Project Shaguar XFR

[WRXtranceformed]

Hit a pothole on the garbage roads around CLT airport, broken tie rod and two bent wheels. Merry Christmas! :lol: Hoping that no more damage is found but may end up filing an insurance claim if so.

[CaptainHenreh]

DAFUQ

[WRXtranceformed]

Not cool, I am filing a claim with NCDOT for what it's worth. It was on a concrete onramp from highway to highway at night so basically impossible to see. Fortunately the wheels can be repaired and don't need to be replaced, I think those wheels are like $1400 each brand new

[JustinG]

DAFUQ

+1

[WRXtranceformed]

Car all fixed, will make sure to post up some pics and a vid if I can after the exhaust install

[premiershine9]

Car all fixed, will make sure to post up some pics and a vid if I can after the exhaust install

[WRXtranceformed]

Sneak preview of the exhaust (that isn't my car).

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[ScottyB]

wow that system sounds like its got some guts to it! love the gnarly tone....and that was to only 4k rpm.

[JustinG]

I approve!

[WRXtranceformed]

Exhaust installed with the help of my friend who builds custom hot rods. Specifically took it to him because he has done good work in the past, and inevitably some scratches ended up all over the exhaust tips that will bug the balls out of me until I eventually sell the car. But with some polishing it looks much better (you can see the haziness at the top of the tips near the bumper):





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Love the sound, can't wait to hear it when it is broken in. I am getting no droning at all and a seriously aggressive tone on start up and at WOT.
Other than the damage to the tips I am super happy with the system. It took some fenagling to get it to have proper fitment...from Mina's shop the passenger side I think was made a little off. We had to use stainless steel wire hidden behind the bumper to get it to be lined up and centered. I may at some point have it powder coated gloss black (like the 335is tips) because it will annoy me every time I look at these unless Dan you know of any way to remove swirly scratches from chrome. I swear I can't have nice things.

Pretty sold now on the CF rear diffuser so that will likely be here soon. Then with the grille blacked out and wheels powder coated I'll be done with this one until I am ready for a new one

[HAULN-SS]

I don't see shit in those pictures, and there's no way i'd give a damn about a scratch that at most could be 1/2" long because that's all you can see sticking out. Just let it get a coat of grime on it and you'll never know it's there anyway.

[JPolen01]

#whitepeopleproblems

[WRXtranceformed]

It's way more noticeable in person, it's more of a haziness of a bunch of scratches. It is whatever though I will get over it

[WRXtranceformed]

Plastidipped the grille, reposted from the Jag forums. Pretty pleased with how it turned out!:

Travel is about to ramp up for work again and we just got back from traveling for the holidays to see family so I figured I should squeeze this in while I had time. I love the black pak grille and overall scheme and although I have bought several items already from Mina Gallery I didn't think it was necessary to spend $300+ on a grille I can "dip" myself. Having successfully tackled Plastidipping the chrome grille, trim and badges on my Cadillac this was going to be relatively easy.

How it sat before in all of it's dirty glory:






On to the grille:

Step 1: Mask off everything you don't want overspray on. Leave about a 1/4 to 1/2" gap when taping off the trim around what you want dipped so that you can peel it off later. Fortunately I don't paint for a living as you can tell from my masking skills but it works haha


Step 2: Clean up your grille and apply coat 1. Wait half an hour for it to dry. It's not going to look super great on the first pass so don't stress out. Unfortunately the weather is cold right now and my can of Plastidip was sitting in the garage so I had to swap it in and out of a warm part of my house to keep it spraying correctly.


Step 3-6ish: Apply several more coats, in my opinion 5-6 is the sweet spot because it will be less vulnerable to rock "chips" and protect the grille better. On our particular grille make sure to be deliberate about spraying at diagonal angles and upward angles to get inside all of the crevaces. It is a pretty busy grille design so you don't want to miss any spots.



If it starts to look a little chunky that is fairly normal and it's made probably a little worse by it being cold. Just spray another layer over that area and the dip tends to settle out and smooth a little. Again I'm not the best painter so others can probably get a smoother final coat but the texture isn't noticeable unless you're 6" away

Step 7: Unmask and begin to peel off the excess from what you don't want the dip on. I chose to remove it from the R badge I had on the front as well as the growler. Wherever there is a "threshold" of trim to trim it should peel right up fairly easily leaving what is next to it intact.




I left just the chrome growler peeking through mostly because I was impressed that it came off of him that cleanly ha. I may end up pulling the "JAGUAR" ring off around him but for right now I'm going to let him stand out:




If you get any overspray, you can pretty easily rub it off with your finger or a clay bar will get it up pretty quick. This stuff is pretty awesome, it can ultimately be peeled off or redone again if you don't like it. Although it would be pretty hard to get it off all of the crevaces in your grille. I even did a TV stand for my wife since I had plenty left over with 1 can:

[WRXtranceformed]

Three bent wheels in less than 2 months. I swear if they don't finish the highway work around here soon I am going to rampage. I got a letter from the state kindly saying that they would *not* be reimbursing me for the damage to my car. Apparently you have to name a specific state employee who was negligent to have allowed the pot hole to continue to exist. :lol: Ironically my wife drove me home from the airport last week and that pothole was now fixed. Funny how that works.

Anyway I am not going to bother going after the state for this one, so it is in the shop getting that fixed as well as getting some more cosmetic surgery done. Pics to come at the end of the week when I get her back

[CaptainHenreh]

Maybe you need to pick up some steel wheels.

[WRXtranceformed]

Obviously these wheels are pretty soft but I think it's compounded by the fact that they are 20s. Can't you get wheels cryogenically hardened or something?

Needless to say it has dictated which routes I have been using to get around Charlotte, even if it means an extra 5-10 minutes of travel time.

[Jake]

Three bent wheels in less than 2 months. I swear if they don't finish the highway work around here soon I am going to rampage. I got a letter from the state kindly saying that they would *not* be reimbursing me for the damage to my car. Apparently you have to name a specific state employee who was negligent to have allowed the pot hole to continue to exist. :lol: Ironically my wife drove me home from the airport and that pothole was now fixed. Funny how that works.

Anyway I am not going to bother going after the state for this one, so it is in the shop getting that fixed as well as getting some more cosmetic surgery done. Pics to come at the end of the week when I get her back

Eep, that sucks Can't believe the bad luck! We have had a ton of potholes around here lately as well, and I've hit 3 or 4 where it sounded like the strut came through the mount/tower. Thankfully, everything is fine so far, but I could probably use an alignment in the spring.

What a BS policy for getting reimbursed.

[D_Eclipse9916]

Eep, that sucks Can't believe the bad luck! We have had a ton of potholes around here lately as well, and I've hit 3 or 4 where it sounded like the strut came through the mount/tower. Thankfully, everything is fine so far, but I could probably use an alignment in the spring.

What a BS policy for getting reimbursed.

Seriously, potholes are MASSIVE around here lately. I definitely need new shocks for the truck come spring. 6 year old crappy OEM GM shocks + pothole mania = blown.

[WRXtranceformed]

Most recent post on the Evolution Auto facebook page shows the beast up on the rack with a nice stable of other cars

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