Technical What did you do with your car today? * NEW*

Slow down, you're going to kill someone lol

 

It looks faster than it was lol I was probably only doing 25!

 

Not actually today but last week my son came home for a couple days and help me blow the dragster apart. Had it sandblasted Saturday, primed it on Sunday, and painted it today. Now I just have to put this puzzle back together.

Notice there's no black overspray on the floor and I didn't have anything under the chassis when I painted it. I used an electrostatic paint system that I've had for years. I think it's something like 98 or 99% efficient. I only used about 1 1/2 pints each of primer and paint.

I'm going to give it at least a couple days for the paint to cure and will then start reassembly.

Lynn

 

Not much other than spending way to much time over thinking that everything is wrong and then coming to the conclusion that ya know I think I can make it work.

 

Finished up the fuel side on the Henry J



Then made up some brackets and mounted the fuse box in the 41

 

Windshield is in....the list is getting smaller

 

Ready to play musical cars, need my carport to do some F100 stuff, shop's full of '27 T's.
Daily driven exotics are cluttering up carport, so driveway #2 it is for them, with their respective car covers.

 

Drove it

 

Pulled the sewing machine out and stitched up some windlace for our '47. Another small step; too many distractions.

 

Started lining up my grill, splash aprons, etc

 

Started back up on building a fan shroud for my '35. Interesting to find the parts I did a year or two ago don't match the sketches I made when I started the project; guess a plan B must have taken over. Don't look like much now, next step is getting the big hole in the right spot, will get that tomorrow.

 

Went for coffee this morning.

 

New alternator belt and wash and a little check the ranch cruise.

 

Went from this........


to this..........

 

My kid came over last night and helped with the fan shroud. Flat black paint so the ugly thing doesn't show to much. Sure helped to have a young guy around to do the getting up and down from under the car. Temp stayed down pretty good while he was playing with the carb and timing. Battery was on it's last legs, so he picked one from his "battery guy" and we put it in this morning. Going to install an overflow tank tomorrow and then see how it works on the road with the hood closed.

 

I met up with a couple club members and went to a cruise night, 738 cars there, open wheel and gasser were featured cars tonight

 

Yes! Yes! Very Nice! But, but it's s smiling at me!

 

Today I started designing a rear roll pan. 3d scanned my model a.

 

I was gone for 5 days, I had the portable garage all zipped up, and one of these blueberry munching mofo's get into my tent and hopped in the window and took a big blueberry dump on my t-bird seat

 

Needed groceries:



-Dave

 

Today-well at the weekend I raced my Coupe powered by a 4banger at Pendine Sands 2nd in class at 70.5 mph and my missus was 3rd in class just behind me ,only beaten by a well established car owned by the organiser .....not bad for a 9 month build

 

Went on the HRPT with this guy.


Stopped in Carthage NC.


And a picture with Project X.

 

Finally finished the Dana 60 for the 57, it has 1967 dated 4:10 gears, Eaton true trac, moser 35 splined axles, GM 9 1/2" drum brakes.

 

Just needs one of these

 

I'm at least part way out of my rut Actually got some work done on my rebuild of my old hotrod Ford -Y. I've been stall out ,on it from Dec, over a year plus ago. Starting to put stuff back together,got new cam bearings in,added lifter n cam,oil plugs,freez plus are done! Will be dropping crank in block this weekend ,add pistons an rods next week. Little at a time.

 

I looked at it while I was backing out to go to work and thought "I REALLY need to get to working on it!"

 

Harvested some brackets from a donor housing for a future 12 Bolt install in my 62 Biscayne. No action shots, my assistant was busy and I was try to not light myself on fire

 

Overflow finally showed up; made some brackets and hung it on the shroud. Filled the radiator to the top along with new tank. Fired it up and it took quite a bit longer than pre-shroud to hit 180 sitting in the driveway, took a ride and temp dropped down on highway as before, so that part is good. Drove around side streets for a bit and temp stayed ok. Pulled back in the drive and let it run and the anti-freeze finally expanded enough to dump out the overflow. Will have to check the level when it cools down to see if it worked right. Never had a recovery tank on a hot rod before so new to me.
Need to make it black at some point.

 

Got my O.T van inspected today....Trusty material , parts hauler , mule.....ha ha