Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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Thanks guys. Yeah, I've heard the body filler routine, and I'm sure it works well. But I have always cut some mat the same width as the wood, laid up a couple of layers of it, and clamped the stringer into that wet mat. It gives it somewhat of a cushion under there that will conform to the irregularities. I bet John knows this way from working at the boat factories. BTW, I'm still sneezing up wood dust.

I had to head back to the shop tonight........Santa came today in his brown truck. Got my headers. I LOVE 'EM. !!! Sanderson did their usual good job, and they seem to be aimed just the right way to deflect the exhaust down and out away from the driver. I am going to order a couple of end caps from them in plain steel and build my own baffles, then have them jet hot coated to match the headers. I think that should quiet it down a little.

Of course I had to bolt them to the engine for a look see, here are some shots.


Don


PS: Yes, I am going to paint that red distributor cap the same color as the engine. Sticks out like a sore thumb now.

Don great work missed some days and wow your moving great . You are moving on it hope you stop to eat a bit now and then .

My wife and i at sams last weekend she saw a hummer your engine color and complimented on how it looked good so i had to tell her how you painted the block of your rod that color.

Thanks. Oh yeah, you saw one huh? I liked it too when that guy came in to work with one, it just looked old timey to me somehow. Choosing a color is such a tough ordeal. Some days I walk by my engine and say no way am I going to like the whole car in that color, but other days it looks fine. I guess I won't know until I spray it. The first thing to get color is going to be the frame, so that will be sort of the acid test. If it looks ok on it, then the rest should be ok.

As for making progress, yes I am. This body wooding is going to move me ahead a huge amount. Dan and I went out to dinner after the shop tonight, and were talking about the next steps. Once the body is wooded it can come off and I can get Dan to wrap up a couple of little welding items. Then it goes to the sandblaster. I will immediately prime it with epoxy primer, then mold in the brackets with body filler, and shoot a heavy coat of primer surfacer over that, and sand the heck out of it. At that point I can shoot the color on it. I know once I get the frame and running gear painted I will have the incentive to get it going as soon as possible.

Being laid off helps too, now I have the days to do this stuff.

Don