Nice!
The light mechs have come out incredibly well too. One of mine is feeling a bit stiff and sluggish so I'll have to do them before too long. If they come out half as good as yours I'll be very happy.
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Nice!
The light mechs have come out incredibly well too. One of mine is feeling a bit stiff and sluggish so I'll have to do them before too long. If they come out half as good as yours I'll be very happy.
Thanks very much. I was really pleased with them as it's the first time I have every had anything powder coated. I want to do more now as it is such a lovely finish!!
No news on the wheels yet - they have been gone a week and i have missed a couple of days of reasonable weather to take the car out :-(
They need to be fitted at the weekend, but I am very pleased with the end result
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Very nice! Did you go with those Toyos that you were looking at?
Yes I did. They seems great value for money and have a lot of good reviews online. I am not driving it hard or tracking/using in the wet, so they will be more than adequate for me.
Ok wheels all fitted now. Pretty pleased - it's looking quite mean in the darker colour!
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Really nice. Suit the car. I really like the colour combo.... now get some decent tyre shine on those new rubbers ;-)
Oh yes, good point! I have some in the garage.... :-)
They look very nice. And I agree, they do suit the car well. Giving me ideas.....
I hope everyone has good a good Christmas.
It's front end refresh this week, starting with removing the headlights, then front bumper, then bumper bar and lastly the fans and fan shrouds.
I'll let the pics do the talking, but a little surface rust on the bumper bar and fan shrouds so they will be going off for powder coating on Tuesday. All other parts I am cleaning up and refurbing.
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Happy new Year.
That crash bar looks in great condition. I got a replacement one for mine in the end.
Great to see all the work that you are doing, looking forward to seeing this car one day!
The powder coated parts have arrived! First pic of the fans back together....
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Great result, when I refurbished mine trust you had not to drill out the underside fixing bolts, 2 of the bolts broke, well worth the effort, keep updating the thread
Thanks. Luckily the only screws I couldn't get out where the little cross-heads holding the fans onto the fan shrouds, so they were pretty easy to dremel and grove to use a flat screwdriver on. The bolts at the bottom of the fan shrouds must have been a real PITA!
A few more parts done. On to fitting the bumper next.
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Bumper and bar underneath back on. Just the headlights to go now.
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Looking sharp, well done.
A suggestion is to fill the bumper bar with a cavity wax, that way the inside should be kept in good nick too.
All done and everything functioning again. That was a very satisfying job, even through from the outside, no one is every going to know that anything has been done :D
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It was MOT day today and I am pleased to say we passed! The guys at the garage kept telling me how much they loved the car, which is always nice to hear :-)
I had one advisory, a slight leak from the exhaust between the manifold and the mid pipe. I joined them a couple of years ago and probably didn't use enough paste, so I can have a look at that in a few weeks.
800 miles between MOTs - I blame COVID but even so - that's not good enough!!
Great to hear another pass!
Did you put new gaskets in-between the exhaust and manifold? I may have some spares if you need them.
I was looking at my mot history the other day and my car only completed 161 miles from its MOT in 2007 and its last one back in June 2020. :-P I have since added another 1000 since then!
Another pass is great news. its a lovely example so its nice to hear that the mot station appreciates it.
Mine has only managed 3k miles in the past 7 months which is poor going for me.
I will have a look for you. I think you need two between the manifold and front pipe and one between the front pipe and rear back box section.
I'm replacing my exhaust in a couple of weeks and it came with 3 gaskets. I'm pretty certain that I have two more somewhere in the garage.