K3ogh_sti

Who else's blob eyes are a little tired underneath? Underseal coming away etc? Rusty this rusty that, how much work would be involved getting it all clean and tidy again?

Fonzey

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The big gains you can make are:

Powdercoated wishbones, trailing arms, lateral links and gearbox/diff/etc support brackets.
Underseal wheel arches (use some brush-on Waxoyl/hammerite stuff)

There's a Bilt Hamber product called Deox-Gel which you can slop onto rusty components which aren't easily removed - and after a few hours the rust just wipes off. You need to protect/paint whatever you do though or the rust will soon be back.

When I get the opportunity to get my car off the road for a few weeks I'll be doing all of the above, it's all relatively inexpensive but a PITA on a daily.

K3ogh_sti

God if I put any of that on some of it I think it would disappear :/ support brackets are in a bad way I think I would need new ones I'd say, cheers for the heads up, post some pictures of the progress I really need some motivation

Chris

Fonzey

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The Deox gel has is amazing, honest... some pics from some Coilovers I tidied up:

https://www.scoobynet.com/showpost.p...&postcount=141

K3ogh_sti

Looks toxic stuff! I've got a few weeks off in the summer think I'm going to crack some stuff out! I mucked the arches out today etc and it really lets it down as the rest of the car is immaculate

Chris


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Hawkeye D

^^ That's a nice condition intercooler, can't see hardly any bent fins ^^

What did you use to clean it? And the other components?

Gorgeous Blob mate!

K3ogh_sti

Cheers dude! Believe it or not I had it in the shower and with a soft toothbrush cleaned all the fins up and straightened them with some tweazers, the amount of flies and general crap that came out was astonishing so much so it must of been restrictive somewhat, I then sprayed it with hammerite cut a bit of cardboard to size to block the fins came up mint as you can see

Chris

K3ogh_sti

The other bits and bobs were just autoclym degreaser and a lot of scrubbing :/ I dremmeled the recirc valve although it is starting to go a bit pitted again....

Hawkeye D

Result!

K3ogh_sti

Obviously the mrs was out when I done it in the shower