Got busy today.
Tried to find the reason for the smoke, think I found it. Slight sump leak was putting oil onto the heat wrap on my downpipe, that was then burnin off when getting warm.
I've removed the heat wrap for now and will address the leak.
Slight coolant leak from top rad hose(engine side) need a beefy clip to hold it I think.
I've had a leak into the cabin for ages(common on these) basically the water gets in under the windscreen and runs down the inside of the A pillar, leaving a trail of orange behind it.
If you've got your plastics sill on, I'd suggest you take a quick look as both my ek9s have leaked from here.
So to fix this meant pulling up the roof rails so I cleaned underneath those and stuck some sealant in under the gap in the windscreen. Hopefully I've sealed it up both sides and that's fixed that.
Cleaned up abit, didn't get too anal with it seen as track slag but couldn't leave it.
Cleaned up the door shuts and polished them up abit
Boot shut was full of crap so cleaned and polished that aswell as taking the boot rubber off and cleaning that up aswell.
Then I found this under the boot rubber, water clearly been collecting under the rubber and getting at the metal under the boot latch, so I've either got to grind this back or cut it out, will do it soon though because it doesn't look great. Again I'd suggest everyone look under the rubbers to check for things like this, I'd never have seen it if I hadn't. No clues or rust elsewhere so was surprised to see this.
Under the petrol flap was a state aswell as the actual cap itself.
Not and epic job but clean enough for a track car I think.
Finally the Varis bonnet was abit of a state on the underside, so again polished that.
Previous owner bought this as a damaged bonnet and did a repair on it, looks perfect from the top and does the trick!
Feels much better to have some of those little niggly things cleaned up/straightened out. Cleaning the oem wheels up from rc6 abuse is the challenge tomorrow!
