Boring Black Rallye

[wainwrightj]

Got some more done to the rallye yesterday. Began painting the air box and the slam panel which have turned out okay, I wasn't trying to make them perfect as you can probably see, I just wanted to make sure the rust wouldn't be coming back anytime soon. So to begin with I had them both to bare metal, deox-c gel on areas that needed it, kurust, slightly sanded the kurust back in places where it had globbed together and then, 2 coats of primer and 3 coats of top coat.





Sorta bodged a setup with too pea sticks jammed into the ground to hold up the slam panel but it held it up without fail and allowed me to paint all of it at once rather than one side at a time.





I also had the rusty bolts soaking in citric acid to remove any rust from the threads and the head. I bought the citric acid rather than the bilt & hammer deox bath stuff because someone said on a forum somewhere that it's basically the same thing and I thought i'd give it a shot and too be honest it worked pretty well, I haven't got a picture of the results but you can see it in action here.



Once I pulled the parts out of the acid bath and cleaned them using my patent pending protein parts bin sounds complicated I know but all it is, is a protein tub with a hole in the top big enough for my pressure washer head to fit in without having too much spray back, and a series of holes drilled into the bottom of the tub to allows the dirty water to escape all over the floor.




BEFORE


AFTER

As you can see it cleans the parts fairly well for how much it cost 

Plans as of now are to continue working on the front of the car itself which isn't fun in this weather but I can insure the car on the 21st and plan to have a lot of the rust sorted out by then; cleaning up the underside, wheel arches and any other rust I find, haven't pulled the skirts yet although I might make a regrettable decision and pull them off when the weathers better so I can spend a weekend fixing any issue they're hiding.