I found a little time tonight so I took a mini wire wheel in the die grinder to the lower glass aperture in the rear hatch. I used some Dynax Deox gel that I had laying around prior to knocking it on the head on Sunday and this had done most of the rust removal hence it was just residues and a bit of grot left to deal with. Rather than just bare the odd few bits I stripped the whole lower edge.
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Then a coat of Bilt Hamber electrox. This is a single pack 95% zinc primer that I’ve had good results with over the years.
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I’ll coat this up again tomorrow with a matching metallic. It’ll do for now until we change the colour of the car - which btw - I believe
might be 115 Light Blue Metallic?
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The rear glass cleaned up ok. There were some spatter burns from an angle grinder. Not as bad as I’ve ever seen, but just a few to be annoying. These came out ok with a razor blade but it bugs the heck out of me. The only welding I’ve found on the car is a plate less than 4” square on the right front floor. So this means the glass may have come out of something else or have happened whilst at a repair shop and could have been collateral damage. Anyone who grinds near glass should be given a lobotomy. Period.
All strung up and ready to go
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I’m having minor issues with tuning the EFI. It’s running well apart from off idle acceleration is initially lumpy and rich up to 1600 rpm. I am convinced this is because the injectors are low impedance (3 ohm) units. Whilst they test perfectly, I don’t think the ECU is able to stage them correctly. FAST EFI insist they should be high impedance, Zcardepot say they have no trouble with folks running on low impedance. Either way it’s bugging me so more money must be spent. So I’ve ordered a set of new high impedance injectors and an O ring style fuel rail from ProtunerZ in Canada. I ordered them yesterday lunchtime, and initially expecting them to take some time, I got a customs email from UPS today advising me to cough up so they could deliver tomorrow. Who knows, we may just have it nailed this weekend.