Volume 01

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Welcome to Volume 01 Over the course of the past two years, we as a brand have been finding our feet. We started with a graphic, which we made into a sticker. We created a social presence but outgrew it, so created a site. We needed more content so we started to write that too.

What do you do with all that content? Leave it on a server for nobody to see, or make it into something that people can keep?

So that’s what we did and that’s what this is; two years of Modifly finding it feet. With the help of social media we’ve been able to reach more people than we though possible. We’ve featured a mix of show car, race car, JDM car, retro car, static car, bagged car, car shows and more. We have big plans for the future but we wanted to celebrate the past. As we grow our writing, tastes and graphics change, hopefully for the better but that is subjective so we will leave that for you to make up your mind.

We say again, welcome to Volume 01 of the Modifly Archives.

Watch this space because there is always more to come.

On the cover: Issue 01 Nissan Skyline R33 GTS-T Photo: Daniel Myhill Featured: April 12 2017 Instagram: @r33gtst_djm

Issue 02 James Coxs Breadvan Featured: April 12 2017 Instagram: @coxxy_mk2 Issue 03 Bagged mk1 Focus RS (retrimmed) Recaros Featured: June 12th 2017 Instagram: @baggedmk1rs Issue 04 Ad’s Audi Featured: July 27 2017 Instagram: @ad5_2oom

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The car that started the brand. The mk6 Ford Fiesta. Not this one specifically but this one was the first featured car back in March 2017.

Owned and built by David Stone (@dai_stone88), this 450bhp Fiesta really is the beast that Ford intended when they put an ST badge on the back.

DAVID STONE’S

450bhp MK6 Fiesta ST Garret GT3071R Turbo, Quaife LSD, Cosworth Inlet Manifold, Custom TTV high torque clutch and pulleys, GT1 Coilovers, Team Dynamic Pro 1.2s wrapped in Federal 595 Tyres, 4 Pot Brakes

AMYS STATIC

First written April 2017/Edited August 2018 Owner: @amyjjj Photography: @tomarsh29

5 DOOR FEZ

A few years ago I was lucky enough to be given my now gone mk6 fiesta, if I’d had my way I would never have bought a 5 door, but you can’t look a gift horse in the mouth and me and my growing family were incredibly grateful for Faye the Fiesta.

Anyway, as I presume any car modder does, the first thing I did was to google ‘modified 5 doors mk6 fiesta’ to see what was going on in the five door scene, it’s a pretty busting scene, the five door is getting a lot more love these days than it ever used to and Amy’s fiesta, Kermit, is up there as one of the best, what she has done to her rare apple green fiesta just helps to prove my point.

Starting with the smoothed front and rear ST bumpers which help to highlight the custom boot lid, with number plate recess shortened and fully debadged. The spoiler is a point of contention for me, personally on my five door I had the ST spoiler and I loved it but I know a lot of five door’ers think it elongates the back end and don’t like how it sits over the rear lights, which on Amy’s are custom red tinted units, they make a huge but subtile difference. The little five door spoiler gives this rear end a beautifully euro look, obviously helped by being slammed on coilovers with bumps removed for the extra lows. Now sitting on some stunning Japan Racing JR15s which tuck up nicely in the mk6 arches.

Amy has colour coded the bump strips, door handles, wing mirrors, fog lights and probably a whole load more. She dropped in some devil eyes with DRLs to add some serious attitude to the front end and if this was bearing down on me on the M25, I’d move out the way...

There’s more, of course there’s more, the interior has had as much love as the exterior, with gloss black pillars, sun visors, centre console, heater and vent surrounds, which look great with the black leather seats, headlining and door cards.

All this black tho and your going to need some more green to break it up a bit, so some custom made green stitched black leather gear stick and handbrake gaiters help. When I first saw this car it had a stunning green Sparco steering wheel, but now Amys gone back to a more subitle black Momo one.

There is bound to be more that we’ve missed, but as this is a standard Modifly feature, I feel that I’ve probably covered enough already. Great work Amy, love your five door.

Show and Shine Top 15 Best in Europe Ford Fair 2018

This is going to be a bit of a tough one for me, as I don’t know too much about the Jap seen and I don’t want to be saying the wrong thing, missing out the important details, or just not giving this car the credit it deserves, but seeing as I sought out Daniel and his stunning R33 via the powers of the Internet, I figure as long as I pass on the info I’ve been given, and add a bit of a my personal thoughts about it, then hopefully we’ll all be happy.

DANIAL’S STUNNING R33 GTST

So Modifly is about modification and looking fly (this is of course subjective), we’re not about any specific make, model or style, its not about the BHP or money spent, its about it all. But of course I have my own tastes, this is why I won’t be posting ANY BMW minis, or Corsa’s (childish maybe, but hay that’s my call to make), I will however be posting some of my dream cars (when opportunity allows) and the Skyline has always been a dream car. Its the road legal race car that looks amazing straight out the factory, and this ones no joke. Daniel built this Skyline up from a rolling shell, with some help from a local garage he put in the whole running gear, engine, box, suspension, subframes, brakes, wiring, the lot, and if like me, your a self taught driveway mechanic the idea of building up from a rolling shell is both idyllic and petrifying (its on my to do list). After the rebuild it was resprayed in factory QM1 white, dropped on some custom coilovers, and sitting pretty on some JR12 Japan racing wheels. Behind those shoes are drilled and grooved discs to stop the mighty turbo’d 2.5litre, with the added front mount intercooler, decat and straight through exhaust this skyline has got to be getting close to 300bhp.

I had to do some googling to find out the difference between the GTR and the GTST but once you’ve done a few mods here and there, there really isn’t that much in it. The GTST is RWD not 4WD, and only has 1 turbo, but it can still easily hit 300bhp (with mods) but only has 250bhp as standard unlike the GTR which has around 320bhp. (Please correct me if I’m wrong) Once, like Daniel you’ve swapped over the front end for a replica GTR one, and added a beautiful GTR rear spoiler I doubt anyone would really know. Then the final touch, which was the touch that sparked my interest in this specific R33, and that the BeeR carbon fibre blade addition to the rear end.

All in all this Skyline is a thing of beauty. Luckily for us Daniel is a great photographer and managed to really show off his ride in these great shots, I have more that will be added to the blog when the blog gets made, but for more check out his insta @R33 GTST_DJM to see more.

@R33 GTST_DJM Photos: Daniel Myhill April 2017

Built by Mike Speelmon March 2017 @brockdonston

B R OCK DO N STO N ’ S

R X7 So this is a bit of a random one today, but here at Modifly we have some random tastes. I was sent a couple blurry shots by Brock of this creation, he told me it was built by a guy I have never heard of (sorry) but from some Facebook research can see that this guy Mike has created some impressively rad machines, so I have no doubts that this one is as rad as it looks. Its a f*&ked up looking drift ready RX7 with a VW VR6 lump, which from the looks of the modified Integra hood didn’t fit too well.

Looks Mad Max, or Mod Max (if you watch MCM) and I bet it sounds like a monster.

Thanks or the pictures mate, I want to see more when you get her out of storage...

So something for the weekend, continuing from the RX7 post the other day, Mike the builder sent me some pictures of another little project he’s got going on, and this one looks like its going to be another beast of a motor. Its a 70s Bug, with a 96 Jetta lump, like the RX7 it highly unlikely that the lump is going to fit, but that’s not a problem, he’ll just leave it hanging out the back, and as the man him self said, ‘if I goes boost life I’ll probably build a new intake manifold and get the bonnet to cover a little more haha it’s never going to clear the alternator or valve cover’ and what’s the chances of going boost life? Well Id say it probably already decided on, because Mike wants to get 10lbs /hp range (which with a bit of googling is a power to weight ratio kind of thing) and I’m thinking a Bug probably ain’t too heavy, the lump probably is, so it will need the turbo so that it can go sh*t off a shovel fast and hit the 100+mph range. Please correct me if I’m wrong?? Any education regarding anything engine/power related much appreciated!

