72 duster Build progress
Been a few days since my last post.....it has either been to cold to work or I have been to busy working on the car to take pictures or there wasnt much noticable progress worthy of taking pictures....but I have something to tide everyone over until I can get around to getting more pictures.
Picked up some holley valve covers off a fellow member for $25.00 shipped, they were painted green (which came off easily) but under the green was what appeared to be wrinkle powder coat black and MAN did that stuff take for ever to get off.....I am still holding out for some different covers at which time I will have them powder coated but for now I am painting them orange to match the engine with the fins and holley logo in the brushed aluminom look.
when I get them done I will take pictures of the finished product.
also, I FINALLY got the engine bay stripped of almost ALL the paint, took alot of paint stripper and alot of elbow grease but she is pretty darn clean.
not sure if you can make it out in the pictures but you can kind of see where the firewall was replaced with a non A/C firewall like I mentioned earlier in the thread.
I also did some patch panel work...I welded up patch panels over some holes I will not be needing such as the battery hold down hole and things like that (smoothing the engine bay for a tad cleaner flowing paint job)
let me know what you all think! ,Thanks!
covers when I got them
Again
How they look after striping them and alot of sanding!
Again
Engine bay
And again!
Been a few days since my last post.....it has either been to cold to work or I have been to busy working on the car to take pictures or there wasnt much noticable progress worthy of taking pictures....but I have something to tide everyone over until I can get around to getting more pictures.
Picked up some holley valve covers off a fellow member for $25.00 shipped, they were painted green (which came off easily) but under the green was what appeared to be wrinkle powder coat black and MAN did that stuff take for ever to get off.....I am still holding out for some different covers at which time I will have them powder coated but for now I am painting them orange to match the engine with the fins and holley logo in the brushed aluminom look.
when I get them done I will take pictures of the finished product.
also, I FINALLY got the engine bay stripped of almost ALL the paint, took alot of paint stripper and alot of elbow grease but she is pretty darn clean.
not sure if you can make it out in the pictures but you can kind of see where the firewall was replaced with a non A/C firewall like I mentioned earlier in the thread.
I also did some patch panel work...I welded up patch panels over some holes I will not be needing such as the battery hold down hole and things like that (smoothing the engine bay for a tad cleaner flowing paint job)
let me know what you all think! ,Thanks!
covers when I got them
Again
How they look after striping them and alot of sanding!
Again
Engine bay
And again!