Technical What are you working on?

Finished my headlights. Slightly tunneled 7" to 5.75" conversion.

 

Got the busted up outer panel glued back together. Doing a gl*** check.
Looks ok

has a couple layers of mat underneath. Made a backer piece for each side along the cut to screw it down to. About to glue this piece in so it can set up.
Left the center style line in just to line things up. It has cracks in the gel and I’ll grind those out after its glued in The outer will get a couple layers of mat plus an extra narrow strip along the splice

 

Got my grill squeezed in without messing up the paint



Real happy with how the front of the hood sides turned out



And the script piece under the tailgate turned out pretty good

 

After a couple of months of searching found a speedo pod for the Tempest to replace the sun fried unit that came with the car. Bonus is it's a 61 which is made of aluminum.

 

Is that rattle can Rustoleum Satin Black?

 

Good find! I can’t wait to see this beast when you are finished!

 

Krylon, that's what I used on the front fenders last time, it matched really good



This time it looks more glossy, Rustoleum's satin black is real shiny now with it's new formula

 

Got asked to make a one off throttle body for a friend that runs a Turbo VW. Made this from 5-1/4" aluminum bar stock. Layout uses Hilborn style shaft, blade, arms, and stops. Need to TIG weld a V Band flang to the bottom end of it yet. Made this on my vertical mill.

 

Sidetracking myself by prepping parts for yellow cadmium plating. 1st batch sent, today.

 

A friend needed a piece made that was missing for his six carb set-up.

 

That is a piece of artwork. Very nice job. I am in awe.

 

Haven’t updated on this thread in a while, but my build thread has some updated pics. Currently working on refreshing the Spalding Flamethrower.

 

Worked on fabbing engine mounts to put a 289 into a 32 3 window. It's a bit of a chore around the steering box.

 

That sounds familiar!!

 

Lots of custom touches on that

 

I've seen an engine eat one of those. The guy took off his air cleaner and spun the wingnut back on the stud so he wouldn't lose it. He then made a p*** down the drag strip and the wingnut spun itself off and went right down the wide open carb.

 

Cut some housing ends off a junk Chevelle 10 bolt and shortened up a big ol Imapala 12 bolt and turned it into an early Chevy II 12 bolt will fit the Tempest perfectly.

 

I had a real one, they bring big bucks.

 

My friend Scott has 2... That what I took exact measurements off of. They are like hens teeth.

 

That is so cool!! Where do you get axles?

 

Quick performance in Iowa

 

My winter project. Block , fix imperfections, prime , block.

 

Early Nova 12 bolt rears were hard to find in the mid 80's when I started looking for one and when you found one they were going for two to three times more money than the garden variety Chevelle, Impala, and Camaro versions, it took a few years to finally find mine and it needed some love as it had one bent axle and the other one had eaten up the hardened bearing surface, the story was it had actually been in a 69 Camaro that slammed a curb during a police chase.
I was at a Seattle area swap meet and a vendor was there with Nova parts and I mentioned that I was looking for some used 12 bolt axles and he says he had a pair at home in Spokane but didn't bring them because he wasn't sure he wanted to sell them, dig this, they were NOS GM axles.
After a few phone calls over a six month period he decided to sell them but said they wouldn't be cheap plus I would need to pay the freight from Spokane to Portland, well, hearing that, I was hesitant to ask how much he wanted and when he said $200 bucks plus the stamp I nearly dropped the phone.
Mailed him a CHECK and they showed up a week later, arriving in the original GM boxes, I installed them in the housing, rebuilt the brakes and within days had it in my 67.
I saved the boxes to brag to a friend what I paid as he had been looking for a pair longer than me, and when I called him and told him what I paid I think he too dropped the phone.

 

Stuck a few more parts on this old girl

 

My Home State!!!

 

I have done nothing since May, that's five months. A lost summer of tooling around, time to get my $%!+ together. I have found a good head, painted it, and everything is waiting for me to get it back together.

 

I got the last pieces (headlights and fender extensions) painted and on, the "work" on this one is just about done.



The only things I didn't do that was on my list are making windows and figuring out which front rims to get.

My rears



And my front choices

 

I had one also . It was in my 66 Chebbie 2