Advice - Border or Toms on my SW20 Spider ?

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Spidey
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Advice - Border or Toms on my SW20 Spider ?

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Okay, have just gotten Greddy side skirts (Perfect fit, thanks Gtech :thumleft: ) - now, rear looks way too high compared to the lowered skirts.

So, am thinking to go with either a Toms bumper or Border spats - any advice/opinions appreciated :)

Will try and get some topless :mrgreen: pictures later today if the weather behaves ...

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Mbland
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Re: Advice - Border or Toms on my SW20 Spider ?

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allthough I'm normally a border fan I think toms would be the choice on your car as I think toms would suit the skirts nicely and also suit the whole car whereas I think boder spats would be to chunky
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Re: Advice - Border or Toms on my SW20 Spider ?

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Can't remember this guy's name but was an IMOC member

He has Greddy Sides, Border front and looks like Border rear. I was thinking to put a Border front and Toms rear. My only hesitation on the Toms was whether it dropped it low enough to flow with the same lines as the Greddy sides.

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Re: Advice - Border or Toms on my SW20 Spider ?

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thats very nice, need to get me a border front end i think
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Re: Advice - Border or Toms on my SW20 Spider ?

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Looks great as it is IMO :thumleft:
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Re: Advice - Border or Toms on my SW20 Spider ?

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Looking good dude, can I ask where you sourced the greddy side skirts from?
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
yeah me too, ta :thumleft:
Spidey
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Re: Advice - Border or Toms on my SW20 Spider ?

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yeah, I got the Greddy side skirts from Gtech - actually contacted him through Twobrutal but I think he's on here as well.

Fit and quality was A1 :) :thumleft:

hth
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Re: Advice - Border or Toms on my SW20 Spider ?

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Spidey did you just get a turbo conversion done by Xxxx? Think i saw your car at his garage the other day
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Signori wrote:Spidey did you just get a turbo conversion done by Xxxx? Think i saw your car at his garage the other day


Yep, that was mine :)

Conversion went great - only problem was that I supplied a so-called walbro pump. It just made a funny noise once or twice.

So, am getting a geniune Walbro from GTS Chris and am going to put it in.

Apart from that, which was my own fault was first time I dealt with Xxxx and found him very goodon price, flexibility and knows what he's doing :) :thumleft:
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Re: Advice - Border or Toms on my SW20 Spider ?

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i like the skirts mate, have you seen that photoshopped spider with the trd kit? mental!
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Re: Advice - Border or Toms on my SW20 Spider ?

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The black one ? yeah, very nice alright.

If I had the cash, I'd go for the widebody kit that CarBen Fibre Creations will be having soon.
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Re: Advice - Border or Toms on my SW20 Spider ?

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Border for me anyday. Not keen on Tom's. Looks too standard for my liking. :thumleft:
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Re: Advice - Border or Toms on my SW20 Spider ?

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+1 on border :thumleft:
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Spidey wrote:
Signori wrote:Spidey did you just get a turbo conversion done by Xxxx? Think i saw your car at his garage the other day


Yep, that was mine :)

Conversion went great - only problem was that I supplied a so-called walbro pump. It just made a funny noise once or twice.

So, am getting a geniune Walbro from GTS Chris and am going to put it in.

Apart from that, which was my own fault was first time I dealt with Xxxx and found him very goodon price, flexibility and knows what he's doing :) :thumleft:


Aye, I caught a glimpse too :thumleft: Nice car by the way, first one i've ever seen in the flesh. Bet it looks cool with the roof off 8)
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Re: Advice - Border or Toms on my SW20 Spider ?

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p.s. Border all the way. That thing will look sick when it's wide
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mr2nut123 wrote:Aye, I caught a glimpse too :thumleft: Nice car by the way, first one i've ever seen in the flesh. Bet it looks cool with the roof off 8)


yeah, much nicer with the roof off !

Looks like the vote goes with the Border spats :)

So, where is best to get perfect fitting Border rear spats ?
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Spidey wrote:
mr2nut123 wrote:Aye, I caught a glimpse too :thumleft: Nice car by the way, first one i've ever seen in the flesh. Bet it looks cool with the roof off 8)


yeah, much nicer with the roof off !

Looks like the vote goes with the Border spats :)

So, where is best to get perfect fitting Border rear spats ?


Not too sure on that mate, i've kept away from body kits as most of them require too much work and patience, and then there's the problem of paint cracking and imperfections etc.

However, i'm sure someone will come along to help soon. If not, make a new thread specificly asking about kits instead to get peoples attention.
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