FTO AUSTRALIA

Looks very nice and clean

Wow, that came up well with a bit of elbow grease.

Looking great .

On the list of things to fix when I can be bothered:
- sand down the stuff on the wheels (is that recommended?)
- repaint small areas on the bumper.
- spray window wipers.

bjk wrote:On the list of things to fix when I can be bothered:
- sand down the stuff on the wheels (is that recommended?)
- repaint small areas on the bumper.
- spray window wipers.

Yea you can sand down the wheel - might as well fix the gutter rash (is it just plain filler you use or is it special stuff) if any and give em a fresh coat of paint while you're there - will look brand new afterwards

Id be careful with the wheels. You cant really sand them as its a grainy surface (sanding would wreck them). You could get them sand blasted but that would cost. Rather, get some decent grease remover/degreaser and give them a hit to get rid of the bitumen etc. A bit of car polish/cutting compound would probably do them wonders as well. From memory, there wasnt much gutter rash on them, but you could give the outside rim a sand and fill. You are looking at a lot of work to sand the whole wheel though.And most people run out of patience before theyve done all 4. You need Aza's patience for that job.

Yeah, the actual rims are in good nick, just the black stuff there. From a distance they don't look too bad now that I've cleaned the dirt off them. Might look into some degreaser then, will likely come in handy on other occasions I imagine as well.

Can I purchase Aza's Patience at my local auto store? It sounds really useful.

ONLY $5.99!

*queue PHIL069*



But yes id love a bottle lol, I have no idea how u did all those manifolds, I'm just saving up to take it to an alloy polisher, I cbfed with it anymore

Maybe i can finally get my manifold back after all this time of being told to "get fucked im never getting it back"
although i dont expect it back, thats only something a decent person would do..

Bjk, looking good mate wheels look good from that last picture (although you cant really get a head on look) dont know why you wanted to sand them

Lets not destroy BJK's thread please

dstocks wrote:Lets not destroy BJK's thread please

At least it wasn't a whole page of spam.

Taz wrote:Bjk, looking good mate wheels look good from that last picture (although you cant really get a head on look) dont know why you wanted to sand them

It's mostly just me being pedantic. And the stuff is on the inner edges of the rim, so you can't really see it until you're standing a metre or so away.

Well i'll be damned, first time I saw this. Finally another FTO in the state. Provided Jack's hangs on a bit longer that makes 5? FTOs in SA in the club haha. Need a cruise soon.

Of course, we'll make the date for a cooler day so you don't melt Tim..

kiz wrote:Well i'll be damned, first time I saw this. Finally another FTO in the state. Provided Jack's hangs on a bit longer that makes 5? FTOs in SA in the club haha. Need a cruise soon.

Of course, we'll make the date for a cooler day so you don't melt Tim..

Well, there's Tim, You, Jack, Me, the guy whose user name starts with 'O'. So yes. Oh, and there was once that older woman who got offended when someone said something about her living in Elizabeth.

She's not around anymore I think.

Once I sort out these overheating issues I'd be good for a proper cruise. We could roll about the city and take pictures but not much else, haha.

Where my day-dreaming ends up, haha. Cheers to BJ's turbo vR for the image ref.

Needs wider rims :p
Nice drawing though!

I had them wider, but it looked a tad too ridiculous.

Drawing flares with just linework is really hard!

Washed and polished it and took it for a drive through the hills now that it's got a new radiator in it. Am learning about which gears are best for what, 2nd certainly has the juice. Noticed it didn't engage MIVEC the whole drive though. I think it might be a bit temperamental, as it was working fine the other day.

Fill your car with oil thats why mivec is f**king up i bet!
happened to mine lol

Sahin wrote:Fill your car with oil thats why mivec is f**king up i bet!
happened to mine lol

Oil levels seem to be fine. It had a service less than a month ago. Will have to test again tomorrow.

Aaand oil is down. Must've still been warm when I looked at it last night. Is a little above the 3/4 mark. Looks like I'll be making a run to supercheap on Monday.

How do I know how much oil to put in? And on noob-assumption I'm guessing I put it in through the oil cap thing on the engine?