Shameless lift and paste from another forum but I thought I'd post here as well to bring users who only frequent this forum up to speed with my car, Ronin.
This has been a labour of love for me over the last 3 years. When I started I was driving a Porsche 993 (pictured) as my daily.
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I had originally bought the Roadster for my wife. However, it had been left languishing in a garage for almost 3 years after the birth of our first son. Then one day I decided to take it out to blow the cobwebs off. Within 20 mins I realised that the Roadster could deliver almost all of the thrills at real world levels that my 993 had to be taken to illegal speeds to savor. Now don't get me wrong I LOVED my 993 with a passion but for the £23,000 difference in price tag I couldn't defend it as a driving expense when the Roadster pushed so many of the fundamental Petrolhead buttons in terms of feel, smell, etc. I was blown away by how fun it was.
So I put my 993 up for sale and started modding. I wanted an old school 1960's style feel to my build and I think I have succesfully stuck too that direction. I hope you'll agree.
My starting point. . . rolling on WORK RS Alpha wheels (Still got 'em - they are sitting in my garage waiting to be refurbed.Stupidly I mislaid one of the four original centre caps. . . they are as rare as rocking horse poop)
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Racing Beat style bar . . .
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Rare OEM knee pads. . . pocket on tunnel side
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. . .plain on door side.
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Added a Garage Vary lip (couldn't quite shake the Porsche thing - thats the Rainforest Green 986 Boxster in the background that I'd just purchased as a new toy. . . oops)
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18" Racing Roundels
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Hardtop was next up, along with an offset plate.
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Front (and rear) tow hooks (which I sprayed up red)
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Momo Prototipo (Only one wheel for me . . . I'm a big Porsche fan)
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14" Panasports!
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Starting to look OK. . .
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Oh, and I'd added a MazdaSpeed Chrome Style/roll bar as well . . . love seeing this through the rear window!
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Retro dash switches . . .
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Joyfast Supershort shift knob . . . my first parcel from Japan. I was stupidly excited about this piece of metal! lol
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Followed Adams (Revlimiter) excellent instructions (I wish I had the same talent for writing them) as a basis to make these TSIs. They look the bomb!
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Let me suck up some air!
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Dynobond (?) plastic/aluminium sandwich slam panel. . . very limited run by Skuzzle Motorsports in UK
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