Finally got my dream car :)

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Thanks guys, those of you saving up, stick with it! I've had the car 18 months now and the novelty has yet to wear off

Loving that engine bay! Nice work! Nice colour and great interior

I have been doing little bits in the engine bay, nearly finished, pics next weekend. I didnt like the blue anodized hardware, mostly because its the wrong blue, more of a torquise that doesnt look right to me. Im switching it all out for stainless. Also found the airfilter hard pipes have red hardware, no idea why!

 

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Spent some time changing all the blue and red alloy hardware for some more neutral silver stainless stuff. Also the sight gauge on the side of the oil catch tank was leaking when I got the car, it had been leaking for a while from the looks of it. The oily water had run under the tank and lifted the paint off so I took it out, got a bit of tube the right size for it and polished everything up. Got rid of the little bit of surface rust and repainted it having masked up everything with some tape and an entire newspaper.

out with the red, in with the silver.

messy

not so messy

cleaned and polished, the back half is the washer bottle, 2 motors are fitted underneath

Painted

 

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New airfilter foam fitted, the old ones were pretty grubby, switched to blue obviously.

I bought myself a DA a little while back form "clean your car.com"

The paint is pretty good over all but there are some swirls here and there and a couple of bad patches, one of which was at the top of the bonnet.

...some time later.....

works good, I was a bit frightened initially but I started with the lightest cuting stuff on the softest pad until I was confident in what I was doing.