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Jables vents are in the rite places.


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When Jables came to us wanting to have new sides and rears it was quick to realise that car rest of the car would need a bit of attention too.

 

Liking the charge speed look but not the vents meant that we had to make a custom set for Chris where we've flushed the vents on the skirts and the rear bumper.

 

Chris's zed was turbo charged and was looking a bit tired at the front where it's had a few sprints on the track.

Though the engineering was well thought out, the car had lost the ability of being towed without access to the stock tow hook so we linked him up with Kode uk with a TRS tow strap whilst we addressed the front end of the car.

In addition, because of the relocated inductions and oil cooler, we felt that the front needed a bit more ventilation.

 

 

This was how it started off with half the oil cooler exposed and reflector vent's was the only source of inlet.

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After our consultations, Chris sent me a photoshopped picture of what the desired end result would had looked like.

 

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After:

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The rectangle carbon cold air feed wasn't doing anything as the inlet was no longer there. in essence it was just blowing onto a hard pipe from the intercooler. That was to be removed and filled.

 

The added vents was to mirror the reflector vents and to increase air inlet to both the inductions on both sides and better cooling to the oil cooler which was only half exposed in the main vent.

 

 

So with all the planning and decisions made, Chris's zed was booked in for our first job at our new bigger unit in Wembley.

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Looks much more aggressive and better! The stuck on carbon intake holes dont do the standard bumper much favours.

 

True. But wait till you see the real thing.

 

So the job spec:

Make flushed CS Skirts

Make flushed CS Rear bumper

Both spray and fit

repair rear rolled arches and blend

repair front arches and blend

bonnet respray

Remove and flush scoop on front bumper

Remove and repair front lip

Cut extra vents

Re-mesh all round

Install TRS tow hook

Paint front grill, front lip and rear insert in black

 

Here are the progress pics.

 

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yes. Basically the vents have been smoothed over giving it a more subtle look.

Its a little bit more work for a different look but it works for those who don't want them.

 

Anyway, here's the car painted.

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Next off will be everything off the car.

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Really like the cut out bumper, something new and interesting.

 

A black car with a simple line like this would look great, would tie up with the calipers/reflectors/seat trim stritching nicely. Would be subtle in a good way.

 

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I can imagine that too ph7.

 

So now that everything is painted, we just had to put it all together again.

First off, new mesh and tow strap.

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And no more cracked rolled arches too

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Huge thanks to Ray, Taras and the other guys at RT, they've done a cracking job. I 'may' have ordered some new 19" wheels to finish this off as the body kit does emphasise the small sized standard RAYS, but for the time being here are a few more snaps.

 

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Has the car been lowered at all? From the back it looks really low but maybe that's just the bumper?

 

It's sitting on Meister R coilovers on their highest setting (so fractionally lower than stock) but my rear track tyres have dropped it about 20mm due to the 255/35/18 profile.

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