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    So with the body on the frame holes B, C & D are covered, leaving only hole A exposed. The front body mount uses hole "B", and it is a bear to get to as it is in the extreme corner of the cowl. If it were me doing it from scratch I'd use hole "C" instead, but that would entail extending the metal bracing pads and is more trouble than it's worth. On a good note, once set on the frame the door gaps tightened up a ton, and in fact I may need to shim up the body mount hole right behind the door to increase that gap a bit.

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    Today the FedEx & UPS guys brought wheels and dog dish caps. Going with 16x8's in the rear riding P265R75x16's which measure 31.7" tall, and 15X5's up front riding 145SR15's which measure 24.5" tall yielding a 7.2" rubber rake which is close to ideal. Now I need to get my head around my color scheme so that I can paint the wheels before I mount the tires, which should be here by the end of the week. The PO painted the chassis black using base & clear, but the finish is less than stellar so my plan is to back tape the top & bottom and a line at the cowl and hit it with two or three coats of clear to even things out. This is the wheel & cap combo I'm going with, for a little more "retro" look, but I'm doing kind of medium heavy on the rear tires, big enough to say "Hot Rod", but not as over powering as the '33's P285's that one can only get from Coker. The caps are '40 Standard, which I think are among the best of the era. I like that V8 logo, and it will look sharp with some body color pinstripe accents on the "V".

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    Yes Steve, the package included a poly gas tank and fiberglass cover. Unfortunately one of the pieces that didn't turn up when we were loading parts was the fuel tank nozzle and billet cap. I know for a fact that the package purchased included the nozzle & cap, and I've found the cork gasket & screws for it, but no nozzle. It's only a $36 item, so not a big deal.

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    Today I was chasing down details of the paint that the PO used. I know that the chassis is base coat, clear coat and Dupont 99 black which is OK, but he painted the rear end housing, ladder bars, brake pedal and brake connecting rod with some greenish gray paint. The PO told me that it was Eastwoods Aluma Blast, which is an acrylic lacquer, but the finish would not soften with lacquer thinner or reducer, even with the surface broken with a red Scotch Brite pad. I want them black, so we decided to abandon attempts to strip the old, and simply rough up the surface with 320 grit, hit it with a quality epoxy seal coat, let it flash and then hit it with black & clear and be done.

    I almost forgot, I visited my trusted tranny guy yesterday and he pushed me towards a 700R4 over the other choices. There's a ton more of them out there, cores are easy to come by and built right they will take the abuse. He took my unknown TH350 as partial payment, which gives me the mandatory paper trail for registration, a known new tranny, and overdrive. It's all good, but now I need to re-gear the pumpkin with something like 3.89's to give this thing some punch in the lower gears.

    That's it for today. Not much real progress, but then again not on anyone's schedule but my own.
    Last edited by rspears; 03-26-2014 at 04:43 PM.
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