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I want to get a really good mirror finish, so im going to wet flat my colour coat with 3000 grit wet and dry. I'm then planning on polishing it back up and then applying the clear coat.
However will i need to somehow strip the polish off before applying the clear coat?
Right well time for an update.
Fitted the new alarm, which is good.
Also swapped the turini's from my old car onto the new one.
Deffo need some spacers in there, they are hiding in the arches a bit.
I got a new steering wheel from Warren4 and Riz, thanks.
The old one was...
Im currently transferring my bits and bobs over from my 1.2, there was plenty of room to put stuff but i'm t struggling to see where i can fit the ballasts.
Where have you put them?
Well, sparks are changed, seriously the old ones, lets just say im surprised the car even worked with them!
And she lives, i imagine "glove eater" ate it up and spat it out within the first seconds of firing up tbh.
The missing finger is long gone. Im going to put it back together now, however i need some spark plugs, the ones in there clearly hadn't been changed for a good few centuries.
Hmm, we are talking about a very small amount of glove here, like 1 finger. Im just taking the car apart atm in search for some dental records.
Theres a big black patch on the grass where the exhaust is, hmmm, back later with some more intel on the glove eater.
I stuck it over the the whole where the throttle body is. So it just sucked on it, and thus ate a finger and a bit. I wouldnt have thought a bit of latex would do much damage as its just going to get cremated.
OK first up, i feel like a complete twatter. But its early in the morning.
So the other day i took the throttle body off the 172 to clean it, however it started raining so i shut the bonnet, and went inside. Its all cleaned up.
Meanwhile to stop anything falling into the manifold i put a...
You can bolt it to the floor, put a bracket on it, and stick a bolt through.
Or do what i did, which was to make a false floor, and strap it in ghetto style.
Not enough people would do it, you'd end up with a thread listing just a few cars. The cars you want would probably be outside of the forum, and so the details for that car, most probably, wouldnt be in the thread. Just spend a few quid and get a text check?