serega12's Holden Barina

[serega12]

So my short shifter arrived last Friday and went in this weekend. It was a little harder than rabbit is making it sound, but still went pretty smooth. The opening between master cylinder and throttle body was a bit too small for me to reach through (maybe it's smaller on first gen aveos) so I did everything from the bottom. Some places and connections were hard to see so phone pictures with flash helped a bit. Here are some pics I took along the way:













And here are a couple of shots of them side by side:





The shifter throw is shorter and there is no more slop in the shifter.

[petrified.rabbit]

Very nice. I think you have less room top side because I don't have a coil pack.

[serega12]

So no more pin stripe... and no more vinyls except for on the windows... I like it better like that. I've always liked clean cars better, but thought I'd give it a try. It didn't look bad, but I like it a lot more...

I'm sorry for the poor quality of the pictures, they're taken with a phone camera, which will never be as good as a nice DSLR camera (that's what many other pics are taken with in this thread)...







Thoughts and comments always welcome.

P.S. If I was to ever re-do the stripe, it would be silver and black, not white and black, and it would be painted on.... But for now I'm keeping it clean...

[Scotland]

Is that an official "BARINA" badge on the back? I was going to make one myself using Vauxhall badges but I can't find a "B"! If it's a genuine one where did you find it?

[serega12]

I got mine from Exotic Emblems site here: http://www.exoticemblems.com/eeshop/ind ... Path=58_91 Their price is a bit steep IMO and international shipping took a while and their site's certificate popped as expired every time I logged in, but they got me my Barina lettering in a nice genuine GM part # on the bag. And of course I tried to call the local dealer to see if they can get it, but no luck. It comes with a neat insert so you can't mess up spacing between the letters, I think I have some pictures in this thread.

[M33EVL]

im with you on the clean car bit.. not a fan of loads of vinyls n stickers.. sometimes looks ok depending on the car and style its done..
theres loooaaadds of guys around my area who have got like stickers alllll over their car like from top to bottom you can barly see any paint :S looll...
personal prefrnc i guess...
lookin nice btw

[serega12]

I know what you mean... and a lot of them have nothing to show for the stickers that they have on their cars... my favorite one is a focus sedan I see often when I visit my friend's apartment complex that has an oversized spoiler wing, many different stickers from Eurolite to NOS, while still riding around with stock hubcaps and at a stock ride height... Highly doubt he's got any of that stuff in there...

Even though I had stuff to show for the vinyls that I had on - I just like the clean car look better. I was even considering taking off the vinyls on the windows, but decided against it for now...

[M33EVL]

ahhh.. would be funny if he did have all that stuff in there tho LOOLL NOW THAT WOULD BE A SHOCK CAR.. ive come across a few actually like that.. lol there was this clip i seen on utube.. some guy just left all outside stock even left the 1.4 badge on his civic..
under the hood had something like a 2ltr turbo setup LOLL pisssd all over loads of people for a laugh..
down here there these vauxhall novas that you would not even expect anything from.. some of them even out xlerate GTR r34 skylines, supras the lot.. untill they get to about 100ish then the skyline wizzes past LOL but still... on a 0-60 they have them up..
one of my high school mates had a nova didnt look 2 bad either.. done LOAAADS to his engine was hitin 0-60mph in about 5 seconds

[LarsBud]

Looks really good that way. =D> =D>

[StreetracingPR]

Without the pin stripes, it looks cleaner. I like it with and without pin stripes