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3 days work and I’m at this stage, about 75% of the raptor is removed. Thankfully other than the jack point and small piece of the floors it’s still incredibly solid. It’s 54 yrs old and been here for 18, so I can’t be too sad really. Especially when you see the state many U.K. buses are in 🙏🏻
 


For anyone who’s interested this is what I’ll be coating the underside of the bus with. Not cheap but kills rust, prevents new rust forming and cures as a primer. Got a 5 litre jug for the camper but I had this little tin kicking about.
 


For anyone who’s interested this is what I’ll be coating the underside of the bus with. Not cheap but kills rust, prevents new rust forming and cures as a primer. Got a 5 litre jug for the camper but I had this little tin kicking about.
Now I’ve heard of them but not that particular product. It does sound like it should be one of the better performers. Not even sure how I’ve heard of them? If it cures as a primer then even better I guess. How did you get to hear of it then ?

Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,,we always like recommends :)
 
Now I’ve heard of them but not that particular product. It does sound like it should be one of the better performers. Not even sure how I’ve heard of them? If it cures as a primer then even better I guess. How did you get to hear of it then ?

Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,,we always like recommends :)
I stumbled across it last winter when I was doing some work on my beetle. Only used it on a couple of areas but was so impressed im going all out with it on the bus 😂
 
Now all the scraping and grinding is done I made a start at laying some protection and paint on the under side at the back.



Epoxy mastic primer then a couple of good coats of paint. Not spike grade like deep shine but looks acceptable for an underside job out of a can lol.



Paint dried so proceeded so the fuel pumps and tidied up the wiring a bit.





Also had a nice nice parcel from America, new set of CNC ported 044 wedge ports with 44x37.5 valves & ‘big beef’ IDA manifolds from CB Performance 😄
 
So you have two fuel pumps, how are they configurated? And those heads look great, the valves are huge :cool::love:
The Holley pump feeds the carbs via a matched Holley regulator set at 4psi, the other 1 is a Bosch high pressure fuel injection pump regulated down to 35psi which delivers the supplementary fuel for the nitrous system.
 
Cut most of a crusty stuff out, just need to trim back a bit of the inner sill.



Hopefully start putting the new metal in tomorrow 🤞🏻 The repair panels from Alan Schofield are outstanding.



Cutting the belly pans off and will fit new which will be bolt on, so in future I can inspect behind there periodically and I suspect they have been hidden this for quite some time.
 
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