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The one I used there was plenty of room each side

Ok topcoat. Many of you will be shocked to hear this but I will be brush painting the topcoat. I'm using hammerite hammered silver. Brushes on easy, covers very well and extremely durable and at £10/£20 for a tin extremely cheap! It will clean it right up and make it easy to stay on top of...

184387194176 Ebay number, this is black on clear carbon. 152457485846 activator. 184387190463 clear carbon fibre, like what I used on my door bullets. Couple of things I have learnt. #1 the water needs to be around 30°c #2 the film needs 120 seconds to soak or until all the wrinkles...

I've been messing with different base colours and candy red tint to see what different effects you get.

I just bought off Ebay m8

Once I had removed as much corrosion as I could possibly get to and keyed all the areas up, I gave it all a good blow off with the air gun and panel wipe off. I brushed Jenolite rust converter onto the bare metal areas and then a zinc rich primer. I also primed the full underside and the...

Not a lot you can do with a weld in cage

Ok so the rust needs addressing, I used the wire wheel on the grinder, wire wheels in the drill. All different attachments to get into all the the hard to reach places. I also used them lightly on the rest of the areas to key them for paint. I also used the grinder to remove any unused threads...

So the axle was ready, but now I needed to make its home clean and rust free so I began by stripping the fuel tank out, exhaust off and skirts. (Note to self drain the tank prior to removing the bolts, its heavy when it lands on your chest and then pisses fuel all over you) Pretty rough...

I need more bullet trims if anyone has them for sale

Haha is it something the people want?

Ok so... I've had a go. Started with the standard bullets I removed the raised lettering with the DA sander starting with 80grit, 180, 240. Quick scrub with a grey sctoch brite and cleaned them up. Used adhesion promoter and then black primer. Wet and dry p800 with water to prep the...

Well the rears are identical but the front are totally different. Look at the size of the pistons!! Think 4100 is 22mm piston and 5100 44mm piston. 5100 is upside down shock aswell what ever that means 🤷‍♂️. Tech guys will know more on here. Or read on cooksport site.

Stub axles next Sandblasted them, then used the bench grinder whire wheel Now the plan was to get them done in Zinc but this was post lockdown and the lead time was now 2 months!!! So they would be powder coated, bagged them ready so they wouldnt brown straight up. So here's one I made...

Fast forward 2 weeks Look at the size off these bloody things! Glad I upgraded now and they came in perfect condition. I 100% recommend Cooksport, very professional and excellent customer support. So I could now continue welding the axle up so I cover the rear coilover in tape to protect...

So what's in the box Ast 4100 is the answer, from Cooksport on their £1200 deal. I couldnt say no really. But They turned up damaged. Now to a 'normal' person they would spray them with ACF 50 and fit them but my brain wouldnt let me. So I called Steph at cooksport and emailed some...

Next on to the PMS kit. I cleaned up where I had to weld as I put some etch primer on the bare axle to stop it corroding straight away. I test fitted the triangular gussets and all fitted 95% perfect, couple of little tweeks with the belt sander and I just cracked on and got them welded in...

Ok so back axle I took it to work to complete the work needed. First off I am fitting Polybush black series bushes so the old had to come out. If you dont have access to a press or cant be bothered to wrestle with a full axle whilst trying to press them out there is only one way to do it...

So rear end refurb had commenced. Everything was brown and horrid and had to be sorted for my own sanity. I had to cut the 6 bolts holding the axle carrier to the chassis and the 2 that pass through the rear bushes to the carrier as they weren't moving just seized solid so the angle grinder...

Well I figured I should really up date this. Its turned into a bit of a coffee morning with the idle chatter so let's try and recap. I had just finished Croft after all the hard work on the car and it was faultless. The gripper and the role centre kit from Mark totally changed the handling...

I should really update mine I guess 🤦‍♂️

That's heavily weight saved. I would say 950 as a base.

Annoying isnt it 🤦‍♂️

Is the paint heat proof? I sent mine to Biggred for full refurb and they used 800°c stove paint that I've managed to burn.

Little update, N2Grafix still does the door bullet decals. Got 2 on their way.

Get rid of all the crap then. If you have esp it wont work any more either, or cruise control.

If yours has abs them I imagine you wont have the gearbox sped sensor. So you can remove the main abs pump then unscrew the brain from it. You can remove the rear abs sensors and all the rear wiring as far forward as the main connector at the bottom of the front bulk head. Then fit the the...

So your speedo works on a 182. They run off wheel speed sensors. 172 runs off the gesrbox