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I think these probably are the best guards/bonnet I have, but I'll be be digging at the green one to see if theres much better on it before I go repairing too much bolt on stuff. 

 

I have 5kg of dry ice coming tomorrow so I can hopefully fully evaluate the floor. 

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Also, research tells me that this one, and the red one I had were both assembled at Waitara north of New Plymouth. Hence the horrific unexplainable rust.

Thanks NZ auto industry.

 

I believe the green one is a Japanese built one, so hopefully even though its pretty fucked, it has good sections that I need.

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Rust is a cunt, and not the good kind of cunt that you can have a bit of fun with after a few wines, a romantic dinner, and a ROMCOM, but the bad kind of cunt, a straight up cunt, kinda cunt.

Kia kaha J5, kia kaha.

/Turn it into a baja brumby?

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Yeah I have my doubts about how wonky the whole thing will be if I ever get it back together, and I guarantee it will rust out again in a short amount of time.

Just what these things are like it would appear. 

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That thing is in heaps better nick that I remembered/imagined. How does the dry ice work? does it clean up the metals and paint so you can see the rust betterer?

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Dry ice freezes the underseal/sound deadening crap so I chips off easily Mr Duds

Hope you made some sweet dry ice bombs with the leftovers

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I did not, :-( I dumped it all in the work wheelie bin. Lets hope its split in half from the freezings or something.

 

 

And yeah Jeff, it makes that tacky sticky crap just smash off in projectile shards. Hammers and chisels 'n' shit.

I would recommend this way over attempting to peel/melt/cut it off any other way. 

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Its tricky, I'd be stupid not to at this point. Buuut, theres also no point on doing a conversion on a rusty car.

 

 

To summarize, I'm going to leave the front open for a bit or something, in case some kind of cheap suitable donor appears before I stitch it all back up. 

 

Cause I could yet throw my toys and give up TBH. 

 

The required conversion to hydraulic clutch I dunno if I could be bothered with, most else isn't too bad I don't think. Sorting out CV's to suit might be a cunt. I don't know. 

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