Thanks for the encouragement guys; I can only hope it is worth it, I have to admitt a few times I have been tempted to cut corners. My buddy (craig)came down yesterday and informed me that he was going to put mirrors under the car at autorama and that I had no choice but to make it respectable.
A couple days ago I said that sometimes you go around a corner, find something new or different and suddenly things change. Well this time it was Craig coming around the corner and badmouthing my chevette steering column. I do have to admitt that I would have picked something else, but I was thinking of leaving it in anyway. Well, I knew I had this 67 mustang column in the barn from another strip fest about 15 years ago. So I guess we now gotta marry the chevette column to the mustang column, and put a key on the dash. I told him that since it was his idea he had to get some seat time with the new cutters and welders so he was gonna do the work.
UPDATE: 68 hours, 12 days down, 78 to go;
Did not get out to shop until 7pm tonite, since yesterday was also short I felt I had to get some time in.
Removed the rear-end, cleaned it and painted it and reinstalled it, plus painted the arms with it and touched up the frame around the connecting points. I also wired brushed the bolts and nuts, installed new washers.
Here is a pix of the new upper A-arms, I am very pleased with them, got them from Southern Rods in North Carolina, 130.00 a pair.
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Hey RustyBob, here is your silver against black, I was almost cussing you because you would not let me have a two tone frame, see that flashlight in the background, it took that and me getting into some weird positions to paint all the strange places on that frame. But I do know it was the right thing to do.
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OK, so I broke down and got some bling, (sort of), In order to stay with Bob's theme color I bought some stainless steel allen bolts for the rearend cover. Guess that extra 5 bucks wont break the bank. It does look very nice even if i did do it myself. I am going to carry these through to the intake, valve covers, and maybe exhaust bolts.
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Here is another rear-end shot, i spent about an hour polishing the brake lines with steel wool.
These photos will be very valuable to the judges, this will show them the detail that was carried out in the places they can not see.
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I want to do an analysis on the project, I am about half way through the estimated 500 hours for the build. i need to chart a course ahead, and add up my late purchases to check in on build cost. Maybe tomorrow for that, been a long day and gonna hit the hay.
Ray