Recent content by MAXRUNDOWN

Picked my brake calipers up from the parcelforce depot on Saturday too.. I'd had them cerakoted last year but when I took them out of the box a few weeks back they'd started to rust through, mustn't have been blasted enough prior to coating. Thankfully the guy was apologetic and re did them at...

New bench grinder and zinc plating kit was delivered this week so I've started stripping all of the old fasteners and had a go at plating, never done it before but it's pretty easy, if time consuming. Buzzing with the results, everything that comes off the car is getting re-plated, I'm away...

Started building the engine up this afternoon, Got the block jet washed, scrubbed, brushed out the oil ways etc and blew it all dry with an air line Cleaned the crank, brushed through and sprayed out the oil ways with loctite degreaser, cleaned the journals with IPA and measured them...

Round two of engine painting today, it's a pain getting the garage set up for spraying 2k but the results are worth it, I'm mega happy with it, exactly what I wanted first time round. I've just cleaned my guns and shut the garage door, next time I'm home I'll unmask it, scrub the inside of the...

After rage quitting yesterday I've ordered half a litre of RAL 7001 in 2k, and some 2k epoxy primer, hopefully this is much closer to what I had in mind in the first place

Got the block properly cleaned inside and out today, masked up and prepped for painting. All was fine until the paint started to dry and it was Matt.. I'd assumed the high temp engine enamel I'd bought would be gloss but it's not. It dried looking like primer. I absolutely hate it so I've just...

Sills don't look too bad, mine are similar inside the rear quarters.. I'm giving it a stiff ignoring at the minute though

Yeah it'll all get a jet wash, bottle brushing and blow through with an air line before it's fitted 👍

No, I didn't really want it getting wet, I'll clean that with a brass wire brush. It was done by a place called Durham Vapour Blast, he charged me £300 for the lot.

Collected all of the engine bay aluminium parts from vapour blasting this morning, they've come up like new so happy with the results, going to give them a coat of XCP clear coat to stop them corroding again, I'd enquired about getting them clear cerakoted but the quotes were ridiculous.

Spent the day in the car today picking up parts of the Clio The block has just been decked, honed and new oil squirters, ready for a new coat of paint next. The head has been refaced, new guides, some port work, wossner valves and cat cams springs, I've got a set of 421 profile cams to go...

Got the bottom end stripped today, no horror stories, the bearings show minimal wear and other than a bit of oil varnish it's all pretty clean, got the crank polished and pistons and rods cleaned.. annoyingly I've managed to lose a gudgeon pin circlip so if anyone has a dead 1*2 bottom end they...

Dropped my gearbox off for a refresh this morning, then took the head off this afternoon.. I'm fairly happy with how it looks, there's a couple of light vertical scratches in the bores but you can't feel them with a finger/nail, I'll measure the cylinders once I've stripped the bottom end...

I've used platers before on other projects, there's a lot of fasteners, brackets etc I'd like plated for my 172 but I don't really fancy sending the plater a load of stuff and getting it back in one box all mixed up to sort out, so I'm thinking of doing it myself this time.. anyone got any...

Got the gearbox off, engine onto the stand and tidied the garage this morning, I've arranged to drop the gearbox and new diff off to @NorthloopCup next time I'm home. Ideally I'd like to get some use out of the car this year so I'll try to progress things as fast as possible with limited time...