So thought id start one of these, taken loads of pics and done some work to mine so thought id share.
So this is what it looks like currently:
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Project 1 001 by JPTipper, on Flickr
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photo 2 by JPTipper, on Flickr
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photo 1 by JPTipper, on Flickr
First thing i did was to put a iPod/iPhone compatible head unit in, this has bluetooth and a mic on a cable for handsfree and can also do the voicedial thingy which is nice, i also got a DIN adapter kit with pins, ISO adapter and ISO cage with a tray in the bottom, makes a change from just a blank piece of plastic!
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Project 1 003 by JPTipper, on Flickr
I then waxoyled the underneath of the boot floor where the spare wheel sits, as well as painted the spare wheel cage and the sparewheel steel (no pics of these, sorry :S )
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Project 1 004 by JPTipper, on Flickr
Then on a trip back from maidstone, theres a part of the M20 where there are no road lights whatsoever, i noticed this because i was having trouble seeing! (Though i know Puma headlights arent exactly brilliant) The reason:
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So i went down halfrauds and bought a pack of various grades of wet n dry 600, 800 and 1200.
Items also required are:
- 1 Ford Puma with manky headlights
- Sponge
- Ice cream tub (or any water containing vessel)
- Wet n Dry various grades
- Masking Tape
- T-Cut
- Autoglym Colour Restorer (ACR)
- Super Resin Polish (SRP)
- Lacquer (***!!!make sure its safe for use on bare plastics!!!***)
- Take a ice cream tub (or container of your choice and fill it with water)
- Mask off your headlights or remove from car body completely
- Dip wet dry 600 (only a folded over 100x100mm square) in water and using horizontal and vertical strokes (alternate between every so often) start sanding your headlight plastic.
- After using 600, wash down headlight with wet sponge. I find it better to wash down the plastic dust off of the front bumper too as its a bugger to get off once baked on from the sun
- Repeat with 800 and finally 1200, using only horizontal and vertical strokes
After your wet n dry sanding, you headlights should look something like this, a nice consistent milky matt smooth to touch:
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Do a final wet wipe down and allow to dry before moving to next step:
For this you will need T-cut, ACR and the SRP
- Using the T-Cut, massage it into the headlight plastic so theres a nice even coating. Leave to dry.
- Apply T-cut to your electric buffer and using fairly even pressure begin to buff out the matt haze left by the wet n dry.
- Dont use too hard a pressure, you dont want flat spots.
- Repeat for the ACR and the SRP.
- Essentially what should happen is, the T-cut will do its job, the headlight will go glossy, move onto ACR, when the headlight goes glossy move onto SRP.
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Then all you need to do is mask up the car and apply your plasticsafe clearcoat lacquer in 6-7 very light coats, allow to cure in a warm garage or airing cupboard (if you removed them from the car) and then they look like this:
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Lovely.
^^^Note: i take no responsibility for you cocking this up, its intended as a guide, rather than instructions. Do this at your own risk.^^^
Right, onto the next!
I fancied some better brakes after passing my MOT with no advisories and emissions so low you would think the car ran on water! so i have a trawl through Flea bay and found some of these beauties:
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Cosworth 4 Pot calipers, with pads.
I didnt like the blueyness of them, plus they looked really manky so i first washed them down with some alloy wheel cleaner to get the brake dust off, then with a hammer i chipped off as much of the paint as i could before using a dremel with a coarse stone and a sanding wheel.
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Then to make them loook nice, ive painted them, roughed them up a bit first so the paint would stick though
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Thats it for now chaps, a few things to do:
- Fit my cossie 4 pots w/braided hoses
- Put some better tyres on the front (my Nankang Ditchfinders are poop in the wet and squeal like a stuck pig in the dry)
- Waxoyl the rest of the underside of the car (preferably with a paintbrush, the aerosol goes EVERYWHERE
- Sort out my driverside arch, rusty is not the word
- the engine aux belt has a intermittent wibbly noise
- The bonnet was left with large amounts of bird poo on it by the previous owner for a considerable period of time, i need either to get it resprayed, or find one in better condition.
- Get the Eibach/ford lowering spring kit
- Lower strut brace
- Look into getting more power from the engine, probably some head work, cams, exhaust and a frp remap.
- New number plates
- Silly little bits like the parcel shelf rubber bump thingy and replace a missing boot lid mushroom.
Oh before i go, does anyone know which way round the cossie 4 pots go? my instincts say bleed nipples downwards but my common sense says upwards to allow air bubbles to rise.
Anyway, Chars for now, More pics and bit n pieces to follow!
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This post has been edited by JPTipper: 03 December 2012 - 12:15 PM