sorry i haven't kept you all updated, i have been very time poor between work and the patrol build. i haven't thought too much into the air box and snorkel yet as i have been per-occupied finishing off what i have, i still have shelves of parts to be installed. after weighing up the cost of genuine dynamat of over $1600 to cover the roof, floor pan and door skins (@ over $20 / 300mmx300mm) i decided to get the sound deadening from clark rubber. it is 10mm thick and adhesive backed, but more to the point $40 / metre and 1.5m wide, 10 meters to complete the whole car. I wasn't sure at first how effective it was, i covered only the 3/4 carpeted section, the exhaust was deafening to a point of nearly wearing ear plugs. after covering the last section, you can now hold a conversation and use hand free phone kits without a problem, definitely worth the money.
since my last post, i have installed central locking (i will get some photo's on how i have set-up the rear door actuators), alarm, re-wired my alternator with the correct inline resistor, lots of fine tuning and cleaning up wiring. i have picked up a new gopro black edition (great piece of gear), i've been planning on getting some footage to post up, i'll try and get it up during the week.
i've finally made up my mind with paint, im pretty indecisive and get sick of colours pretty quickly. I have decided on the plastidip removable gloss black with black pearl, a friend of mine has highly recommended it. it lays on approx 1.5mm thick and self flattening, so it will hide minor imperfections. it is surprisingly durable, my friend has a 350z coated with this product and left bat crap on it for several days, it did not even tarnish the gloss.
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