MIKE SPEELMON’S

VW BUG

April 2017

SHANE KOKESH’S 95 NISSAN 240SX March 2017 @sukithes14

Something different! So we have an awesome budget build proudly owned

by Shane Kokesh it’s a 95 Nissan 240sx nicknamed suki the s14! Well under the hood and behind this 240’s she a fully forged ka24de! With a monstrous 70mm turbo with a twin scroll hotside. Suki’s power output is currently unknown but she is due to be tuned further and to be put on the dyno to see what that ka24de is delivering to the wheels sometime around April. Shane takes good care of her cleaning her almost every day as she’s been in hibernation over winter months, he’s also done a mild wire tuck just to keep things neat! He’s painted the bay and put a great deal of hours into polishing parts and making sure that car

comes together nicely. Suki was done on a budget due to work problems so has truly earned the built not bought label. She has her own page called Suki the s14 (feel free to check it out) She’s on coilovers and camber plates. She’s mainly used as a track/play car. “She’s something special to me” he has put an unbelievable about of time and effort into this car! Show your love by giving this a like and a share to let others know his story! Sorry it’s a long read but definitely worth it! Many thanks for sending this in Shane :) ~ Dylan

ANTHONY ASCOTT’S MK6 FIESTA ST March 2017 @ascott14113

PHOTO: DAN EVANS

I’m not a writer but I’m still going to try and write a few words, so here it goes; I got into modified cars when I was about 15, Fast Car and Max Power were the sh*t, but then age, money and the Internet changed things. Now 20 odd years on I’m finally doing something in the modified world. Where this goes I ain’t so sure yet but hopefully we will be a name to be reckoned with, eventually. The fiesta has always been my ideal hot hatch, first the mk2 XR2 with is plastic trim, then the mk3 RS Turbo with its 3 spokes, didn’t really like the 4 or 5 to much, but the 6 changed things, and I don’t hate the 7. With

all this said Modifly isn’t just about the mk6, but it is in our roots.

When someone sends us a couple pictures and a bit of info about the crazy love they have for their mk6 then I am all about giving them the respect they deserve. I don’t always agree with what people do (bonnet bra’s) but this mk6 of Anthony Ascott is a treat. I’ve got a huge list of mods, interior, exterior, and of course performance, but I won’t list them all. The pictures speak for themselves. I will mention a few. Like the Mountune Short Shifter, 60mm throttle body, and Newman Highlift camshafts, all say this motors got some grunt, and

having rear hub spacers not just some sh*tty Halford shim spacers (which I currently have on my mk6) say this is a serious mk6 and not just a showpiece. Oh and I have always loved a raised bonnet, gets me every time.. Then there are loads of little subtle things like; white mist jets, bonnet struts, led conversion, armrest, badges and even a traction control button which just add to this cars personality. So a big thank you to Anthony for the pictures, the info and for having a rad mk6. This is why I love modified car culture..

Also great shots from Dan Evans (even if your logo is a bit big on a few of them...)

A little blurb for your Sunday evening read, this time I did about 5mins google research and discovered that according to howmanyleft.co.uk there are 378 Renault 5GT Turbos left on the road, compared to 513 fiesta XR2s, which make them pretty rare these days and it is kind of hard to find one that’s not been abused either mechanically or aesthetically or both. So when Jake sent me a pictures of this one owned by Matt, I thought I’d see if I could write a little blurb about it.

A THING OF BEAUTY ...

Matt White’s R5 GT Turbo March 2017 @mattw138

OLD SKOOL RULES

Owned by Matt for the past 7 years of its life. It started out as a fast road car, but that would never be enough so the racetrack beckoned. That inevitability led to a melted piston at Donnington, and so the transformation began and what a transformation; starting with a respray in the brightest white you’ll ever see, front grill morrettes (cold air feed moulded in to look factory) hydrodipped in silver carbon

by Letsdipit, which look insanely nice.

Letsdipit did a lot of bits to this car, smoothed bumpers, exhaust hole deleted and so on. Its running a C1J 1.4 engine with 285 cam, 2.5� side exit and downpipe, T25 turbo with 21psi of boost, which to be honest is a bit over my head, but means its rapid, hitting an impressive 209hp 197torque on the rolling road.

Interior is stripped, buckets, caged, original dash and some little panels of colour, unlike the engine bay which is pretty loud in comparison. To finish it off, it now sits on standard R5 banded steals which suit this little 5 so well.

This little car is stunning but there is so much more in store, so watch this space.

Amazing work Matt and thanks for the feature, can’t wait for the next installment..

@tomwilli103 March 2017

So another little blurb about another rad mk6. This ones a bit special tho, not because its got 400bhp (it ain’t) but because to me this car is very Modifly. The mods done are unique, and the 8J wheels are amazing. The bolt on arches which are getting more common these days, will always harp back to 80/90s era to me

and are still rare on a mk6. Not to mention the home tinted headlight and the phat tailpipe. I think the fact that its slammed with dish, but is nothing like any of the current slammed dished rides out there make it something a bit special.

As the man himself said this ride is wide, low, and very slow.

April 22 2017

.INCARNATION 2017.

So show season has officially kicked off with InCarNation.

A modest 6.00am wake up call and on the road by 6.45. Started out in a small focus convoy but they all left me for dead on the A27, then left the second meeting point in a better paced convoy with a couple mint Mustangs, a RS Turbo or two and a incredible sound monster mondeo.

We got to Marina Drive and on stand pretty smoothly, prob parked up by 8.30 which was pretty good. To start the season with a good varied crowd on a nice sunny Saturday and local to me is pretty much all I wanted for today. I did a lot of chatting to the Ford Tec crew, there were a lot of the classic club members out on show so that was rad. I only saw two other mk2 Fiestas, and no mk1s in the whole show but I reckon they were all up at Boxhill, which I imagine Ill be at next year. It was a long old walk end to end and my technology let me down badly, my phone ran out of juice almost instantly and my digital point and flash camera has long past its life expectancy, so filled up its tiny memory card then promptly died as well, but I did get some good pics.

I saw so many more cars though which Id love to have pics of, there was a rad mk1 Toyota Starlet which I’m gutted I didn’t get a picture of, and just loads more.

Always good to see Jake and his club Berkshire Retro & Custom, who had the killa black bug and a few other lookers with them.

I gotta admit I think the cars of the show for me (which I have pics of) are the mint green mini, and the mint green Nova, which the photos do not do them justice at all, the static slammed bug with its arse out, and surprisingly the Merc rocked my world a little and then of course BMW 320 which has a certain air of radness to it.

PATINA THE TRAMP April 20 2017 @nettleyd

So as much as we are not just a Fiesta brand, as the owner of both a mk2 & mk6 I am drawn to Fiestas, theres always exceptions, both the mk4 &5 arnt high on my list but anyway allow me to introduce ‘Patina the Tramp’, a fully fledged, legitimate, genuine 100% patina mk1 fez.

You may think I’m labouring the point about the patina, but I have my reasons, to start with, patina isn’t just rust, you can’t just rust up a panel and call it patina, thats like saying your ride is slammed when you’ve only dropped it 10mm, patina means weathered, aged, history.

So how did Patina the Tramp become Patina the Tramp? She was left, unloved, outside in the elements for years, the first time I saw her she had a smell, four flat tyres, and not much glass, and that was a good year before Dan managed to get ownership and flatbed her off… When you take ownership of a rusty battered old fez you expect rot and a lot of it, but Dan was happy to find that Patina wasn’t a rot box, but held water well, so he did what many would want to do but probably wouldn’t, he got her up and running, sat her on some Wellers (did have some insane split rims at one point) and MOTd her, and that was about that. Patina may be lacking a lot of the comforts that only a mk1 can provide, but she comes complete with a full exhaust in the passenger seat, and all the attention you can find.

We had a mini meet with a mint bright green mk1, a mint white mk1, my XR2 and caged mk2 and no one even noticed the rest, it was all about Patina.

Be interesting to see what happens to her, I know Id add an interior, and probably replace everything mechanical, but then I’m not Dan so we shall see.

Something crazy for a mid-week read, so where do I start with a build like this, well first, as you can see its still not even close to finished, but we wanted to show you now anyway because so much has already gone into this, if we didn’t do a work in progress feature you’d miss out on the insane amount of work that Ben has taken on with his very unique, monster Sierra pick up.

It started life as a mk2 4 door Sierra, it was standard as you like but needed a fair bit of work to get through an MOT when Ben picked it up. As with most old Fords it was riddled with holes in all the normal places, floor pan, arches, battery tray, boot floor, inner and outer sills, the list goes on and a common sight now with old Fords most of this was well covered with filler, in some places up to a half inch think… not what Ben had signed up for.

But every cloud has a sliver lining and the rot was so bad Ben figured if he had to do all that work to fix it, he might as well build what was in his head, so he had a plan, and that was no plan, just build what he could see in his head, custom build every bit of it, do it by hand, and on his driveway.

Its hard to give enough credit for the work that’s gone into this, last weekend I welded my first plate into my XR and I was shitting myself, in all honesty I did a terrible job, good enough but not good. It gave me an idea what its like to weld with 2/3mm sheet metal, its not easy to do well.

I’ve always loved is a badboy bonnet, but to do it properly you need to weld on plates, grind it back etc etc, and that’s not something I would personally take on, so when you see that not only has this sierra got a badboy custom see through bonnet, it also has custom vents, custom arches, custom skirts, and that’s just the first stage of the build, you have to appreciate the work involved. But then there’s the next stage of the build and that’s where it gets a bit more crazy.

I’ve recently come across a couple other pick up conversions, there’s a lifted escort van pickup that Ill try and cover in future days, and I saw a interesting BMW pickup at InCarNation, but there is something about this which blows my mind.

