After the trial run, which went well, I painted the components of the rear axle today. Planning to do the front axle tomorrow. The self fabricated rack of some wood and old heating pipe worked well. I'm still wondering about that por15 stuff. I've never seen anything like it. It's hard to capture the finish in …

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Given the amount of time already spent on preparing the donor parts, I am a bit hesitant to just start spraying the POR15 onto them without a bit of experience. As my motorbike needed new exhausts and as such had to be disassembled anyway, I prepared a couple of parts of the bike for spraying. First, with the help of …

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The hand brake of an XJS convertible I found on eBay arrived. Man, it does pay off to buy things in the US these days! For $$45,- including transport to the Netherlands, which translates into roughly € 30,- for a used hand brake. For reference, when you buy this thing at a Jaguar Parts supplier it'll cost you …

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Got the donor parts back from Galvin, as you can see below, they look like new! Had a chat with the guy on painting the parts with chassis coat. Particularly on the surface preparation, "Do I use metal ready or not?" His statement was that the paint would adhere fine to the passivation layer and that any acid-like …

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Was looking at animoto this morning and uploaded the donor parts picasa album. It automagically creates a short video from a set of pictures. Good fun.

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