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Thanks Roger. Yes I'm in CT. Thats one of the reasons for PC. With the winters here and all the salt that is still on the roads in the spring. PC will hold up better. I have mocked this thing up so many times I can't see me missing anything. That was the reason for mocking everything thing up to make sure it was all welded on and done before paint or PC. I do know I'm going to have to drill a couple of holes to mount the brake and gas lines because I didn't make them yet but I good with that. Thanks for the compliments guy's.

Originally Posted by BIG-JIM

Thanks Roger. Yes I'm in CT. Thats one of the reasons for PC. With the winters here and all the salt that is still on the roads in the spring. PC will hold up better.

We all have our opinions, but my experiences with PC have not shown that it holds up well at all in the harsh winter chemical environment. Any little flaw, including cracks at sharp angled joints with any flex, will allow moisture to wick underneath the PC layer and the surface will rust at an accelerated rate, but you never know until it shows at the crack and you peel large layers of PC off to reveal nasty rust that's much worse than it would be with no coating at all. On my Jeep every piece of PC metal is rusting, and the gas tank skid had the PC come off in large pieces. As I said, I will always choose epoxy and paint over PC for anything but a trailer queen that won't ever see wet roads. As for your comment about drilling holes, you are going to expose a PC/raw metal edge at any place you drill, and that will establish capillary action to start the corrosion process which will be invisible for a year or two.

I'll drop the subject, because you seem to be sold on powder, and wish you best of luck with it in the future.

Happy New Year everyone! My New Years resolution is to finish this car. Actually by this time next year I'm hoping to have it at the upholsterer so we can hit the road in the spring of 2016. If it happens sooner all the better. So on to the update...The frame is at the powdercoater and should be back in about a week. In the mean time I have broken everything down and I've been painting and detailing like crazy. The rear end is all stripped, cleaned, & repainted as well as the split bones, steering arms, front axle, trans cross-member, steering box, and the brake brackets. The coilover shocks were fun. They were new (still had the tags on them) but they were all rusty and crusty from sitting there. The tops were just aluminum castings that had undercoating, paint over spray, and were all oxidized from sitting so I polished these and the bottom locking spanner nut (also aluminum). The coils will be blasted and painted tomorrow (Black) and the bodies were stripped of all their paint and repainted red. But before I could do that I had to fix the oil leaks at the adjustment screws at the bottom. Some new o-rings, crush washers, and refilling the shock with oil and some bleeding and we are good to go (Big thanks to the Mrs. for the help). That one saved me about $300. I have my fingers crossed they work okay and stay working for years to come. Santa got me a pertronix upgrade for my points distributor so I installed that. The transmission is at the the shop getting a makeover and I've been wrestling with colors. I've got it down to Dearborn blue or Washington blue (leaning towards the Washington blue). Whelp, that's it in a nutshell.