Other than the obvious cutting the roof off, Bens cut out the spare wheel well and petrol tank, strengthened all the rear floor in prep for a new inline tank, freshened up the entire underside, lifter the rear, built a sexy looking custom exhaust, and then of course the duck tail which to me is the icing on the cake. And before I gloss over it, all of this has been smoothed over, and rattle canned to a high finish, which lets be honest is tough work…

Because this is getting a bit lenghty Ill try and speed through the rest, but the interior has been stripped and dipped, fully caged, custom dash, and a nice set of cobras to chill in.

A build like this wouldn’t be complete without some serious lump under the hood, and right now its not complete, but there are some serious plans for its future. Bens looking at running a 5.7 litter big block v8, but as the man himself says that depends on weather he changes his mind or not.

So thank you Ben for building this beast, I can’t wait to see the finished thing.

May 3rd 2017 @crazy_cruises_

FIESTA IN THE PARK 2017

Second show of the season, and my first time to ‘Fez in the park’ and I reckon it was pretty good.

I wasn’t expecting a good show of mk1&2s due to what I’d heard so was really pleased to see the Fenland stand (#fenlandoldskoolford) as I rolled in. By far the best stand of the show (excluding my club stand of course) with their rainbow show of Escorts and Fiesta’s sparkling in the fairly changeable Cambridge sunshine.

Ford Tec (my club) had a great stand with a couple exceptional classics Fords and a good show of mk6&7s and then my XR as the centrepiece which was a great compliment! I took my sister, it was her first show, we strolled round looking for the ModiFLY hoodie winners, Fez of the Park & Rat of the Park. It was really hard to pick the best mk6. Initially I didn’t want to give it to a bagged smoothed fez because I felt the scene is going that way a bit much however the winner of best fez goes to Tom Whitfield, his Fez just blew me away. The epic paint job was enough but the clean lines, amazing wheels setup, and then the real clincher was the custom side skirt extensions which just made this Fez stand out.

Which was a hard task as it was parked next too Graeme Hill’s purple fez which I’ve previously named my Fez of 2016.

I was glad I had a second hoodie to give out, as I really liked Michael Dennis fez, there’s something about a unrefined fez that still looks amazing. However my car of the show was this immaculate wide boy mk3 which was almost perfect. I say almost because I felt with the wide boy kit on it, the rear lights needed to sit flush with the kit, it would be an immense amount of work but bringing the lights out and extending the tailgate to fit would make this perfection. So many great cars that deserve a mention which sadly won’t get one.

8th May 2017

SO GOOD, IT GOT THE COVER (ISSUE2) So here’s a little retro beauty for your viewing pleasure. I saw this pop up on a few instagram feeds, and the more I saw it the more I thought, dam I want that. Its got that mix of old skool, new skool, and individual, but there something more, maybe that colour with those wing mirrors, or the 15” extreme offset white smoothies filling the fibreglass flared arches, maybe just the arches giving the generally fairly dull bread van a bit of much needed meat?

There are loads of little things that make this such a mean ride, the monobrow (I don’t know what its called), taped up lights and bonnet pins definitely give it an aggressive front end, and I love how you look through the front screen past the speedhunters sun stripe, past the cobra buckets & harnesses, out the back to see the gold the Sump Scrappers sticker. Got to admit I think the use of stickers has added to the appeal of this ride. (Love a bit of MCM and all).

James has owned his mk2 for about 6 months and I’m stoked to hear its his daily driver, it loves a motorway run and depending on how you drive her, she’s alright on fuel, but unsurprisingly she munches front tyres, probably something to do with sitting snugly on coilovers over those smoothies. Theres plenty more going on with this ride that’s not so noticeable without seeing or hearing it in the flesh, full custom exhaust system, omex launch control and rev limiter, viper coil and HIDs. The interior has been stripped and carpeted, vibe audio system and OMP steering wheel for the win. With some nice performance upgrades planned this ride is something to look out for.

Final words from James: “I guess it’s a marmite car. Most young people like it, where as the older generation think it’s a turd. But I like that, it goes with my personality.” Now if that’s not a quote to end on I don’t know what is, cheers James.

Since the time of this feature, sadly this Breadvan has spent most of its time off the raod, however James it would appear couldn’t live without one, so did a cheaky engine swap decked breadvan just for the fun of it. It was another beauty however it has recently been sent to the scrapyard in the sky to make way for another slightly more interesting project, so watch this space and we will try and keep you up-to-date...

17th May 2017 @coxxy_mk2

OhSoRetro 2018 @Stardubs RIP MK2 Breadvan @coxxy_mk2

Photography @dubberelias

OhSoRetro 2018 @Stardubs @dubberelias

S14a or Kouki (ACCORDING TO WIKI)

Since Jordan’s owned it he’s replaced the engine and gone big with his turbo. The cars currently running 300bhp and 320 pounds of torque but Jordan’s got bigger and better plans first with a colour change on his stunning 18x10j Rota GTR-Ds which must cost a fortune to keep in rubber and a nice cage to keep him safe. That’s it for now but I’ll be keeping my eye on this ride and keep you informed.

Cheers Jordan.

So I really wanted to get another Nissan on the page, after Daniels stunner back in April (Issue 01). That was going to be hard to beat so I wanted to go for something different.

When I saw Jordan’s S14 I knew that it was the one. Again not being a JDM man I’m always a bit apprehensive about what people will think about what I have to say, but there you go.

So since the drift scene has exploded over the past few years I’ve been seeing way more Silvias about on the roads and of course online. Now the S14a or Kouki (according to wiki) is one of the better looking Silvias in my opinion. The design of the head lights alone is stunning, they gives the whole car a presence, so when you start to add stance, skirts, wheels and a tasteful rear wing then you get a really nice motor. This is all true with Jordan’s example, which I might say it all beautifully highlighted in that amazing deep purple colour.

Check out his instagram to follow the project @jordanskinner1 - 19th August 2017

11th August 2017

Never Enough Bass

Before I had my own car my Mum was rad enough to let me install some random 12″sub in the boot of her 1.1lx fez (which later became my first ford, but that’s a story for another time).

Anyway the reason I tell you this is because bass and modified cars go hand in hand and because when I asked Reece for more pics of his mk2 Cilo he sent me this. I had to ask him, ‘have you got enough bass? and I got a simple reply, “Never enough” I liked that.

There’s not too much to tell about this little Cilo, Reece saved it from the scrapers for the grand sum of £140. Some fella on eBay was gonna scrap it because it made some noise, ended up just being the driveshaft so he fixed it up and had a nice cheap runner. It would appear that Reece has followed the golden rules of car modification, suspensions with a nice set of coils, exhaust straight thru and decated, subs, big motherfucking subs, and some nice cosmetic extras, but he’s added a little modern touch with a Omex Rev limiter. Soon to be fully resprayed, none of this wrapping shit, and that as they say is that, for now. Looking forward to seeing it when its done..

29TH MAY 2017 @OLDSKOOLKENNY

So this little feature is interesting for a few reasons, first it’s a Nova, precursor to the hated Corsa. Some find it odd that I love the Nova so much but hate the Corsa, well this is why, like the real Mini, they went from a great car to a shit car and all the heritage of the old cool car was lost, just finished production, changed, ruined, relaunched and we the enthusiast are supposed to just suck it up, obviously some Mini owners weren’t to fussed but that’s a rant for another time.

But all is not lost because some people will never let that heritage die and this Nova is a prime example. Kenny has owned his Nova for the past five years, and nowadays that seems like a pretty long time, what with everyone on finance, or part Xing everything after a year or two. To make things even better though this car has Max Power roots, and I am part of the Max Power generation, and even though I never got into the insane body kits I do miss that era of modified cars.

So we shall begin five years ago when Kenny bought his ex Max Power show car in Wales and drove it home to Scotland. He then continued to drive it as a daily for a few months but sadly and typically got all the standard keyboard warrior abuse online in all

the car groups, which is shit but predictable. Whats worse however is that some utter c**ts decided that he shouldn’t keep driving it, so they trashed it, which is truly heartbreaking. It sat for five months feeling shit about itself, but then someone local started breaking a Nova and Kenny got back involved.

MAX POWER

First he got some standard bumpers but once he got started he couldn’t stop. And this is where things get a bit more interesting to me, Kenny’s dad had a little multi purpose saw that he used to carefully cut the body kit up with. He shaped the wings back to fit standard lights, bought a standard boot and bonnet, the car almost looked like a Nova again. But he didn’t stop there, it currently has smoothed GTE bumpers, an Izuzu trooper bonnet scoop which had to grow on me a little, an after market “preditor” boot spoiler, and a mk4 Astra splitter. Of course the interior hasn’t been left alone either with a full GTE interior, steering wheel and digi dash. However it can’t just look good it has to go some as well. He recently swapped out the old 1200 block and replaced it with a 1600 from a mk3 Astra, had the head skimmed, heavily ported and polished. New piston rings, oil seals, the lot, along with a piper 285 hi lift cam and a mk2 golf carb jetted to suit. He replaced the brakes, added front and rear strut braces and a full exhaust with a cherry bomb sitting at back.

