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One small issue I havnt been able to improve much is restarting engine after its been running. It wont start again after being off for more than 5 minutes without pumping the accelerator pedal. when engines warmed up it should just need key turning ,but I have to pump pedal which is basicly flooding engine. I had .45 idle jets in and had to open mixture screws more than 2 1/2 turns from seated to run smooth which according to weber tunning instructions indicates too small jets. I changed them to .50 jets and now mixture screws are out 3/4 of a turn from being seated, runs smoothest and fastest there. They are allowed to be from 1/2 to 1 1/2 turns out for .50 jets, so I'm in the right range. Engine starts first time with choke, runs and idles great ,apart from annoying restart issue. Any ideas. ?

That's pretty awesome repair work for a first time effort. Your right grinding also distorts metal .but we learn from it and that's priceless eh. Enjoying following your work.

I reupholstered the dash to match the new door cards.

Decided to tidy up the wheels .painted between the spokes, then sanded the bare metel with 1000grt w/d paper, hand rubbed them with aluminium rubbing compound then polished with Meguiars wax polish. still got front wheels to do.

enjoy watching your progress, looking good.

Primer was Resenes 440 industrial epoxy primer,two pack, dries very tough and hard to sand off. topcoat is Lucite LC 400, metallic acrylic lacquer,and lacquer clears, gun is an AMX MP 400. I machine sanded with 180 grt dry discs then by hand with 320 w/d paper before primer then 600 w/d paper before topcoat, clearcoat. Then flatted off with 1200 w/d cut with Evercoat, heavyduty rubbing compound ,then finished off with Juice cutting compound which took all the swirl marks out and polished like glass.

The door cards turned out great ,the pics don't do them justice really. I did them myself , my wife did the sewed pattern for me. Ill make up a list of what products I used tomoro.

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Some more pics as well as the front doors with reupholstering done

Finished ,cutting and polishing not the most fun jobs .There were a few blemishes here and there ,but overall it looks pretty good. When refitting trim I replaced all the old steel screws with stainless steel to ward off rust in those places. I refitted the black trim along the bottom as it hides the crap welding repair job a professional guy did when I first got the car recerted and regod , there was rust all along the bottom edges which had to be cut out and replaced, at the time I thought the repair looked amateur but cost heaps.

Reupholstered my two front hand grabs.

I am too.(-:

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Decided to have a break from sanding and polishing. Two of my door cards are pretty stuffed ,So in a joint effort with my beloved, we made up a new door card and upholstered it as well. It was previously that fake sewed design look now it is the sewed design look. I used spray on contact glue which is brilliant stuff to use. I did a rear one first in case it didn't go to well.It is slightly bunched at the bottom , still looks good though , now we know what to do with the rest of them. I'm really stoked with our efforts. Onto the next one.

I repainted the front grille satin black ,with the stainless steel trim looks pretty good I reckon and painted black inside around the radiator too. I redid the headlight surrounds as well. Ive cut and polished the boot and also the right rear quarter panel,this is the one I cut the big piece out of and put new metal into. I'm pretty rapt with the result, especially the way the lines all match up so well. So far ive only sanded through the paint in one spot on that rear panel, peed me off a bit.I touched it up by hand but its still noticeable to me. Might repaint that part one day.