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Re: What are you doing with your ebody this weekend?
« Reply #1845 on: October 17, 2011 - 10:23:56 PM »
who put all those fingerprints on that reproduction factory dust????  :roflsmiley:

ok, i'll clean that up too!!

Yeah mine collects the dust and it is not even installed. I keep it covered but the black wrinkle texture seems to be a dust magnet I was thinking about clear coating the crud out of it to make it easier to clean.




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Re: What are you doing with your ebody this weekend?
« Reply #1846 on: October 18, 2011 - 01:56:14 PM »
I'll be trying to get all of the kinks out of my new car and hopefully get it running.

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Re: What are you doing with your ebody this weekend?
« Reply #1847 on: October 20, 2011 - 03:33:24 PM »
I'll be trying to get all of the kinks out of my new car and hopefully get it running.

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I feel ya on that.  Seems like I get one little thing fixed, and then another one rears its ugly head
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Re: What are you doing with your ebody this weekend?
« Reply #1848 on: October 21, 2011 - 03:24:43 PM »
Wiper motor wires were bare and the whole thing was weathered.
Refurbished wiper motor and installed.
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Re: What are you doing with your ebody this weekend?
« Reply #1849 on: October 23, 2011 - 04:33:44 PM »
after a few weeks of crappy weather and rain today was nice so I took her out for a run and enjoyed the changing colours and sunshine! Got a few of these in too!  :burnout: :aarg:
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Re: What are you doing with your ebody this weekend?
« Reply #1850 on: October 23, 2011 - 05:13:49 PM »
Finally had some time and the weather was nice so I spent the day tearing down my seats and getting them ready for stripping,powder coating and new leather.
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Re: What are you doing with your ebody this weekend?
« Reply #1851 on: October 23, 2011 - 06:07:03 PM »
Finally had some time and the weather was nice so I spent the day tearing down my seats and getting them ready for stripping,powder coating and new leather.

Cody once did a thread on re-doing his years ago.
Would like to watch you do yours.
Mike, Fremont, CA.


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Re: What are you doing with your ebody this weekend?
« Reply #1852 on: October 23, 2011 - 06:51:50 PM »
Wish I had the time to catalog the progress. I will be sending them out. I just did the grunt work of the tear down.
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Re: What are you doing with your ebody this weekend?
« Reply #1853 on: October 24, 2011 - 07:03:50 PM »
Has anyone replaced the standard globes with LED types? I did it on my GTR and it made a massive difference.


A little late as I haven't done much in the last 6 months, but yes it makes a huge difference.

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Re: What are you doing with your ebody this weekend?
« Reply #1854 on: November 12, 2011 - 06:24:00 PM »
Took the old Buggy out and filled it up and put fuel stabilizer in.  Went for a drive around town, got lots of thumbs up. Did quite a few full throttle launches from stop lights. Sure loves the cold air!  Quite a noticable difference in power when it's cold and damp.
Might be the last run of the season... we'll see?
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Re: What are you doing with your ebody this weekend?
« Reply #1855 on: November 12, 2011 - 06:50:01 PM »
I am going to the nhra finals In pomona tomorrow. That should get me fired up about working on my car some more. Now that the rainy season is here I'll need to get it winterized. Fix my leaky rear window, and get my windshield wipers working.

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Re: What are you doing with your ebody this weekend?
« Reply #1856 on: November 12, 2011 - 07:08:27 PM »
Had some meat delivered today.....





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Re: What are you doing with your ebody this weekend?
« Reply #1857 on: November 13, 2011 - 09:38:15 PM »
Was a great weekend here, had it out for a BBQ in MA.  Was about 120 miles total.  Car ran great, love ripping on the highway at 3500 rpms.  Need to secure my headlight buckets though.LOL  They were shaking pretty good at speed on the way home, people kept moving over from the lights.

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Re: What are you doing with your ebody this weekend?
« Reply #1858 on: November 13, 2011 - 10:02:04 PM »
I took one of her big frying pans out today to soak my E-brake cables in Rust Away I bought at Harbor Freight.
She was O.K. with that as long as I didn't scratch the Teflon.

Put a few inches of Rust away in the pan. Took a rubber band and pulled it together.
Threw it in. .

By the end of the day, it looked brand new again.
Next is coat it with RPM from ECS.
Mike, Fremont, CA.


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Re: What are you doing with your ebody this weekend?
« Reply #1859 on: November 20, 2011 - 12:27:34 PM »
hey topcat,

i noticed that you have sub-frame connectors.  is there a passage way for the e-brake cable to go thru?  i couldn't tell from your pics. (btw, are they the xv units?)