Day late: What did you get done this weekend?

For right now they will be bare metal, some time this spring Ill put on some astros, im getting it painted with the tax money. Just cause its a four door doesnt mean its got to look or run like crap ya know?

 

took the speedster out for the 1st time in about 5 months. Started on a 1/4 turn after sitting...drove it about 15 miles in the rain. Rain at 45 is soft...at 65+ it bites. Spent sunday working out the engineering for the new chassis and body for it.

 

Those things look gay, in a Michigan sorta way.

 

Tore my motor apart down to the block. First time i ever did one. Lots of fun. Getting it boiled this week. Hope to get it put back together over the next couple months.

 

Kept my brother up all night (didn't even leave the shop until 5:30 AM, I'm sure this made his wife happy-not) trying to hang headers (Hedman Elite if anybody's interested) in my sister's Camaro that we're doing a ground up on to no avail, only to find out they're not designed for so called "fast steering" after several phone calls today. Although the reps from Summit and Hedman were quite pleasant to talk to and as helpful as they could be, the whole experience of buying parts that don't fit, apparently were designed for only a very small percentage of the very same cars (this car started life as a garden variety 6 cylinder, not exactly an exotic rare version) they are listed for (a fact only made know by footnotes revealed by research provided after the problem and not before the purchase), and will ultimately have to be sent back and a suitable replacement sought out and procured, delaying the project needlessly after already waisting many manhours trying to install the uninstallable, is incredibly frustrating. Would nave been nice to have the motor installation behind me and be trial fitting frontend sheetmetal by now.

 

Worked on installing my Engine Dyno

 

Cut rust out of my 56 Ford pickup cowl & floor. I now need twice as many patch panels as I thought I did. Cleaned up the firewall and started filling holes in it-8 down and about 60 to go. Looked at the surface rust under the dash and got depressed.

OH yeah, bought a set of front tires for the Anglia, off E-Bay. Kinda has old Pirelli looking tread pattern.




Riders In The Sky-Dick Dale.
Blues at Sunrise- SRV

 

i got my shitbox running now i got to do the brakes this weekend commin up

 

After weeks of working at cleaning out my single car garage, building shelves, shoving things around and so on, I managed to walk from the front door to the back door without having to step over anything for the first time in years. And, I could still get front to back after bringing in a Miller Syncrowave 250. Damn, that thing's big! About another week's work and I'll be grinding on a flathead block.

 

Been working on a variation of the Ellisbrasher Tubing Bender.Another useful bit of info courtesy of the HAMB.

http://members.aol.com/ellisbrasher/Bender3LSGS75.jpg

My Variation so far.

http://photobucket.com/albums/v312/yobaby/Ellisbrasher%20variation

I hope to be using it by this weekend.