Stanced XUD Estate (IT'S ALIVEEEEahahaha)

[cwspellowe]

Paint done, in the nick of time, and on the way to Knockhill



The complete list of work technically done over two days and a few evening is as follows:

Fitted, smoothed and painted WRX spoiler
Painted roof
Painted front wing
Painted calipers
Repainted lip of NSF wheel
Clay barred, polished and sealed all over
Degreased engine bay

Doesnt seem a lot but blending the spoiler took ages and it still isnt perfect but we ran well behind schedule and had to kind of say "that'll do".

Anyway, on we went up to Knockhill at 7am Sunday morning. All entrants had to be in by 8.30am and we would have been had it not been for the leak off injector to pump line popping off on the motorway, I estimate to have lost about 10L of fuelover the space of a few minutes as the fuel light wasn't on when we set off, I stuck a tenner in at the house and the fuel light was now on. Fail. Made it to a petrol station and stuck another tenner in which also disappeared pretty quickly, the leak off had hardened (presumably thanks to the veg) and didn't stop leaking until I trimmed about 2" off it and reconnected, seems to be holding ok now. In total we did 86 miles to about £25 worth of veg and diesel, ouch. Even the GTi would have been better than that!

The day went ok to be honest, not the busiest but met a couple of fellas off here (albeit not the johnny I thought, I was looking for the TB'd S16 and all I got was a diesel estate ) and the estate seemed to have hit the sweet spot with a couple of judges. by the end of the day I'd picked up:

Meguiar's Top 15 Best Styling Award
Knockhill Racing Circuit Best Modified Award

Not a bad couple of prizes, there were some seriously tidy motors there and i'm over the moon to have won anything at all, I was happy to just be in the top 15! There were a few 205's, a couple of R26's, a Berlingo, Cherry's monster 106, two Ecosse motors, Rab's minty mint 205 CTi...standards of some of the motors were really high, and the guys from Megs told me the Styling award was between mine and the 205 next to me on the Borbets, which was seriously tidy. Must have been the stanceboard that won it for me

Will post up pics when i've uploaded them. But yeah, in short, not been on here as it's been manic getting ready for the show but it all seems to have paid off

I've also been contacted by Davy, the editor of PFC, who wants to put the state in the Readers' Cars section this month and get a proper feature when he can get a 'tog north of the border. If i'd have made FCS this year it would have been awesome all round

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**PIC HEAVY**

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