little 'project' on.
first a bit of the story
My name is andy De smet i'm 20 years old and i live in Belgium (near brussels).
After driving with a VW Golf 3 for a year it was time for something new. during the Auto show in brussels i spotted the Astra GTC and the Corsa D as potential substitute's, although i was sold to the Hyundai Coupé! unfortunate, the coupé was out of reach for me, buying it was no problem, but getting it insured wouldn't be easy !
The astra GTC was way to populair and i wanted something more... unique so it would be the Corsa D!
Bought it a week later and got delivered to me two months later on march the 3rd !
in the following state:
After a year it was time for some updating. i got to see more D's on the road and it was less unique, so i started modding it to the way I like it! first up where some rimms
18" Akuma Mars wheels with 215/35/18 tires with Roadstone tires (Yokohama's soon !)
it looked like this!
But then it all when't wrong, driving home from work i got cut off by some idiot, forced me to throw my car into another lane, wich eventually i ended up in someon's behind! leaving me with this:
during the repairs i vissited the garage a few times, this was during one of them:
Then after two weeks of driving a Daewoo i finally got her back. during the repair i decided to let the garage mounth a Lexmaul front grille u bought a few weeks before i crashed in essen, germany
After that it was the beginning of a new Meeting season and just before the first one started, i decided to lower the car... and i mean really lower it!
i chose a Weitec Adjustable suspension and turned it alllll the way down
what made getting in my garage a real hell
Driveway wasn't that easy to
but it was quite ok on the road
After a long time not updating i decided to get my some Angel eyes, from lion tuning
unfortunate untill today the lights did not arrive it my place yet so i can't show you anything of that yet
but no fear... after a two weak vacation in mexico, i decided to do a little update that costs no money at all, and is really easy to do it yourself! i removed the side mouldings!
and this is how she looked last friday on a meeting:
i also have a music install but still working on getting it build in decently!
so what more do i have planned?
- Angel eyes
- Leather interior
- New manifold (pipercross)
- Airfilter (K&N)
- New exhaust (Skytune)
- New tires (Yokohama)
- Build in the ICE install
- Chiptune the engine for better result with manifold (Unichip)
- New Radio (Pioneer AVIC with GPS)
- Carbon Fiber overlay on some interior parts (no sticker! the real deal!)
- Spray some of the engine parts (Grey mettalic colour)
- Better brakes in front (More HP needs better braking!!)
- colour code the rear drumms & front brake calipers(Grey)
- OPC -vxr for you- line bodykit
and that's about it. maybe a few more details that i forgot about
i hope you'll like it and forgive me about my english but i'm from belgian and it's not always that easy to find the right sentence
is the suspension not a bit hard at that height ??
