Greddy-Matt

If the skirts were pulled off rather than easing the poppers out the brackets snap off

Good news for those concerned, at least once you pull your z from the flood water you'll be able to hose it off now

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Yep for sure

Surrey rolling road are good, ive had a couple of cars mapped and run there

Somewhere with a hub dyno would be ideal tho

Nice I might well be in touch, any intake pipes?

Hi all

Ok so I've started painting bits and bobs in my engine bay and tidying up the car in general, I've gone two tone in metalic graphite and blade silver metalic, all fairly straight forward so far, this car is a real pleasure to work on! So far I've done:

Plenum + little bracket at the back

TB

Strut brace

Pop charger heat shield

All wiring harness cable brackets (didn't think as they are mostly hidden by the engine cover )

Plastic battery and brake surrounds and covers

Engine cover

Cam / Timing cover - painted in black wrinkle paint (looks ok but not sure I'm that keen on it)

At the moment it looks like this (it was peeing with rain so pic is not great!):

Graphite is pretty in the sun:

Seeing the car like this was a bit unnerving tho:

I really want to paint the front slam panel that surrounds the bonnet release etc right across the front of the car at the bottom of the pic, does anyone know what it's made of? It looked like plastic, but someone else said it's composite?? Reason I ask is that it needs to be wet sanded to get rid of the flash lines and small marks but I don't want to wreck it! If anyone knows if wet sanding with a fine grade will be ok I would really appreciate knowing.

Also thought I'd tidy up the front grill as the rusty old chicken wire look was one of the things I hated when I bought the car:

Before:

After:

I've got quite a shopping list, oil cap, rad cap, polished tanks / reservoirs, carbon intake pipe and slam panel etc etc, but I desperately need to change the hoses and clamps as they really let the bay down at the moment, was trying to find braided or over braided hoses to cover the wiring harness etc but a decent quality kit seems to be impossible to find, anyone have any pointers for where to get that sort of thing?

Opinions welcome

Looking good can't beat a bit of carbon, you not tempted to double up on the canards

Heres a few of the plenum top and bottom before cleaning:

Throttle body intake side before cleaning:

Plenum after clean:

Never mind the throttle body if you want to clean something clean the rear of the tb and inside of the plenum, mine was gopping with carbon and oil @ 41,000 miles....

Now you've got me worried!!

I've read a one or two posts during my search of guys who have reported the same thing, while others said there's was clean. What's going on, could this be a fuel choice issue? Or just dirty filters?

I've got some pics of the inside I'll put up later, I stripped mine out for painting last week and was a little supprised how dirty it was, but a bit of machine cleaner and elbow grease worked a treat! Its definately oil residue for the most part, I'll be investing in a catch can as soon as I find one that works properly and won't need me to remortgage to afford it.

Never mind the throttle body if you want to clean something clean the rear of the tb and inside of the plenum, mine was gopping with carbon and oil @ 41,000 miles....

It's a great book, properly inspirational guy, nothing but admiration for him

Does anyone else think that I need to stop drinking that bottle of wine now?

You sure it's just the one you got there???

Looking progress with the black bonnet "fangs" it does mean your going to have to re-name it "Green Goblin"

I'd be up for this date dependant

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Looks like the esprit rear wing, very nuce are these going to be available soon?

Few quick pics of the red bolts, please excuse the state of the engine bay I only finished putting it back together on Sunday...

Please note that there are a couple of Probolt nuts on the plenum and bolts on the engine cover.

It's worth mentioning that Tarmacs bolts are a deeper red than the Probolts that I have.

Anyone with pics fitted yet

Taking some of the red fitted tonight

That looks like awesome fun! Is that ornamental drive / top end of brockenhurst near queens bower?

Think my pop charger must be broken then as I can't hear it at all

Just a quick thank you to CS for sorting me out some EBC ultimax discs and yellow stuff pads, really quick turn around and a pleasure to deal with!

That looks über slick, nice job on all the shiney bits!

You did better than me at polishing the timing cover, I gave up half way through

Looks great , I suspect it's one of those mods that looks better the more exterior mods you have, spoiler and spats would look pretty spiffy

Seeing one at goodwood quite a few years ago, having a poke around, quick sit in it and chatting to the rep, walked off thinking that's the car for me I have to get me one of those !

Pics off the car would be good

Good to know I've got a set on the way with some fresh discs, looking forward to it