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More painting going on
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Looking at it yesterday at the long side which needs bogging, I thought stuff it im just going to paint it, been too long and now I just want to drive it, and its something that can be done later, iv'e got plenty of paint.
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So plan is to make it look like this because that is what it used to look like
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3 days of prep work and it only takes 1 hour to paint
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Lovely !
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Looking good bud
Can't wait to see some CB next or are u going the white now ?
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Ride Height / 15 window / Colour Combo.
Hope this girls going be motor-vated with something worthy :D

Great work !!

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sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet lord thats nice
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Windows in , wiring loom in, pedals in, moved the accel pedal over too.
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Looks awesome wiz, tell me more about this moving of the accelerator pedal.
Chasing any Neiman steering lock parts, will consider anything.
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Matt, its more about not lifting your foot all the time from brake to accel, and because its my bus I shorten the brake pedal, will do that after the brakes are adjusted and working, so now I just have to swivel my foot on my heal to go from brake to accel, us old blokes have a hard time bending our foot back too so I cut the stop off the accel pedal and lower that too, just doing it for my benefit, might not be everbodys cup of tea.
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I like the idea of lowering the accelerator pedal, I used to get wicked ankle cramp doing the annual reVOLKS run in the SC.
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I hope all you South Austalians got some work done on your Splitty's today, I trimmed and trial fitted some tinware to the engine, its a 1955 built by Andrew Champness from Bordertown, waterboxer 76mm crank and 90.5 pistons, Panchito heads and 40mm Webbers
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Are you painting your tinware some fancy colour or getting it powder coated?
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Beatts, I might get it vinyl wrapped in camo, wonder if the heat would effect it? So I cut the front off the 1600dp tin
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then I cut the back off the 40hp tinware
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trimmed them up a bit and its now 40hp look with the dog house cooler
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Thanks to Andrew for guiding me thru this, he has done a bunch of these and also has done them with a hidden heater outlet, very trick!
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