Hello guys and gals, it's been a while since I last posted an update on Big Blue, so I thought I would finally show where I am at. It's been a busy last 4 months, and mostly the bodywork/painting has been holding me up. There is a ton of pictures, so hold on...
-A.C.C. Black Carpets, and Fat Mat Insulation
-New Grill, Angel Eye Projector Headlights
-Wings West Bodykit
-Drop Leafs, Belltech Shocks
-White Face gauges
-VR3 Mp3, DVD Headunit
-New Catback Exhaust
Things I still have to put on thats sitting in the garage:
-Side Skirts
-Painted Carbon Fiber Hood
-Cats Eye Grill w/ Billet insert
-Finish Exhaust, High Flow cat
1993 Astro, 1973 Austin Mini Clubman Estate, 1980 Trabant, 1961 Morris Minor
Vans owned:
1986 Safari 2.5L 4 speed manual - scrapped
1995 Astro 2WD conversion 4.11 posi, shift kit, DHC rock rails - sold to Skippy
1998 Astro 4x4 D44, D60, NP231, full hydraulic system with 9k# Milemarker winch and snow plow - sold to Lockdoc
2003 Astro AWD all stock - traded for a 3/4 ton truck
2005 AWD, 4.10's - sold to skippy
Thanks everyone, it's been a slow process, but it's slowly coming together. Hopefully August I will be able to show my face at the local drive-in's.
safariobsession wrote:Very nice! I like the bumpers....subtle and smooth but better than stock. How do you like your LED tail lights?
The Wings West kit is IMO one of the subtlest bodykits that you can get for the Astro, a lot of the other ones are a little to wild for me. I love my taillights, I think they flow better than any of the other aftermarket taillights I've tried before. I also tinted them above the backup light to make them a low key.
LiftedAWDAstro wrote:Looks pretty damn nice! I love it the way it is!!!!! Just needs to be painted dark Forrest Green.
I would like to give it a full paint job later down the road, most likely it will be some shade of blue, but I love silver/gray paint, and black (but would never want to deal with a black car again).
1993 Astro, 1973 Austin Mini Clubman Estate, 1980 Trabant, 1961 Morris Minor
Do you guys think the rims I have on there look like 18" rims? I never would have dreamed of going that big on the van, I thought the 17's were big before, now these 18's look almost a hair small. I think it has a lot to do with how the polished lip rolls up....
1993 Astro, 1973 Austin Mini Clubman Estate, 1980 Trabant, 1961 Morris Minor
Vans owned:
1986 Safari 2.5L 4 speed manual - scrapped
1995 Astro 2WD conversion 4.11 posi, shift kit, DHC rock rails - sold to Skippy
1998 Astro 4x4 D44, D60, NP231, full hydraulic system with 9k# Milemarker winch and snow plow - sold to Lockdoc
2003 Astro AWD all stock - traded for a 3/4 ton truck
2005 AWD, 4.10's - sold to skippy
your van's looking pretty good to me...i was thinking about getting the same head unit, how do you like it? if i decide to get some no window barn doors, i 'll hook a camera to the head unit for a rear view camera...
d3athm3talh3ad wrote:your van's looking pretty good to me...i was thinking about getting the same head unit, how do you like it? if i decide to get some no window barn doors, i 'll hook a camera to the head unit for a rear view camera...
I wanted a single din head unit with a built in LCD that I could add external lcd's to as well (I plan on adding one or two in my center console down the road). I also wanted to add a reverse camera, which I have laying around in the house now, I noticed it only has 2 outputs, but no inputs. It might be a misprint on the headunit, if it is not then I will most likely just run the camera to the lcd that is gonna be in the console and just press the button to switch inputs. Anyway.... as far as the headunit I love how you can have a 2GB SD card in there. That means 450 mp3 songs at 128kb quality with no skipping! Plus you can leave it in there and always have music, mpegs, avi, jpgs, etc. It also has the possibility of of Dolby 5.1 if you add a center speaker. The only few quirks I have found with it are 1. Slow to initiate ( I understand the SD card since of its size), 2. Clock sometimes resets 3. Some operations you have to use the remote.
But for the price of $180 it's a huge bang for the buck.
peter wrote:Very nice! You're on the right track, no doubt. Just don't go painting it any shade of green
Don't worry, I'm not gonna make another pickle. Big Green would sound kind of weird anyway... people might be trying to score something sticky out of the van.
1993 Astro, 1973 Austin Mini Clubman Estate, 1980 Trabant, 1961 Morris Minor
