66 dart convertible
yeah I'm working on getting the wiring updated and drilling most of the holes needed for the relay's before I think about paint. I'm doing the headlight relay upgrade and changing to electronic ignition and later model charging system. just grunt work right now. now that I have the tail lights on both sides of the car working (I wanted ALL of the lights to be brake/tail/turn)
Since I did a major bit of re-construction I'm test fitting all my trim to go back on. the cowl that I put on came from a 4 door car and didn't have the holes in it for the convertible trim, door looked to be from a barracuda or valiant(it had trim on the top of the door by the window hmm I kinda liked that) and extra holes here and there from parts off of different year's
plus I'm working on molds for the tail light (with bezel attached)
first coat of test
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mold coated 4 times for full coverage
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part pulled from mold
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mold put back in the plaster to cure some more before making the bondo plug to fix and finish perfectly
does it work? sort of using regular tube silicone for a molding rtv sucks. but I can't see spending $100.00 on casting RTV until I get a working finished plug that I do want to spend the money on and get good parts out of.
I have my dart I'm working on and the wife's is next, so I'll at least make 3 set's of lights . yah 1 set as a backup set in case I damage one set sometime in the future,
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since bezels(good ones) are hard or next to impossible to find or too expensive if you do find them. I came up with an idea to make a mold of the whole thing and cast it out of acrylic, but since my bezel's are so bad I have to make a bondo plug to fix the bad spots (*dang more body work)
then I can use the good rtv molding rubber to cast a couple of good parts, just have 3 more to do.
later on I am thinking of using the D part of the lense as a testbed prototype by adding yellow led's in the d ring you see in the last picture and using a convertor to fire off the yellow led's. I've cast a red lense and added a yellow/amber led section to it for my friends motorcycle and it looks great. you even see the yellow/amber leds excellent. the red doesn't seem to filter out the yellow for some reason. anyway that's for later