Wow it's been nearly a year since I updated this thread. A couple of weeks ago I painted the car cause it was starting to look a bit ratty and I only just took some pics today.
Also other things I've done in the last year are:
Woodgrain steering wheel
Tacho
CD player
Twin Hatachis (tuned today)
and obviously paint
It still has the same tires as when I bought the car though
Anyway here's the pics.
It was a home spray job that took about a week all up. Close up you can see imperfections and places where the preparation wasn't so good but still I think it looks pretty good and from a distance it looks really nice. It's definitely a better result than I was hoping for.
I'm also thinking about doing a black bonnet or GT stripes or something but I don't have the time/motivation to do anything about that at the moment.
I'm thinking about getting some twin webbers for the extra bit of awesome but it's kind of hard to justify putting $900 into a car I've only spent about $2600 on altogether. But still I'm pretty tempted. I can justify it to myself by saying I couldn't get much better for $3500. Anyway...