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The RTA have kindly given me a 2 month holiday.......

My car is sitting out the front now..... taught the gf to take it for a drive today..... scary experience..... anyways while im unable to drive it im going to mod/fix it up......

Firstly its going to cop an awesome detailing job, polish, wax and interior.....

Looking at making an amp rack for the boot (pain in the ass for a 32) and doing some red vynal work for the door trims, painting brake calipers and trying to protect the rear guards from rusting out more (dont know how?!)

Apart from that ill need my boost fixes from my gf and mates and ill def be taking it to the track.... also whatever dosent go into petrol (which is alot) will be going into beer :rofl::D:D:D:D:D

can anyone think of anything else i can do or give me some pointers in doing the suggested above...

thanks guys.... 59 more days to go!!!

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that sig. vid is awesome hahaha.

if you've got the time, fix the rust properly first....no good making it look all schweet if you've gut rusted out guards. do this first. sand it back, if its not to bad, put some rust converter on it, prime it and respray it.

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its the insides that are rusting mainly.... its not visible from the paint side of the guard.... im not really that fussed about it atm i just wanted to put some rust protector on it to slow it down.... then wait till i have enough money for a respray and get it done then... might throw some GTR guards on there while im at it :D:D:D

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