Well it has been a while since I have updated this thread so here are the latest issues and sagas lol. Working on my FD is never easy, I swear it is cursed !!!!!! All the parts are being sprayed up by Chris at H-Tech after being impressed with the work he has done on the cars on here.
Anyway......here goes:
Finally primed up my bonnet nicely after filling all the deep scratches and endless rubbing down lol.
Now I was gonna keep this a bit secret until it was done but nahhhh.....
From the above picture you can see there are 2 headlight covers (1 of mine was chipped and just needed touching up but the other is a new one to replace my crappy vented one). In addition there is a spoiler from the later 99 spec RX7, I have always wanted one of these and managed to get a secondhand one on MRC.
For those who are intrigued....it looks like this when it is on the car:
It didnt need much work, just a few holes filling and then priming up.
Dropped the spoiler and headlights off to Chris but the bonnet would not fit in my dads car (an S-Type Jag which isnt a small car !!!), so Kev came to the rescue and we took it up to Chris in his van.....result !!!
Sunday morning I decided it was time to see about removing the old spoiler and see what the condition was like underneath. The new spoiler doesnt cover all the holes and leaves 2 holes (1 each side) nearest the window exposed. The only way to get at the spoiler mounting bolts is by taking all this plastic off.......
So the first job is the bit nearest the top of the window, then the 2 sides:
then the bottom bit...
Next job was removing all the bolts, this was easy apart from the 2 in the centre ( the 2 that will be exposed !!). Basically there is a bolt coated in resin in the spoiler and there is a nut to undo on the underside of the boot. One of the nuts came off, but the other was so rusted up it ended up cracking the bolt off the spoiler so all it did was turn round and round. I tried all combinations using a variety of different tools but the blooming thing wouldnt come out. The only thing left to do....drastic I know was to cut the spoiler and see if I could hack out the bolt.....eek
However after some effort it came out and the spoiler was off....leaving me with this....
A close up of some of the bits under the spoiler...
As you can see there is loads of dirt so out came the sponge and claybar to remove as much of the marks as I could. The finished result was a tad disappointing...
As you can see this will need proper respraying as the paint is marked where the spoiler has rubbed against the paint and also chipped where dirt has got in the edge of the spoiler and rubbed.....a big big blow !!!!!!!!!
So the options are
a) just touch up the bad bits, cover the hole and fit the spoiler
b) get Chris to fill the holes and then rub the boot down and respray.
Thinking b) will be the option but was hoping to use the money to buy some other car bits like fuel pump and mapping.....nevermind !!!
Anyway with the spoiler off the car looked very very odd (when you are used to there being a spoiler....no offence to you Alex !)
Decided to get the car out this morning and take some pics.....hate to say it but the more I look at the car the more I like it without the spoiler....
crap quality so apologies for the above....
What do you guys think ?
Gonna test fit the spoiler tomorrow night and will post some pics up.
Next thing will be to rewire the fuel pump and fit a Supra or Apexi Skyline fuel pump before getting the car mapped at either Reworx or Carl Hayward.
Hope you enjoyed the update...... ?
