Old Sep 21, 2005 | 09:42 PM
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Nick C
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But onwards and upwards as they say!

The arches I thought looked pretty darn good for a first time job, it took two weeks but they looks spot on dimension wise, the only way you could tell they were not metal, was sticking you under the "lip" which was there, but it had no lip underneath...it was solid lol

Anyways on rolled a month or two until it reached October, money had been running low and I felt like treating the motor to something, so I bought some Clear Rears..and some more Paint, I colour coded a few things under the bay, the Inlet Manifold being the best of those achievements. Although I never got round to sanding the EFI lettering silver, along with the lettering on the cam cover lol. Another job to add to the list methinks
I also got around to Waxoyling the bottom of the car, took 10 gallons of the stuff and was the worst experience of my life lol, lets just say it took me about 5hours to apply the stuff (after removing any surface rust - THANKFULLY none bad at all ) but then took me about another 5hours to clean myself! To say it doesn't "stick" is an understatement and a half lol.

I also got around to grinding off the rust on the Chassis Rail underneath the Airbox in the engine bay, you may have noticed from the last set of pictures it was black and bubbly with sealent...well I got around to grinding it off - and thankgawd it came up perfect, I spent hours grinding it with a metal drill, and I put about 30 layers of rust proof primer and sealent on it before I sprayed it...

But anyways, heres a few more pics - the arches weren't looking to bad, apart from the faded paint






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