Legnum Super VR-4

[Confused]

PART VI


Not only the exterior had cosmetic differences on the Super VR-4. The differences extended to the interior, where it gained red carpet, red/black gear lever & handbrake, red/black Momo steering wheel, purple-tinted dash gauges, and "carbon fibre" effect dash surround. Also on the list is are red/black door cards, rear seats, and matching Recaro fully adjustable front seats.

Most of this, fortunately, is present, other than the Recaro front seats, which have been replaced with other seats following a similar patterning to the doors, but only in blue, rather than red!

The steering wheel, too, has seen better days, with the red part VERY faded and damaged.



So, the aim has been to try to acquire the Recaro seats, a replacement steering wheel to restore the interior to factory "Super VR-4" standard.


Unfortunately for others, but very fortunately for us, we have managed to acquire not only these parts, but also original front canards, and sideskirts - from another complete Super VR-4 - this time, however, a Galant saloon:





And, now, the love-child of our other two :)


Unfortunately, this is how it was delivered to us...



The damage is, regrettably, terminal.







(We would like to meet the person who did this to the car... and punch them in the ovaries)

However - every cloud has a silver lining, and in this case, it means that the Legnum can now have the correct OEM parts - Recaro's, skirts, canards, and a steering wheel in better condition than the one currently there.

The plus side, too, is that by breaking the saloon for parts, we'll be able to make a bit of money back on it.

Every time we've gone outside today and seen that parked up there, it's made us feel physically sick seeing the damage to it, and knowing we can't fix it :(

[Confused]

PART VII

Super VR4's came with an option for tri-spoke wheels.








They're not the official optional wheels, but instead some Ray's 3-piece split wheels - and they give the car a completely different look.


PART VII.5

Now that the Super saloon has arrived, it's time to pillage for parts.

First on the list, as they're the easiest & cheapest to prepare, is the sideskirts.

The facelift skirts fitted in an earlier update are of course not the correct parts for a Super, so, they've got to come off again.

Unfortunately, the saloon has had quite a bad time in it's life, and quite a few bits are quite battered (other than the obvious rear end damage, the driver's side rear quarter has been previously repaired, as in some parts there is now 2-3mm of body filler visible, and flaking off!)

Additionally, the passenger sideskirt has been previously damaged, and repaired with filler. Some of this was flaking off, so we removed the damaged bits, and set to repairing it again ourselves.



Fill, sand, rinse, fill, sand, rinse, repeat...

And then some paint:



Brackets to hold top of skirt to body:



Plus some double-sided tape:



And on they go:

[Mesobitchi]

she now drive well, and has her first show coming up next month.
:)
I will be entering her into the show and shine! :D

[Confused]

PART VIII

The Super VR-4 came with a different interior to the pre-facelift VR-4 that it was based on.

The interior colour scheme was red - and it came with a red carpet, steering wheel, handbrake lever, gear lever, and red flecked seats/doorcards.

It also came with a set of Recaro seats in the front, which had been removed at some previous point in it's life, replaced with a set of standard seats, but with the blue fleck instead - so it stuck out a bit!

The silver Super saloon again provides us with original parts, in way of the Recaro seats.





They have adjustable side bolsters, and the bits at the very front extend out to support more of your leg than normal :)


Much nicer than the old:



While the seats are all out, it gave a chance to give the insides a bit of a clean. No funky finds, however :(





And then all fitted to the car:

[blue8g]

dang....those seats are awesome!

[Gtorque]

wow nice job so far man..you legnum looks great!!when are you gonna put a upgraded front mount?

[midnight]

absolutely magnificent

[Mesobitchi]

well i am hoping to upgrade soon, but for now the OEM one will do.
and i want it black, dont want to show off the fact its turboed, as anyone who knows a thing about cars and intercoolers will know its turbo if they see the big silver lump!
i want them to think WTF was that as it pisses pass them

[Gtorque]

^lol very nice!

[Confused]

PART IX

When we had the Galant, we modified a set of VR-4 headlights, to fit twin projector units.

Most of below is a copy/paste from that (no point in reinventing the lights!), but it is different than before!

First off was to dig out the box of goodies:


Then set about dismantling the light units and de tangoing them:




Once this was done, we had the painstaking task of separating the reflectors from their housing and cutting holes by hand, that were big enough to hold the new units:






Next up was the easy task of priming and spraying:


Once this bit was done we set about cutting some tin to make the covers that would sit over the front of the light unit for each light (in this case it was 4), working with tin is fairly hard, but with the right tools we got there in the end, these were then primed and sprayed.





We decided to add some LEDs for sidelights:






On with the tin coverings

We used black silicone to seal the units and hold the tin in place along with araldite.

Time to put the units back into the lights and then another quick test just to make sure all is working!



We then got ourselves a 4300K HID kit, and proceeded to fit them:



One new, one old:






Now that the HIDs are in there - the projector lights are even better than they were with just halogen bulbs in - which themselves were miles better than the standard headlights!

[blue8g]

Wait. You tore SVR4 heads apart :(

Oh wait nvm those look like standard heads kinda skipped over install

[Mesobitchi]

lol, yes standard vr4 head lights. we will at some point be putting the red shrouds into these, but when that happens..... who knows!

[Gtorque]

damn thats looks great!

[Mesobitchi]

Ooops!
forgot to update here....

well just a note to say that the car is now finished with the restoration and all that is left now is the engine side of things,
just basic things such as servicing and fault finding as i have a few error codes flashing up and a bloody miss-fire to sort out!
I am how ever toying with the idea of the evo style bonnet..... and as much as i would like to lower the car, i will not be doing that!

so for now, From JAE here are a couple of teaser pics!





Thanks for watching :)

[G-spot]

more pics of the girl (with your car)!

[Da_Prodigy]

more pics of the girl (with your car)!

x2

[Mesobitchi]

ooh ok, you twisted my arm!

I will do another thread somewhere with all the pictures that we took over the weekend from the UKs biggest jap car event - JAE

Link to were the pics are :D

https://www.thegalantcenter.org/show...467#post617467

[beam514]

very clean!

[Mesobitchi]

lol, pitty it dont look so clean now! damn kids! and bloody rain!

[Mesobitchi]

As with most red cars of a few years old, the paintwork is less red, more pink.



And some quite nasty blemishes in the paint



And generally, as rough as a badger's ass...




So, we enlisted the help of a friend, who's Mitsubishi FTO is a multi-time winner of Show & Shine competitions he's entered


The story starts on a warm, hot, summer's day...



Oh, wait, no. It was a cold, wet summer's day, as usual!

And, as you can see, the paintwork is a bit flat and dull.

So, some masking up was done:



And some clay barring:



Some machine polishing:



And then the rest of the 3-stage process (Cleaner, Sealant, Wax), giving us the before and after:



And finally, after a very long day (11 hours), we were left with a bit of a mess:



And a shiny car with beading and water flowing off it, rather than sitting on it!






And after a well deserved pub grub dinner, came out to see more beading - who can resist a beading shot!?