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final piece of the carbon puzzle sorted, sent a used set of genuine oz centre caps to Matt at carbon skins who then sourced new decals, skinned them in carbon weave, fitted the decals and lacquered them.
Come out lovely if I do say, much better than the oz fake carbon ones
Had the car back couple of weeks now, done few hundred miles and drives absolutely beautifully. Literally cannot believe how nice the gearbox is despite it being a 100 quid unknown I bought a decade ago, abused for 6 years in a 300bhp turbo car and then left in my shed for the next 4...
great updates and nice to see love still being lavished on the old girl.
how the heck did you get a hole directly through the metal of the inner arch though? that's crazy!
Cars back together and being collected this week. Minor issue on the aircon, stuck new seal kit into it but then the condensor blew so awaiting overnight parts from France on that one, but as Mick's busy it'll have to wait
In meantime tried to refurb some side badges, model paint and not very...
Just about to play through the first last of us this weekend in preparation for hopefully getting second one for my birthday end of July.
As such had to dig out and dust off the old PS3
Even the mk1 rsi's don't make much yet although they are creeping for the 6 or whatever that are left so wouldn't hold out much hope for mega money on a mk2 one just yet. The phase 1 172's are only just starting to get up to 3k region for reasonable ones
Picked up refurbished rear beam from mate Justin who's been doing a few for us mk1 geeks recently. Fully disassembled, blasted and powdercoated and new bushes pressed in.
Great service and beam looks better than new. Good job too as my bushes were original and very worn
Cheers
Ben