My 350GT project

[cearnshaw85]

what a build thread. that bushing though ... didnt know how you got those out good write up

[Tom_K]

Thanks.

Doing bushes like that is one of those things that's much easier to do than you think, as long as you've got some threaded bar and a decent selection of washers and sockets.

[Tom_K]

Afternoon all, another update:

I used the car a decent amount during the good weather but when it started to cool down, I decided to do a job I've been meaning to for a while; straightening and painting the sills.

 

Some muppet had damaged the sill slightly jacking the car up, so I took everything apart, straightened it all, de-rusted it and painted it. Then filled everything with wax and put it back together.

 

When removing the skirts, there's a particularly weak clip that broke.

For anyone that wonders why the part of the clip is so thin and weak, it's because of 'sink' or 'show through'. This is an an injection moulding term that basically means, if you have a thick section of plastic on the back surface (like where the clips are on the side skirts), when the part is injection moulded, you'll see a little sinking on the opposite surface (think of the molten plastic cooling down at a different rate where you have a lot of material in one small area). So what designers do is make anything that's joined to a visible surface, as small/thin as possible. This means, for the you and I ~14 years later taking our cars apart, things break.

So, I glued it back in place and added some polyurethane to give it some strength back:

 

Now painted:

 

...and waxed:

 

I always put a little grease on clips like this on re-assembly to make things a bit easier:

 

And back together:

[davey_83]

That's tidy work, I don't even clean the underside of my door mirrors because I can't see it lol 

 

What's next? 

[Tom_K]

Thanks.

Next up is to find a cd009 and fit that, sell it to my friend (who’s wanted it since I bought it) and look for something with a turbo.

But I’ll probably find a bunch of other little bits to do in the meantime.