The Flight of Falkor

Soooo

Back on topic:
Ahoy All

I got myself some really good looking 2nd hand 15"rims - "Racing Hart - Liberty", still need rubber for them though.
Looks real good with the chrome lip, but I want to make it white with some Plasti-Dip.
One to protect it and instead of painting it I will go White-out on the car with that. (race spec

I recently had to replace the studs on the left front as two of the nuts were "melted" seized to the stud thread.
What a freakin mission it was to get this sorted
First thought it was only tightened to tight, but even the powerbar did not budge.
It became so bad that the outside shape was smoothed off so the socket was not gripping any more.
The nuts have a tapper and that was gripping.
Tried the weld onto the nut to try again with a powerbap, no success.
Then tried grinding the nut out - which normally will break through and leave the tread exposed ready for a new nut replacment.
We then drilled the stud out till the nut was off.
To make it worse it was 2 of them sitting side-by-side and I have 4/100
Had to drive almost 5okm like that - a bit scary but all OK.

I also need to replace my front windscreen as it picked up a stone chip and cracked. Not to bad but it will spread and you cant fix that.

I also need a new bonnet as it got pushed in on the front edge and cant be fixed. Looks worse than it is.

With all these repairs it is setting me back getting the rubber as it is R1100 per tyre.
Yes a bit pricy but they are semi's, a good quality and will only be for track days.

To give you guys a bit of better understanding.
Normally a set of rims are like R4500-6000
Stock tyres are R650
To fix the wheel it was R500 to drill it out and another R400 to replace the studs.
Im hoping to get a pirate bonnet and paint it for +/-R1200

Being so busy at work lately that I do not get time to do these things.

Next will have to look at why the exhaust is hanging low. Seems the midway bracket has fallen off...but if it breaks I upgrade - so maybe it is time to replace the stock toothpick and go with a 57mm front to back with a stylish F1-X tail.
That should be like R2000.

So that all for now and catch you on the fly.

Keep Well

Tks!