Soooo the wheels were bugging me, new tyres were needed and the bolts were a pain, while looking for tyres i stumbled across a set of alloys i couldn't turn down.

Rota grids, a personal favorite wheel of mine. 4 Nearly new matching tires, normal wheel nuts and for a great price, so this happened




The rotas are 16x7 with an (et 38 i think)

New wheels on the right


And a picture taken on a potato to show them on the car

Needless to say im much happier now, the smaller profile 195/45 tyre should make acceleration more responsive and stop the scrubbing as well

They sit very well on that, in my opinion. Now lower the car by 30mm and it'll look well wikkid, innit

No way man, I loved that little Wagon Quite gutted to hear that

Lowering springs are next on the list


Cheers man was sad to see her go too, would of loved to keep it as a project but didn't have the funds. And nobody else would take her on

I'm a more of a tidy rat person but there was something about that little car

Its alright saying it but... i'd of had it if i'd have known

If only you would of saw the thread earlier dude only asked for £100. She's in the big ol scrap yard in the sky now may she Rust in Peace

So been pretty busy with the little Ignis. Oil and filter changed, coolant changed, air filter cleaned (I cant believe how dirty it was)

Had a friend of mine get it up on the ramps, says its really solid! But while he was there spotted the lower ball joint was knackered (Which explains the knocking) and said he had never seen brakes as bad as mine

Only got a couple of pics, but here we are:

Also changed out my wheel, heres a couple pics along the way of how i got the horn etc wired up and what i had to take off. Used a 2.2 ohm resistor to stop the airbag light coming on, can go into more detail if people are interested

Removed


and some pics of my lovely install :

Sad to see the Wagon go, was a favourite of mine, Loving this Ignis though!

I did the same on my Micra, but it was held together with cable ties and magnet wire

Soooo got plans to upgrade the ignis slowly but surely, reinforced topmounts are being imported as they are prone to failure and i have polybushes for the front ARB to install which i will cover next:

Heres the old bush:


And as we know nothing is ever easy, snapped a bolt, had to remove the whole section in order to drill it out:




Replacing the snapped bolt with a locking nut and bolt


And in goes the new ones!



A day later and my 15 min job is done!

Also front end pic of the car as im not sure if iv posted one yet?

What did you use to yellow your lights? Looks awesome

Cheers man. Just used cheap film from eBay. Put it on using water then squeeze it all out and it dries on

So getting a few more bits up together, performance and style are key

So began to tidy the engine bay (which is not my strong point) Relocated the charcoal canister and started to colour coordinate it Thinking an oil catch can will be next along with battery relocate




On the performance side i hace imported uprated top mounts as these commonly fail with lowering springs, 30mm lowering springs to lower ride height and stiffen the suspension. Also have a spare panhard rod which i will be made adjustable with a part i ordered from Rally Design

So got my panhard made up then sprayed it today to match the car! (Even though it was raining) Not iv got everything ready to go, just need a full day and some nice weather to get it done!

So adjustable pan-hard rod, uprated top mounts and lowering springs finally fitted! Didn't get many pictures as struggled all day with seized bolts! Managed to get everything freed up though so wasn't all that bad

Out with the old in with the new



Have also just purchased wind deflectors and i am planning a battery relocate and charcoal canister delete, along with possibly removing the aircon, so more pics to come soon

So not a lot has happened recently, general maintenance etc. Replaced my drilled ARB mount from under the car as it was knocking, problem solved.

My horn fix was making a scraping noise so thats been fixed!




And who can resist new wheels! Only slightly more aggressive fitment




They are Mims 15x7 et13

Will get better pictures when i decide to brave this terrible weather

So after looking through my phone i realised iv missed out some crucial steps of the build!

Pictures of the panhard rod when it was fitted, along with a stainless steel centre exit exhaust:


Mandatory cleaning shot (Lost from summer last year):


And a rare suzuki sport strut brace colour coordinated to go with my black and yellow theme, along with the few engine bay bits


I feel the lowering springs and strut brace really make a difference to the handling, they have definitely improved, although it can be 'crashy' at times it feels a lot more comfortable around corners, much more planted

Hi mate, sorry to rake up your Wagon R again. I've got a mk1 Wagon R and an Agila. How much modification work was involved in lowering it using the Corsa/Golf parts?

So things got a little serious recently! Finally gave in and bought coil overs!

Ordered -70mm for the rear but was to much of a drop, so had to make platforms for the springs, but real pleased with the result:





De wiper on the rear! (the JDM way)




Engine bay heat shield!

Sooooo the coilovers have adjustable damping, still trying to dial this in! Having some scrubbing issues at the moment, sooooooooo, this happened!



Update to come once my (plastic) arches are cut and they are on

Also:



Jap plates for extra JDM points