It’s been a drawn out couple of weeks, thankfully I have something to show for it! Not long after I had posted the last update I managed to get the whole interior masked off to paint the cage. Let’s just say I caught up on all the recent local events lol.
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After that however, was the onset of a snap cold spell. Not much was done in those few days, temps were getting down close to zero here! The weather did hold out one night and I managed to get a couple of coats on the cage, a nice aluminium colour to break up all the black. After spending 4 days at the Winternationals I, like many others I’m sure, was inspired to get cracking. I spent the next few nights masking and then layed down some coats on the floor. I think it came out pretty good 🙂
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Now that it’s painted inside, things are starting to go back in, after a good clean of course! The seat and the harness were the first to go in, followed by the dial in board, helmet hook and cage padding.
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If you have a caged car and don’t have a helmet hook, do yourself a favour and grab one. Best $25 I’ve spent on the car so far I reckon!
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The last thing to go in so far was a “new” steering wheel. The stock Momo is starting to get a bit second hand and really needs to be re-covered, so in the mean time I’ve commandeered the one from the Capella as it’s only done one meet. I’d overlooked it previously as I thought it had the wrong pattern but turns out that it’s the same as the Momo and was just on a multi fit boss. I also managed to keep the stock Infini horn button, win! There’s still a bit of painting to be done in regards to the column and few pedal brackets, but nothing to major to stop putting parts back in.
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And after all this painting and cleaning, I thought it best to cover it all up to keep the dust out so it now lives under a drop sheet until I need to do work.
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I use the ghosts of past passes to hold it down…
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I’ve started on the clutch again and have run in to a few more dramas, but I’ll leave that for another post 😉
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