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Old Mar 7, 2009 | 03:40 PM
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Did a little more work. It's taken two cans of gasket remover to get this far....

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Either way you're required to do it Tampa style. $1500 kit still gets $4.99 rattle can paint job. Bonus points if you use 2 different colors of gray.
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Old Mar 7, 2009 | 03:50 PM
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Gasket remover? Jeez, some aircraft aluminum stripper is far more effective. I rarely need more than 1-2 no effort applications of the stuff to take off the thickest of powdercoat.
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Old Mar 7, 2009 | 04:18 PM
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Originally Posted by longfellow2
Did a little more work. It's taken two cans of gasket remover to get this far....
they already look better


rear upper control arms, rear toe rods and rear coilovers are on, got tires mounted too but have to pull roll... unroll fenders and/or maybe run some camber to fit?
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Old Mar 7, 2009 | 06:14 PM
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motor is all done in the bed of the truck. but stuck here in orlando till sometime tomorrow.
still need to buy a damn motor mount...
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Old Mar 7, 2009 | 07:37 PM
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Originally Posted by presidential
Gasket remover? Jeez, some aircraft aluminum stripper is far more effective. I rarely need more than 1-2 no effort applications of the stuff to take off the thickest of powdercoat.
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Old Mar 7, 2009 | 07:48 PM
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today: drained the 11 month old gas in the fuel tank and filled it up with some fresh 93. ill let you know how it turned out after i find keys to my car o_0
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Old Mar 7, 2009 | 09:38 PM
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Originally Posted by longfellow2
Did a little more work. It's taken two cans of gasket remover to get this far....

Jesus Christ... I hope you didn't strip the hyper black finish off...
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Old Mar 8, 2009 | 07:09 AM
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Hyper black is all gone.
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Either way you're required to do it Tampa style. $1500 kit still gets $4.99 rattle can paint job. Bonus points if you use 2 different colors of gray.
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Old Mar 8, 2009 | 07:15 AM
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Originally Posted by presidential
Gasket remover? Jeez, some aircraft aluminum stripper is far more effective. I rarely need more than 1-2 no effort applications of the stuff to take off the thickest of powdercoat.
using both back to back, gasket remover worked way better for me on the gt-r wheels.
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Old Mar 8, 2009 | 07:22 AM
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Put off working on my 240 to work on the Town Car instead. I've never seen a vehicle that just takes Seafoam and doesn't smoke. Weird.

Fearless, do you still have those tension rods? Tried PMing you, do you want to sell them or not?
He sold them to RobRobKing
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