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I spent about 100 hours on the prep for my car, I got pretty sick of it by the end, and TBH it's still got quite a few imperfections. I used Spies Hecker paint, and made 1.5L of colour and about 1~ L of clear, the car is small and it was a doors closed job. I did it at the panel beaters so if I was short I could just go and make some more , which possibly isn't an option for you. After working it Basecoat Clearcoat and talking to a few people, I think it is the best option for a first time painter.

I think I got all of my paint for about $250, I imagine that would go skyward pretty quick if you started adding metal flake and pearls and shit, but the solid colours are about $100/ L, and the clear is cheaper than that.

Because the tubes go the right way it would be very easy.

Are you going to chop it down to size? Would be the easiest option .

I sprayed my Alfa in base coat clear coat, and would highly recommend, do you have the paint already?

Have you rung Stocks? At the bottom of this page is bushing grease http://www.georgestock.co.nz/Suspension-Bushes.asp

Haha, I haven't seen that before Richie, knew you were a piner good work.

Yea sweet, chuck them up this place needs more Alfa love!

Tom has an account at Summit racing so no problems there hahaha.

That looks mean Manu, I'm glad to see you are getting this ready for Nats next year!

Get F1 brakes?

Oh sweet, I dunno what sort it is you normally get, but every set of poly bushes I have bought have come with a little sachet of grease.

Cheers for the comments guys, Yea I too am stoked with how it is looking. Going to give it a buff at lunch time and hopefully make it look a bit better. Yea I have plans to lower it but for the moment I think I will just get it back together and drive it. Once my bank account has recuperated I will do a big order from Alfaholics, but spending big on the suspension without making it go faster seems a bit of a waste seeings as it has a whopping 90 hp atm.

Found this photo of it at Riverside, you can't really see it, but the paint was really quite bad, with multiple spider cracks and flaking paint. As it turned out when I did the panel work, it was sprayed in enamel when they repaired it, so it was reacting with the original paint in a few places, never mind, a bunch of sanding later and I managed to get rid of it.

^ huh, then why do they supply you with grease normally?

Talk shit here...

I have had this thing a while but have just started working on it again so I thought I would make a post. It was orginally my Great Grandma's grocery getter and, bless her, she had a bit of an incident involving a concrete post sometime in the mid to late 70's, anyway it go fixed by a reputable shop in Christchurch and she keep driving it untill the mid 90's, when it was parked up in a garage. Anyway, I pulled it out of the shed in 2010, and spent some time working on it to get it going, which I did, and after redoing all of the ball joints in the front end it got a WOF, so I dailyed it for a while until I got the job up here, so it sat idle at Riverside for a while I got my shit together to move it, and once I did it proceeded to sit in the garage for another year due to having some rust in the bottom of the front guards that needed fixing. The plan was to get it going for the Leadfoot Cruise, but as it transpired it didn't work out, but nevermind, I got the rust cut out of it and then decided that the average paintjob needed to redone. I digress, but here are a few pictures of how it is progressing. This is how it looked as my Daily In pimer In the booth After the Basecoat And the Clearcoat And unmasked After blacking out the guards So all in all I'm super stoked with how it came out, especially seeings as I had never even set my eyes on a spray gun before a couple of weeks ago. Now I just need to get it back together. Discussion

This is exactly how we worked it out for our bikes, and every one has been wrong. So best bet is to just wing it.

As in cut to length? am registering interest...

^worst idea ever.. Have a read on how many people have been dissapointed by them.

Sounds like a hell of an evening!

You all have to bring them to Nats next year.

Na SCs just love meth, ala blown bent 8 spec.

Meth?

OH yea!