From the ashes... What did you do to your roadster today?

Junkwhale · Post by **Junkwhale** » Sat Mar 08, 2014 1:55 pm

^^ nice. prob wanna look into some wider tyres to deal with that extra hp

BRM · Post by **BRM** » Sat Mar 08, 2014 7:05 pm

....

Whut...

That's not how you upgrade brakes.....

paint?...

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Angreal · Post by **Angreal** » Sat Mar 08, 2014 7:20 pm

BRM wrote:....

Whut...

That's not how you upgrade brakes.....

paint?...

......

Thermal capacity

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Sat Mar 08, 2014 8:43 pm

Nice work GRUVBB, looks good

I had a productive day, gave the car a clean using clay bar and gave it a polish

GRUVBB · Post by **GRUVBB** » Sat Mar 08, 2014 8:59 pm

Looks like the clay bar has done a good bringing up the shine...... Is it a pleasure to use or what?
I see you have also got some White Supercats

Lucky I went with the 25 KW Red.

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Sat Mar 08, 2014 9:27 pm

yeah, I started to do them, but decided to leave it until I take the tyres off when I swap my suspension

DeeCee · Post by **DeeCee** » Sun Mar 09, 2014 7:31 am

Slave cylinder blew during the week. Replaced both master and slave as original parts 20+ years old.

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 3:02 pm

GRUVBB gave me his old rear garnish and after a bit of a fix it job and some wrap it came out looking pretty decent

GRUVBB · Post by **GRUVBB** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 3:14 pm

Sweet Skills Wrap It Man!!!..... That is a true transformation from the relic lying on my deck the other day. Glad it came to use rather than going in the bin. The garnish MAZLINE supplied me was a much easier option for my requirement at the time.

mjrstar · Post by **mjrstar** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 6:29 pm

Cambelt

Then started on adding a birds nest to the engine and interior.

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 6:38 pm

awesome work! I would personally find wiring a car a rather daunting task.

evel · Post by **evel** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 8:34 pm

mjrstar wrote:Cambelt

Why does the the valve cover look like a 4G63?

REDBEN · Post by **REDBEN** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:13 pm

evel wrote:
mjrstar wrote:Cambelt

Why does the the valve cover look like a 4G63?

Because thats exactly what it is

GRUVBB · Post by **GRUVBB** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 12:09 am

Its Always a pleasure to see a freshly painted engine bay when a fresh motor goes in. It definitely helps to set the look up front. Just another component of detail. Well done!

Timmo · Post by **Timmo** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 9:15 am

mjrstar wrote:Cambelt
Then started on adding a birds nest to the engine and interior.

You probably don't want to hear this after all that work, but you've put the wrong engine back in the car!

mjrstar · Post by **mjrstar** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 5:23 pm

^^ And gearbox / diff / lots of other stuff too.

McNuggetBandit · Post by **McNuggetBandit** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 9:39 pm

mmmmm put my freshly painted wheels on today nice and purple.... i like to stand out a bit......

MattBRG · Post by **MattBRG** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 9:48 pm

After being overseas for a few weeks and then a while of deciding not to 'play' with my new car, ive decided to start to do little things.
started on changing the KG Works Cluster from the spare car, To Black rather than the wood-grain that it came with.
started with this:

then after a bit of a heat gun:

And then adding Matt Black Vinyl, if this doesnt work too well im going to paint a wrinkle finish.

Hopefully start on new door cards in the next week and get ordering my new Gauge faces!

Cheers Matt

GRUVBB · Post by **GRUVBB** » Fri Mar 14, 2014 9:33 am

Fitted Hardtop and removed old window Banner.... Off to get a price for tinting of hardtop.

fooesboy · Post by **fooesboy** » Sat Mar 15, 2014 12:20 pm

Made some good progress on Seal yesterday thanks in a BIG way to MattBRG for all his help!

Fitted Würth sound mat to the floor and parcel tray

Installed the carpet and the dash

And the tow strap

Slowly starting to look like a car again!

GRUVBB · Post by **GRUVBB** » Sat Mar 15, 2014 1:15 pm

Looking good FooesBoy!!! Hope you don't need that tow strap.

ps.. I love that cluster

fooesboy · Post by **fooesboy** » Sat Mar 15, 2014 11:12 pm

Started this cool little mod today...

Sanded off the raised markings that where holding the polish residue and they came up rather nice. Using wet n dry started with 350 then 600, 1000, 1500 and 2000. Still looked too dull for my taste even with a good polish so then pulled out the "Micro Mesh" at 3200, 6000, 8000 and 12000 lastly a final going over with some swirl remover.

I have just 1 rear brake light to finish before I fit them on.

And yes I know this one is chipped, this one is a spare that I used first to try it out... really didn't feel like stuffing it all up eh?

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 4:13 pm

very nice effort Fooesboy, they look much better. Myself personally I just painted the front ones black as you don't need them for a WOF (but you must have the red reflectors at the back) and after seeing how nice yours turned out, I am very tempted to give my rear red reflectors some similar TLC

Today I crawled out of bet at 3:30pm to get a WOF and discovered that my shiney new screws had arrived so after passing the WOF I put them in to replace the old slightly corroded OEM screws....

thank you GRUVBB!

now in the remaining time I have left I am going to make a start changing my suspension over (its all fun and games til someone skins a knuckle)

GRUVBB · Post by **GRUVBB** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 5:07 pm

I have 2 more sets of steering wheel screws in stainless if anyone is keen on some. PM me if you are keen. Like the ones MrGrey has just fitted today as above.

SkilletKid · Post by **SkilletKid** » Mon Mar 17, 2014 6:36 pm

MrGrey wrote: (its all fun and games til someone skins a knuckle)

It's not your car until you bleed on it. =P

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