Good work man, you're cruising right along.

 

Use two washers on the spring compressor, and grease between the washers. That will allow the top washer to move with the nut, and the bottom to stay fixed against the compressor while the grease lubes them between to stop it from hogging out.

 

Got some Sill Plates yesterday. With a bit of elbow grease they'll be just fine. I still need the wiring cover that goes over the drivers side. I have one on the passengers side, not sure why I would not have one on the drivers side though. I'll need to keep looking.



And got the Holley Contender 300-36.









Next step on the car is dragging the inner fenders and fenders out of the attic to clean them up. I want to sandblast the inside of the inner fender a bit and prime it and paint it. I hope that is ok to do and that it won't mess up the panel. Plus the radiator support could probably get blasted and primed and painted. Once those are done I'll put the sandblaster away for a while and clean up the mess and take the booth down and put my garage back to rights. Funny how fast it goes to H377 when its too hard to keep it right.

 

Mmmm, parts! Is yours primarily a summer car? If so, you can block off that crossover in the middle. You can see where the oil was baking onto the manifold. With it blocked, your carb will be a happier camper in the heat of the summer.

 

Yes, a summer car only. Maybe a bit of spring fall, nothing serious though. Never heard of blocking that off, but I new to this. What gasket do you use to block it off with?

 

Most intake gasket sets come with thin metal block off plates that you attach to the gasket. Without it blocked, exhaust heat crosses through from one head to the other. It's there to warm up the carb for winter driving. But in the summer, you don't need or want to heat up the carb.

 

Very nice stuff! A lot of the newer intake gasket sets come with a small tin insert that sits over the heat riser hole. If not you can easily just put a piece of aluminum foil over each side of the intake gasket at that point and it will block the heat off. It can't go anywhere or do any harm, so it doesn't have to be perfectly sealed. The foil is thin enough to not create a issue with sealing the intake runners if you just put it on the heat riser port.

 

That is good to know, the last time I changed an intake was probably in about 1991. I took the stock one and two barrel off of my 72 nova and put an aluminum edelbrock intake and a 650 carb that me and my girlfriend (now wife) rebuilt until 3:00 in the morning. The gaskets then did not have anything like that in there. If only I would have stuck with cars since then... I probably would have wasted alot of money. lol

 

Question:

The place I get POR15 locally is currently out of stock, and the owner is on vacation for a couple of weeks. I have my core support to do, my inner fenders, the insides of my fenders, and my car interior to do yet. It will take about a quart. If I sandblast, do I really need to paint POR on it? Can I just use etching primer and paint it black? I could probably focus on other things for a while and just wait it out, but it could take a month to get it. I am not really interested in buying it online, I hate credit cards and would rather deal in cash.

 

i dont see why you cant just put etching primer then paint,

Its just por15 would have to be the best, so if you can hold off for a bit and do something else then ok, but if your like me and don't want to wait and i also hate ordering from the internet, i dont see a prob with the primer and paint

Note: im not a pro lol, just my advice

joe


[edit] you can also buy undercaoting in a spray can pretty much anywere, you can use that under your inners and inside your fenders and the rest primer and paint [edit]