There are so many little things that rock this Nova like the smoothed door handles with button poppers under mirrors, the petrol cap relocated to door

shut, the carbon wrapped boot, but I think what made this ride so fly for me was how well it suits the 16” 8/9j white Borbets which luckily for Kenny a friend was selling in a rush which I imagine made them nicely affordable. Finally this winter Kenny rubbed down the car, got rid of all the matt black that had been covering the lime green, he fitted new side skirts, which of course had to be cut to fit and then painted it Audi dolphin grey, and now his lairy lime green show car has been reshaped and relaunched as a mean as fook hot hatch for the 2000s, fair play Kenny, love it.

CLASSIC FORD 2017 In the grand scheme of things I’m fairly new to the car show thing, but I am discovering that there are a lot of them about, and depending how far your prepared to drive, or how reliable your ride is, you really could have a expensive but fun show season. Last year I did a few, this year I’m doing some and hopefully next year Ill be doing loads, but it depend on the show.

For example Classic Ford, its for Classic’s right?

Sadly wrong, due to whatever reason people want to say Kelsey Media who put on Classic Ford (and some others) opened up the age bracket for a classic to 2002 and this has had many people rightly so in my opinion in uproar. I went there a bit gutted that I hadn’t been before and in fear that this would just be another Ford Fest, which really should have been called Focus Fest, or mk6 Fez Fest or something like that, it wasn’t great. But I was very pleasantly surprised. I thought there was a great turn out of old skool rides, and even tho it wasn’t as busy as Ford Fest it was way more quality than quantity. 8th June 2017

Aha the mx5, little did I know when I first saw them about in my late teens that they would become the drifters dream they are now. They were just hairdressers cars, but now they must be one of the most popular modded cars I see on the internet and on the road.

I have to admit it was the likes of Tyler Falko that got me interested in them. Say and think what you want but the Camberghini is rad, its retarded but that’s what makes it rad.

So with the mx5 or Miata’s there seem to be a few golden rules, wheels of course, decked, camber, ducktail, welded diff and big wing optional. Even following these rules there is so much variations that no two are a like. I was scrolling instagram on the search of a nice example so I could harass the owner into a write up and I came across @timeoutvisions tongue flapping mx5 and I knew this was the one. So when he got it, it was a stock mk1 1.8. Following the above mention rules he decked it on some genuine eBay coilovers, I hear these are the shit, changed the wheels to a pair of 15 rota grids (which are such nice wheels on any ride) and a set of 15″dare alloys (reps of Enkei) for the rear (with spares), spaced out 50mm and of course a welded

@timeoutvisions July 12 2017

diff cause it’s a drift car yooooooo, but it is a drift car and timeoutvisions went straight out and learnt to drift…

“I remember getting the car early Sunday morning and going out with a open diff and learning to drift that night. I don’t think I’ll ever sell it” and that it one of the many cool things about this car, its a keeper, and nowadays too many people are happy to part x or sell up, there doesn’t seem to be the loyalty to your car that there used to be, or maybe that’s just in my head, I’m not sure…

So back to the car, being a stock mx5, it came with a lovely full leather tan interior and being that this probably looked old, dated and lets be honest shit, it had to be swapped out to black cloth. Add a few choice fibreglass bits, GV style front lip, a ducktail, and a nice eBay wing gave this mx5 some much needed flare, and talking about flare its currently in the process of getting some handmade custom wide arches built by Will and his friends with a mixture of steel and filler. Thats the icing on the cake as it were, custom, hand built, unique and therefore rad.

Tongue flapping MX5

THE FIRST

MODIFLY MINI MEET

PORTSDOWN HILL, AUGUST 27TH 2017 WITH It was a natural progression to go from social media to mini meet and in August 2017 we made our first attempt at the transistion. As a relativly new brand we asked Phat detailing to get involved to help drum up some support.

Phat supplied us with a Car of the Carpark Trophy and some product to give away..

As we are discovering the conversion of social media attention to real world attendant is low but with hudge thanks to Jake our first meet was a success.

Jake brought Matt with his stunning R5 (featured in Issue 01) and Christian with his beautfully original 1966 Beetle. Matt brought a couple of his R5 crew along and Adam brought along his bagged A5 (featured in Issue 4). Harvey who could well be the insigator for Modifly turned up with his old man and we had the advantage that Portsdown hill is just a great car meeting spot so there were a few others who wernt there for the meet but added some eye candy for us to admire.

We split the Car of the Carpark, with Adam taking the trophy and Matt taking the product. It was a great learning experience and we made some long term friends.

So Modifly as a brand saw this as a success in the real world car scene...

18th April 2017 @chris_wilkie_e39 Photography @exquisiteautomotive

Something that’s pretty rad about social media is that it means people like me can show off our cars to an audience of people who’ll appreciate the love, time, money and work that’s gone into them. It also means that we will come across other peoples cars that we wouldn’t normally get to see and be able to appreciate them, for example I like a BMW but wouldn’t want a 5 door because they are massive, and because I wouldn’t buy a 5 door BMW, I’d never slam one, it just wouldn’t happen. But that’s what Chris has done with his calypso red E39.

He’s had this six months, and done a fair bit of work to it, notably its dropped on BC coilovers, which transforms the look, its got a turbo back full straight through exhaust which I bet gives it a beautiful sound, full leather interior for comfort, then the obligatory window graphics and we do love a window graphic (we make them too, cough cough). But what really rocks my world on this ride is the 8&9.5j banded insignia steels which sit so nicely under those arches.

So a week or so back I made it to Minis on the Rec a local show to me in Shoreham. I didn’t think I’d get there this year but as it happens me and my youngest made the time and went to check it out.

I think one of the best things about any car show is rocking up to the show and finding your stand, I love driving in, even turning up 3/4 hours late as we did, its still fun. I guess that’s because at car shows everybody turns and looks as any loud car rolls past.

MINIS ON THE REC 2017

So we rocked up, found the club stand and parked up. As it happens we parked up beside a mighty fine blue hot rod. Sorry, I don’t know my old old fords, but I know this thing was stunning and according to its owner in weekly use. Beside this sat one of the finest Capris I’ve ever seen, looking so nice in its stealthy attire, and the wheels on it just made it. So we parked up, got out, said hello all the standard just got to a show things to do. The club stand was looking might impressive, great turn out and a nice old skool/new skool balance.

So me and the boy took a walk about, there was an amazing selection of real Minis (some of my favourites included in the pics) which you’d expect for a show entitled Minis on the Rec and obviously being the mini fan I am this did kinda rock mine and my sons world.

So a week or so back I made it to Minis on the Rec a local show to me in Shoreham. I didn’t think I’d get there this year but as it happens me and my youngest made the time and went to check it out.

I think one of the best things about any car show is rocking up to the show and finding your stand, I love driving in, even turning up 3/4 hours late as we did, its still fun. I guess that’s because at car shows everybody turns and looks as any loud car rolls past.

So we rocked up, found the club stand and parked up. As it happens we parked up beside a mighty fine blue hot rod. Sorry, I don’t know my old old fords, but I know this thing was stunning and according to its owner in weekly use. Beside this sat one of the finest Capris I’ve ever seen, looking so nice in its stealthy attire, and the wheels on it just made it. So we parked up, got out, said hello all the standard just got to a show things to do. The club stand was looking mighty impressive, great turn out and a nice old skool/new skool balance.

So me and the boy took a walk about, there was an amazing selection of real Minis (some of my favourites included in the pics) which you’d expect for a show entitled Minis on the Rec and obviously being the mini fan I am this did kinda rock mine and my sons world.

TBC...

I was having a look through instagram this morning and came across @20vturbs front end friday pic and I had to pause a beat to take it all in. I’ve said it many times before but how a car looks bearing down on you in the rear view is how I judge if a car is fly or not, and this thing would shit me up. Its stealthy, wide, low and badgeless. If you fly eyed those headlights it would be deaths personal hot hatch. I’ve never been into Seats, so not knowing my Seats this is the first time I’ve given a mk1 Leon Cupra R any time, unlike @20vturbs who must have put some time into his build. The engines still standard, except the upgraded silicone hoses, but it’s still pushing out a respectable 210bhp (give or take). The real beauty of this ride is the fully fabricated and welded wide arch kit, which nicely covers the huge 10” rear xxrs with 9” upfront. The cropped headlights add a real mean streak to this cars front end. I didn’t realise that they are half covered by an extended bonnet which is a fair bit of work in itself. Then add to that some subtle smoothing of the side & rear mouldings and a full respray and you get a beautifully unique, mean looking Leon.

JUNE 23 2017 @BAM20VT

MEAN LOOKING MK1 LEON CUPRA R

SLAMMED FOCUS RS

I figured after Classic Ford it would be interesting to feature a mk1 Focus RS, seeing as this is now seen as a classic Ford by Kelsey Media. The mk1 Focus is defiantly an amazing car, the RS is stunning but classic, sorry not in my book.

