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Grande Punto My Grey Grande (Italian Stallion) modified lowered

Introduction

I have had my car for over a year and a half now and have still not got round to creating a build thread!!! (Terrible I know!)

Here is what it looked like when I 1st got it :)
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It wasn't long before I got some inspiration from the forum and decided to go with the carbon vinyl on the front bumper/ grill :)
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I did vinyl the bottom part of the bumper as well underneath the lower grill but the cat pissed on it and it went grey :( lol

The next change that came along would be the blue interior footwell lights, pedals, punto stickers and new wheel trims. (sorry for the poor quality photo's!)
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Very blue! lol (sunbed style!) :)
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My pedals (They kept slipping off so I eventually got rid of them :( )
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This is a photo of me and a friend in his modified civic (b16 EJ) very nice build and completely modified and very fast!
You can see my custom fiat badges on this photo (not well but...) I scraped the red off and painted them black with silver fiat lettering :)
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I up-rated the suspension to Abarth springs which I was miss-informed on when I was told it would lower the car 40mm!!! the difference wasn't even noticeable! although the handling improved no-end!!!
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I left my car like that for quite a while... Until... I vinyl'd the roof gloss black, tinted the side repeaters and got a black FK debadged grill. (I know it doesn't look nice in this photo but hey ho... it's on it's way to well... hopefully perfection :) p.s. excuse the scenery around my car... House is still being built so it's a building site :)
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Yeah... :)

Anyway onwards!!!

My car has been like that for months until... Last Saturday! :)
I got a brilliant deal on my coilovers (FK Street AK) from Prolex UK and a set of 5 BMW E30 alloys which I refurbished with all center caps.
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Old vs Refurb :)
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All fitted to the car last saturday and it's looking good if I say so myself :)
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The back :)
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Still some arch gap!!! :)
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Need to get the arches rolled or a camber kit as the wheels have some poke... Looks good but It means that the real have a chance of hitting the arch and shredding when I go over a large bump quickly!!! NOT GOOD!!!

The alloys are 15" original BBS and I think they look good. I have seen a post somewhere on here about people thinking that the grande is best suited to 16" or above and that 15" look bad... I disagree as In my opinion these 15's look nice :) what do you think?

Anyway... Back to the low's!!!
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More low's
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only 8cm clearance!!!
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So what do you guy's think??? Any idea's on more mod's? I wanted to open the headlights to paint the inside black but after searching around I found out it's pretty much impossible unless you want to mess up your lights. I just can't take that risk! :(

So it will continue :)
Because i dislike it :( My title says GP'aholic simply because i will have a GP after this car, then a GP after that car, followed most likely by another GP. Simply because i love GP's. You have moved away from a GP :p

Each to their own ofcourse though, so its all good, but personally i'm not a fan (y)
 
because i dislike it :( my title says gp'aholic simply because i will have a gp after this car, then a gp after that car, followed most likely by another gp. Simply because i love gp's. You have moved away from a gp :p

each to their own ofcourse though, so its all good, but personally i'm not a fan (y)

gp 4 life :d
 
The Fiat could No way near compare to the build quality, speed, acceleration, niceness to drive, smoothness, ease and space of the BMW. Don't get me wrong I loved my GP but there is no way i'd go back to one. I am and always have been a German car enthusiast so when I could afford one... I got one :) I don't mean to offend people on this forum either... It's my oppinion (If I didn't like/ love my GP I wouldn't have got one!)
 
hi ive just got my first car and bought the same coil overs, however im getting 17" because 15s are standard and too small... also whats with the blue lights inside? is it hard to do?\
 
hi ive just got my first car and bought the same coil overs, however im getting 17" because 15s are standard and too small... also whats with the blue lights inside? is it hard to do?\

The coilovers are good :) Car handled really well with them! They go low too :) One thing I will point out is... use the original fiat droplinks as if u go low on the fk droplinks they will knock. Happened to me but I couldn't keep the original droplinks on as they snapped... crappy fiat parts (snapped when removing the bolt only 4 months old!

As for the lights. No they are fairly easy as long as you roughly know what your doing. Basically buy some 24cm led strips on ebay... solder on additional wire and connect the two together... then roughtthe cable underneath the glovebox up through behind the glovebox into the side a pillar... then remove the interior light and push the wires through the roof lining until you can pull them out of the interior light hole. All thats left to do is solder the posative and negative to either side of the plates that hold the interior bulb in place. To hold led's in place use a couple of cable ties in both footwells. Easy really :)
 
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