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5 GT Turbo my mid engined, rwd, cossie powered GTT updated 27/5

Here it is primed and ready for paint

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It's not the best job as basically I can't be bothered to spend more time prepping it. I want to drive the bloody thing.
It will be plenty good enough for an engine bay in a toy car tho.

All I gotta do now is decide whether I want to just go ahead and paint it tomorrow or wait till next week when my painter mate is back and he can show me how to mix the paint and set the gun up.....
I've never done any spraying before so have no idea what I'm doing lol.
 
Well I got to spend a few hours on the car today.
I decided not to touch the paint in the bay but get all the other parts prepped so all the painting can be done at once so,
I stripped everything apart and took it all back to bare metal then polished all threads and bare metal parts and etch primed everything that's getting painted.
Shocks,
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Steering rack,
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Pedals, bottom ball joints, stud adapters....
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I also stripped the pedal box apart and cleaned all of the master cylinders, and took the bias apart and cleaned all that up too. The box itself will go off for sand blasting and powder coating.
So now all I got to do is tidy up the garage ready for spraying hopefully on Monday.
 
I'm making up for 4 years of neglect lol.
Progress will slow slightly now as I'm back to only 2 nights a week now as I'm spending all my weekends on the bathroom. If I wasn't doing the bathroom and could spend some time on sat&sun on the car it would be finished by now.
But as it's now going back together it shouldn't take too long now.
 
Well it should have been painted by now but,
I got a little carried away with "gardening" lol
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I got a digger in to level the garden, going to redo the whole lot.

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I cut down 2 trees so decided to burn them and...

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I poured some thinners on the very small fire which put the flames out ???
So I then put some brake cleaner on it and when I lit it, it exploded.
I now have partial thickness burns to my whole right arm.
So I guess progress will be slow for a while lol.

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It's finally painted.
I picked up a spray gun for the first time tonight, I think it went rather well, apart from a bit of shit in the paint, I guess I need a bigger filter :(
I'm happy enough for the engine bay of a toy car.
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Now I can finally start rebuilding it!
 
Well the paint has settled down and isn't as bad as I thought, I think it needed some thinners in it to help it run but my mate the painted said it didn't need it.

I got a couple of hours on the car today so I stripped and painted my front springs and anti roll bar in red.
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Here's a small collection of my parts all ready to go on, they have either been sand blasted and powder coated or wire brushed, etch primed and painted 2k black.
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I then got the wishbones assembled, fitted the steering rack and put the subframe back in the car.
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Not a lot but progress is progress.
 
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