What did you do to your Crossfire today?
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Finishing up installation of a pair of Stebel Nautilus Air Horns on the black SRT6 rescue roadster (getting all ready for CAA#6). Some information on the horns can be found at this link from back when I installed a pair of these same air horns on my SSB roadster in Dec 2012.
https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...tml#post711951
These horns are absolutely FANTASTIC! LOUD and with a nice European tone that suits the Crossfire. A highly recommended upgrade. Due to space limitation up front (Needswings DCAI) these horns are best installed behind the front bumper left side forward of the left front wheel. Here's a link with photos and information on how to install these air horns on your Crossfire!
https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...tml#post836911
https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...tml#post711951
These horns are absolutely FANTASTIC! LOUD and with a nice European tone that suits the Crossfire. A highly recommended upgrade. Due to space limitation up front (Needswings DCAI) these horns are best installed behind the front bumper left side forward of the left front wheel. Here's a link with photos and information on how to install these air horns on your Crossfire!
https://www.crossfireforum.org/forum...tml#post836911
I put one on my motorcycle earlier this year. I like it a lot better than the factory dog toy squeaker!
Re: What did you do to your Crossfire today?
Not so much what I did to but what I did in my Crossfire. For the third year in a row I had a place of honor driving a clergyman in our towns annual Memorial Day Parade and ceremony, honoring the veterans, of which I am one. The car received much applause and the clergyman was really glad he got to ride in it.
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Re: What did you do to your Crossfire today?
Not so much what I did to but what I did in my Crossfire. For the third year in a row I had a place of honor driving a clergyman in our towns annual Memorial Day Parade and ceremony, honoring the veterans, of which I am one. The car received much applause and the clergyman was really glad he got to ride in it.
Hey Jim, did you glance over once in a while, to see if he was 'Praying'? If so, you were driving 'Too Fast'! LMAO
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I would have loved to just crack it a little but I didn't even touch the throttle, idle was just right for the walking parts of the parade.
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Well, I finished making a little adjustment to Tighed1's belt wrap mod. It is a great idea but I added a 1/4 x 1 x 41/2 inch steel bar with a bushing to fit the pulley welded to one end and a hole at the other that I then screwed to the L shaped support at the other end. I also used a grade 12.9 bolt 90 mm long and this setup seems to be very strong. Thanks Tighed, it's thinkers like you that make this such a great forum.
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Les, what do you mean 'destroyed'? Were they rotted, ate up by chemicals, or just dry-rotted from exposure to the elements? Surely they are designed/built for high temperatures? Please elaborate?
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Wow! I would prefer 'Raid' smell to ants anyday! Glad you got them early. Do you know how long they were occupying?
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Hmmm.. should we call you Ant Franc now?
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We missed you as well.
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No more than a couple weeks. I just wonder what they found to live on.?. I swear I cleaned up all the french-fries from my Fall Dragon trip around March.
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Thanks in advance, love reading the blog as well!
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I am thinking of waiting to do the full polish until the spring!
Summer is June 21. Looks like you will miss a Spring polish. We are having temps just below 100 this weekend here in Fresno, CA. Did my polish & wax last month when it was ONLY 80.
Summer is June 21. Looks like you will miss a Spring polish. We are having temps just below 100 this weekend here in Fresno, CA. Did my polish & wax last month when it was ONLY 80.
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C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S on the new addition. It looks pretty clean. ENJOY!
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Thanks for the "welcome back" comments guys! This 2004 Coupe is what I would call "slightly rough around the edges" but that's probably just me being overly picky. My 2005 Roadster is in better than new condition, but I'm rather over the top about this sort of thing. This coupe will share daily driver duties for me and will sit outside, so I'm not too concerned about it being "perfect". I did do the electric tape wrap on the rear hatch striker bar this afternoon and holey moley what a difference!!!
Now, you guys who are getting fresh paint jobs, there's really nothing wrong with polishing the paint right after it's been painted, but you might want to stick with Meguiar's professional line products rather than consumer on brand new paint. I've become a huge fan of our M100 since it cuts like crazy and finishes out really nice, too. Very fresh paint may be quite soft so you may not even need that much cut. It may well be that M205 Ultra Finishing Polish is more than enough, and it's amazing stuff.
Just how soon after painting is it OK to do this stuff? Consider that a body shop will likely wet sand and buff within 24 hours of shooting the clear - yep, that's pretty soon. And at the risk of tooting my own horn a bit too much here, we did that very thing (with the aforementioned products) on a little car called "Imposter" at the end of February. If that name sounds familiar, it's because Chip Foose built it and it won the Ridler Award at Autorama a week after we finished it. Yes, you read that right.... I actually got to work alongside Chip Foose at the end of a 4 year build that earned him his 4th Ridler Award. Damn, I've got a cool job!!!!
Now, you guys who are getting fresh paint jobs, there's really nothing wrong with polishing the paint right after it's been painted, but you might want to stick with Meguiar's professional line products rather than consumer on brand new paint. I've become a huge fan of our M100 since it cuts like crazy and finishes out really nice, too. Very fresh paint may be quite soft so you may not even need that much cut. It may well be that M205 Ultra Finishing Polish is more than enough, and it's amazing stuff.
Just how soon after painting is it OK to do this stuff? Consider that a body shop will likely wet sand and buff within 24 hours of shooting the clear - yep, that's pretty soon. And at the risk of tooting my own horn a bit too much here, we did that very thing (with the aforementioned products) on a little car called "Imposter" at the end of February. If that name sounds familiar, it's because Chip Foose built it and it won the Ridler Award at Autorama a week after we finished it. Yes, you read that right.... I actually got to work alongside Chip Foose at the end of a 4 year build that earned him his 4th Ridler Award. Damn, I've got a cool job!!!!