Ive never stripped an oil cooler down before this one so wasn't quite sure what to expect myself. Strange looking bit of kit !

My thinking exactly concerning the seats, will see how it goes.

The rubber pipes are in good condition but the metal tubes are a bit crusty. I may give those a wire brush and see what they're like, haven't had a look for replacements so I'm unsure whether you can buy them of not.

Sounds like you have a nice collection of Alcantara's there !

I've seen plenty of Alcanatara sets for the ZT's and F/TF's and they're a reasonable amount of money, the ZS sets on the other hand seem to be well overpriced in my opinion.

Cheers Matt.

looking good - I'm not a big fan of red on interiors (put me off the BRM entirely) but I think those Alcantara's would look lovely in yours once it is done - just the right balance of red to more sober colours..

Your attention to detail is incredible.... will love to see the finished article once you're done!

Pete, you of all people should know they are never done :laugh:

Cheers chap,

Looking forward to finishing off the underside so I can start concentrating on getting the engine sorted, can't wait to fire it up with the Janspeed bits attached !

Following this thread with great interest!

Are you using rattle cans for priming and coats? Your paint supplier must be a happy man? :) I'm doing a bit of renovation work as well but find I don't get much coverage out of the aerosols.

Hi bud,

I'm using aerosols for the underneath, I find if you bulk buy you save quite alot. I've had all the aerosol paint I need sitting in the garage for a while now ready for when I need to use it. I think aerosols are fine for underneath as I'm not particularly worried about the finish, just as long as it's rust proof and tidy im happy. Nice even thin coats and you should be fine, got the whole N/S underarch top coat done with one 500ml aerosol of Firefrost if that gives you an idea on coverage.

I have a compressor and I'm slowly stocking up on the bits I'll need for when I paint the body panels, mixing pots, mixing sticks, tack rags, different coarse's of sand paper etc...

I popped in to jewal paints last weekend to get some advice on bits I'll be needing and the guy was very knowledgeable, printed me out a list of bits ill need and I've got my order of paint, primer, lacquer, thinners and hardner on stand by. For a litre of quality CEV Firefrost is almost £80 so if you look at it like that the aerosols arnt bad value for money.

I've bought a quality paint gun, quality air lines and moisture trap/air filter from SGS so I should be sorted on that front. This is where I want the paint to look really good so I don't mind spending that bit more to make sure of it.

Well quite - but there are levels of done and finished entirely lmao...

If/when the turbo swap is done on mine, then there is only really progressive springs to consider..... changed pretty much everything else already ;)

Or full strip and track prep LMFAO

Ok guys, here's what I've got done over the last few weeks.

Seam sealed where necessary -

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...psgjkw43hs.jpg

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...psmtxdx1lf.jpg

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...psks1mjfv6.jpg

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps5t5frmck.jpg

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps02iyziru.jpg

Left that to go off for 24h and then Gravigard stone chipped the underside -

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...psdeud4aoz.jpg

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...psrd0l1epx.jpg

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...psjs43cdmm.jpg

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps8ng4fsye.jpg

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...psdryyrdw9.jpg

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps9a2bjwbb.jpg

I had a small issue with some light cracking appearing in the Gravigard which is probably down to the length of time I left the underside in the primer stage before applying the stonechip. Was probably around 2 weeks. In my experience the quicker you can get the stone chip on after primer the better as it provides a better key for it to stick.

Left that to go off for a few hours and then I started to apply some Firefrost top coat -

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps0ddfgs7b.jpg

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...psaspbgrim.jpg

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...psgceo0ftx.jpg

Unfortunately I ran out of paint at this point. Thought I had more than enough to complete this job but obviously not ! Will get some ordered and finish this off. Then it's just the lacquer and clear wax and the underside will be finished.

Got my drivers side seat covers back from the upholsterers and decided to get my de-bobbler machine out as the Alcantara was starting to look its age. This is the machine -

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps8xvnp4qs.jpg

And here's all the bobbles and excess material that it removed from the seats -

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...psotgb3ykw.jpg

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...psneneu8xv.jpg

Brilliant machine and would recommend to anyone looking to freshen up their alcantara seats !

Here's the seat after the repairs, a steam clean and a de-bobble -

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...psrzxjpqwa.jpg

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps2zhwl20i.jpg

No more saggy seat base -

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...psdlji20nb.jpg

Ive done all the seats but didn't fancy lugging them all downstairs into the yard to take a decent picture today. Will do so a later date though !

I traveled over to Norwich to pick this Janspeed Duplex system up -

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...psneaqbksf.jpg

And went to work on polishing it up on the bench grinder, here's the smaller back box -

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...psymzqhwfs.jpg

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...psqh8ggsjx.jpg

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...psbrw0raim.jpg

And the larger one -

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...psgucwhrei.jpg

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...pslrlbkoxm.jpg

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps1x9ed1tj.jpg

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...psgsrmc3gb.jpg

I lost the X-Power branding on the end of the tail pipes but I couldn't of done the job properly without doing so unfortunately. One of those things I guess.

I now have the complete Janspeed system front to back. Has cost quite a bit and have travelled half way around the country but will all be worth it when it's bolted onto the car -

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...pslq7krjq4.jpg

Have the centre pipe and y piece still to do but that will be for another day.

Finally, I bought the sliding arm rest from a Jaguar X-Type which I'm going to retro fit into the ZS. It's a far superior item compared to the standard ZS arm rest -

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...psi5bgwawm.jpg

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...pspl8yp1vq.jpg

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/a...psbzczrwc2.jpg

I do believe it's all in the details so this should be a nice edition to the car.

Anyway, I'm off down the coast tomorrow for the rest of the week for a break so won't be working on the car until Sunday.

Hope you all enjoyed the bank holiday and also POL if you attended, I did and was great to see plenty of ZS's there !

Jay.

:bow:

As always, looking great.
That de-bobbler looks fancy compared to mine (bag of 10 bic razors!)