Friday 22 April 2016

Stagea Painting

This blog is slowly turning into "Stuff I have done with cars" rather than cobra specific.

Got the Stagea back from AK Bodycraft - who painted the cobra - and good heavens above what a great job they have done. Firstly, the wheels have been refurbished and they look pretty spectacular now. Powder coat centre with machined finish rim then clear coat over the top.



Spoiler re-done, this was terrible before, all blistered and nasty



Bumper repaired where the exhaust had melted it, and a drivers side scuff from a reversing accident (not shown in these photos)



aaaaand the big one - doors under the mirrors. Common on these cars.



Tadaaaaa....



Edited to add some better shots after polish and wax:








Check out the lovely underseal and clean sills too:





Original and no doubt irreplaceable stickers still holding up well:









The completely unfathomable and ineffective "Light Reduce" button:



Reclining rear seats!




The famous turret tops now pristine and like new




Had a water pump failure which resulted in overheating so I plucked up the courage to do a precautionary head gasket change as it was showing some other symptoms of gasket failure. Turned out to be a good idea as cylinder 6 had gone and was chomping through coolant instead of lovely air and fuel. All back together and working as strong as ever.




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