corsachili
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The second stage of my CSL's transformation is now complete. This morning, much to my surprise, Superior Plating in San Jose called to let me know that my wheel arches were ready. I had expected that it would take them 3 weeks or more to do the work, but they were done in less than a week. Let me just say this now. If you need your wheel arch trim refinished, I cannot imagine a better place to have it done. I should have made pictures of them before I dropped them off because they way they looked when I picked them up was nothing short of amazing. They look like they were just unwrapped from the manufacturer. They probably look better than they did new. Mine were not in horrible shape, but they did have some pitting, some dents and scratches, and there's no way I could have polished them to the level they are now. There is not a dent or a scratch to be seen. They look simply phenomenal.
This evening I spent a couple hours installing them, and the job is now done. While they are purty and shiny, I still they're they're odd looking. They do seem to make sense on the car, but I think that's just because we're so used to seeing CSLs with this silly bit of trim on them. I guess the word that comes to mind is "funky", but it's the way the car is supposed to look, and so they're on.
The car is now sitting on 14" wheels with the stock springs and 3 dot pads in the rear. With the wheel arches I think she's probably sitting just about the way she would have when new. I had to adjust my headlights so that they weren't pointing in to the sky after raising the front end.
I'm elbows deep in to restoring a set of wood for the car in original French Walnut veneer. At this point I'm still stripping and prepping the old wood. Hopefully in the next few weeks I'll start veneering. This time I'm going to use a vacuum bag instead of clamps like I did when I refinished the wood in my old CS.
This evening I spent a couple hours installing them, and the job is now done. While they are purty and shiny, I still they're they're odd looking. They do seem to make sense on the car, but I think that's just because we're so used to seeing CSLs with this silly bit of trim on them. I guess the word that comes to mind is "funky", but it's the way the car is supposed to look, and so they're on.
The car is now sitting on 14" wheels with the stock springs and 3 dot pads in the rear. With the wheel arches I think she's probably sitting just about the way she would have when new. I had to adjust my headlights so that they weren't pointing in to the sky after raising the front end.
I'm elbows deep in to restoring a set of wood for the car in original French Walnut veneer. At this point I'm still stripping and prepping the old wood. Hopefully in the next few weeks I'll start veneering. This time I'm going to use a vacuum bag instead of clamps like I did when I refinished the wood in my old CS.
