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I thought it might be time to put up a profile thread after 2 months of owning a Lib, and also to keep track of the mods I do to it over time.

Name: Tai
Car: 2004 Liberty GT auto
Purchase Date: 12th June 2010 (Was stock as a rock)



First day of ownership clay bar, buff out swirls, sealant and wax
2nd day I changed all fluids in the car

List of current mods:
5000k HID main beam
6000k HID fog lights (to match the colour of the the main beam)
25 smd LED front parkers and number plate lights
2 x 30com LED strip in the boot
Side cargo nets
Tow bar
Cusco front strut brace with brake stopper
Whiteline rear adjustable sway bar
50% tail light tint

Awaiting arrival of:
Carbon fibre battery and ABS cover
Carbon fibre twill to overlay the other plastic covers in engine bay (the real stuff not the stick on)
STI rear lip spoiler (getting painted)

Pictures of the Cusco strut brace



Rear light tinting

Very nice man. Looking forward to some more pics

Installed the Whiteline sway bar today, took about an hour all up.
I chose to set it on the softer setting for now, even so that difference is remarkable. Not 100% sure if it's the sway bar alone as I fitted the strut brace yesterday. Best thing is that the car is not leaning anywhere as much as it used too, I really hated this as it threw you around inside the cabin.

Here's some more pics, sorry about the pics I use my iphone when I work on my cars.



They look the same size, however the OEM bar is hollow. It weights about 25% of the Whiteline bar, also comes with 2 poly bushes.


This is the 2 setting for the bar


And finally installed. The hardest bit of the install is that you have to tighten everything when the car is on the ground and at normal driving height. Was very tight to get to some bolts.

Nice so far, post some pics of your LED's when you get the chance too.

One thing I think you should do, is move the rear number plate up a little so you don't see the holes at the top, use double sided 3M body tape.
Also do it to the front as well so the number plate doesn't overhang, looks quite good and very simple to do, suggested to me by Steve and I just did mine last night.

That's one thing that has always annoyed me too, I was thinking of drilling new holes in the plate to move it up. I just bought some 3M tape so might just use that, hopefully I don't loose one lol

Nice looking cars...
I agree that was my first mod to move the number plates to a reasonable position by drilling new holes...

Future mods?

Nice car and nice R32 in the background too with the Volk wheels...is that yours too?

Great work, Tai! Always nice to see a car's journey from stock to greatness.

Thanks for the kind words guys.
The GTR is my other ride, lots of mods on that and silly amounts of power
Glad you like the Volks, wish I could find them in 19s for the Lib

Stupid Tapatalk doesn't let me upload more than 1 pic. Here's one for the wheels

As for future mods, I'm going mild on this one.

Dark black tint (probably 20%)
Coilovers
Wheels
STI front lip
Sports grille
Retune once I get my hands on a Tactrix cable
Blacken indicators
LED angels or lower LED strip
Maybe exhaust, but I'm quite enjoying the quite exhaust for a change

Finally finish painting the STI spoiler. It was an Ebay one so had lots of defects and ripples on it. Took me awhile to sand and body fill it to make it flat, primer fill, base coat, clear coat and then buff. I'm pretty happy with the result considering that it's a spray can job, I will highly doubt anyone would pick it.

Here's the result



Also this arrived today. I'm very happy with the quality of these covers.
Now just waiting for my carbon twill to arrive so I can overlay the rest of the engine bay covers to match up.
I'll get these covers fitted and take more pics.

ABS cover


Battery cover

Time for an update

I tinted my own windows this week, didn't get any pics but will take some this weekend. I love DIYs

Started working on my air guide and fuse box covers this week. Just in case someone may want to do the same thing, this is kinda a "how to" as well.

1. Sand down the parts with a coarse grade paper (I used 180 grit). Then mask of any area that you don't want to glass. Cut out a piece of carbon fibre for each part, ensure that you leave about 2cm over hang to make it easier to overlay. Note: use masking tape to stop your cuts from fraying. I lay the tape down on the line that I want to cut, and then cut in the middle of the tape, leaving half the tape on each side.
I used 2x2 twill (gives that nice diagonal pattern) which I bought from Ebay.




2. Mix up resin / epoxy and lay down a coat on the parts. Leave this til the resin is almost touch dry, needs to be tacky (20 - 30mins). I used a clear epoxy for this, however you can use a resin like surfboard resin, just needs to dry clear.




3. Lay the carbon fibre piece on the part and gently rub it on, making sure that you get into all the curves etc. Use a plastic ruler etc to to help you push it into edges and creases. For the fuse box, I also trimmed the edges as I was laying it on. Leave this to dry overnight.





4. Lay a thick layer of resin / epoxy down, making sure that you have even brush strokes and try to get rid of as many bubbles as possible. Leave it to dry overnight and then lay down another layer.





5. Before the resin dries completely (dry to touch but not rock hard), trim most of the excess carbon fibre away. doesn't have to be perfect here, just a rough trim, we will use a dremel once its rock hard.




I'm waiting for it to dry at this stage, may take a couple of days due to the thickness of the resin. I will update on what to do next, so stay tuned.

That looks very cool Tai, you should do a writeup on the guides section.
I wouldn't trust my self with all that sort of stuff, which is why I will probably just buy the Zerosports complete engine bay set from phat, but looks good what you have done, shame you can't post the final product pic yet. Put it up as soon as you can

Hey mate. How much was the carbon fibre overlay?
Are you going to attempt do the actual engine cover aswell? or get it painted?

Your car's coming along very nicely.