67/68/69 cuda dilemma
Todays fun. Changed out a cracked plastic thermostat housing on wifes grand caravan. Effing Plastic!!! ******* Lego car!! This put me a bit behind on the cuda. I work in the morning to beat the heat on my last day off before I go back to work. So I had to hustle to get the cowl off. I cut it in a few places where it could be reused to get it off there. I plan on using a new AMD cowl panel. Was pleasantly surprised at the lower plenum condition. Gonna scrape the sealant off around the stand pipes and sandblast this all clean along with the front end of the car, epoxy primer and re seal it. Theres a hole in the firewall and in the lower cowl where ricky racer ran wires to mount gages on the cowl. Those will get repaired with steel sheetmetal plugs, and welding. In the past building my other projects there were always compromises and shoulda, woulda, couldas. I'm not feeling that way with this build with as far apart as I am taking this thing. One thing was the amount of sand blast sand still in the cowl from when I did the framerails and inside of the firewall last year. Really glad I removed it. Not only to clean out the corrosion, but also because of all that sand that was still in there. Heres pix.
Todays fun. Changed out a cracked plastic thermostat housing on wifes grand caravan. Effing Plastic!!! ******* Lego car!! This put me a bit behind on the cuda. I work in the morning to beat the heat on my last day off before I go back to work. So I had to hustle to get the cowl off. I cut it in a few places where it could be reused to get it off there. I plan on using a new AMD cowl panel. Was pleasantly surprised at the lower plenum condition. Gonna scrape the sealant off around the stand pipes and sandblast this all clean along with the front end of the car, epoxy primer and re seal it. Theres a hole in the firewall and in the lower cowl where ricky racer ran wires to mount gages on the cowl. Those will get repaired with steel sheetmetal plugs, and welding. In the past building my other projects there were always compromises and shoulda, woulda, couldas. I'm not feeling that way with this build with as far apart as I am taking this thing. One thing was the amount of sand blast sand still in the cowl from when I did the framerails and inside of the firewall last year. Really glad I removed it. Not only to clean out the corrosion, but also because of all that sand that was still in there. Heres pix.