Skappa's new(er) VX Wagon!

[skappascrap]

Okay, time to continue!

Next on the agenda was some custom A-pillars for the small drivers I had bought quite a while ago.

Callum at AV-DC was more than awesome to turn these around in 3 days, still not quite completed but they are 90% of the way there!

Next day, hand sanded then filled, ready for primer.

 

[skappascrap]

Okay, continuing form where we left off.

These pillars are eventually going to be painted beige to colour match the rest of the interior beige trims.
We were so damn close to leaving them in black texture coat..

But no we didn't, we ended up painting them white because that's all the paint store had at the time.
Near finished pic of them.

At this point the car was sounding the best it ever had, even running off the head unit!
This happened mid December, hadn't touched it since.

 

[skappascrap]

Okay, I forgot to add that I bought some eBay Altezza lights with projectors, shown below installed not long after buying the car.
These projectors were f*cking terrible for light output, even with Philips +60 globes in and literally hours of trying to adjust them with the beam not moving.
0/10 do not recommend.

I have a good friend who does custom car lighting and accessories as a hobby, so he hooked me up a good deal.
Loudz Creations.

I dropped off my old headlights that came from the car and he worked some damn good magic with them.
Wanted to keep a stock OEM style look and I reckon it was achieved quite well.

Lenses before being restored to near new, 15 years old and not looking so pretty.

After being restored and with 3 coats of clear on the lense, that way the lense will NEVER fade or go yellow and hazy, AGAIN!

The new headlights have high quality Morimoto projectors and housings retro fitted, along with a custom park light setup.

During the installation process.

Done!!

Now some pics of lighting day and night.

Finally done, thanks for looking.

 

[commodore1994]

Damn they are huge subs
The pillars came up good, well done.
The rest of the car is also looking good. Keep up the great work!

 

[Discotec]

those subs... thats why I love wagons

car looked great when you got it, previous owner took care of it?

headlight looks mad and those pillars are awesome.

Good stuff mate!

 

[skappascrap]

Damn they are huge subs
The pillars came up good, well done.
The rest of the car is also looking good. Keep up the great work!

Thanks man!
Yes they are huge subs, one is dead now though.

those subs... thats why I love wagons

car looked great when you got it, previous owner took care of it?

headlight looks mad and those pillars are awesome.

Good stuff mate!

Car was from a dealership and had been there for 5 months, bought it $1.2k cheaper than when they had bought it from the previous owner as a trade in.
Not perfect but good enough!

Thanks for the comments about the pillars and headlights, I can't take any credit for either of them though.
Credit goes to Loudz Creations for the headlights and AV-DC for the pillars.

 

[skappascrap]

Done front pads and rotors yesterday, then a swapped my stock grey series 1 dash pad with a black series 2 calais dash pad, including all of the lower dash bits

 

[boingk]

Nice work on this, unreal sub enclosure, too! Love the photo of your mate putting it in with the forklift, replete with cigarette hahaha...

- boingk

 

[skappascrap]

Thanks boingk haha!

 

[skappascrap]

Well, that was pointless..
Erm...