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Washed the winter grime away today and look what I found underneath....


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Yep !!! I knew there was a Supra under there somewhere......

 

If its one thing I have learnt about polished pipework and wheels etc is they dont like the winter months and being my daily driver also made it even worse. All throughout the winter I suppose I feel I have been falling out of love with the old girl, mainly due to it feels like no matter how much effort I put into keeping her clean, several years worth of effort, it felt that after the winter months had taken their toll and it was just a pointless up hill struggle, I was almost getting to the stage of shall I sell her, shall I keep her.

 

I wish I had a before shot of the engine bay, not that I would actually want photographic evidence of how bad it was but lets just say I had to start right back at the beginning as I hadnt touched the engine bay at all over the winter months, one can of gunk and a hose, after that was wiping the whole engine bay down, and then cutting back all the polished pipe work before finally back to black'ing all pipes and covers.

 

Few points to note, Im still waiting for the new rear and front bumper to go on (if GVN ever sort their lives out lol, their very busy at the mo bless them), the hood scoop they fitted last September decided to depart the car the other week, they will fit a new one when she goes back to have the bumpers fitted, and the odd wheels is just waiting for me to find the time to get to Mitchelldever tyres to get the same wheels as the rears put on the fronts.

 

But after some very sore fingers bending in around pipe work all afternoon here is the results......hope you all like ;)

 

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Very nice mate - I bet it took you a while;)

 

Washed the outside yesterday and then spent from 13:00 - 17:00 today on the engine bay...;)

 

 

Brilliant stuff, looks amazing (BTW your handbrake has a hardon :D)

 

Yeah, I have been saying to myself for about 2 years now, really need to get the handbrake adjusted, Im sure it must be on its last tooth now lol......:D

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who done the chroming? also is the throttle chrome or polished?

 

I believe its polished, thats quite an item to chrome ;) But check with Col on here, here done it ;)

 

Ash one more thing, some rear spats (OEM or otherwise) would look amazing :)

 

You obviously dont read :p Waiting for a new rear Bomex bumper to go on.....;)

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I believe its polished, thats quite an item to chrome ;) But check with Col on here, here done it ;)

 

 

 

You obviously dont read :p Waiting for a new rear Bomex bumper to go on.....;)

How am I supposed to concentrate on a paragraph of text when there's a mint Supe picture underneath? :p :D :D

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looks clean :cool:

 

but oh my god! some one has nicked one of your spokes on your rear wheels :D

 

Shiny shiny :cool: Shame it's gonna snow this weekend :(

 

Why do you have lesser spoked rear alloys?

 

I might as well have just posted the pics cause Im sure no one is reading what I put lol :p :D

 

The rear wheels are the wheels Im settling for at the moment, except the person who sold them to me on here assured me they cleared UK brakes, which they didnt :( So I had to wait until I got some hubcentric spacers which are now on but I havent had chance to get the tyre center to get the fronts swapped over ;)

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Looks stunning :) If it's any consolation Gerald at GVN has mentioned to me a number of times that he needs to get yours sorted. I am sorry, but mine, TrickTT's, and Adam Claytons merc are taking priority as we are all well know you have your new girlfriend to keep your mind off the work you want doing :p

 

I'm sure yours will be done soon :)

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Looks stunning :) If it's any consolation Gerald at GVN has mentioned to me a number of times that he needs to get yours sorted. I am sorry, but mine, TrickTT's, and Adam Claytons merc are taking priority as we are all well know you have your new girlfriend to keep your mind off the work you want doing :p

 

I'm sure yours will be done soon :)

 

Ha, ha, if thats the only reason then she is gone, no female gets in the way of me and my Supra......;) I wouldnt mind but I have been waiting since January........

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Ha, ha, if thats the only reason then she is gone, no female gets in the way of me and my Supra......;) I wouldnt mind but I have been waiting since January........

 

Lol Brave when she's not around eh ;) Can't rush perfection, you know what GVN are like :)

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