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Firestate88
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8th Apr 12 at 16:58   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by M Sutton
Love it mate! Green centres and polished dishes imo
Danny W
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9th Apr 12 at 09:37   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
think painted lips could work,




http://www.flickr.com/photos/campbellsteven/2591241121/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/campbellsteven/2592079666/in/photostream/

like you say if not could always get Dav @ Purklass to mirror polish them for you

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what needles have you put on your clocks mate they look good
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10th Apr 12 at 14:49   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
looks like your dash has a headgasket failure lol
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quote:
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what needles have you put on your clocks mate they look good


They were from a Cav iirc

quote:
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looks like your dash has a headgasket failure lol


I don't know how to respond to that? Cheers? lol

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Paul W
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Well my bolts arrived today from germany. Very happy with them.



Also got round to removing the sunroof and taking it apart to get to the slider panel. Had a go at re-trimming it, was an utter ballache doing it all but i got there in the end. Pretty happy with how it's turned out, although it's hard to see from the pics





Same colour leather as the seats, which is also colour matched to the dash. The headlining is out and i'll be having a go at trimming that up as well, fingers crossed that goes well

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Darryl H
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11th Apr 12 at 20:01   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Nice one Paul! Looks great!

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Cheers Darryl I am never removing a sunroof by myself again after that, absolute ballache but well happy with the result

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Darryl H
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12th Apr 12 at 16:36   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Fair enough! looks great up there though so I guess it was worth it

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More progress today, even though it's only a lil bit

Currently have no centre caps for the OZ turbos and for whatever reason they're like rocking horse shit to find, and when they do pop up they go for mega money. Been looking but nothing so far, so figured i'd have a go at making some myself.

Got some spare plexiglass type sheeting which looked perfect for the job. Measured up and cut out with the dremel and then slowly took it down bit by bit on the sander until perfect.

Got two options with these as the centre cap recess is quite deep, so they sit quite far in.



Doubled up they sit pretty perfectly flush



Got some spare bumper bar brackets as mine are currently not sitting right, i think that's why my bumper never wants to go on properly, so painted those up.



Also got a twin tone horn off an Astra, cleaned and painted those up with the brackets.



Possibly the biggest thing today, took the rub strips off. Still gotta get used to it, but i think once all the smoothed stuff is painted and on it'll look a treat. Also, got the dreaded cloudy lacquer, hopefully heat gun and a polish will sort that out though.



Got MOT booked for next tuesday and going to the body shop tomorrow to see about getting it booked in for some major body work goings on.

Watch this space

[Edited on 13-04-2012 by Paul W]

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Sounds good Paul! Going to be at MK?

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If it passes MOT it will. But i don't think it'll be on air. And it'll still be patchwork panels. And half the interior will be missing so basically fingers crossed but it'll be a right shed

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13th Apr 12 at 21:19   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Fair enough mate! Can't wait to see it once you've added all these new bits!

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13th Apr 12 at 21:37   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Same tbh! lol. Deadline for having it 'finished' is PVS so should be do-able. I'm hoping it'll mostly be done in the next few weeks tbh

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Fair enough! Sounds like you have it all planned out! Looking forward to the updates as usual

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13th Apr 12 at 21:51   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Never heard of a hair dryer or heat gun not being able to sort out cloudy patches from behind the bump strips so it should be fine as long as you're careful.

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Why don't you measure the thickness you need for the centres to sit flush and take the templates to a laser cutter?

I had the same problem and cost me £15 to have them made in steel..
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£15 seems a decent price, that for a full set i take it? Tbh i don't know anywhere near me that does laser cutting

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What size discs would you require? Any idea of thickness?
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The template I've made is 159mm diameter and 6mm thick Jon

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Could probably knock you up some discs and lob them in the post to you if it would be any help
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15th Apr 12 at 18:42   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
That would actually be legendary if you could! Want some cash throwing your way for doing it?

Suppose metal caps would be a lot better than plastic, would be less prone to breakin

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What kinda metal would you want??? Got some 5pm steel laying about. Could do that for free for ya. Might have some stainless steel which you could polish but my boss would charge you.
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Not sure what metal would be best, it'll be getting painted up with the barrels anyway so i'd imagine anything would do as long as it doesn't rust/corrode too much on the back of it and is fairly light

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^ glad I mentioned it

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