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Been slacking on keeping up with the progress here. Manual swap is all done now, was all reasonably straight forward. Installed a lightened SMF, 550i clutch, all new shifter bushings, m performance short shift kit, braided clutchline, removed the CDV and swapped to a large case 3.08diff with a Quaife ATB LSD in it. Everything works like an OEM manual car, no lights, no errors, cruise control works, reverse lights, mirror dips when going into reverse etc.

I went with double sided 3m tape.

3M VBH tape

Love the thread bud! love the car too! SJ from Apex here she sure is a beauty

I'd take the 120 straight to Pick-A-Part

A bit of a photo montage of cleaning up the calipers. First time using this gel based stripper and the first application I had not shaken the bottle enough so it was a bit too thin instead of a gel that would sit on the surface with some thickness to it. Overall the process to get to this point was: Roughen up where the stripper would be used Brush on the paint stripper, wait a while then hosed off Used compressed air to blast off / lift additional paint which was lifted but hanging on Use stiff plastic bristle brush to further loosen anything you can Another roughen up with sand paper and then re-application of stripper Dry off with compressed air Carefully scrape off any softened material with screwdriver or chisel Reinstall sacrificial dust boots, bleed nipples and stuff rags into the pistons Sand blast any remaining bits of paint, corrosion etc If doing again I would have gotten a finer garnet (I got Toolshed 'medium') as even my shitty Aliexpress blaster gun was actually pretty good ... I think it'll be fine with primer then 2k single stage paint I've gotten.

Do they always do a half day for the national track vs full day for club also ? Was curious about that one. Thankyou Caught me by surprise when i saw the thumbnail in my recommendations, initially i thought "woahhhh somebody else did the swap !!!" hah. Hows about those stone chips on the front that the camera seemed to really hone in on 🤣 Looks a LOT better now with the new plate, stone chip touch ups and black grill. Here is the Kiwi Car Life review: