A good Tatton Park show!
Oh noes:
More brake whoring (yet to swap the discs!):
Shiny except for the rear arch.
A good Tatton Park show!
Oh noes:
More brake whoring (yet to swap the discs!):
Shiny except for the rear arch.
First attempt at primering the nosecone.
The day I did this and the previous 2 days had been manic and I didn't get finished until gone 10pm on the nosecone. This was due to having to go to work the next day, 70 miles away, and then go straight to Tatton Park after work!
Second, more thorough and not so rushed attempt at the nosecone:
Next it was time to replace the drop links all round. I found that I could use the common fiesta drop links un-altered (not shortened) due to my car being lowered, which resulted in making my anti-roll bar sit parallel to the ground, champion!
...and I POR-15'd up a spare wing:
The Silverstone Classic, a great event! Camping from Thursday through to Sunday. It was good meeting some new members from the South.
A good picture opportunity.
Rain, rain, go away...
(Discs correct! -
I'd also recently invested in the cheeky number plate you can see in the pictures above. ^^^^
A 1.6... wtf?
Looking good mate, did you do your wing and front bumper with a spray gun or can?
Finish looks good
Cheers
Lewis
The wing was brush painted actually. POR-15 is self levelling and sets more like a resin than a paint. The bumper was an aerosol job, but with good quality primer.
Cheers for the comments Lewis.
Tom
Next up was the repair to the sill:
Waxoyl was applied inside the sill once the work above was done.
Next it was time for new rear discs and pads on all four corners. I also fitted the Hilux 1" master cylinder and gutted the bias valve when doing this work:
I'd refurbed the calipers with all new seals and then painted them black. My rear brake setup is VW Corrado G60 280mm x 22mm front discs with Mk2 MR2 22v rear calipers on extended carriers.
The day after doing this work I took the car in for MOT and it passed first time. It got perfect braking efficiency (bloody well should by now!
A couple of days later I popped over to Leeds for a supercar meet and got parked next to a friend's new GTR! He'd traded his Aston V8 Vantage in for a Nissan!... ok, so it's not any normal Nissan!
You'll notice that I'd had a bash at doing my nosecone, which due to changeable weather conditions didn't come out great. It's still like that now and I've decided that I'm just going to wait until I'm ready to have the whole car resprayed after I've stuck new fully POR-15'd wings on it. I'm not planning on selling the car anytime soon so as long as I'm taking care of it underneath I don't mind too much about the odd imperfect bit of bodywork, plus as it's my only car I can't really afford to have it off the road for too long.
Cheers,
Tom
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