I wanted a custom throttle body cover for the car rather than the stock plastic one. There are plenty of really awful ones available, but I decided that it would be an easy thing to get laser cut or engraved. I drew it all out, priced up getting it cut, and then forgot about it. A few weeks ago I found a company that does custom ones on Ebay, so sent them the design and got 3 of them engraved. A quick trial fit on the spare one I had in the house I love them. The newly painted Camaro will get the first one next week hopefully.

It was Poppy’s 5th birthday on Sunday, so it was kids party on Saturday and only got a couple of hours on Sunday. I’m back on to cleaning up the last few bits ready to paint, which are little bits like the inner window trims and the parking brake lever. There’s the bonnet to do as well, but I don’t have anywhere to put it till the front end is built up so it will stay in the shed for now. I put the ipod on random and started cleaning the trims with the DA sander. It was slow work, and some of it was as easy to do by hand. When I got to my third one, I got fed up of the horrid black paint that was on there blocking the paper and had a go with the hot air gun I bought to melt heatshrink. It came off nicely, leaving a dirty stain behind that sands off in seconds, so went through the rest of the trims quickly and will hand sand these down in the week and hopefully shoot some etch on them at the same time.