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Hard Motorsport Dash Flocking

Now while I had the dash out of the car to get in and replace the heater core and AC Evaporator I figured it was a good time to apply an anti-glare finish to the dash. Previously I had purchased the anti-glare dash kit and tools through HARD Motorsport so I got stuck into it. Its reasonably straight forward to do but hard to get right. I highly recommend the flocking applicator you can get through HARD Motorsport if you chose to do this yourself as it made a consistent overall finish a lot easier. The hard part was getting the glue painted on nice and consistently and then blasting with the flock before it started to dry. Here is a collection of photos of my efforts and the finish:






With the dash out I also noticed the rust that had started to bloom on the dash frame as it is unpainted. I thought it was a little over the top to get it painted but also didn't like leaving something completely unpainted. I had a fair bit of a can of Wurth Rust-Stop Primer and Zich Rich Weld-Thru Primer left so decided to give the frame a coat of the Rust-Stop and then a top coat of the Zich Rich Primer to hopefully stop the rust from grabbing hold.






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