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i have removed my charcoal cannister and i just wanted to check that iv done my plumming right. i find it really confusing following the instruction on here so could someone please point me into the right direction and check the pics for me. be great cheers. i connected one part which went to the cannister with a silicone hose, ran it through the arch and connected it to the other end which is behind the wheel. i then pluged the pipe coming off the engine with a screw. which used to also run to the cannister. is this right?

in the loft. with some nasty cracks in it

iv kept well away from the spraying side of things. the workshop is just a very well built workshop with vapour proof spray hop lights and a huge compressor. it isnt dust free but alot of prevention is in place to reduce dust. to be honest it is quite difficult to tell its been resprayed until your up close to it but that will be sorted once its been mopped down this weekend to give it that smooth finnish. the colour is a near perfect match. i know in future hes looking into putting in exstactors ect but that wount be for a while. this is the third car to be done. his first was a 300zx which had a full respray and came out in a stunning matalic blue, then theres his own fto which is currently still ongoing in the rx8 red.

kinda forgot o update this. the cars now on the road. without the spoiler as im waiting till saturday to have it all mopped down. this will be when the mesh goes in as well. Sun 10th - well when i got up this morning i found the car had its paint and lacour (dont know if thats right). i thought it looked good but the neighbour was un happy with it. so it was left to dry and then pulled back abit and have it done again. i didnt see a point of taking any pics this time. Mon 11th - new paint and lacour was drying nicely so took some pics today looking good! Tues - time to put the car back together again, next doors sorted out the wheel arch liners, wheels, bumper and new clear indicators whiles i worked on the interior trim and headlights. andtime to bring it out of the garage. think its suiting the rest of the kit well left the spoiler off though so it would be easyer to mop down on saturday. so come saturday there will be the final update of work.

Fri 8th - i knda forgot to take some pics today but we finnished of smoothing the stone chips, cleaned and masked off the areas ready for spraying, whiles i cut the mesh to the right shape. Sat 9th - i woke up to find the car had already had a couple of coats of primer by the time i was up. the trimwas hanging around drying off. the pics are quite self explanatorie (think thats spelt right) Getting there

Thurs 7th - today we focused on geting the stone chips out and re-inforcing the bumper. this was done by the next door neighbour whiles i farted around with removing the charcoal cannister and cutting the mesh to the right size. this was when the custome brackets went on aswell. sanding back the stone chips fitting the brackets (though you cant see them) re-inforcing the bumper more still to come though i doubt ill be doing it as i dont trust myself spraying

some of you guys may already know ( mainly those at the southend cruise a while back ) that i had a little accident on the way to it. unfortunatly the damage to the front bumper couldnt be repaired which is a shame as its a genuine TOM's body kit. so after much hunting around for a decent priced bumper i picked up a BLITZ front bumper which will go well with the rest of the TOM's kit. this write up is just to show the progress of the work which my next door neighbour and i are doing together in his workshop out back. Mon 4th - me and my girlfriend started to strip the car of the bits that needed spraying ect, so removed door cards, (for the mirrors that needed spraying, spoiler side bits (technical term) and damaged front bumper (which is being replaced). then but it into next doors garage ready for work the following day. Tue 5th - striped the console which is also being sprayed to match the car and started to prep it (remove scratches ect) next door neighbour welded up to cracks in the metal work on the wings that had rust problems and then took the paint of and brought it back. end of the day (didnt seem like we had made much progress but had faith in it still specialy when i need the car for work next monday. Wed 6th - started really late today. my next door neighbour had filled in some blemishes the evening before so it was time to rub it down and smooth it off, whiles i preped the mirrors and spoiler side bits. then it was time to offer the new front bumper up to it. fitted pretty well apart from we agreed it needed some extra mounting points so custome built some to be fibre glassed on. installed the lights to make sure the lines were all correct. then we took the front bumper paint back a bit to get rid of some of the stress cracks on a couple of areas. that was it for today and thats it so far. its amazing how much iv learnt about sanding and bodywork from working on it with my neighour who has had loads of experiances in doing this before. ill post up the next following days aswell and hopefully should be finnished by sunday.

im after uk front calipers if anyone has any. im a little confussed with whats for sale on this post, sorry

i have the same probblem, squeeks under 20mph unless braking hard, i was told its because the pads are to hard (racing ones) am sticking it out though untill my D2 brake upgrade.

came off so easyly once you know how. the nightmare now is getting the headrest covers on. damn tight fit.

nice one, thanks for that guys. ill get onto it tommorow morning. i knew it would of been easyer to completly change the front seats for some buckets instead of doing a retrim. never mind though should look pretty good when done. thanks again

anyone???

was that refered to me? or to the OP?

now iv done a search and have found others with the same question that all lead to a link which wont open for me. need to remove them to fit my new leather re trim. can anyone actully tell me or better yet put some pics up on how to do this. be great cheers

my other half thinks the top secret bumper looks like a gummy old mans mouth but the do-luk looks like a bit of an animal growling. to be honest, after saying she was mad for a while, i actully agree with her. do luck all the way, iv been after one for ages but have had to settle for a blitz instead.

have you a pic of the damage and how much would you be after?

sorry im looking for undamaged as mine could be repaired i just need something on it which isnt damaged and work on the current one when iv got time to do it. cheers anyway

some of you might know on the way to the southend supra meet i had a lil accident, arrived today was my "aparant" do-luck bumper. which would never fit in a million years, also unfinnished and damaged. has anyone got a bumper for sale or a spare. would preffer an after market one and also if it was in silver would solve loadsa problems.

hope to be there. not sure though cos of work mucking my hours about

hold on a sec i was there last night only saw a orange supra quite early on in the night and then a black one at 23.20 near the three shells. they beeped but not sure who it was.

yeah it doesnt look amazing right now. but should be an alright evening. anyone else?

cheers gatso. i didnt mean to affend anyone by suggesting this, i know what i fence looks like, i just cant spell, never have been able to. though i do like the pun with the fence.

whatever you wanna call it i cant be bothered with it now. was just a suggestion which others seem to wanna cause a fuss about.

seeing as the m25ring suggestion seemed to not be at all interesting or affensive to some looks like ill be heading down southend this weekend. i know some of you went down last satuday but i couldnt make it due to a mates 21st birthday. anyone going this weekend?

yea maybe if i had stated a race. but i never did. just a cruise round. sorry if you took affence to it.