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    Put on my car upholsterer hat this week. Bought new door card backings, snd had previously bought some repro vinyl trim, only had to use my original metal tops. The board and tops are stapled together from factory, I was never going to be able to staple again, so, came up with idea of drilling out the staple holes with a small bit, and feeding through wire, twisting at the other end, then using hammer snd dolly to flatten it right down, worked mint! Have finished one card so far, halfway through second, not perfect, but still looks way tidier, I've already learnt enough that the next one will be even better. Also fitted new flocked window rubbers on the inner, fit perfect for repro
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    Next up for colour is, valance and inside boot lid
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    More paint!
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    Front guard inners are texture coated, and colour laid down too
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    Panelbeater has finished the boot, and body opening, so the painter is underway now, all reprimed, and he's done a small repair on front crossbar, all nice and straight now
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    Poats from now on might be a mix of good or mundane. As the build gains momentum, I need to document down to the small parts, how much has gone into the build. This week, tidied up under dash tray, made a new firewall board as original one was poor. Complete set of new lock barrels, rekeyed to some fancy aftermarket rotor shaped keys.
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    Slow progress, still waiting for boot lid to be finished before painting. Have reassembled all suspension/brakes, will take pics once fitted to car. Frustratingly, it turns out Capella piston engined cars have axles that don't have the little threads for attaching the hub centre cap boss screws to, so had to drill and tap some. Axles are hardened so took many hours and I even broke my tap handle, I must of grabbed one wrong axle when assembling diff, lucky other side was ok. Also pulled radiator out of storage, the rad shop did a great job of the recore, but painted it in shitty as paint, with no etch primer so needed fully stripping back, looking at options, it seemed the only way was to hand strip the whole thing, once again throwing tons of hours into mundane jobs
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    dis you fully sand everything underneath, including all the little annoying corners etc to key it in enough for the underseal to adhere to ?
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    Excluding chemical properties (I'm no chemist), you normally seam seal first before undersealing, the seam sealer gets right in the the seams, and bonds to the epoxy primer. The sealer I suspect wont bond properly to the irregular patterns in the underseal
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    Had to repaint a majority of suspension/brake/steering etc parts, after sitting around for 5 years, some of it had chips from storage,other parts like front suspension had been knocked around, and had over spray from being in the panel shop, much better now Also have had all suspension springs powder coated black, decided the red I had them painted in didn't suit anymore
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    No more progress on the shell atm, been held up as after test fitting the boot lid again, found it wasn't fitting right to the body, awaiting panel beater to redo it, can't progress until then. Picked up these rare optioned rx3/4 factory jdm mazda alloys recently. Not sure if I'll use them, but I've only ever seen a few sets, so had to jump on them, might rotate them with the other 3 sets of wheels I also have for the car.
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    mean progress, is the car going black?
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    Nice ride, love the availability of parts on these. ill be the first to say it - looks ripe for a barra swap
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    yes its off white almost creamy, code WN Aurora white, was used on rx2 through to series 1 rx7. mine is off a colour match though, so might not be 100% as per factory
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    Those pics were crap- better one to show colour
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    Bay finished now too, very happy with progress.
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    Underside fully prepped, texture coated and colour laid down, getting excited! Came out fairly good after being pretty punched in and rusty when I first got it
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    yea mate, I'm super happy with the quality, had another crowd do one previously and it looked shit - sometimes just gotta pay the $ and employ the best to do the job
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    Just been to dashboard restorations to collect the repaired and rare T-Dash my car came equipped with. They did a killer job on it, but the $2k invoice definitely hurt a bit, had to be done right though as it's the first thing seen when you sit in the car., also bought new repro chrome dash trims to finish it off nicely
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    Have been prepping smaller jobs inside underfelt cut for floor and hoodlining, plus foams, spent ridiculous amount of time trying to get seat mechs to work correctly(still not 100%). Major part is its now finally at the painters, spent a day yesterday helping prep underside, good things to come
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    She's a minter
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    congrats! lots of summer cruising ahead.
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