Woohoo!! Reassembly starts!

**v8pop** · 18-07-17, 10:07 AM

Coming on well Mark. Nice to see someone else repairs things, people take the pi$$ out of me for it, glad it's not just me!

Cheers. Tim W.

**Blackpopracing** · 18-07-17, 08:46 PM

Agreed Tim, those mops are expensive. With the mop repaired I finished the body. No visible joins - yep, I'm happy with that.

Flat & polish the wing next.

**Blackpopracing** · 18-07-17, 11:25 PM

Rear wing flatted back to 2500 grit ready for polishing tomorrow.

And for those wondering about the paint join line - there isn't one. This is the only visible join where the fade out thinners finished. The actual paint joint is around 150mm below this. This joint disappears with the polishing.

And the chip on the other wing is now in paint as well.

**prperformance** · 19-07-17, 09:17 PM

you made a cracking job of that mate, nice one.

pete

**Blackpopracing** · 19-07-17, 11:04 PM

Thanks Pete.
From this;

To this - very satisfiying repair. Even flatted off a scratch in the drivers door that some numpty at a show 'donated' to me

as I was enjoying the polishing so much.

**v8pop** · 20-07-17, 10:04 AM

Nice job Mark, now look where you're going mate

Cheers. Tim W.

**Blackpopracing** · 23-07-17, 09:32 PM

All put back on car - both sides repaired and polished.

**Blackpopracing** · 05-11-17, 10:14 PM

Just a little job done now - I made proper templates for carpets so the rear tubs and floors are now carpeted properly. Not the final job as the carpet I bought is not that good, will get it done with better carpet in the future.

**v8pop** · 06-11-17, 10:05 AM

It looks good in the photo Mark.

Cheers. Tim W.

**Blackpopracing** · 06-11-17, 01:15 PM

Thanks Tim, it looks good in real but carpet is poor quality so wears super fast. I'll get some proper carpets made professionally once it's back on the road again.

**johnnyringo** · 09-11-17, 11:35 AM

I apologize for high jacking your thread with my earlier comments. Thought I was posting on my site. Impressive work you've done (as usual). You are an inspiration to me and many others on this site!

**Blackpopracing** · 09-11-17, 09:01 PM

No problem Jay, thanks for the compliment.

**Blackpopracing** · 19-08-18, 10:14 PM

I've just had a cracking weekend as an invite by Retro Rides to their gathering as a show vehicle. All the Retro Rides guys loved it and were well up on the IVA stuff. I drove about 300 miles over the weekend, found and fixed a few niggles and thrashed it up the hill 4 times - awesome!! Shame I left the handbrake on - the next run was a lot better and I found the limit of grip on my tyres in the second curve

unfortunately my go pro battery died so I did not get to video any more.

Take note NSRA comittee - this could be an awesome NSRA event too?

**jsf55** · 19-08-18, 10:26 PM

Cant see any video mate ?

**crumble** · 19-08-18, 10:28 PM

Cool.

**Blackpopracing** · 19-08-18, 10:33 PM

Originally Posted by jsf55

Cant see any video mate ?

It's embedded in the page John?

https://youtu.be/D3JkLYBmzn4

**martin** · 20-08-18, 07:35 AM

Great video.

**Morris460** · 20-08-18, 08:54 AM

Great video Mark

Bit of a pussy on the bends though

**yjohnb** · 20-08-18, 09:54 AM

Great video, nicely done

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**Blackpopracing** · 20-08-18, 10:54 AM

Originally Posted by Morris460

Great video Mark

Bit of a pussy on the bends though

Next run I was a lot braver - bit too brave as nearly went off the track with understeer!
Lot's of people were impressed that it could corner though, it's really good considering the tyre sizes.

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