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Nothing would surprise me with this one so I wouldn’t rule it out! The fuel filler is a state which I imagine was caused by a sander, that’s yet another thing on the list to look at. I have a vague idea of replacing all the silver bits (rear diffuser, fuel filler, mirrors, front grille) with carbon fibre or carbon fibre look, but that’s definitely something for down the road once I’ve sorted the big ticket items.
@Dammit yes I’ve sadly already had that experience with the rust dragon, prepping the underside for treatment with lanoguard we discovered a rather sizeable hole in the rear subframe so it’s going in for a new one of those and new spring pans, and whilst we’re at it the mag ride shocks are on the way out and the springs are corroded so we’re throwing some Bilstein B14s on it at the same time. I know the maths is going to show that once that lot’s done I could just have bought a Cayman to start with but where’s the fun in that? I’m not quite in the realms of a full engine redesign yet but give it a couple of years… ;)