Nice details Steve. Your attention to detail really shows. Gotta love that gold flake paint too!:cool:
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Nice details Steve. Your attention to detail really shows. Gotta love that gold flake paint too!:cool:
Drive it, oh yes definitly, My aim is to run a 10 second quarter at the drags on the crossply tyres, thats bias belted to you guys :)
If you saw me out in my car you would think i stole it :LOL::LOL::LOL:
I like to give them a regular work out, no point in having them otherwise in my opinion.
I just like to try and do the best job i can but thanks for the kind comments they are really appreciated.
Forgot about the rear pics, not so blingy :LOL:
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...t24th20101.jpg
Copper or gold it looks great! Copper is more accurate now that I look at it!:LOL:
Been checking out your thread as I am new here.
All I can say it that is amazing skill you have, great work!
WOW! :cool:
Here I am happy with primed and painted calipers. "One mans ceiling is another mans floor". In this case I am in the basement. :)
Not much to show as most of it is the boring stuff at the moment and this detail stuff can eat up a fair bit of time but i did get around to making the master cylinder look a bit better, I was originally going to chrome the body but after 1/2 way through polishing i decided to paint it.
Master cylinder is new Raybestos unit from a 1955 F100 truck
First off got all the roughness off it and ground off the lettering and sticky out bits and put on 3 coats of epoxy primer, next 2 coats of Green TI hibuild, then it was all rubbed down and 3 coats of my special mix 2k white applied, its matches the firewall.
The cap was made on a CNC mill and is fashioned after a aircraft cap, this was hollowed out and glued to the original cap with 2 pack epoxy glue. Once set it was given a nice shine on my polisher.
The outlet of the cylinder was 1/2" UNF and you can't get a stainless fitting to 3AN so i spun one up on the lathe and drilled and tapped the centre to take a 3/8" stainless banjo fitting & bolt.
I wanted to add a lanyard to the cap and found some stainless bicycle brake cable, I'm well pleased how it came out
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...ct8th20102.jpg
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...Oct8th2010.jpg
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...Oct9th2010.jpg
Wow, even the little stuff! Looks great. Love the depth to the paint!
Very nice, I think that is called making a silk purse out of a sows ear :LOL:
Ken