So Adam’s mk1 is a one of a kind, world first, and I would assume he probably get a fair bit of abuse (& love) for it. Keyboard warriors love to judge, and I can hear them now, why would you bag an RS, mate you’ve ruined it, it was a performance car, blah blah blah, but when I saw it I thought, yes mate, its about time someone decked a RS. I set up Modifly because I love impractical cars, I love that people take any cars and do what they feel makes it better, weather it really does or not. So what if you make a car a bit hard to get over speed bumps, or you can’t see shit out your rear window, as long as you can drive it, your probably going to be more careful than average Jo in their micro hooning it down residential streets bouncing over the bumps.

Anyway I digress, back to it, I asked Adam for a list of mods and some pictures of his RS. I did not expect to get the list I got, the man has done some serious modified to this car and it shows, so Ill start on the obvious, its bagged, running Airlift struts and bags at the front, bags at the back with KW rear struts and a 3h management system, sitting on some Candy Red compomotive MO6 which look amazing, wrapped in some Michelin pilot super sports. They hide (not very well) some epic AP Racing 362mm six pots callipers, 2 piece front discs at the front and standard callipers smoothed at the rear again with custom 2 piece rear discs, all callipers and bell housings painted imperial blue. The front bumpers been smoothed with some nice carbon fibre additions, front splitter, front grill, fog surrounds and fins, add that to the fez turbo vents, tinted lights, carbon wing mirrors covers, and this front end looks menacing. One of the ways I judge a car is how would it look in my rear view, and this would look intimidating, which is good. Then there so much you won’t see in your rear view, the cars been delocked, has carbon fibre window triangles, door trims, door handles, door pillars and fuel cap, the rear bumper valance has been painted black and none of the lights have been left alone, all tinted or US spec, I hope that covers the exterior because the list of the interior and engine mods is even longer.

Now I grew up in the Max Power era and this means I am far more concerned about the exterior and ride height than I am the interior and engine, if it looks rad then I’m happy, but obviously I’m not on the same level as Adam. I will try and cover everything but I’m going to try and summaries a bit, partly because this is becoming more than a little read, but also I will end up sounding like a parts list and that doesn’t do the car justice, its way more than a huge spec sheet, its a RS work of art and when I feature something its because when I see it I just want to talk about it, I want my excitement about it to be obvious, and you don’t get that with a list, anyway onto the interior, and this one is full of flock, carbon fibre and red & black leather. The door cards, rear shelve,

the mk2 RS rear bench and mk2 RS recaros all re trimmed in red & black with diamond stitching.

Custom alcantara flat bottomed and carbon fibre steering wheel which look great against the black flocked dash. Onto the flocking which I can’t wait to do to my XR many years from now, Adam has flocked his dash, centre console, sun visors, door trims, boot trims, and all pillars, but I’m surprised to see he’s only painted his grab handles black, but flock probably wouldn’t last to long on them. He’s got some carbon goodies in there too, gear surround, switch surround, and head unit surround. Of course as any serious racer needs there’s a bunch of gauges, a boost gauge, boost controller, PLX DM100 digital gauge, and probably more, but in honesty I’ve never had a car that’s had a gauge so I’m not sure what they all do, but Adam’s gauges sit in carbon and /or flocked surrounds.

Now all that air means you need a nice boot build so this RS has a full custom hardlined boot install, incorporating a nice imperial blue tank, 2 viair 444 compressors and a Airlift controller box thing, all of which was beautiful done by Phil at theinstallcompany. Oh and don’t forget the relocated battery.

As by now you can tell this car has not been done by halves, and the engine and bay are no stranger to a bit of carbon, and a bit of imperial blue. The bays been painted in it, the block is black, the gearbox is powder coated chrome, the rad cowling and water pipes are coated anthracite, and its good to see some of that candy red on the boost mount.

As the engine had a full rebuild it has been given a full set of Ford bolts and hose clips, a new block, new head, new sump, water pump, header tank, belts and cam cover, which again is nicely candy red. Just an update for you I’m not even half way through the engine mods yet…

This absolute beast after its stage 4 mapping has 400bhp also rocks a whole heap of carbon fibre goodies, including, power steering cover, spark plug cover, cam shaft cover, engine heat shield, turbo heat shield, wing rail covers, fuel rail cover, bonnet stays, header tank cover, brake fluid reservoir, brake fluid cap cover, vin plate, oil cap and bonnet vent covers. Some of this stuff I don’t even know what it is, but if its there Adam’s replaced, powder coated it, or rebuilt it, the time and money going into this car is insane. Moving on, to go with all that imperial blue there are some Blue Roose Motorsport water hose’s, a ancillary hose kit, a induction hose kit and a non return value hose kit. A CR turbo billet wheel hybrid, powder coated blue with spun turbo housing, the engine and gearbox mounts are by Vibratechnics. The transmission is made up of a Ford mtx75 gearbox, Kazz gripper LSD and Ap racing organic clutch. Now back to the engine, here’s some important stuff, it has Wiseco forged Pistons, Pec forged rods, Piper camshafts, Dw300 ltr fuel pump, Deka 660 injectors, Itv 27 spark plugs at the end of Magnecor ignition leads, Acl bearings, St170 multi layer head gasket, new valves, stem seals & guides and Arp bolts throughout.

The list goes on with DPC alloy thermostat housing and Nortech tubular manifold zircotec all powder coated black. A BCS 3″ decat, BCS 3″ cat back all powder coated black with a BCS wrc 2.75″ tailpipe sitting at the end. All that black you need some more candy apple so the Focus top mount covers and new ford throttle elbow have been powder coated candy red, then of course its going to have a massive front mount Spec R intercooler with powder coated anthracite pipes, an Airtec radiator in black, forge 008 record and actuator, and to finish it all off nicely a K&N air filter, and lets be honest that all we need to know, K&N till I die…

This car is a beast, its looks amazing, I bet it goes some and sounds great too, I never actually asked how long Adam’s owned he, I wouldn’t ask how much he’s spent, but I’m glad their are people out there who have the vision, time, money and motivation to create things like this..

Congrats Adam on your amazing ride and thank you for letting me feature it.

Yea , a M i c r a , I know, I never thought I’d see the day…

So, Aarons Micra (@k11_s59/@nostyle_ej6) is a beauty. Micra? Beauty you say? Must be joking right? Out of all the small hatches about for it’s era the Micro is not a car I would ever own, or compliment. The random roundness just made it look shit, so to see one that looks aggressive is a hard thing to find or build.

Recently I’ve come across a few that have raised my eyebrow but Aarons takes the prize.

(Sorry Aaron theres no prize) Maybe the green of it, probably the badboy bonnet, intercooler, the black grills and arches, or maybe the fact this is a racecar. It started life with Aaron as a standard k11 Micra, he quickly burnt through 3 different engine setups. It was previously boosted with a ko4 hybrid turbo (had to google that, sounds impressive, google says it it impressive). Now running fast road setup pushing out about 120bhp with group A rally intake, cams and exhaust. I don’t have the greatest car history so I’ve never had 120 horses, but I know what 100 feels like in a standard hatch, so bear in mind this Micras been stripped out and now weights around 760kg and has the 120bhp I bet it flys.

When flying in any hatch back its pretty important to protect yourself and a standard interior aint going to cut it, so strip it out, weld in a half cage with harness bar, then install some Sparco harnesses to your harness bar, which of course keep you snugly in your Sparco seats, brace the car above and below, get some nice wheels, this Micra has sat on some nice dishy watanbe rims (I think) and white Wellars both of which are super rad wheels, drop her on some custom coilovers, cause as Aaron himself said ‘parts aren’t easy for such a shit car’ and then you have a legit Micra race car. Add some personal touches, interior lighting, custom door cards, colour coded gear knob and your laughing all the way to the obligatory standing on car photoshoot!

Cheers Aaron for the pics and info loving your work.

31st July 2017 @nostyle_ej6

Track Built Daily Civic 31st July 2017

Good morning and Happy Monday folks, got a couple things going on this week so hopefully I won’t break anything and we’ll all be happy….

Starting with Mr @infamous_eg track built daily civic. Pushing out around 180bhp and being striped out with a buddy club spec 2 exhaust system this thing sounds nice as it flys down the road (check his instagram to hear it). To help it take the corners its been dropped on spec coilovers and sits nicely on limited edition green Rota’s. Rota’s are a pretty popular wheel these days but for good reason, they look so good, they are lightweight, and if you go wide they have dish, can’t go wrong.

