cheers mate, and i dont know if i should re build the head or just chuck a gt in there...... my mates got the full conversion for sale which hes been trying to sell me for ages and now this has happened hes been on my case about it everyday haha.

and yeah I'm pretty pissed about the rabbit! dont know how to get the dent out, I've pulled some of it back out but theres still 2 big dents (one from its head and one from its body) haha

have a full 1.0 engine for sale if needed mate just spent £400 on it

finally got some new wheels!!!!

they scrubbed like fuck front and rear, but with a bit of persuasion (a large hammer) the rears dont scrub at all, but the fronts still do a bit as there spaced out 10mm to clear the brakes......

i need to get some lower profile tyres but these are brand new yokos 155/70's so i thought id leave them till they wear through and either get 165/55's and be on the floor or just get 155/65's and be comfy but still have balloons.....

anyway today i got some autosol and cleaned up the dishes and my up swept exhaust..

Are they 13x6 ats mantas?

Those wheels look great, and should look spot on with a slightly shorter tyre. Great to see a breadie without butchered arches sitting at the height yours does too. Once upon a time, mine was the same colour as yours.

oli I'm fitting my ats mantas at the weekend with 165/55/13s will let you know how they look

yeah there the 13x6s, i did want the 13x7s but i didnt want to ruin my car too much in the arches haha. and yeah please mate! i wanna now how low itll sit roughly because theres a lot of speedbumps and pot holes where i live and dont want to smash my sump up haha, but the 155s only just sit in the arches so i think I'm gonna have to get a bit of rear camber

yeh think I'm gonna struggle with 165s on the back. I'm only down 40mm at the rear so shouldnt take too much ....i hope!!!

mine are fully black but need a paint job. my whole car is black and red haha

Ill wait till you get the 165s then learn from your mistakes haha.

I'm confused now though, what's the difference between mantas and classics? Because I thought that mine were classics until I just googled mantas and there were a few pics of my shape ones

time for an update on this car........

before..

and after

thats bollocks man what happened? no one hurt i hope!

nah no one was hurt cheers mate, just me in the car and i got a bit of whiplash and punched the windscreen which hurt my finger haha.

i was on the way back from work a couple months ago, right when the sun is in your eyes, and some idiot was parked on a country road, which i couldn't see as there was an astra van infront of me (and the sun). then the astra van slammed its breaks on and if an 08 plate astra van hits the breaks infront of you and your in an old car then theres no way your gonna stop in time!

i was just reading through this thread and getting excited because i have just bought the same colour. the crash sucks man. I feel a bit cheeky but will you be selling any of the parts from it? i need a few bits and bobs that are still intact on yours

Look after it well! Haha. I miss mine so much.

And sorry mate i haven't got this any more, the crash was 2 months ago and i sold what i could then had to scrap it as my mum and neighbours were getting pissed off about this and had a few complaints as well haha, and the council were trying to take it away as well !

Oh man gutted geez that car was mint!!!