What have you done to your DeLorean today?

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Originally Posted by John U

Did some blending, and bought a new friend for 3462!

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These make DeLorean parts look like the bargain of the century. . . . :eek5:

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Originally Posted by John U

Did some blending, and bought a new friend for 3462!

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Nice. Congrats!

I tore the engine down to the block and took one of the heads to the machine shop. I'm going to take the second one in tomorrow when I get the exhaust manifold off. I've broken two chisels and used an entire can of pb blaster on those damned washers. Tomorrow I'm grinding them down and hoping the manifolds will come off.

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Originally Posted by DMCMW Dave

These make DeLorean parts look like the bargain of the century. . . . :eek5:

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I know......I need ONE headlight lense....it literally costs as much as a brand new DMC windshield!!! :bawling:

........more blending today

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Originally Posted by mluder

Did this restore the black bumper area so you don't have to paint it? Just curious because I need to refurb mine and would like to retain the original look.

What are your intentions for painting? Are you going to have it professionally sprayed?

Cheers
Steven

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The peanut oil is only a temporary "restorer". It did seem like the urethane did absorb some of the oil though.
But I tested that by washing it with soap and water, back to washed out black it went.
I also tested Mother Back to Black, not that impressed. I mean if you in a hurry and want to touch up a bumper back to black is fine.
I ordered some Forever Black on amazon see if that actually dyes it back like it claims.

At this point I intend to leave the fascias completely flat black. I think it looks fine that way, don't get me wrong i like the stock look also. This was done mainly as a cost and maintenance reducer.

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Originally Posted by Jack

The peanut oil is only a temporary "restorer". It did seem like the urethane did absorb some of the oil though.
But I tested that by washing it with soap and water, back to washed out black it went.
I also tested Mother Back to Black, not that impressed. I mean if you in a hurry and want to touch up a bumper back to black is fine.
I ordered some Forever Black on amazon see if that actually dyes it back like it claims.

At this point I intend to leave the fascias completely flat black. I think it looks fine that way, don't get me wrong i like the stock look also. This was done mainly as a cost and maintenance reducer.

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Thanks, Jack.

I am needing a repain on my fascias and I'm trying to decide if I can get the bumpers back to black or just break down and paint them.
Did you have the rest profeessionally re-sprayed? Out of curiousity what did it cost iof you don't mind my asking?

Cheers
Steve

All done today. Started the car for the first time since Feb 8th.

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Took it off the wheel ramps and cleaned up the interior a tiny bit. Nice to know the engine is back together!

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5 of us Nor Cal guys got our mufflers blasted and ceramic coated at a local shop. I installed mine today. Here is a before and after as well as it installed:

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Many thanks to Clint for running the mufflers to the shop and picking them up! Results are awesome!

For the first time since I got the car I heard it run! I hooked up the new Yellow Top, checked the fluids (after putting about 2 gallons into the radiator) and cranked on it for a few minutes and it finally fired to life! It quickly came to an idle around 800rpms so that I could look things over. There was some oil or something that baked off of the driver's side manifold and there wasn't a single drip after letting it run for about 10 minutes. Needless to say I'm happy! The brakes were quite soft so I'll take a look at that next to see if a fill and or flush is all that's needed (hopefully). Based on the sticker on the windshield it's been sitting since about August.