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by the sounds of the comments ive played a blinder removing that tooth lol.

 

Yup. All the ones I've seen with the tooth removed look way better than with the silly "can-opener" tooth.

 

Maybe if you leave it under your pillow you'll get some nice spares from the tooth-fairy!

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Little update today.

 

Ive removed the IC v-band from the turbo compressor housing as there id no room to fit an IC pipe. Im gona weld a 90 degree bend onto the comrpessor housing and them re-attach the v-band.

Iv e also spend about 65 hours removing most of the piting from the housing so i can polish it noce and shiney.

 

 

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Friday night I spend a few hours on the car also.

I replaced the clutch resvior with a brand new toyota 1 as i didnt like the yellowing and didnt go with the white engine bay. Yes I know its anal but there you go lmao.

 

 

I decided to carbon wrap the centre blade of the front TRD bumper too. This proved to be a bit of a nightmare but got it to go on totally smooth without any buddles with the help of Bossco and the wifes pink hairdryer.

 

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im having the inner bumper painted black so the whole mouth is dark apart from the shiney intercooler n pipework. Ive got new black mesh too. Should look like the intercooler is floating in the black.

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i wasnt sure how it was gona turn out n didnt want it painted only to have to take the vinyl off again risking damaging the pain. Also if the vinyl wouldnt go on right i was gona carbon overlay it which again would have damaged the paintwork with the masking tape and clearcoat. If you know what i mean.

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i wasnt sure how it was gona turn out n didnt want it painted only to have to take the vinyl off again risking damaging the pain. Also if the vinyl wouldnt go on right i was gona carbon overlay it which again would have damaged the paintwork with the masking tape and clearcoat. If you know what i mean.

 

yeah i know what you mean, good idea john. looks good imo

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You've chosen the best floor tile colours to go with the kitchen.

 

A great match if I may say so John;)

 

I'm getting older mate so houses come before cars these days:D

 

I layed it myself Andrew, even with some underfloor heating too;)

 

Thanks for noticing buddy:p

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I done quite a bit work on the car over the last few days but looks like ive done absolutely nothing, but I suppose thats how projects like this go from time to time. ;)

 

 

 

The front inner bumper has gone off to KevA to be painted gloss black. heres my fav picture of the car just before i stripped the front end down to be painted.

 

 

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yeasterday ive polished a new alternator and fitted a lightened pulley.

Ive sorted the washer tank in the boot also.

 

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Spent today doing a spot of bodywork.

Ive, filled, smoothed and put a little paint on (had no primer left) the front and rear panel sidelight holes, rear washer jet and rear wiper holes. Very happy with the results. I painted it just to see if there was any inperfections in the filler i.e high/low spots or cracks etc that i couldnt feel but all seems good. All this bodywork milarky isnt as hard as I thought. You never know I might get the bottle to paint the car too lmao.

 

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Now you see it now you dont lol.

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Rolling along nicely.

 

Its a personal thing I know, but I reckon the front would tie together nicer if the intercooler silicon hose was black rather than blue. Still looks great though.

 

Those are just what came with the IC ed i havnt got a far as sorting the hose yet. Its either gona be black, white or blue.

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