Goodies to fit
Discussion
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 .
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 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.Pete
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.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?
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