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Just you wait my friend, I've been a busy little bee recently! 😁

The next few bits were kind of finishing off bits. Re lacquered headlight fitted. Then I gave the whole car a good coat of wax. I noticed that there was no heat protection to the underside of the petrol tank whilst doing final checks. Fitted a handheld extinguisher, and grip tape to the...

Figured I best do an update.... So after the candy carbon badges I decided to flush the coolant system As you can see it was pretty grim!! I use a tool called a Snap on Rad kit plus, you vacuum the cooling system to -25psi leave it for 1 minute to vacuum check for leak and then open a tap...

Update Horn was corroded connections on the horn. Fog lights was a white wire broken on the selector stork

Horn and front wipers have stopped working. Totally stock 172. Rear wiper still works and washer jets still work. Fuses all OK so I'm lost now... Any help/ideas appreciated Thanks Mike

Later that day after work I refitted the canards And then I moved on to something a bit special. I have been playing around with the carbon hydrodip using different base colours and also candy red tint. I wanted to try and do the diamonds in candy red carbon so I gave it a go and this is the...

On to the washer bottle. It had the larger bottle for the headlight washers. so I bought a cup one and a new washer motor. Because I have the fibre glass bonnet now the washer jets never fit properly so i decided to mount them on the wipers. I bought a kit from Ebay which clips straight onto...

🤣 gives it that race car look, plus work 'donated' them so beggars cant be choosers

Now that the paint was dry I dropped it down onto wheel stands. So I could get to the jacking points which were sat on the lift previously. Etch primer, seam sealer and hammered silver to finish. After Croft last time I managed to ruin a brand new front wheel bearing so again a new one was...

I know tell me about It. Will be easy to keep on top of though.

Next we need to tone its belly up! It has been covered in waxoil/underseal to help with anti corrosion but doesnt scream race car. See below I started by stripping the underside components off to clear the way. I got out the slow panelwipe and red scotch brite and scrubbed the waxoil within an...

Next job was clearly the bonnet. Started by test fitting it. I had lined the wings up to the steel bonnet and headlights first and the bolted the fibreglass one on It's not perfect but it never will be as it's not steel but atleast it's got no dents... or so I thought 🤦‍♂️ turns out there must...

Headlights were next. Usual faded foggy clio lenses. I flatted them with 1500 wetNdry then finished them off with a wet 3000 Trisact on the DA sander. Masked the main body of the headlight off. Adhesion promoter and 2 coats of Lacquer. Look brand new. And whilst I was fitting them Rob @CCF...