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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() The car's looking really hot. |
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| ![]() New satin wrapped wheels |
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| ![]() Sweet new look on the car with the white and the wheels look sick too. Any further performance modifications planned? ![]() |
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| ![]() The engine is maxed out. Not really much I can do. I will put pics when car is fully ready tomorrow. Actually I'm going to put a sneak peak Mod Note : Please use the EDIT or MULTI-QUOTE buttons instead of typing one post after another on the SAME THREAD! To know how to multi-quote, click here (How to MULTI-QUOTE (when replying to a thread) on Team-BHP). We advise you to read the Forum Rules before proceeding any further. Last edited by moralfibre : 15th May 2013 at 09:55. Reason: Back to back posts. |
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| ![]() It's here. Just took delivery. Daljit did a great job |
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BHPian ![]() | ![]() That is absolutely stunning! The white shade is beautiful and the wheels are gorgeous! Do you have any figures? 0-100, 0-160 etc.? Would love to know! |
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| ![]() The power and torque figures are awesome. The car looks absolutely gorgeous. Love the alloys, the satin wrap and painted calipers. ![]() Is the paint job on the car satin or pearlescent? |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() | ![]() Gemballa, nothing personal but changing the color or overcoating an already great & intact finished relatively new car may not be wise in India for that matter anywhere else. No matter how it looks now, it will always be a repainted E55 to me that is sad as a perfectly nice original sleeper car has been punked up or made to look more mafia soldier car than TOP boss yakuza or classy look. Anyway way its yours so best of luck. I for one was fairly disappointed to see another good intact car get re-painted for no rhyme or reason other than perhaps boredom or a whim which is what this seems cheers Last edited by canonball : 15th May 2013 at 11:43. |
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Congratulations. The job on the car is indeed absolutely sick as heck. ![]() If you can find the time, please post a walkaround video of some sort. I know ever since Insideman's run-in with the police that's a bad idea but pretty please. P.S. Hope, correction, pray that Insideman brings his YouTube channel back online, perhaps with a video of his M(ental)3 and your E(normous)55 ![]() |
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Oh is that so, well i could not see the same mentioned anywhere, although the thought did cross my mind! Does the paint remain the same after you peel off a wrap or vinyl etc? I suppose one has to painstakingly clean the gue off and risk damaging paint, not to mention edges and crannies, i suppose some saving grace instead of painting it. Still semi stripping it to put vinyl in my book is again fiddling with an intact car leading to reassembly, an art few in the world are really good at and have the real patience to do in a factory kinda way, well to each his own. |
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Probably. Vinyl doesn't Damage the Paint. Glue would Stick to Vinyl, Not the Car. True. Semi-Stripping the Car. Outside the Factory. Bad Idea. Not Gonna Happen To Mine. | |
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As for your concern about stripping down and re-assembling cars outside the factory or workshop, Mumbai like the rest of India has come a long way in terms of specialist shops who provide the services and are as good as most international workshops as well... When taking off the wrap, if required the paint remains unscratched as there are special scalpels and non-sharp tools to ensure that surface scratches don't occur. People all over the world do it for Gumball 3000, so why not do it to give your car a fresh new look? Last edited by Taronish_E : 15th May 2013 at 15:05. Reason: More Info | |
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