Anything’s possible with fibreglass he says optimistically. Have a look at @stevie’s thread with his rear light rebuild, pretty good indication of what can be done with skill and time.
Welcome to the club Warren & Ashley! 
Ali
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Welcome to the club, there has various conversions with the bumpers and lights. I have had Teins and now have BC, not sure on technically how either are better, but the BC are very good value for money.
Very happy with the BCs though, with whatever way you go with the suspension make sure you get them setup properly.
Neil.
Thanks for the welcomes, been on the phone to rob today to get this rolling.
Will have a look at old threads asap still trying to navigate the site
Warren
Hi again warren, please be aware the newbie section you’ve posted in isn’t for thread builds, we have a section “projects and restorations” for that 
It’s awesome to see your enthusiasm for the cars already 
Remember this website has a wealth of knowledge all there ready at your disposal as a full member
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hey all, sorry for the lack of reply… I wasn’t being rude I have just been swamped with work. @Butler where can I find the ''projects and restorations ‘’ do I need to be a ful member or am I just being a bit slow and missing it lol.
im happy to pay to join and will do so although I will be usless at replying often haha.
just if anyone is interested, I have managed to find a good customiser that will flare y arches and in his words ‘’ do anything Ilike with the right time and input’’ (fancy way of saying cash lol). had my windows tinted in the rears today and looks much better already, wheels will be decided after the arches… I had planned on taking the parts on credit as I have like 5k worth of stuff to do but because its taken so long to decide iv just saved the cash pmsl… the differences in looks I was thinking of have altered to both extremes race to subtle. decided after much reading and pic hunting to go subtle… so shaving the mouth out a bit update the lights, move the spoiler further rear slightly. etc etc , only radical change will be the arches but im sloping them rather than drastic look
Hi Warren.
Welcome. I am a newbie to this forum too but everyone has been brilliant so far. I am also an engineer in the Oil and Gas industry so I know how you feel about the time consumption of the job. Although I don’t spend much time on rigs I quite often have to fly half way round the world for meetings and planning operations for builds (most of which could probably be done over the phone…
The build looks awesome and can’t wait to see more of it.
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hi and welcome i have ray split rims and have 5mm spacers on back and 7mm on front i have a MR owned it for 5 years i have done aro,und 15 k since i bought her i have tracked her shes been up santerpod and i have had no issues ,the wheels and spacers where on the car before i bought it ,its not ideal but as rob says theres not many rims to fit our cars.
cool maxx,
you staff or contractor? whats your main area? I try stay off the rigs too mate just don’t like them choppers, leave me on a fixed wing all day lol. im lucky enough to be home a lot lately but think china for 14weeks is on the cards after xmass. just trying to keep away from the mid-east at the moment. I maihly contract for BV,ABS or Lloyds as the client inspector… but considering a job for shell in the shetlands too
what builds you been on lately? my old man is in the industry too and I seem to bump into ppl who know him everywhere lol, im a bit green, so not as well known but father has been all over… spent much time in Nigeria? angola? west Africa is the norm for him.
if they are paying to fly you mate its all good haha, my dad just sold all his air miles he collected, if you don’t use yours I could ask him where the guy was from (company) for you to look at?
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I am a pansy engineer that works from behind a desk the majority of the time. I work for a company that designs and builds corrosion monitoring equipment for pipelines so the only time I spend on rigs is troubleshooting the electronics cabinets that run our equipment. I had to go to a rig just off the Australian coast last year as one of our electronic control pods was being recovered by ROV to be replaced so was only there a couple of days. I am hoping to make a move to automotive engineering soon. That way if I am late for anything I don’t have people shouting at me down the phone because their field is losing hundreds of millions of pounds a day! lol
that’s cool mate, im pretty much the guy who interprets the results that your gadgets give. technical term is quality or corrosion engineer but to be honest thye use fancy terms to describe me looking at things and telling them if it will break soon, or was made correctly lol… funny how we view things, ie you mentioned you have the guys whining at you that production has stopped etc, well im on the quality and we are constantly bashing heads with production.
they (production) hate you guys …and us lol, as they just want it out and out quick! me and myside (quality) love you guys, gives me a lot less math o do and tbh I don’t care how fast they get the oil as long as its built well and safe lol.
I looked at automotive eng at uni but decided to go with the offshore, shame as the final year project on the auto degree was to make a f1 type car … its at sunderland uni.
Ah that’s cool. Well if you ever see anything made by Teledyne Cormon that’s something I have designed.
And yeah I can imagine how much the production guys over that side would hate us. The trouble is the Project Managers here tell customers they can have whatever they want when ever they want it and the sales guys sell stuff we can’t make so it takes us a lot longer to qualify everything than everyone else realises.
Automotive engineering was fun. We built 2 Westfield race cars. 1 with a 2.0l zetec engine on carbs and 1 with a rover v8! That took some work 