I decided not to paint the whole car white. I wanted to do a two tone paint job with black gravel guard coating on all the aero bits but I thought maybe that would not look that great . I did find a white Fiero with grey aero and lower bumper covers and I thought it looked good so that’s what I am doing. I have four cans of the grey that the car was painted with from 7 years or so and compared to the white cans this stuff is amazing. I do not know what they changed but this stuff doesn’t drip and using it in around plus 4 C temperature it glosses up evenly and looks great. The new white cans have been nothing but aggravation. Any way here is the lower half of the rear bumper:

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Bought a Simonize buffer/polisher the other day. It has a hook and loop base and I wondered if I could get a synthetic steel wool pad to stick to it to speed up the sanding process.





I am amazed how well that works.

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Since I am waiting to get more paint and we all have time on our hands I decided to build a 4 lane 1/24 scale slot car track. Coming along nicely should have all the wood work done in a week or so.

Here is a short video (1 of 15 or so) https://www.youtube.com/wat...leA&feature=youtu.be

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I put the insurance on the car so I could test it out since I have not driven it since making all the changes to the turbo and intake and charge piping. I am happy to report that the car is running much better now. First drive I popped a charge pipe hose off. Fixed that, was a clamp I forgot to tighten up. Second drive, popped another hose off. Different spot, changed to a better clamp, tried again and everything went really well. Today I took it out and ran a scan on it with my HP tuners. With it set at 11 psi max boost I ran it through the lower gears up to 6700 RPM and the scans show everything in the green and only the odd KR of .1 to .4 degrees. And that was in totally random places, not where I thought I woud see KR.

For once I accompished everything I set out to do with this mod. The smaller turbo spools up quicker, it has more power when I leave it in fifth at low speeds and floor it. Intake air temps never went above 28 C (23C out at time of drive). Nothing leaks, I am happy.

But I am probably not going to drive it much till the fall or maybe next year. I took advantage of being able to drive with expired plate stickers because of covid19, so if I turn in the plates now I can avoid getting stung with a 2 year bill next may. In Ontario if you do not turn in the plates when the car is not insured, they ding you for the year it sat anyways. There might be a way I can avoid buying new plates next year, saving 40.00 but I will talk to the Service Ontario people on Monday.

I do not want to drive it until I can finsh the paint job. As you can see, the car looks like sh!t. There are so many little things I want to fix and finish that driving it now is just going to delay things. I have new headlight lenses to put on, I need some new pieces of trim and hope to pick up some rear lower quarters at the wreckers once they open. I am going to take off the aero bits, fenders, rear bumper and door skins so I can do them up right and get the fit right for once. And finally get some new dew wipes on. I will probably miss the track again this year oh well.

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