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Re: overhaul begins

by EddeyDancer » Sun Sep 02, 2012 6:32 am

Wow...

I'm Envious...

Not that You've had to do that work to your car, but because You can do it Yourself... :clap:
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Re: overhaul begins

by craigyboy » Sun Sep 02, 2012 3:20 pm

EddeyDancer wrote:Wow...

I'm Envious...

Not that You've had to do that work to your car, but because You can do it Yourself... :clap:



Cheers for that Eddy.I got a garage round the corner
to do the bearings and they done them with a press
in about ten minutes and got a mate to do the welding
everything else ive done myself.
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Re: overhaul begins

by saunders » Mon Sep 17, 2012 5:16 pm

great work
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Re: overhaul begins

by craigyboy » Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:34 pm

after getting the suspension finished i have decided to start work on the engine bay

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after two weeks of stripping, cleaning up etc....here is end result

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Re: overhaul begins

by rich30mex » Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:47 pm

That looks great Craig keep up the good work
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Re: overhaul begins

by STEVA » Wed Sep 19, 2012 10:36 am

Looking good Craig mate cracking job!



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Re: overhaul begins

by Callyman » Wed Sep 19, 2012 5:24 pm

Wow, huge change, nice.
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Re: overhaul begins

by v6 steve » Wed Sep 19, 2012 6:43 pm

shinny :clap:
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Re: overhaul begins

by saunders » Wed Sep 19, 2012 8:00 pm

very clean bay, nice job
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Re: overhaul begins

by Phill » Wed Sep 19, 2012 8:19 pm

Your doing a great job mate. :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: overhaul begins

by craigyboy » Fri Oct 12, 2012 7:46 pm

got spoiler painted....with or without???

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Re: overhaul begins

by matty0785 » Fri Oct 12, 2012 8:23 pm

with

but paint match looks off in photo
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Re: overhaul begins

by v6 steve » Fri Oct 12, 2012 8:23 pm

with out mate i think the se6 looks best std
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Re: overhaul begins

by Mark1 » Fri Oct 12, 2012 9:04 pm

Without
Mark...........It's Red........It's a V6............It's an SE9!..............and She's bad.
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Re: overhaul begins

by craigyboy » Fri Oct 12, 2012 9:10 pm

matty0785 wrote:with

but paint match looks off in photo


The spoiler looks ok in the daylight.The street lighting seems
to play havoc with that paint.
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