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I was asked to restore an engine compartment. Mangusta 8MA1182. I actually finished it back in June but I have been so busy with my new workshop I have not had time to sort out the pictures and add some words.

The car came to me with the paint and body already done. Working around the fresh paint was inconvenient but possible. This car gets driven often in the UK and on the continent. It has been with it's current owner for over 26 years.

Pic 1. Scruffy engine compartment.

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Pic 19. I would like to have taken it apart for painting but it would not be possible to reassemble without the bearing scraping the paint off the shaft as it went back together. I painted the shaft and also the ally casting. I shot the silver and then applied a clear coat with lots of matting agent in it. I found this makes it look like a new casting because there is no shine. I later had some other ally parts vapour blasted and it was hard to tell which was bare ally and which was painted.

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