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Meets and Events / Re: Newark Kit Car Festival 23rd & 24th July 2022
« on: June 01, 2022, 07:39:20 PM »
Order some sunshine Tenpin, and I'll be there 👍

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4thirty Chat / Re: Automotive Finesse - A slight change..!
« on: May 05, 2022, 08:04:20 PM »
Couple more picts

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4thirty Chat / Automotive Finesse - A slight change..!
« on: April 21, 2022, 05:40:58 PM »
Evening all, been a long time..!
It’s been a difficult last 2 years, I’ll not lie, with the COVID pandemic and lockdown..
We’ve found it partially hard personally with family, etc…

Anyway,  on a better not.. 2022

So a fair few of you know the car of mine, and know the history.

As you also know, once Wayne sold the car, it past through 2 other owners before falling into my hands, 8 years ago… OMG..!

Since then, a fair amount of work has been done on the car to bring this beauty back to the look she deserves.

So the chapter continues in 2022…….

In late Jan ‘22 Rudy and Merick from ‘Automotive Finesse’ came to the house to look at my car, with reference to taking it in to getting it polished, ceramic coated and basically detailed and looking sharp…. Both Rudy and Merick spotted a couple of cracks in the fibreglass and in particular, a very nasty chip in the top of the wing near the bonnet, where I believe a previous owner had placed a metal bracket to hold the bonnet down, instead of aligning the bracket on the bonnet correctly..!
Anyway, these were to be looked at at the same time, to see if anything could be done, with reference to ‘blowing them in’ without me seeing the work..!

So, the end of Feb’22 comes and the car goes to Doncaster, and is inspected, and I’m asked to go, to talk through the list of endless options I want to do to the car…. (Wow, professional isn’t the word..!)

Well, to cut a very long story.. the more we talked and looked at the car under the proper lights, and the more we did look, the more we found….!  It looked like the car had been washed with a scouring pad at some point, as the paint was in a shocking state, and there were more stone chips and cracks (once you start to look) than I first thought.
So Merick and Rudy set too, correcting the bodywork, chips, cracks, splits, you name it..!

It was a big decision to make, but I then decided that it was easier/cheaper to not have Merick blow in the areas, as there were just too many that had been repaired, so I bit the bullet and we went for it..!
The whole car has been completely repainted from front to back, and has had numerous coats of paint and of classic lacquer on it too.

I have lost count the number of times I have see the car in paint, then rubbed down, then gloss, then rubbed down again, then polished… ;D

The depth of the paint and gloss is insane..! Not to mention the flawless paint… not a mark to be seen anywhere..!

But to top it off, we decided to change the wheels for OZ superleggea ones BUT in the Ferrari 430 Oro Gold too.
And then, because the original stripe had to come off because of the painting, I decided (no easy thing to do) to go with the Italia stripes instead.

I hope you agree, the transformation is epic, and I’ll post some more picture at the weekend when I go to pick it up on Saturday at Automotive Finesse’s guest open day.

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Sales and Wants / Wheels for sale
« on: April 15, 2022, 05:35:15 PM »
4 silver 430 with Ferrari badge wheels for sale.
These wheels have NOT been driven on, so can guarantee no cracks, buckles etc.

These have had tyres placed on them, and then removed, but not driven on.  Hence the reason you can see tyre weights.

Great for a spare set if you have the same wheels? Just in case you damage one of yours? As we all know how bad the roads are these days…!

The wheels are 19” by 8” wide, with a 35 offset and a 5x100 PCD

COLLECTION ONLY (will not ship, due to weight), from S43 Chesterfield, Derbyshire area.

£400 for the set. (Won’t split them), but that’s only £100 a wheel….

These were the wheels that were sold with the DNA kits when originally bought…

Lee

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4thirty Chat / Re: Couple of updates
« on: April 10, 2022, 03:53:54 PM »
Just a sneak preview of things to come  ;D

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Meets and Events / Re: Stoneleigh Kit Car Show 1st & 2nd May 2022
« on: March 26, 2022, 10:33:26 PM »
Dependent on weather, and family commitments, I'll be there Sunday only.

