alignment of doors tailgate bonnet fenders was done this weekend and I stone chiped all the sills for some added rust protection and they also recvieced an nice new fresh coat of primer!!!!!!!!!!

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Nice progress, hope all your sanding is done, as it is the worst job of any build.

Nope unfortunatly not have to flat all the primer now starting at 220grit then 330grit then 400grit then 600grit then 800grit finally 1000grit the just after the colour is on just a light sand with 1500grit.So from friday till saturday it is just sanding and sanding!!!!!!!

Hi guys I got so advice regarding the head and the flywheel is there anybody that can confrim this please help thanx [size=small]"To increase the oil preassure I normaly put a washer or two behind the relief valve spring on the oil pump.
I did knife edged a 1400 crank before and gained 0... Fo*oll, a 1400 dont rev hi enough to gain from this. All I do is fit a splash plate to the one side of the sump and profile it to the crank with +/- 1mm clearance.
To me a 280 is a litle rough for town, I prefer 276, try it and see....
I also use the standard push rods and rockers, unless I realy wanna push the revs.

A lil tip..... I see your combustion chaimbers is still qite big. You can skimm your head a lot still to up the compression, cc your head and skim it to a compretion ratio of 12.1 to 12.3-1 no more tha that.
When they skim yor head, let them shim it skew, let them skim on the oposite side of th pushrod holes 3mm more, if you skim to much on the pushrod side your rockers tend to hit the tappet cover".[/size]

Painted the Ute this weekend and now it has a new nickname green mamba !!!!!!!!!!
I think for my firs spray painting job ever it looks very good if I have to say it myself!!!!!!!

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Damn, that is one serious green you chose for the UTE. Looking good, you are slichtly ahead of me, I finished the ineterior of my car the weekend past. Next week I'm on holiday and hope to get the rest of the car sprayed.

Nice! It looks like the color of my old ute.

Thanx guys yes I love the colour its really somthing else!!! As for the interior I am lookind at putting in the front seats of an audi A4!!! We'll get to that when the doors and the tailgate is on primerd the doors an the tailgate this weekend so they will be painted during the walk of the week!!!!

Looks mint! i wanna see the car finished, i reckon it will be awesome!

Thank you very much tomashcu I also can not wait to finish it but won't rush it !!