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Thought that Mike and I were coming down to your place tomorrow night and then drinking scotch and then going to Yattla for the cruise?
Ha! That would of been good.

Sadly I have already plans with family tomorrow

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Well run in has been done (so I've been told)

As much as I want to go and get it tuned again I'm saving for suspension parts FTM as a car is only as good as it handles

I will put some minor updates soon ;)

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Alright it has been quite some time since I have updated this build thread

I guess I have been enjoying it, hence why bugger all updates

but this aint true as I have in fact done a bucket load

First up........

I decided to take off the windshield water grill and see what has been lurking under there

so after taking off the mandatory wiper and bonnet bolts and removing them I got this

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it wasn't pretty

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so lets get all this cleaned up ;)

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Got my trusty garage vacuum cleaner and started sucking up all the dirt and silt lying within the under there grill

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even took these little suckers out for some restoration lol

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after a quick wipe with some warm water and soap and it already started to look a better

but me not being satisfied I wanted to go one step further

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I removed the bolts to the wiper motors (except for the middle one so just tapped it up) and taped up everything else with plastic sheeting

next step was to apply a coat of clear where the windshield grill usually sits

results

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managed to clean them plugs rather well and went straight back in their home

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whilst I was at it I thought I would pay some attention to the actual grill which looked rather in poor shape

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After a quick wash with some sugar soap and warm water it looked like this

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I glued the lip back with some Loctite Precision Super Glue Gel (highly recommend it for delicate applications)

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Then I applied some Meguiars Plastx to get it to look like this

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back in the engine bay - I had some broken studs to take off and rethread

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after much swearing and broken drill bits I got the bastard out lol

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me and drills - thank Christ I am not a dentist

Time for some rethreading

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this is actually rather delicate to do and you must turn slowly then reverse slowly to get the right threading technique but I managed very well thanks to Youtube lol

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new stud in place

next up the rear wing

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thought I would take the rear wing off to detail it...........

lets just say that when I saw this

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I knew that there was going to need more than just wax and polish

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the rear wing stay brackets were fooked to say the least

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totally corroded and unusable

the car without the rear wing

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we will get all this cleaned up too

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ta dah!

a bit of detailing done (cut and polish)

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it sure does have a different appearance without the rear wing

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