Paint guns? What ,are you using?
Stop in for a cup of coffee
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GeorgeH
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You don't want to wax fresh paint for 90 days. Glaze is kinda like wax but no silicone or sealers in it, but it brings up a glossy wet look. I usually use 3M hand glaze but was out of it, and used Meguiars show car glaze. I was impressed with it.
I used to hate headers because they leak and they cause problems .....until an old circle track racer showed me a old timer trick of using silicon to seal headers. Has to be 100% silicone with no color additives or any kind of synthetic, 100% pure silicone can withstand like 1500* F ....
I have leaky headers no more, thing of the past.
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GeorgeH
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I use a Devilbiss Plus gun, and a couple of others.
yup, constantly lurking and in and out.
I take naps and get busy with other stuff and hold the weirdest and most inverted schedule ever
I have a Sata jet I rarely use except for new car paints, an old school Blue Cobalt ....like when is the last time you saw one of those around from the early 2000s, and a Harbor freight unit that does the work of all the above and was only 8 bucks with a coupon
Correct, Rani... See you , in the FABO pages,... You have become a collect book of Mopar knowledge....
GeorgeH
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LOL, I have one of the 8 dollar deals that I use for primer. I bought a satajet 90, didn't really care for it.I have a Sata jet I rarely use except for new car paints, an old school Blue Cobalt ....like when is the last time you saw one of those around from the early 2000s, and a Harbor freight unit that does the work of all the above and was only 8 bucks with a coupon
I used to sell the Cobalts,(1.4 tip, over reduced for. single stage enamels...) Wonderful gun, for it's time... The " purple gun" , is wonderful..., I spend too much time: cleaning the gun, over reducing paint to flow freely, how I like it to flow, and the bad quality... For what I need to do: (limited air flow, limited air line, limited time wise) an old school siphon Binks 7 style gun, makes more sense....I have a Sata jet I rarely use except for new car paints, an old school Blue Cobalt ....like when is the last time you saw one of those around from the early 2000s, and a Harbor freight unit that does the work of all the above and was only 8 bucks with a coupon
Good morning Hop's , I think Rainy just took off
Where is she flying to???
Took off what?
Good Morning
Giggity, giggity...
Karl... I am just happy, Rani's back.... Common sense. ? Thank's for feedback,Rani...
Hard to say, she maybe flying to a location of where the headers are..
GeorgeH
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done
Hey, I made post # 150,000
GeorgeH
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It's what my FIL wantedThat looks great!!! Much better than before...
Yes but that's stock weight. I'm gonna be running a ton of aluminum
Stock heads: 51 lbs each total 102
Eddy aluminum heads: 26 lbs each, total 52 pounds
Stock exhaust manifolds: 25lbs each, 50 lbs total
Headers: 25 lbs total
Iron intake: 40 lbs
Aluminum intake: 15 lbs
Iron water pump and housing: 20 pounds
Aluminum water pump and housing: 5 lbs.
I also won't be running an A/C compressor that the car originally had, so there's another 20 lbs off the engine:
Tots weight reduction of the 440:
135 lbs.
I'm also saving 100 lbs out of the front suspension and brakes.
Another 105 out of fiberglass bumper, hood, and no hood hinges.
That's 340 lbs , now the roll cage will add probably half that back in, but I'll be in the center of the car.
Plus shaving that much off the unsprung weight both front and rear is gonna help greatly
zkx14
Duster De-ruster
It is, but he needs to get that bowtie the hell out of there so he can work on his Duster!
Hey any of you Petty fans, here's a good article about the Petty Museum with some cool pictures!!!
HUGE Gallery Of Rare Stuff From Petty’s Museum & Shop!
I also made a post in the Mopar General forum so people that don't come to the coffee shop can enjoy also...
HUGE Gallery Of Rare Stuff From Petty’s Museum & Shop!
I also made a post in the Mopar General forum so people that don't come to the coffee shop can enjoy also...
zkx14
Duster De-ruster
Just did my Duster with a HF purple paint spitter. Not my first time painting, but first whole car. Other than the gun falling apart (trigger nut) I think the lack of flow was my biggest problem. Probably would have still been far from perfect , but If I get around to redoing it at some point, It wont be with a HF gun.
I have two slant six 4 bbl. Intakes and set of headers and two cars i want to build as slant six cars.
One intake is a clifford with heater hose nipples and the other is a offenhouser much like the one mr. Karl has fer sale.
The headers are clifford brand.
From my understanding, the clifford is a high performance intake and the offy is, well, simply a 4 bbl. Intake.
So i plan to use the clifford intake and get a new clifford header for the valiant wagon engine because that engine is hot and has had a ton of machine work on it and way not stock.
Then i will use the used header i have now and the offy on a milder slant for the 73 dart.
One intake is a clifford with heater hose nipples and the other is a offenhouser much like the one mr. Karl has fer sale.
The headers are clifford brand.
From my understanding, the clifford is a high performance intake and the offy is, well, simply a 4 bbl. Intake.
So i plan to use the clifford intake and get a new clifford header for the valiant wagon engine because that engine is hot and has had a ton of machine work on it and way not stock.
Then i will use the used header i have now and the offy on a milder slant for the 73 dart.
Good Morning fellers and gal. Keith we are never really happy with our cars but yours looks good in the pictures and you didn't pay $10,000
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