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Re: 1995 White BB4 Si Vtec - spot the difference(s)!

Post by wurlycorner » Fri Mar 11, 2016 6:50 pm

And this was it in February when I finally had a weekend to start working on it again :lol:
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(yep, not much progress :roll: :lol: )

Rather than do something positive like start putting it back together though, I decided that the front end looked like jobby and needed some work :roll: :tosser:
It's had a hard life before I owned it I think, had a minor bump on the front before and had lived in Scotland so will have had some harsh winters/lots of salt
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(not the worst of it - didn't take many 'before' pics)
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So after taking the car apart some more :roll: :tosser: and a day with a screwdriver, manual wire brush and then a wire brush attachment on a drill...
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(Warning, look away now if easily bored :yawn: I did take loads of 'during' pics :lol: )
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(no, seriously, look away now... You will be bored... I did take loads of during pics...)
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At this point it was time to slap some bilt hamber deox gel on it.
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And then 24 hours later...
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(I didn't bother with clingfilm, a) because it was a pita, b) because with the weather last weekend, it was more likely to freeze than dry out :lol: )
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Washed it off
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So basically, all the purely surface stuff it had eaten clean off 8-) but the pitted stuff was still manky looking.

Soooo...
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Yep, that meant even more slop applied...
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(You get the idea).

By the time I see it next, that will have been on there for 7 days :lol:

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Post by Vtecmec » Fri Mar 11, 2016 7:10 pm

Its a slow process..........

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Post by NafemanNathan » Fri Mar 11, 2016 7:12 pm

I thought I took a lot of pics! :shock:

Great work though buddy. Wish I didn't have to wait til summer to do work like this :roll:

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Re: 1995 White BB4 Si Vtec - trigger happy

Post by wurlycorner » Fri Mar 11, 2016 7:13 pm

Yeah. And I have nothing better to do with my time... :whistle: :roll: :suicide:
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Post by 4thgenphil » Fri Mar 11, 2016 7:57 pm

NafemanNathan wrote:I thought I took a lot of pics! :shock:
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Re: 1995 White BB4 Si Vtec - trigger happy

Post by wurlycorner » Fri Mar 11, 2016 8:03 pm

Taking pics was a damn site more interesting than the actual work! :lol:
Plus I needed to get off the freezing cold concrete floor every so often anyway...

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Post by RattyMcClelland » Fri Mar 11, 2016 8:39 pm

Pearl white 4th gen. That's a winner right there.

Nice work. Rust treatment it bang on perfect. Just slow.
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Re: 1995 White BB4 Si Vtec - trigger happy

Post by wurlycorner » Fri Mar 11, 2016 9:05 pm

RattyMcClelland wrote:Pearl white 4th gen. That's a winner right there.

Nice work. Rust treatment it bang on perfect. Just slow.
Ta.
It's gonna be far from perfect though, believe me. Nothing like as crisp and minty as your 5th gen. It was a pretty rough old thing to start with and I don't have the time or money to make it mint unfortunately :(
Should look pretty smart though and at least that's the rot gone from the chassis :D

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Post by mercutio » Fri Mar 11, 2016 9:48 pm

Great work Iain looks like nitin sneaked in and left his own rust treatment :lol:
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Post by norks27 » Fri Mar 11, 2016 10:04 pm

That's some serious elbow grease you've been putting in, never seen that rust treatment stuff, does it make for a relatively permanent fix?

p.s. still can't make my mind up on the marmite interior :?
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