From the ashes... What did you do to your roadster today?
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From the ashes... What did you do to your roadster today?
Ok, considering the old thread got locked quite a while ago due to it being 60-70 pages long (and no other reason other than the threads length) I figure a good way to start the new year would be a return of a very popular thread. Hopefully this will free up the general thread for more general stuff whilst giving all the funky DIY stuff we do a place to reside.
Because these threads make for great rainy day reading, if at all possible or relevant, please post pictures as I find its nice to see what other people are working with.
With that being said, today I fit a towbar and made some trim to go around the towbar and around the exhaust out of some aluminum treadplate (painted with heat resistant black paint) and the result turned out quite good.
They are held in place with 3m double sided tape and rivets and I used some silicon RTV around the exhaust trim to tidy up the gaps due to the trims oddball shape
Because these threads make for great rainy day reading, if at all possible or relevant, please post pictures as I find its nice to see what other people are working with.
With that being said, today I fit a towbar and made some trim to go around the towbar and around the exhaust out of some aluminum treadplate (painted with heat resistant black paint) and the result turned out quite good.
They are held in place with 3m double sided tape and rivets and I used some silicon RTV around the exhaust trim to tidy up the gaps due to the trims oddball shape
Put a space saver on because puncture.
Pulled out the buggered headrest speakers - Should be off to jaycar for replacements when they open and I can borrow mummy's card.
Will be pulling out the old stereo at some stage too, so I've got more places to put things. Anyone with things I should know about the surgery please let me know!
Also, where can I get the cup holder ashtray thing? I'm often pretty good at whorey DIY, but this is a particularly nice interior that could do without my home-making touches.
While it's a shitty day I'll be sorting out a couple guitars for a bloke I know.
Pulled out the buggered headrest speakers - Should be off to jaycar for replacements when they open and I can borrow mummy's card.
Will be pulling out the old stereo at some stage too, so I've got more places to put things. Anyone with things I should know about the surgery please let me know!
Also, where can I get the cup holder ashtray thing? I'm often pretty good at whorey DIY, but this is a particularly nice interior that could do without my home-making touches.
While it's a shitty day I'll be sorting out a couple guitars for a bloke I know.
Put a space saver on because puncture.
Pulled out the buggered headrest speakers - Should be off to jaycar for replacements when they open and I can borrow mummy's card.
Will be pulling out the old stereo at some stage too, so I've got more places to put things. Anyone with things I should know about the surgery please let me know!
Also, where can I get the cup holder ashtray thing? I'm often pretty good at whorey DIY, but this is a particularly nice interior that could do without my home-making touches.
While it's a shitty day I'll be sorting out a couple guitars for a bloke I know.
Pulled out the buggered headrest speakers - Should be off to jaycar for replacements when they open and I can borrow mummy's card.
Will be pulling out the old stereo at some stage too, so I've got more places to put things. Anyone with things I should know about the surgery please let me know!
Also, where can I get the cup holder ashtray thing? I'm often pretty good at whorey DIY, but this is a particularly nice interior that could do without my home-making touches.
While it's a shitty day I'll be sorting out a couple guitars for a bloke I know.
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Today has been one of those days where things just don't work out quite as I planned. I dried plastidipping my hardtop today and although the finish was ok, at any point where the plastidip touched RTV silicone it would not bind and start retracting. This was un fortunate and unacceptable when painting a red roof black, so I peeled it off and decided to bite the bullet and paint the hardtop with enamel satin black. I also put on some vinyl on the strip at the top of the boot so that I would have a continuous black line.
This is a pic of the hardtop with 3 coats of plastidip... one can really doesn't cut it, for a better finish you really want 5 or so consistent layers
This is from after i said bugger it and sanded the roof and gave it a lick of enamel paint... I will do a few more coats yet. Oh, and look how domesticated I am, doing my washing and stuff (yes, seat covers count as domestic housework in my books)
These next two are just of the vinyl application process. I realize I didn't line up the pattern of the vinyl, but it was an offcut and I had to have it that way to avoid a small tear.
This is a pic of the hardtop with 3 coats of plastidip... one can really doesn't cut it, for a better finish you really want 5 or so consistent layers
This is from after i said bugger it and sanded the roof and gave it a lick of enamel paint... I will do a few more coats yet. Oh, and look how domesticated I am, doing my washing and stuff (yes, seat covers count as domestic housework in my books)
These next two are just of the vinyl application process. I realize I didn't line up the pattern of the vinyl, but it was an offcut and I had to have it that way to avoid a small tear.
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another day, another mod....
I got frustrated with the uselessness of the oem ashtray so glued foam in place, and cut/drilled/shaped it with a holesaw and a craft knife. I am now in the finishing stage where I use no-more-gaps to fill things in and give the final shape (I used a flexible rubber polymer so that I would have a little bit of give and flex)
once it has set, it should look ok with a lick of black paint.
here it is with the front angled cellphone holder looking ok while I carve out the cup holder bit.
most of the shaping is done, now its sanding and filling time before painting.
a test fit to make sure all is snug
I got frustrated with the uselessness of the oem ashtray so glued foam in place, and cut/drilled/shaped it with a holesaw and a craft knife. I am now in the finishing stage where I use no-more-gaps to fill things in and give the final shape (I used a flexible rubber polymer so that I would have a little bit of give and flex)
once it has set, it should look ok with a lick of black paint.
here it is with the front angled cellphone holder looking ok while I carve out the cup holder bit.
most of the shaping is done, now its sanding and filling time before painting.
a test fit to make sure all is snug
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Good point Siren, I left the center patch bare and hopefully the matte paint combined with the rubberized base will be enough to keep the cellphone stationary. Well, its 3:30am, I couldn't sleep so I finished off the ashtray mod. Its not as good as a professionally shaped one, but I am happy enough with the result.
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I'm in!Snapfrozen wrote:What would you charge to butcher mine and send me that back? Looks epic.
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But now I'm torn cuz I've found this one too.
http://www.mx5mart.co.nz/db.cgi?db=mart ... records2=1
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I'd love to help out guys but I only had a small amount of foam, but the basic concept of it is pretty simple. if it helps, I used a 76mm holesaw to do the top hole.
Well, I am steadily running out of affordable/practical mods to do at the moment, but here is today's efforts. I am waiting on the final coat to dry on the hardtop.... its not in the same ballpark as a professional job, but it should look good enough.
and I finally got around to wiring up my trailer plug. I initially was going to make a bridge between the plugs but that was far to complicated so I instead just chose to keep it simple and lego block it. Rather than having the plug on the outside to slowly corrode in the elements, I instead chose to keep it in the boot as the frequency I will use it will be low. (I'd just hang out the boot when using it.
Well, I am steadily running out of affordable/practical mods to do at the moment, but here is today's efforts. I am waiting on the final coat to dry on the hardtop.... its not in the same ballpark as a professional job, but it should look good enough.
and I finally got around to wiring up my trailer plug. I initially was going to make a bridge between the plugs but that was far to complicated so I instead just chose to keep it simple and lego block it. Rather than having the plug on the outside to slowly corrode in the elements, I instead chose to keep it in the boot as the frequency I will use it will be low. (I'd just hang out the boot when using it.
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I don't really consider this an 'epic load' as using a trailer is cheating (which is why I am posting this here instead of the other thread, but I picked up a manual conversion today. I know that I will need a driveshaft but otherwise it looks like everything I need is there. As a bonus the seller threw in a radiator and the subframe bracing woot!
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