Plenty more has been done to make this build a proper track build, with a b18 lightened flywheel, stage 3 clutch and s80 low ratio gear box, now I admit that last bit is beyond my current car modifying experience, but from what I gather it all goes towards better race car. Better performance, better power, better repose, longer lasting, stronger, lighter, faster basically…

So fair play Sam, this shape Civic was never in my top ten, but its way better than the new Civics and if it goes and sounds tasty then I’m all good with that…

Bagged 540

17th July 2017

So a while back we did a mini feature on Chris Wilke’s Static E39 BMW, and as I was reading the comments I saw Marks had commented with a pic of his bagged 540, so I sent Mark a message to see if I could find out a bit more and Mark was nice enough to send me some more pics and info.

Mark originally had a 325 but after 298k is shat itself so a replacement was required.

He bought a very wrecked 540 for $800 which is peanuts in land of BMW and after what looks like a shed load of parts from Bavarian Autosports including; passenger wing, passenger rear door, tailgate, front and rear bumpers, windshield, sunroof, passenger headlight, passenger mirror and taillights, he then painted his old 19” ADR’s with chalkboard paint, slammed it on some coilover’s but then that wasn’t enough so he converted to air. He now has a very respectable slammed 97 540i.

Which is rad.

SHOW STOPPING TWINGO

I’m not sure how to start with this car, for starters its a Twingo, I’ve never considered a Twingo a modder’s car, in fact I’ve never really considered the Twingo at all. But this Twingo is not your standard Twingo, that’s pretty clear to see. This Twingo is a Sport Gordini Twingo and it’s the brother to our earlier featured mk1 RS of Adams. As you can see there are a few things that these brothers have in common, a love of beautiful bagged modified cars for one.

So like Adams RS this is beautifully bagged on a Airlift setup, with a performance 3P management system, 2 Viair 444cc compressors and custom airlift performance struts & bags.

Which looks so slick sitting on custom machined (from Et30-Et35) 17” Fifteen 52 Tarmac’s which are some nice looking rims on any one’s ride.

With such nice shoes on, does the rest of the car stand up? Judge for yourself of course but yea I think it does.

This ride is smooth, its been de-striped, the front bumper has been debadged and smoothed with a Focus RS front splitter, possibly taken from his bro, I’m guessing, the tailgate has been smoothed, with a carbon rear wiper delete and some carbon front wiper covers and fog surrounds to even it up a bit, which is a nice.

Another nice touch are the resprayed Audi Daytona grey pearl fog surrounds and wing mirrors up front. At the rear there’s a lovely looking Cam Race diffuser which grounds the Renault Sport Cup Spoiler nicely.

Onto the interior, which is plush, it looks smart, it looks comfy, you can’t go wrong with Recarco’s, these Recaro CS’s have been retrimmed with black leather and blue stitch with Alcantara backs. The door cards and door mats have all been retrimmed to match. Even the steering wheel has been retrimmed with carbon at the top. Like Adam it would appear Josh has a thing for flocking, well don’t we all, so he’s flocked his centre console, gear surround, his A B C pillars, door surrounds, fascia, interior mirror and yes door cards. Throw in a retrimmed headliner and a stunning show spec boot build, which shows off and lights up his compressors, colour coded tank and Rockford 10” sub and you have a pretty impressive interior. But you gotta have nice sounds to listen to your tunes with and with In-Phase amp, rear speakers, mids and tweets all running off a Kenwood head unit its bound to sound nice in there.

Finally the bay has pretty much been left untouched, other than a good detailing, the addition of a Pro Bolt anodized bolt set and the obligatory K&N filter. You can see why this ride was part of the Players 2017 top 10 showcase, its opened my eyes to the Twingo’s potential but I doubt that I’d ever cross over to Renault if I sold my Fords.

Thanks Josh for the info, pics and congrats on slick car. More pics on Josh’s instagram @joshd145, go have a follow…

MINIS ON THE REC CONT...

The Jap crew had a good turn out with some tasty motors including a phat civic which Ive always had a soft spot for. However I think it was the drift crew that took my sons fancy the most, well until he saw the inflatable slide, then I’d lost him.

So a few cars I want to single out, just because really but I’m curious about the battered not battered Celica, is this a thing or did it just have a smash on the way there? The decked Mazda pick up was stunning, and decked which of course helps. The wide boy skyline was pretty impressive too.

Probably my car of the show and this may well be due to my current interest in a larger family wagon to replace my mk6, the aired out pimped up Toyota, with its plush looking interior, this thing was spotless.

Every year they have a club tug of war and I say proudly that Ford Tec has taken the trophy for at least the last 3 years. We also had a couple Ford Tec’ers up for the show and shine of which I’m pretty sure we won again with Lou’s stunning stunning RS Turbo, Polar Bear.

Ive done a few shows this year (well 4 so far) with Classic Ford and Fiesta in the Park being the biggest ones and they were great, but I always forget that the local shows have a different vibe, they seem to have a family/friendly vibe, maybe because more of my club can come out, or maybe as theres no racetrack to focus on, but either way me and my boys do love a good show and Minis on the Rec was a winner. I got a couple show left this Summer, with Lancing another local one to me, and then OhSoRetro in Margate which I am pretty excited about.

We’ve been doing stupid shit for a while and me and little Will desided we should probably record this. Could be fun, so we started recording Dericks wrong doings.

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I F SE A T M ADE A BAT MOBILE, I T’ D BE A BIT LIKE T HIS. I avoided Instagram for years but when I started modifly it became an essential tool for the brand.

And as time has passed (8 months now) I have come to like it more and more. I like to sit there and just scroll through my feed and see whats what.

There’s rad cars, rad car parts, car parts for sale, rad mod’s, a few too many selfies and holiday pics but thats to be expected, then more rad cars, rad stickers, just general rad stuff, anyway you get the picture. So I was scrolling the other day and I saw a something which sparked my interest, and it was on a car that I’d been a fan of anyway so I gave Daryl a shout to see if I could feature it, which as you can tell he agreed to.

So this is the pic that got me, which is odd cause I’m not a fan of the whole superhero thing, don’t get me wrong I like most the films etc, I’m just not into it. But it was the work involved to do what he’s done that I was really taken by. When people put real time and effort into there mods, no matter how big or small theres something really cool about it. I guess things like this just scream personality, passion, and when it looks rad as well then thats ideal. So anyway to put Batman on your grill is pretty brave, its a lot to live up to, and I’m pretty sure that this Leon Cupra R 255 (which as car names go is pretty long) lives up to it.

@DAZZA_R17DDB 7TH AUGUST 2017

Personally I think that the custom vented bonnet looks great in the carbon wrap and lives up to the Batman vibe, but Daryl said he was going to loose the wrap at some point and go back to black. As it stands at this moment in time, I think the carbon wrapped, vented bonnet, the big mouth converted bumper, and the angel eye headlights give this Cupra a imposing front end, obviously helped by being dropped on AP coilovers with power flex bushes all round and sitting on some big 18” XXR all round (8.75 front and 9.75 at the back). Similar to our other featured Curpra R which also sits on XXRs but that’s because these wheels are so so nice, I’ve never not seen them suit a car, especially if your going for an aggressive look, then these are the wheels to go for, bigger the better.

To help keep it stable he’s got a Neuspeed rear anti roll and drop links, to help it stop theres EBC grooved disks and EBC redstuff pads all round. So with all that suspension and stopping power you must be thinking race car? Well after a stage 1 remap (with a pervious remap 5 years ago) this Cupra is pushing out 265BHP 275 torque, thats not on a standard lump tho, its had some work too. I’ve never been an engine modder, Im getting there, but this is still a learning curve to me but it has a Forge recirculation valve, a Badger5 inlet pipe, Airtech front mount intercooler, PCV delete, N429 delete and from what I gather and a bit of research this is all to give it more, smoother, controllable boost, and thats what we all want. But it dosen’t stop there, all the boost pipes have been upgraded to Forge, the throttle body has been polished, theres a R Tech induction kit and a full Miltek system with a 3” downpipe, a de-cat and resinated cat back. This all ensures you get good air in and good air out, and that the important stuff right there. Final touches under the hood just to keep it all looking nice he’s painted the rocker cover inlet and charge pipe a nice shade of black.

So add some wind deflectors, tint some windows and thats your exterior and bay sorted, now for the interior…

Any and all race cars have gotta have Recaro’s (or at least in my opinion and Daryls by the looks of things) so we have some Cupra R Recaro’s in there and a bunch of gauges to go along with them. Theres a race diagnostic one, a boost one and a oil pressure gauge in there too. All that boost must make some noise so if you choose to drown it out then you have the option of listening to some tunes on his Alphine head unit through some nice JL Audio door speaker and sub, powered by a hifonics brutus elite 2500 rms amp. So I think that covers everything, I’m loving this, I think it looks great and I bet it goes some too, the icing on the cake tho is that this isn’t just a toy, its a daily driver and used 365 days a year, which is how it should be.

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Adams Audi.

Ive been trying to think how to introduce this ride, then it occurred to me is that a ride like this has always been unattainable to me. When I was younger it was all about the cheap cars, hence the hatches and I guess I just never wanted anything else. I’ve always looked at big German cars as great machines but not for me. But then the scene changed, bags opened door, and these big German cars have become something else.

