UPDATE:
Havent had much time to update this thread so here goes. First of as MOT time approaches my rear discs desperately needed replacing, did this over the weekend, gave the callipers a good clean as well. slight problem with the handbrake now though, Im sure it just needs adjusting, no problem to do. the brand new discs make the rear end look so much better, old ones were beyond rusty.
Now onto the engine build, the turbo has again taken a back seat at the moment while the CHRA is out for balancing. I did in the meanwhile purchase another throttle body as the old one was damaged. This was cleaned thoroughly with degreaser and then shot blasted, using the same paint as the rest of the engine is painted, I gave a few coats with 3 coats of lacquer. The pivot points of the throttle body was then oiled with ZX1. The top cap of the throttle body was painted metallic blue, this matches in with the AN fittings nicely.
I was looking at the oil filler cap and thought it needed brightening up a bit and to make it more individual to the car. On the oil cap there is three grooves, I therefore created a french flag with this. Using an airbrush and thin masking tape I filled in this slots with the colours of the french flag. The oil cap was then given 3 coats of lacquer. Im really pleased with this and itb was pretty much free, a win win then
Next time Ill hopefully should have the CHRA back from balancing and have the compressor housing machined at last
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