Been taking it steady away for the last week or two, getting some more small jobs out of the way. Fancied tidying up the intercooler a little, so i took it back off, gave it a good cleaning and keyed up the old paint as best i could, it was actually quite difficult to do without risking damaging the delicate little fins, but i got there in the end.
I then put a couple of very thin coats of Skoda silver basecoat from some of my old leftovers, i was going to leave it at that and stick with plain silver, but got a bit of a creative urge and ended up tracing an 'RS' logo off the screen of the laptop onto some paper, and then tediously cutting it out to make a stencil.

This is what i ended up with, i'd have rather put the cosworth logo on, but that would have been a total ballache to cut out, and my patience wouldnt stretch that far!





And with the bumper back on, almost hides all that hard work! The grill here was actually a dummy, and didn't have any holes in it to allow air through, so i had to cut each individual diamond shape out with a hammer and chisel, and then go around them all with a craft knife blade and tidy up the cut edges. It was a grueller of a job, testing my patience to the limit, but i think the end result looks a sight better than just stuffing some of that aluminium mesh in there, the number plate will now need to be relocated elsewhere, but the chances are we will end up using a stick on plate.