So this is Adam’s bagged A5, he’s not gone mad on mod’s but on a car like this you shouldn’t. Audi are pretty consistently well designed, the RS series all look mean, so the addition of a RS gloss black honeycomb grille is a must. Due to the size of the A5 its gotta be low that’s just a given. An Audi deserves a bit more than just changed springs tho and Airlift seem to be the brand of choice these days, so a V2 system has been installed. After that you need to consisticise (yes that is a made up word ©me) your grills, plastics, chromes and diffuser with a gloss black wrap and/or paint, and I like that, simple, consistent and stunning.

Never personally had the joy of a remap, none of my cars have had the power, but with a car like this a remap is essential, turn the dial up to 11, but of course the thing that makes this car so special, the thing that a lot of people man about these days, is (to me) the fact that you can deck it and get the fitment just right to show off the absolutely stunning and massive 20”″VLE-1 Vossen wheels, which I’m informed are limited to only 400 made with Adams set being number 73. They look so good, they fill the arches, and follow the styling that Audis have nailed down so well.

@ad5_2oom 27th July 2017

All together this car is simple, styling, mean and bagged and Adam knows it, with a regular weekly clean and monthly wax he ain’t letting this thing gather dust. Future plans include a Maxton front splitter and another remap.

I bet this thing will fly down the ‘private’ road. Looking forward to hopefully seeing this in the flesh soon.

Thanks Adam its a stunner…

The lesser known Ford Figo…

So this is a sad story with a happy ending from Durban, South Africa. Its a bit like the ugly duckling (loosely), its starts with a little lesser known Ford Figo. First unveiled in Delhi in 2009, sold mainly to India till it was released in South Africa around 2010. Interesting Wiki fact, the name Figo is a colloquial Italian word meaning “cool”. Anyway over here in the UK we’re confused by this car, is it a Fiesta, a Ka, a Focus, I mean what is it, do I like it, don’t I like it, is it cool? Nobody knows, and I don’t know if one has ever graced a UK road.

Anyway so our ugly duckling of a Figo was bought about 2ish years ago for Gavin’s folks, but sadly two weeks after ownership Gavin’s Dad passed away (not Figo related) and the little Figo was set to be returned or sold. It would appear that Gavin like me is a sentimental man and couldn’t part with the car, it had established a special place in his heart, and it kept a little piece of his Dad with him. So that was it, Gavin had a Figo and this lesser known Figo was to develop quickly into one hell of a swan.

So from stock to swan in just over two years, starting with OEM springs, but quickly changing over to JOM coilovers.

The coilovers give this little Figo some great stance and it sits so nicely on the peachy bronze Porsche twist. Of course it doesn’t stop there because suspension and wheels don’t make a modified car. There are a number of nice little things that make a big difference, the projector lights work especially well with the tinted lenses and eyebrows. Ford like to make big cumbersome lights so anything that can be done to style them up a bit is a must. Then with the radiator branded behind the big open mouth front grill which has been painted out and down onto the aggressive front splitter, with matching black plastics give the front end a lovely presence. All this takes the Figo from a unassuming hatchback to something far more impressive. A few more additions such as the much needed wind deflectors, mudflats, tinted side repeaters and a subtle but stylish roof top spoiler finish the transformation.

But that’s not all, that wasn’t enough for Gavin, so work continued the arches needed flaring to allow for the next stage in this swans development, the twist went and some 3dsm 0.06 were put in their place, in what looks like a gunmetal grey they look absolutely stunning with the urban camo wrap, which I might add works brilliantly with the Hoonigan sun strip and here at ModiFLY suitable graphics are just as important as mechanical mods (well almost). All this presence wouldn’t be nearly as effective tho if this little Figo wasn’t slammed on bags, and that really is the end of this tail, from ugly ducking to bagged Swan, this Figo has in my opinion mixed the style of multiple Fiestas into one beautiful Ford. Its has some of the good mk7 style, chopped into the great mk6 body, with a little bit of something else.

@baggedfigo 7th September 2017

To hell and back and on a mission...

19th September 2017 @nicky_1jz

So the first time I saw this car it was sadly in a plum of smoke on youtube.

Shortly after JapFest 2017 a video started showing up on all the usual channels.

Being that I don’t own anything Jap, I watched the video, felt for the owner and then quickly forgot about it. Until last week, when I read another post on Facebook about how Nicky had worked day and night for the past 5 months or so and put his beloved IS200 back on the road. So this is a little feature on a super fly looking car, that been to hell and back and is on a mission to tear round the track.

Nicky was part of the MX5 crew till that day 5 years back when his supercharged MX5 shat itself and blew the engine. The hunt for another MX5 was on, but then like most people when they come to replacement car shopping, you start to think about all the things that weren’t quite right, or practical, for example Nicky needed a boot for tools, not that I imagine he carries too many tools about in this anymore, but at the time it was an issue.

So Nicky’s hunt for a MX5 ended up with a nice practical Lexus IS200 Sport

with 90k on the clock and a full dealer history, which is pretty sweet. Personally I’ve always had a soft spot for the IS200.

When the world was all going German, I always figured I’d get a Lexus because it was similar in size and status but not so common on the roads, this I might add was way before the drift thing took over and everybody wanted to go JDM yo. My only real problem with the Lexus is the crappy circular lights in the boot lid, still not a fan of them.

Within 3 days of Lexus ownership Nicky had ordered some HSD Monopro coilovers and a 5Zigen exhaust, with the full intention of drifting his new ride like a boss. For the next 2 years it pretty much stayed as it was, but then as always, the desire for more power kicked in and took control. Nicky, a man who knows way more than I do, had his heart set on a 1JZ GTE out of a Toyota Soarer. Halfway through the swap which was done by Drift Factory in Guildford he found out that his donor engine was shot with compression down in two cylinders. This meant that a set of forged CP oversized pistons were fitted and he gain around 30cc off this which was a bonus. The car was away for about a year to get all this done and in the meantime Nicky was rolling about in a nippy 1ltr Micra, so when he got to pick it up it must have been an amazing feeling driving it home. Running 327bhp at 1 bar on the dyno, it must have felt like a jet plane.

So for a few months Nicky just tootled about, getting comfy, testing the water, but that was never enough so the drift days started, and this Lexus performed beautifully. But of course things never stay as they should and the next decision was made, more power please.

On a car of this pedigree more power isn’t straight forward or cheap so for another year Nicky accumulated more parts and eventually sent the Lexus off to Slide Motorsport to squeeze some more power from his 1JZ. Nothings ever straightforward in the car world, so there were more setbacks. Broken injectors and wiring issues needed to be overcome but once they were this little IS200 was recorded at 405whp on the RDT hub dyno, so around 480/500bhp at the flywheel, and in the mans own ords; “It was savage from what used to have 150bhp now had nigh on 500bhp”.

Rolling about with 500bhp under the bonnet must be nice, but Nicky didn’t get too long to enjoy it, sadly and very publicly Nicky’s pride enjoy decided to self-combust on track after a fuel line from the fuel pressure regulator popped off the rail and sprayed the engine bay in fuel which is never going to end well.

After getting the car recovered home by his insurance, which is a rare thing these days, I’m surprised they didn’t try and

“It was savage from what used to have 150bhp now had nigh on 500bhp”.

write it off, Nicky got down to starting the rebuild. As with most car folk these days, you have to have a handful of hard working useful friends, so Nicky and crew got to work, dropping the engine out, sorting the bay, making up a new wiring loom and dealing with the rest of the paintwork. All that work finished up about 2 weeks ago, which means Nicky and his Lexus are back on the road and feeling pretty happy about it.

Now I’m not sure which bits came where in this story so ill give you a summary run down. This beast of a IS200 is currently running a 1JZ GTE engine with 86.5mm forged oversized CP Pistons, a Holset HX32 turbo, and a Haltech ps500 standalone ECU, which if you follow Mighty Car Mods you’ll know all about. The engine has been rebuilt with a reshimmed head, ARP head and rod bolts, new gaskets throughout, 3inch boost pipes, compressor racing 50mm watergate, a big front mount intercooler, Janspeed Race Spec manifold, and a full 3inch straight through exhaust.

With that much engine you need some cooling so a 50mm Firenze radiator is in place with twin 12″ fans for the extra punch.

To get that power to the stunning gold 18″x9.75 XXR 527s, or if on track its semi slick race ready Achilles 123s, it’s got a R154 manual box, rebuilt with a with Marlin

crawler billet shifters and uprated syncros, ACT 6 puk clutch, driftworks lightweight flywheel and a IS300 big case LSD. I’ve not got as far as swapping out boxs yet, but I know the basics, and I know that this means faster, lighter, smoother gear changes, which means more power when you need it to his custom propshaft, which means better, more reliable performance, or something like that. You can’t have that power and that drivetrain and still be 6ft up, so HSD Monomer coilovers, Hotchkis front and rear anti roll bars, and adjustable KFD rear arms allow this Lexus to kiss the tarmac. To help with some hardcore drift steering its had some 5mm rack spacers and quick steering knuckles put in. To stop her there’s some Impreza 4 pot callipers, with 325mm discs up front, braided brake lines, abs delete and a hydraulic handbrake.

