Diamond Star Werks
Freelancer
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- Jun 25, 2011
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Inman,
South_Carolina
Swapped my coilovers of the gst and onto the spyder the other night. Wheel gap was crappy looking and gst will be awhile.
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What did you do to restore it? Mine's starting to show some cancer from the sun, if it's something I can fix myself I'll do it but I don't want to pay a body shop.Not today, but yesterday, I installed the hood pins/latches and finished the restoration on this hood I've been going on about. I think I may have over 20 hours into this thing, but the price was right.
Continuing progress on reviving a $100 carbon fiber hood. I'd knocked it down and brought it back once before, but wasn't happy with the final results once it finally dried completely. I didn't get deep enough into the clear and could still see some heavy hazing. Since I hadn't cleared it yet, I started all over. So far...
120 grit dry
120 grit wet
220 grit wet
600 grit wet
Still to go, 800w, 1000w, 1500w and 2000w. I'll likely clear it this evening. It's looking great so far.
What did you do to restore it? Mine's starting to show some cancer from the sun, if it's something I can fix myself I'll do it but I don't want to pay a body shop.
Give me good news!
Update: Noticed the passenger side brake is singing while I'm driving, and has two trails of something dragging on the rotor. Joy, upgrade to different problems. Tho to be fair, the passenger brake caliper from the 3000GT looks like it was scorched now that I can see it in daylight. . . Think bit might have had a brake fire before. Jolly good... FMLSaturday I got a call from a buddy getting ready to scrap a 3kgt, and he asked if I wanted parts. So I went over and was only intending to buy the brakes, but ended up swapping the calipers, bought new rotors, and new forward lower control arms and the right hand rear lower control arm, and ended up hijacking all the brake lines from the 3kGT to bastardized myself a set of lines for the front and ziptied the hose to the strut.
Good part is I got new brakes, and the case stopped torque steering from stop lights. (Turns out lower ball joint was toast. And my the inboard brake pad was about the size of a credit card.)
Nice looking car! I would love to have a 1g awd with some popup headlights.Drove this little drama queen home, only for it to die and need to be trailered home.
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And so far what I've been doing all day is removing stickers to clean it up. Eventually will need to dive into the motor to see what went wrong.