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4thirty Chat / Re: Couple of updates
« on: March 24, 2022, 09:40:45 PM »
Ok, a fair amount of work being done in the car at the moment, but I’m not going to post any pictures until it’s completed, although the interior upgrades will be all fitted over the winter ‘22/‘23, as I want to get the car back and out on the road, so the new interior will be the winter project to install and get looking right 🤗

Anyway, little bits getting done as we go along, and had the door sills carbon dipped by Jason at ‘Hydroweb Custom Graphics’, who I can highly recommend, as I gave him a little difficult job on these, as I wanted to keep the anthracite grey painter inner part of the sill, but to have the outer sill, filled, smoothed and dipped, ready for the decal from Rowland (via Steve.. thanks steve).
So Jason had a big job sanding down the plastic where I wanted the carbon dip, but without touching the grey paint..
But to say he’s nailed it.. is an understatement.. they are excellent..

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4thirty Chat / Re: Couple of updates
« on: November 07, 2021, 03:10:51 PM »
I think for the moment I’m happy with the standard anti-roll bar, both front and back, although I will be swapping the bushes for poly.
If anything, I would put rear adjustable drop links on the rear, if needed, but never thought it was needed?

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4thirty Chat / Re: Couple of updates
« on: October 30, 2021, 11:16:51 PM »
Quick update from today…  :)

Rear suspension arms are now fitted to the car with the new poly bushes in place.
These arms had already been shot blasted and powder coated, so just ready to bolt on..

Not a quick job, due to tight bolts, lack of access (off jacks and axle stands) etc.

So now with new BC coilovers on and new arms with new bushes.. the car is like new  ;D Can’t believe the difference in the ride, it’s amazing..!

So now to just get the new adjustable rear toe control Arms fitted next  :D
Then 4 wheel alignment is due

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4thirty Chat / Re: V8 DNA 4thirty
« on: October 18, 2021, 08:46:49 PM »
Hi Daran,

I’m just looking at adding my new wheel into my car very soon  ;D

Can’t wait to see it on the car

Just the sticker to add, which I’ve had to buy from Ferrari (ouch not cheap at all)…!
Then the red switch can go back on.

(Obviously, the badge needs turning around the right way up  :D )

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4thirty Chat / Re: Couple of updates
« on: October 09, 2021, 09:18:24 PM »
Thanks Wayne, I’m hoping I’m doing it proud.  It was such a good car in the first place, although I do wish I had bought it off you as the second owner..!  ???

There are lots of things I’m really wanting to do over winter (trying to keep up with Mark now.. lol).. and now I have a little more time, I can look at these jobs I want to get done, especially the centre console now, so that will need finishing and painting in anthracite too ;D to match the rest of the interior. But I’m looking at taking the dash out and getting the top section re-covered, as the black alcantara seems to be going a little green now with sun bleach, so looking at getting that changed.. along with a few other changes on the dash  :)

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Sales and Wants / Re: DNA 430 front bumper
« on: October 05, 2021, 07:59:33 PM »
And the Scudo Bumper :

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Sales and Wants / Re: DNA 430 front bumper
« on: October 05, 2021, 07:58:36 PM »
Hope these work for you Steve


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4thirty Chat / Re: Couple of updates
« on: October 04, 2021, 03:50:53 PM »
No mate,
A) the show isn’t on the field in front of the house, as it use to be.. now on the old ‘market fields’.
B) still got lots to do at home whilst we have ‘semi good weather’ and I’m still not mixing with people.

Would be great to catch up mate, but I think it will be next year before I do any shows again

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4thirty Chat / Couple of updates
« on: October 03, 2021, 08:38:11 PM »
Not been around for a while, sorry been busy with other things.

But..!

In the last couple of weeks the car has had a couple of changes

It’s had full BC coilovers added (a big thanks to Mark C and a good friend Steve who came over to give a hand, to speed up the process..)

Old white / blue single led side lights changed for the ‘rope light’

And just new rear arms to install now, as we noticed worn bushes when doing the suspension, so decided to get new arms with poly bushes already in them, so they can be quickly just swapped over..

A few more jobs still on the list to do, that’s for sure, but nice to know things are getting done now :)

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