Getting your car customized in Thailand

**Fabian** · 25-05-2008, 10:08 PM

Well, when I bought it I thought it was japanese.

**jandajoy** · 26-05-2008, 02:38 AM

Originally Posted by Fabian

Originally Posted by jandajoy

If anybody wants their vehicle really well customised just lend it to my wife for a couple of hours. She just destroyed the second car in 2 weeks. No, there are no photos the tears mist up the camera.

Maybe it is about time she actually learn how to drive?

You reckon ????

**EmperorTud** · 07-06-2008, 12:08 PM

Originally Posted by Driventowin

A few years ago Rys Millen built a nice new V-8 Pontiac GTO AKA a Holden Commodore

Holden Monaro, not Commodore.

**dirtydog** · 05-07-2008, 10:15 PM

Another car in Pattaya by Bali Hai pier with a flip paint job, not as dramatic as the previous ones I have seen but quite nice.

Really hard to show the color changes though.

**EmperorTud** · 05-07-2008, 10:26 PM

^ that's a shed IMO. Bodykit is horrible and badly fitted, the alloys are a disgrace and the paint job is hideous. To top it off the chrome door pillars complete the look of someone that has spent serious money without having a clue what they were doing.
The wheels aren't even wide enough for the kit FFS.
Someone do the owner a favour; steal it and set it on fire.

**Frankenstein** · 06-07-2008, 09:41 AM

Good thread, just hard to believe anyone would pay that much money to destroy the look of their car.

The iridescent paint is impressive as a technology but nothing I would use.

**dirtydog** · 15-08-2008, 08:49 PM

Another custom car found in Pattaya but without the flashy color changing paint job, I do like these doors though.

Why the black bonnets on all these Thai owned cars, is there a reason for it?

Class front disc brakes, rear is drum brakes but he still high lighted them in red for some reason.

Interior is alright.

All in all not too bad, just needs a flip paint job

**peterpan** · 15-08-2008, 09:30 PM

wonder if those Brembo calipers are real? I know they were making some fake bike Brembos here or maybe Taiwan but here every little spunk bubble with a civic or Yaris has it fitted with Brembos.
Dunno how much they are worth but imagine the real ones are maybe half the price of the car at a wild guess about upwards of 50,000 a caliper, can't imagine too many Somchais being able to affording that.

**EmperorTud** · 16-08-2008, 07:13 AM

Originally Posted by peterpan

wonder if those Brembo calipers are real?

Doubt it. They look like the plastic caliper covers. Size of the discs gives it away.

Originally Posted by peterpan

Dunno how much they are worth but imagine the real ones are maybe half the price of the car at a wild guess about upwards of 50,000 a caliper, can't imagine too many Somchais being able to affording that.

You can pay that but they have cheaper sets to suit different applications.

There are loads of cars around here with genuine Brembo brake kits, many with rear disc conversions.

**EmperorTud** · 16-08-2008, 07:16 AM

This is a clean Yaris, far better than any of the junkers posted earlier. It has a full brake conversion but I'm not sure if they are Brembos or not. Looks sweet on 18's.

**Travelmate** · 16-08-2008, 08:55 AM

^ your GF's car?

**Travelmate** · 16-08-2008, 08:57 AM

Originally Posted by peterpan

wonder if those Brembo calipers are real?

Nope they are certainly not. Plastic imitations that clips over your standard calipers. Looks good from a distance. Every Yaris, Jazz, Vios seem to have them.

**EmperorTud** · 16-08-2008, 10:22 AM

Originally Posted by Travelmate

your GF's car?

No.

It does have a proper brake conversion though, E-Spec not Brembo.

**EmperorTud** · 16-08-2008, 10:28 AM

Here's another shot.

**Travelmate** · 16-08-2008, 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

Originally Posted by Travelmate

your GF's car?

No.

It does have a proper brake conversion though, E-Spec not Brembo.

Well let see a pic of your GF's car. With the E-Spec conversion. (Japanese Brakes??)

**EmperorTud** · 16-08-2008, 11:46 AM

^ my g/f's car doesn't have a brake conversion. I was talking about that red Yaris!

I haven't bothered to collect the Yaris yet. Waiting on the insurance and tax.

Here's my pick-up though.

**Travelmate** · 16-08-2008, 12:04 PM

could do with 27" rims on that ride.

**Spin** · 16-08-2008, 12:27 PM

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

There are loads of cars around here with genuine Brembo brake kits

99% of anything with Brembo stamped on in Thailand is fake, as Peter already pointed out. Thais are fake and they love fakes. I though you knew this already tuddy?

**peterpan** · 16-08-2008, 12:30 PM

There was a Swiss guy, front name Dominic, who was in Bangkok, he had a proper eddy current load Dynometer built in OZ ( not a crap interia Dyno) , and all the stuff with it, AF analysis etc, The important thing was he really knew his stuff on tuning and automotive electronics, He designed and built new EFI control module that increased power on the local diesels. WE used his dyno on bikes occasionally but he had a falling out with the Thai garage owner and had to shift his Dyno. anyone know where he is or what happened to him?

**peterpan** · 16-08-2008, 12:55 PM

Never been into the Hot looking street racer thing, in fact just the opposite. I drove this around in NZ and Australia for 25 yrs, had a succession of progressively bigger motors but ended up with a twin turbo F1 6 Litre Chev motor and drive train.
Perfectly stock looking inside and out apart from retro style wide alloy wheels painted to look like widened stock wheels.
Gave the wankers in their hot hatches and Subaras a fright when this 2 tonne 60+ year old car blew them away.

**EmperorTud** · 16-08-2008, 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by Spin

99% of anything with Brembo stamped on in Thailand is fake

I know several people with genuine Brembo brake conversions.

**dirtydog** · 26-10-2008, 01:06 PM

How bout this beasty thats in Bang Saen, 4.2 liter engine, lowered and chop job, could do a lot with something like this

**EmperorTud** · 26-10-2008, 02:21 PM

^ Last of the V8 shittycrappers.

**AntRobertson** · 26-10-2008, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

That looks like the kind of thing that we used to buy for peanuts at the beginning of summer, drive it into the ground, and then (invariably) tow to the wreckers at the end of the summer and try to get some cash back.

**Texpat** · 26-10-2008, 05:52 PM

Looks like the Batmobile after a few really bad stunts and converstions.

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