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Found some time today to paint the headers I bought - hoping to get these and a few other mechanical things sorted before the summer holidays.

Build a makeshift spray booth

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Hang the headers from the joist like a side of pork

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Paint them with this stuff

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Finished product, will look much better than the stock 3 into 1 manifolds and hopefully there will be some performance benefits too.

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Those look rad. What make are they?

No idea, bought them off Trademe locally... guy had taken them off a parts car he was stripping down. Seem to be fairly well made though.

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wow love this car!!! <3

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Found a bit of time today in the sun to do a bit more painting.

Painted the grilles and wiper arms.

All masked up and ready for paint:

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Looking better.

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I last painted the kidneys about 7 years ago when i first owned the car... time to give them a freshen up.

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All back together and looking smart.

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Also changed the oil and replaced the driver's side foglight which had rusted out.

And finally a sneak peak at the first pieces acquired for a special project. Watch this space.

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Nice. And where did you get the BBS hardware?

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Chur.

Got the centrecaps from Trademe (seller bought the wrong size).

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car's looking good Mark! were you at the euro nation meet in april? didn't get a chance to catch up with you there, just caught a glimpse of your car as you were leaving ( if it was even you :o )

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Hi Sam, yep I popped in briefly for the start of that meet but couldn't hang around long. Probably catch you at the next one!

Cheers.

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Your cars looking very sharp.

I'm interested to see what those BBS caps are going on..

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Not much of an update - but got it back from the panelbeaters yesterday. It's now completely rust free. (well, almost... read below)

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Bought some new tail light gaskets ages ago but was waiting to get the rust sorted first before fitting them. I don't have a picture of the rust previously but it was an apple-sized piece of cancer that had spread outwards from the bottom RHS of the right tail light.

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Panel beater did a pretty good job of the repair, blended the paint nicely.

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Old gaskets were pretty brittle. No wonder water was getting in.

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New ones fitted, about three times as thick as the old squashed ones.

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Then went to fit the left hand side gasket and oh no, rust. Should have known.

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Sanded it back and put some rust converter on it. Will repair further when I find the time.

 

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How much did your rust panel and paint cost? Got a similar sized piece in the exact same spot but on the other side, gotten to the point that it was leaking into the boot.

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7 hours ago, Terroth said:

How much did your rust panel and paint cost? Got a similar sized piece in the exact same spot but on the other side, gotten to the point that it was leaking into the boot.

I got a bit of other stuff done at the same time, but it probably worked out to around $600. There was quite a bit of metal that needed to be cut out and re-fabricated.

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