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Hey Will,
That car is starting to look like something special. Really special, in fact. The talent is starting to show itself in all the details. I don't know what your plans are to protect that nekkid aluminum, but I have tried a lot of different things on nekkid aluminum and I think I like Collinite 850, right now anyway. That car is sure a charmer. Will you be able to put up with all the attention it will get, out in public? Or just mebbe drive it at night .....
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Have you tried SharkHide on aluminum? I have some ongoing trial swatches weathering, but I'd be curious if you have any experience with it. Thanks for all your contributions to the site, CZ
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Looking great Will!
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Continuing small step - maybe someday this thing will be done. Retirement is not all that it's cracked up to be. At any rate a little more got done. No matter how hard I try, the interest in the new Humvee project is diluting the work on the speedster. Jim Hery was a big help on making the correct 'fit' at the hood and the cowl. We had a long discussion on how it should look. Jim won that discussion on how it should look, but I damn near had to break his arm to see it my way on how we were going to do it. I like how it turned out. Thanks Jim. Several months ago, I had to remake the hood as the character line did not match well at the rear. I have added the grab bar between the driver and passenger compartment and riveted the emblems at the side of the body. Cotton Eubanks was of great help when installing the strengthening surround at the headers. I began metal shaping the nose several months ago and was having trouble matching the contours of the grill with that of the nose because they shared a radius. Jim suggested temporarily attaching them together to do the finish work on the nose and it has been working well. Those bolts will be replaced with rivets.
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Will Last edited by RockHillWill; 12-30-2017 at 08:43 AM. |
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Thanks for the update Will.
Looking good. Have you taken it for a drive yet? |
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Will........
Every time I see that car I can not stop thinking on the look on your face when I got the biggest torch in your shop out to shrink the tail section, I will never forget it!! Peter PS never the less the car is looking GREAT!! It's a credit to you Peter
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Neither will I.
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Looking good Will! It won't be long!
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Nicely done there Will and all others that helped with it.
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More small steps. I am enthused little more these days as I need to get this done and out of the way for the upcoming Redneck Roundup. Not likely to happen, but it is good motivation. I got the gas tank installed and set into place so that it fits the opening in the tail section, polished the top 'stripe', ran the gas line, installed the fuel shutoff switch and fabricated the battery hold down bracket. I made the GAV so that I can adjust the dual carbs individually, but they remain hard to do once the exhaust header gets hot. Got the seats detailed and mounted, battery compartment is complete with the exception of installing a non conductive base to the bottom of the cover. (aluminum floor pans).
The gas tank had previously been coated and it turned out very nice. Put about a quart of gas in the new tank (no leaks), checked fuel flow to both carbs and decided to start it up again for a more sustained test of the carburetors having reset the timing. I left the choke on too long and over flowed both carbs. Got it running, but fouled at least one plug, but kept it running to make as many carb settings as possible before it ran out of gas. The long tail pipe makes the 'popping' aggravating. At this point, I feel that I have detailed everything from the tail section to the firewall. The motor ran very cool throughout this test. A little more metal finishing, a change of sparkplugs and a better way of adjusting the idle while running and I will be on the home stretch on this project.
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Will Last edited by RockHillWill; 03-11-2018 at 07:33 PM. |
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