I have been on the forum about a year now and thought it was time to show you guys my car. So as stated in the title it is a 2.0L 2001 Bugeye RX. I bought this car after my previous car was destroyed by a carwash (no joke) a few of you have heard about this already. After that car was crunched i started looking around for a replacment, i found this car down near Sutherland. It had 110,000km on the clock and was completely stock. He was chasing 9 Grand for it. So dad and i rang him up and offered 7 and said we would be down there that night with cash to take it if it checked out all good on inspection. He said yes. So we headed down there and she was sitting there looking pretty damn good. We gave it the once over and boom i was driving her home that night. Upon inspection a few things were notable such as a clutch shudder and left hand rear power window didnt work but other than that she was all good. This is what it looked like when i picked it up.
So since this time i have had the previous clutch replaced and done a few cosmetic modifications to the car to personalise it a little. So me and Morgs arranged to do a few mods over a weekend. firstly we de oranged the side reflectors by painting them a gloss black, and also did the headlight mod to make the interior of the headlights black.
i think it looks one hundred times better....we also painted the calipers red. Some would argue that its only worth painting your calipers if you have decent brakes to show off, although i do agree to an extent i also really wanted red calipers on the car so we did them at the same time.
I also changed the stock head unit and speakers, i put in JL Audio C2600X speakers in the front and just some Cadence XS452 in the rear. Also chucked in an amp and a sub for that bass. not all photos are here but i got a few
next the stock wheels had to go, so whilst i was in Europe i was looking around and stumbled across Samuel set of WRX stock rims and thought perfect. He was good enough to hold them for me based only on my word until i got back. Once back me and morgs made the trip down to Syd to pick them up and chucked them on that morning.
following this it was decided that the orange side indicators looked really bad, so i bought some clear side indicators of an 08 impreza i think. These are alot slimmer than the clear side indicators from earlier models and so did not fit directly in but after some playing around managed to get them in and i was happy.
i am currently playing/modifying a diffback exhaust
Few more pics
Also put in some LED parkers....They are actually white but the photo makes them out to be blue.
Front ultrex strut brace
future things to do include:
- rear bumper respray
- grill modification
- stock WRX struts and springs
- possibly some tint
- black and silver gear knob
- double din head unit
- keep regularly serviced and enjoy it until i finish uni and can afford a WRX
Jake
