Goodies to fit

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I'm gonna be busy !

[KKson]

Blimey, early Christmas presents or have you just won the lottery??

[mrzigazaga]

Flash git....

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Work hard ' play hard !

[v8s4me]

Someone knows how to treat himself! What finish is that on the rocker covers and plenum?

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I've been buying bits and pieces over the last month or so , I got the seats and re coloured them with TVR magnolia leather dye from the furniture clinic , then the plenum and rocker covers , I stripped and painted them to match the car . The carbon trumpets came from ACT , some of the other bits came from the NEC car show and I ordered the shocks about 2-3 weeks ago .

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I primed them with VHT and then sprayed them with normal car paint that I've had made . Not sure weather to laqure them or not ?

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Picture is on its side for some reason ?

[mrzigazaga]

wedged up said:

I primed them with VHT and then sprayed them with normal car paint that I've had made . Not sure weather to laqure them or not ?

Hi mate...You could use some VHT lacquer but normally you have to stick with the VHT paint on VHT primer so not sure what will happen......Should be okay....

[Wedgefan]

Let us know how you like the Gaz dampers - they are on my radar for my build. Are they adjustables?

Pete

[v8s4me]

wedged up said:

I primed them with VHT and then sprayed them with normal car paint that I've had made . ....

Nice job. Looks like one of those expensive coatings.

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Wedgefan said:

Let us know how you like the Gaz dampers - they are on my radar for my build. Are they adjustables?

Pete

The rears are hight adjustable , the fronts are not , I was put onto Derek buy the guys that run Gaz , he was something to do with them or still is ' i'm not sure of the full story but he knew a lot about the suspention on the wedges . I told him I thought it was to high at the front and he said he knew what I needed as he had supplied lowered springs for wedges before. They all have the rebound adjustment on them too.

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v8s4me said:

Nice job. Looks like one of those expensive coatings.

Thanks , I did it in my shed with the heater on over the coarse of a few nights. I have used this method before and seemed to last . I don't think i'll lacquer them as its metallic paint & im pretty sure you have to rub metallic paint back with 1200 paper before lacquer is applied to get a glossy finish and with so much detail I don't think its possible.

[v8s4me]

Maybe leave them as they are then in case the heat makes the lacquer go yellow and spoil a nice job. I've been thinking of having an aerosol of paint mixed to match the body colour and use that on my 280i rocker boxes but I wasn't sure how the heat would affect the paint. From what you say, ordinary paint should be OK on rocker boxes. Is that right?

[JVaughan]

Very nice.
interested in the shocks and springs too ...
where did you get the 90 degree airflow meter to plenum pipe from ?
what size trumpets are they also ??

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Well like I say , I done it on an old Essex V6 & they do get hot ,the paint was fine for 6 months and then I sold it , the only marks on the paint was what I had done whilst working on the engine .

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The carbon plenum trumpets and the pipe were all from ACT products , just under £300 the lot delivered . The fella there was very helpful . 10 bhp apparently .

[RubbishFettler]

Wow, seats look amazing. Hope Santa's that nice to me!