Exige S1 - Spring "Refresh"

[duggan]

Hello All,

Following Esprit's interesting blog on his S1 Exige, I am going down the same route only:

1.)I've got a mint 9k miles S1 Exige
2.)I'm rubbish with a spanner

So I'm going for:

A colour change - from this:


to this:


thanks to seloc'r jvbates for the photoshot

plus some sticky tyres + racing exhaust.

Four weeks to transformation - watch this space....

[Sneaky Schnell]

Cool colour.
Are you getting it painted or wrapped?

[duggan]

Sneaky Schnell said:

Cool colour.
Are you getting it painted or wrapped?

Painted (meaning a total clamshell-break-out of the car) - photos to follow - have a week or so to agree on the colour....

[chevronb37]

Is that the car which was recently for sale? Nice choice though I have a certain laser blue bias...

[Sneaky Schnell]

duggan said:

Painted (meaning a total clamshell-break-out of the car) - photos to follow - have a week or so to agree on the colour....

I look forward to seeing the photos. Good luck.

[simpo555]

It looks awesome in blue, it will no doubt look awesome in green but cant understand the need to change.

[duggan]

chevronb37 said:

Is that the car which was recently for sale? Nice choice though I have a certain laser blue bias...

It is - It came close to going off to France, but I had a change of heart - I've come to learn that if you have people chasing a car, it *can* sometimes be best not to sell it ..... I learnt this lesson when I sold a mint S1 Exige in Chrome Orange for 21k and a Challenge Stradale for 80k.....

[Esprit]

Consider this bookmarked James Take lots of photos of the process and post them up.

Mine will be getting a respray at some point (in original Titanium) and armourfended but that'll be a little way off as it's good enough at the moment and I just want to put some miles on the thing now and shake it down

[braddo]

Esprit said:

it's good enough at the moment

Yeah, I guess it'll do. Nothing like a bit of Antipodean understatement!

[matc]

I agree with above, it already looks great; but in Green it'll be look awesome!

[duggan]

Update - the strip-down has begun:









While all of the clams are off it's getting a complete detail - further pics to follow

[tpp_uk]

Sincs / Essex autosport - good choice, always been very impressed with their work over the past 5 years or so - Interested to see the results as also considering a respray.

[kambites]

I think that photoshopped green is the nicest colour I've ever seen an S1 Exige in, it really suits it.

[duggan]

Here are a few more of the progress this week (not from my fair hand I might add ***thanks Andy!***)

Edited by duggan on Friday 4th March 22:46

[duggan]

Update! Car now rubbed down, primed and prep'd for painting:

[Francelise]

duggan said:

It is - It came close to going off to France, but I had a change of heart - I've come to learn that if you have people chasing a car, it *can* sometimes be best not to sell it ..... I learnt this lesson when I sold a mint S1 Exige in Chrome Orange for 21k and a Challenge Stradale for 80k.....

I didn't see your advert so I don't know how much you had it up for. France would have loved to get it's hands on it though. I live here and they pay very high prices for good low milage ones.

I have sold a few out here, alot of people just wouldn't believe what they could get for them out here.

Good keep, but I am a purist and I think it would be worth more in original condition.
Saying that, a lady backed in to my S1 111S and I sightly damaged a corner last year and another corner this weekend at Haute Sointogne, nr Bordeaux. So, maybe orange instead of black.
Edit: Take a look at this site in France, he buys Exiges and sells them for big, big money!
http://www.lmsc.info/lotus/black-exige-s1-rien-que...

Edited by Francelise on Wednesday 9th March 13:56

Edited by Francelise on Wednesday 9th March 20:32

[duggan]

Bit of an update:

New Ali radiator fitted:




And the colour change in all of its glory:

[Loudman]

Gonna have to change/retrim that steering wheel..........

[duggan]

Loudman said:

Gonna have to change/retrim that steering wheel..........

Ding! It's having a full retrim in Black Alcantara as we speak....

PS - if anyone is on Exiges.com and can nudge David to reactivate my account - have sent a mail & radio silence - thanks

[Stitch]

duggan said:

Ding! It's having a full retrim in Black Alcantara as we speak....

PS - if anyone is on Exiges.com and can nudge David to reactivate my account - have sent a mail & radio silence - thanks

Any green flashes/accenting or straight black?

If you are going for a black alcantara steering wheel, some green stitching would link outside and inside very nicely.