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Old July 11th 2010, 16:04
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Sorry for the lack of posts recently, the biggest job has been stripping the underneath of the whole body to get it all painted in epoxy mastic. Bloody horrible job!

I took a gamble on a 996/boxster spacesaver wheel fitting and it does with loads of space to spare in a variety of positions! For interest, the tyre size is 105/95R17.



I cleaned up the rear of the front valance and welded on some bolts for the intake mesh, all edges prepped for plug welding on.



50x3mm strip with captive nuts welded on to the bottom between the inner wings to give a rigid mounting face for the air dam.



Front valance plug welded back on along the sides and bottom and then painted up in the epoxy. It's made the whole front end incredibly rigid!You can see I also painted the whole underside of the body in epoxy.



Carpet strip plug welded back on to the top of the heater channel and painted.



rear interior modified bodywork given a good epoxy coating



Rear end also got the epoxy treatment. Just about ready to start on the external paint prep now!

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