1) Okay so yesterday, Tiger got a new bonnet. The stone chips on her old one (which was itself a replacement for the hailstone-damaged original) were pretty bad when I installed it. The lacquer wasn't great either, with lots of spider-webbing in it.
So when an Ebony one came up for £30 (thanks Telboy) I took it on the basis that Paul (Shirtyzeus) had had a look and thought it was okay. No chips at least and there's no way I could respray my old one for that amount anyway.
It came off a car that had sat in a field for 2+ years, so of course it needed some cosmetic attention to the lacquer. After machine compounding and waxing, I think it'll be fine after another couple of goes. If any of you remember what Tiger was like when I bought her, you'll know I can do it.
2) I am convinced that there are certain setups where moosing is inevitable. I cured it before, but after my ST200 swap it came back. No amount of cleaning the IACV helped (nor did replacing it with a known-good one) so I decided that I had no choice but to create an anti-moosing kit.
I didn't really use any science here other than to ensure that the kit was not a multiple of the length of the original pipe, since that would lead to the same resonance. In the end I used 90cm of flexible, reinforced pipe from B&Q (which was by some miracle exactly the right diameter) looped around the master cylinder reservoir and cable tied in place. No more moose, even from cold and with the aircon on. Total cost, £4.98.
I'll get some pics tomorrow or something.
