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[BudgieCake]

Cheers big man x

Good work, Nice rocker cover.

[g111mds]

Great work!

[BudgieCake]

Great work!

 

Thanks g1, I appreciate the kind words x

[EatSleepJDM]

looks great love the front end work especially

what paint did you use for the inner arches? looks nice and anti stonechippy

[ajperry]

I like this very much. Looked great at Players. Looking forward to seeing the final reveal!

[BudgieCake]

looks great love the front end work especially

what paint did you use for the inner arches? looks nice and anti stonechippy

 

Thanks fella, Means a lot for you to reply. Its Raptor guard, its tintable so I mixed it with the paint I got. expensive compared to gravi-guard but much better, nicer finish. I used to use gravitex but Ive seen the light x

I like this very much. Looked great at Players. Looking forward to seeing the final reveal!

My guy, thanks for replying! No way! haha I thought it alright for how abused it was. I never bothered taking the dents out or paying for a good paint job because I was going through that stage of driving like a nob and fully expected the chips, maybe a cheeky write off but its still about    Ill be going players this year with it whenever it is, if youre going I'll buy you some chips while we chat minis x

[BudgieCake]

To my dear fans, it is I. Here is an update and gosh what a lot of not much has been done since we last spoke.

 

So I took a fair bit out the beam to fit, drilled the end holes out to match my car, banged it on quick and made more alterations. I made the brackets for the braided lines to go up to, did the lines and I know there T junction is on the wrong side, no reason for it apart from it can now share the fuel line clips because the shell is a MPI. put the bearing in the arms, had to order a tool to ream them out which I didnt enjoy buying, nor doing actually but there we go. Ill be making a frames on rosejoints when it comes to replace, sent the tools to my no.1 fan, Max to do his. Dont think he enjoyed it neither. Everything on the rear is new bar the arm castings and the hand brake arm inside the drum. I will have all the old salvageable parts blasted and powder coated to sell or keep as spares

 

 

 

 

So I had restored my front subby a while back but it had sat so ill do it again. I strung it up to a tree and power washed it a few times, acid coated it and blasted a few more times ready for a lick of touch up satin. again, all new apart from the adjustable arms and hubs. The 7.5 brakes I had on pretty much hadnt even beded in, theyre going, 4 pot replacement, was going to go with the Kad ones then I had a reality check and realized I was just a poor boy and nobody loves me, just a poor boy from a poor family, spare me from this monstrosity? I went with minisport in the end, ordered the gold jobbies tonight actually! 

 

 

As im typing this out im not sure wether to go in chronological order, or stay with the sub frame bits? no? you dont know either ? 

So im fitting a wilwood pedal box, had racing driver wood when I was flicking through the catalog and bought it, did a lot of researched (asked the forum) and commited. Took me 2 days to realize I needed to cut my nice paint and I can assure you. I measured once and cut a lot

 

 

 

 

 

Also my new steering column drop mount support, ties in with the box. have some brake line work

 

 

 

 

 

So at this point we can go back to the subframe, is clean now, I reshimmed the joints (torqued it down harder) and then after I painted it, I sanded the edges back to weld on some extended corners to bolt my Owens fabrication brace bars (Hear thats lads? this is pretty much a migla now!!! Bet he'll love his brand being represented by this whopper)

Also fitted the pressure reg/filter on the bulk head, tucked nice and close to clear the bay, I hate clutter, I hate working on it anyway, imagine if I actually had to unbolt things to get to something.. wouldn't get done. 

 

 

Wiper relocate 

 

 

And a seat that im heartbreaking too big for. Aint my fault I got big buns hun

 

 

There we go for tonight fellas, I want you to know that I appreciate the comments, if anybody is doubting my work, I want you to know I did drop out of my lvq1 so I would also be doubting me too, wish me luck! x