So with JAE fast approaching, and me being rather last minute I have started to continue on with the orange engine bay. I have had the orange samco hoses fitted for ages now but not got around to doing any more. This week has been somewhat of an explosion of orange Rivalled only by I4N I think
First task this week was to sort out the wiper arms as they were really bad! looked as though someone had tried to paint them with hammerite, but only paint the flaky bits!! So I Nitromoors'ed them, dremmeled them, sanded them, and painted them
Had an Earthing/Grounding kit kindly donated by Buster a good few months ago, but it was looking a little tired. The orange was a little worn out, faded etc. So I picked up some braided orange hose from ebay and set about wrapping each one. Pic shows old next to new.
Much nicer!! Next up I moved onto spruce up the engine. I wanted to go with orange highlights etc, so set about painting some bits blue. Only issue with this plan is that new shiny blue paint makes the existing engine bay blue paint look even worse than it is. See below.
So to do away with the blue, I went all out orange setup a mini spray booth in the garage and had at it!! Also got some orange conduit to wrap the wiring looms, painted the strut bar orange with Azure blue centre ( & Ironman sticker! ). I think my favourite mod of the week is the battery & brake fluid covers....I VERY carefully painted the embossed lettering with the tiniest paint brush ever.
Also found a use for the Azure Blue touch-up pen I bought when I first bought the car!! Silly mod really seeing as you can't see it when the door is closed, but I like it