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Update on wheel preparation.
Soda blast is a bit too much for the aluminum tape I was using to mask the bright areas.
So I'm going to use chemical stripper then try to only have to soda blast the cast area lightly to provide a good clean surface for painting.
I may cheat and just use epoxy paint instead of PP as I do not have my own oven and the PP shop is both expensive and backed up for months.

Joji,

Have you had a chance to evaluate how this shroud is working for you?

I have to use Super Unleaded, rather than normal Unleaded, which has a larger alcohol content. E5 petrol is made up of 95 per cent unleaded petrol plus 5 per cent ethanol (which is why it’s named ‘E5’). E10 petrol is much more beneficial to the environment, containing 10% ethanol and 90% regular unleaded petrol – and was introduced to help the government meet its climate change targets.

The breather hole in the filler neck is very small.

If the fuel was hydrophilic, it would absorb moisture from the atmosphere.

I just cannot see how so much water gets into an apparently sealed pair of tanks except for tiny breather holes which point 45' down. .

I don't know the ethanol percentage in the UK. Do they even use ethanol over there?

Odd that they say the color is green. At least they acknowledge that it is “used”.