So all in all she’s pretty much a beast from every direction you look. Which brings me onto the looks, all the custom bodywork has been carried out by the man himself in his garage, which we like to see, and with the bolt on arches, hudge splitter, even bigger rear wing and stunning gold XXRs this things looks every bit as mean as it should. Its a honour to have this car grace our pages, I love a rise from the ashes story, and I love this Lexus.

#OhSoRetro Show For the past few years September has been a pretty good month, the sunshine seams to lull in August then pick up just a bit for the end of September and early October (just hope it last another couple weeks for our End of Summer Meet). This year was the first time I made it down to the OhSoRetro Show in Margate. When I first started doing shows OhSoRetro was the show I really wanted to do but never made it down too. I love my Fords and I love my modified cars, but its modified retro that really rocks my world. So this year I was determined to go, I made a plan with the wife, we booked a caravan, packed up the kids, got into the XR and hit the road.

Due to my paranoid disposition I generally start any road trip with a certain amount of anxiety. Being that I had my wife, who generally doesn’t like the XR, and my two young boys who generally can’t sit still for too long, I was pretty anxious. But the sun was out, the roads were clear and the XR was purring, so my anxiety mellowed pretty quickly and I got to enjoy a faultless two and a bit hour drive to Margate. We got to our caravan with enough time for dinner and to give the XR a nice little wash down.

10th October 2017 #ohsoretroevents

Next morning we had the luxury of a lie in and a big breakfast before a 5 min drive down to the show ground. As we hit the seafront there was a nice que of classic and retro rides lining the seafront. Our side road was right near the front of the que so we didn’t wait long before we were in the grounds and conveniently found a parking space beside a spotless Mk1 XR2.

The show was filling up and we were quickly surrounded by an epic range of retro cars, from the mini to my left, the XR to my right, a badass civc behind me and a nice selections of campers in front of me. We locked up and started our slow walk round. With both my boys armed with disposable cameras and some youthful energy we were off. There was so much to look at, it was like a car candy shop, As with all shows I tired to be organized and start in one corner and work my way round. We started off pretty well, the boys went through their cameras pretty quick but were full of beans so we got to see a lot before the first signs of flagging kicked in.

We spotted my car of the show within the first 5 min, I’m a sucker for a MR2, more so a stunning example with a massive wing on the back. I tried to find something I liked more, something unique, something more fitting for the grand title of ‘ModiFLY car of the show’ but even amongst the pristine mk1 Escorts, the stunning line up of Astra GTEs, the Dimmer 205, the jacked up Cortina, the epic Socorro, the IMP, the gorgeous Capri’s, the trademark Cossworth, Tiger stipped mini, the jacked up mini, the other immaculate fez, or the big gold rimmed bug, but nothing had the impact of the MR2 to me. So it rightly gets our ‘Car of the Show’ title. (Sorry its just a title, but better than a kick in the nuts)Moving on though because there was 1400 cars at this years show and I doubt I saw 70% of them, we walked about, we chatted, we ate but by 2pm my boys had gone ferrel so we made our last long pass back round. Past the JDM Micra crew, around the first of three Max Power Escorts, all of which still rock my world no matter how dated they look, past the long roof crew, the 2nd Max Power Escort, all the way over to the the 3rd Max Power Escort, swinging past the insane rear engine mini van and back to our Xena. We probably left the show ground by 3ish and poddled off to our campsite to pack up before driving home.

We were lucky that on the drive home got to join a convoy of amazing cars along the M2 and we only hit 5/10mins of traffic before blasting down the M25, I feel if we’d left much later it would have been a different story.

My summary of OhSoRetro is simple tho, it was a great show. The turnout, location and weather all played a huge part in that, but there is something much nicer, something more relaxed and enjoyable about the retro crowd.

There was no unnecessary popping and banging, no sound offs playing generally pretty shit dubstep, all of that has its place, and in its place I love it, but I’m getting older, my life has slowed down, mellowed out, I want to enjoy my classic and I want my family to enjoy it a bit too, this was the first show I bought my wife and kids too, and it was perfect, it was a perfect introduction for them, and a great day for me.

The Barn Meet Our plan was to try and throw a Winter meet. If we could keep hosting meets throughout winter then come next show season we will be a force to be reckoned with.

2017/12/05 @modifly.uk

Our ingredients for a good meet were; good weather, nice cars, suitable location and good people.

Through a friend of ModiFLY we found a working barn we could use.

So we set up a Facebook group and started to invite people we’ve met on our journey and we thought would be up for getting involved.

We chose a date and prayed the weather would hold up. Not much else happened for a while, but as we got closer to the date a mix of panic, anxiety and occasionally calm kicked in.

At one point we thought we might have seventeen cars turning up, we had to over invite due to expected drop off but panic was setting in.

The barn was great but knowing what we know now, seventeen cars would have been a disaster.

By the Friday before the meet we knew the weather was on our side and we were down to eleven cars so calm was the general emotion.

Next day we had a couple drop out and another the next morning. It was time to go, so we just hoped for the best.

It was cold but the sun was definitely on its way up, Ray and Connor were set up in the ‘work in progress’ area, and we met a couple more on route to the meeting point. Aiming for 10am, we were annoyingly 5 minutes late, but when we got there we saw our final four cars. This gave us a grand total of nine cars, but what a selection.

This meant we had way more space to work with, being that the barn could not of housed nearly as many as we had planned this was

a blessing. We had a range of cars, from 80s hatchback to rocket bunny BMW and some JDM thrown in. We had a couple people with cameras, some food and just enough people to ensure some good milling about.

The initial plan was to have a mini show, with ten to twelve cars in the barn with any extras outside. Then we would mill about, chat, eat, take some nice photos and a bit of videos. We really hadn’t thought this through…

We invited Em from Vemply Photography along as she’s a great photographer, a friend, been part of the car scene before ModiFLY owned an XR2, and happens to own a stunning Supra. Another benefit of having Em along is when we had our first wave of drop offs, she invited Ash & Beckie along. Ash happens to own an amazing BMW E36.

Making up the other half of our final four were Daniel and Chloe, with his rough and ready R5 and her stunning volcanic flare, carbon detailed Audi TT. Along with Em we invited Jordan from The Low Key Company, Jordan has done some great work with Ad’s Audi at our last meet so I was keen to see what he could do at our barn. By eleven we had our nine cars at the barn, all organisation had gone and with the addition of our barn raining things weren’t quite going to plan. However, everyone seemed happy so it was probably just us who were overwhelmed. We started the food going as useful distraction while we planned the next move. No one was really biting but once we had eaten, we started to take control again.

Five key lessons learnt; First, if you have frost in the morning, that will turn into indoor rain in a barn when the sun comes up, not something we could have planned for. Lesson two its dam cold in November, next time we need to address the warmth issue, standing around for four plus hours in the cold takes its toll on you. Lesson three even guaranteed attendants can’t always make it. Lesson four if you’re new to organising this sort of thing, make

sure you have people with you who have previous experience. Lesson five don’t make assumptions.

The next few hours sailed past, constantly moving cars about, ensuring everyone got their time in the limelight.

As the barn couldn’t house all the cars we had. We couldn’t do what we had originally planned, it was far colder than expected, we didn’t have the space or the turn out needed to make a show, but we did have a location, nine cars and a great bunch of people, who were there just for the fun of it. So we went down the photoshoot route, moving cars into or out of the barn to get some shots on some real industrial grounds. Jordan took a trip in the boot of Rays Audi filming some rolling footage, which we can’t wait to see. Around 2ish we collected our votes for the Best of Barn award. The results were close but Daniels R5 took the prize by one vote. By 3pm it was time to wrap it up, we had got the shots we wanted, the sun was still shinning but the temperature was dropping and soon to really plummet. With some handshakes, hugs and goodbyes, everyone slowly started to make their way home. We returned things back to normal at the barn and headed home for an evening of de-thawing and contemplation.

We see the event as a success, it could have gone horribly wrong, but even if it had, with the people we had there, we’re confident that none of them would have held it against us. ModiFLY has attracted a great crowd of people, in a culture with so many subcultures we’re proud to be able to bring all types together.

A massive thank you and shout out to: Ray and Connor for the barn and all their pre meet work Jake for being Jake but also being 100% dependable and always smiling. Em and Jordan for their work behind the lense. Em for her help, support, knowledge and inviting Ash. Daniel & Chloe for coming so far, bringing their cars and supplying the potato salad. Ash & Beckie for coming out and bringing the BMW. Christian (sadly couldn’t make it) for his advice and support along the way.

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The lesser known Ford Figo…

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