Made it round the bend this week, just applied KBS clear coat to engine bay paint job. I'd been swerving the clean up for a long time, but in order to make sufficient improvements, deter corrosion prep and paint was only option, it was completely shit otherwise. So with toothbrush and degreaser in hand at some stages cleaned it up and sanded back the rusty bits, rust converted wherever I found it, overall the front was not too bad. But where it was going it needed sorting. I have an aluminium firewall ( it has a left/right/centre) panels, I'm not convinced they are original as they don't look like factory made pieces, plus did DSpecials have them standard or was that a pallas treatment? It does have raised brackets to bolt on the panels which indicates it had the possibility to fit them, also I removed the old two ply composite felt sound dampener, the plan being to put in EZCool shielding behind the aluminium and whack a layer of new 'felt' over that to give original look. However given the fabric catches moisture gets filthy and not sure it was even there to begin with I'm putting in 2 layers of EZ Cool, ( thankyou Shane L) and the aluminium mystery shield. The best thing about all this is I have rounded the cape and heading into rebuild waters! Goodbye cleaning sandblasting rustproofing and painting.
Advertisement