What Are You Doing To/With Your Car Today?

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Painting. The boy wasnt feeling well but he painted the inside of the deck lid.

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Yep, springseats fit the heads.
Yep, springs fit the springseats.
Yep, retainers fit the springs.
I should clean up the casting flash on the pushrod holes, it's ugly and offends my anal-retentive attitude.
edit: note, I weighed and marked the retainers and the moving ends of the springs. Yes, I am going to balance them as best as I'm able. Will it matter? Probably not much.
Next up I get to order the hollow stem intake valves and solid exhaust valves.
I need to search the house and shed to find my rocker shafts, rocker arms, securing hardware and spacers.
I was looking into carbon fiber pushrods out of curiosity. I dont trust them. Resin saturation, orientation of the fibers, post curing are all hidden variables and without long term and endurance testing data, I will stay away.

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Making room to start the car swap.
Read somewhere the slant 904’s have the same guts as V8s so I’m gutting this one to save space. Moved 6 totes using a 5 gallon bucket and a rope into the garage attic.
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Im cheating on the Coronet. It’s just a Pontiac, but I always wanted t roofs. It’s gonna live in 2K epoxy. This was an easy mask job. Hanging the booth…..not as easy!

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Well that went to ****. I never wanted to paint this thing as it I'd intended to be driven daily and hard. But after welding patches in almost every body panel I needed to do something to slow down rust.
Ling story short painting in the open air got me a paint job full of lady beetles,cheap paint and lack of skill got me a lot of orange peel.
The idea was a 10 footer but I have to fix a lot to get to that good.

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HankRearden said:
Well that went to ****. I never wanted to paint this thing as it I'd intended to be driven daily and hard. But after welding patches in almost every body panel I needed to do something to slow down rust.
Ling story short painting in the open air got me a paint job full of lady beetles,cheap paint and lack of skill got me a lot of orange peel.
The idea was a 10 footer but I have to fix a lot to get to that good.

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Silver lining.. you can scuff it with some wet sanding and shoot it again w/o too much effort.
 
Washing the car inside the garage. Because someone forgot to order a Drive shaft.

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Not on my old mopars but my newest.spent the weekend coating the piss out of everything underneath I could reach (I do have a lift) with NHOU undercoating. It's my first time using this sloppy mix on anything.
 
Doing disgusting 340 disassembly work including removing dead mouse body off of the oil pump. Warning: gruesome mouse pics
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72 degrees in metro-Detroit today, so I took the "Golden Oldie" out for a little gas & go. It may have been the last drive of the year. I put about 1,000 miles on the new engine this year. I was hoping for more miles, but the health thing has slowed me down a bit. Next year will be better!
 
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