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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:41 pm
by metz
GC you should be ashamed for having such a crap car, just looked on the site you pasted and theres a big blob covering your number plate :P

Seriously though...you have obviously spent a very long time indeed under the bonnet..its puts mine to shame.
What was used to clean it all?

P.s You should be proud of your car its a fine looking thing for its age, How many other 19 year old cars look that good...round here the 19 year old women don't look that good :lol:

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 12:45 pm
by polokris
LOL metz!! haha, the 19 yr olds here look DAM good! :lol: Zombie knows! :P but serious GC, car is mint son, and same question as Metz.... wot did u use to clean the engine! :D

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 4:50 pm
by GroovyCarrot
Cheers guys :) I'm not really into obvious modification like exhausts, spoilers, eyebrows and all that, I just spend most of my time doing little subtle bits, oem mods etc, and my main goal's always been just to restore it to how it should have been originally.. so yeah, I'm happy with it, whatever some people may think to it.. :roll:

The engine is unfortunately no longer that clean, those photos were taken before winter :( Basically when I took the engine out I had a serious go at cleaning it - gunk/petrol (petrol does just as good a job at a nothingth of the price..) + hard bristled brush to get the sludge off, then I went over the paintwork with white spirit (wash it off before it starts bubbling through the paintwork though..), and the really bad bits I sanded and sprayed over. Removing the engine first does help though ;) Also, if you try to make a point of washing under the bonnet every time you wash the rest of the car, the grease won't build up so bad and you won't need to hit it so hard the next time you do it.

Now, metz, I think we've got to find you some decent looking women.. :lol:

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 6:57 pm
by ZOMBIE
Yeah Kris the 19 year olds over here are fit!!! Welsh Ladyees Rule!!!

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:46 pm
by bstardchild
metz wrote:GC you should be ashamed for having such a crap car, just looked on the site you pasted and theres a big blob covering your number plate :P

Seriously though...you have obviously spent a very long time indeed under the bonnet..its puts mine to shame.
What was used to clean it all?

P.s You should be proud of your car its a fine looking thing for its age, How many other 19 year old cars look that good...round here the 19 year old women don't look that good :lol:
Here here - group hug?

No - Oh it can wait till Sunday :lol:

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:51 pm
by GroovyCarrot
bstardchild wrote:Here here - group hug?

No - Oh it can wait till Sunday :lol:
I'll be holding you to that :lol:

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:54 pm
by bstardchild
GroovyCarrot wrote:I'll be holding you to that :lol:
:shock:

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 8:57 pm
by metz
Where u 2 off on sunday then?

Zombie i gotta agree with you on welsh women..the accent rules..now go find me one :P

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 9:20 pm
by bstardchild
metz wrote:Where u 2 off on sunday then?
*Clicky

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 10:12 pm
by metz
damn you southerners!

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 10:36 pm
by GroovyCarrot
*Mumble mumble*Northern monkey*Mumble..*

:P

Well, you're welcome to come.. very local to you, rotherham and dartford -almost- fit on the same 1:2,000,000 scale large size map on multimap.com :lol:

Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 8:43 am
by metz
yea its only a couple of bus rides away :P

Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:12 pm
by Tahrey1043
national express is great innit.... portsmouth to aberdeen for a tenner ;)

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:54 am
by mk2matt
looking cool bud 8)

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 2:07 pm
by polokris
looks as good in real life, if not betta! loving the paint job, fair play, looks good in the sun!! 8)