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bwkelley76
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will do! I've got near half the car all wet-sanded already. I doubt I'll have it all done this weekend but if I do I could have pics up as early as Monday. We'll see.
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Dont sweat the petty things and dont pet the sweaty things. "RIP George Carlin"
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Wildfire532FB
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Looks sik
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bwkelley76
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Driver's side is just about done!
[ January 25, 2010, 04:10 AM: Message edited by: bwkelley76 ]
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Dont sweat the petty things and dont pet the sweaty things. "RIP George Carlin"
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Eddie510-
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![[worship]](graemlins/worship.gif) some people woulda never thought about doing that and just painted it! sick!
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89bluenotch
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Looks great...a whole new car ![[patriot]](graemlins/patriot.gif)
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Wildfire532FB
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Looking good. You don't need to repaint it now.
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bwkelley76
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It's not perfect, still a few areas that I'll never get back or that I went a little too far but I'm learning here. lol It looks a LOT better though and I don't have to paint it; right away at least.
I used 0000 steel wool (wet) to take off the INSANE amounts of oxidation and discolored metal/flake in the topcoat. 2000 paper (wet) then 3M rubbing compoound with the combo of an orbital buffer as well as a regular buffer. I'll be finishing off with a clear-coat type polish using the orbital.
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Dont sweat the petty things and dont pet the sweaty things. "RIP George Carlin"
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nice, its day and night bro.
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bwkelley76
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Thanks! I haven't done much to the paint recently, it's still half-way done. I did however get a chance to do the exhaust (at least the back half) with all mandrel 2.5" with 3"chrome tips. I still need to ditch the stock manifolds and install headers and an X or H pipe. Time is not of essence these days with school and other cars at the shop. I wish I could clone myself and get this thing done faster!
[ February 08, 2010, 03:36 AM: Message edited by: bwkelley76 ]
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Dont sweat the petty things and dont pet the sweaty things. "RIP George Carlin"
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bwkelley76
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all the sanding is DONE! Damn that was a lot of work. Hopefully I'll get the buffing part done in the next day or two.
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Dont sweat the petty things and dont pet the sweaty things. "RIP George Carlin"
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does the ac work
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1993 red cobra
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1969 camaro
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Wildfire532FB
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quote:
Originally posted by bwkelley76:
all the sanding is DONE! Damn that was a lot of work. Hopefully I'll get the buffing part done in the next day or two.
Just imagine if you were repainting it. Took me a year and a half to do my car. I took my time though.
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Luke87GT
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Lucky SOB
Love them 67-70 Fastbacks.
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come up! i love unmolested all original classics. looks like you did a nice job inside the bay too. pun?
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bwkelley76
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<<<Yes the AC works. Before pics are of oxidized paint, page 1 I believe. No pics of it sanded, I didn't get a chance to take a break and take a pic while I was sanding.
So it's almost done! A few minor touch-up areas and some wax and that's it.
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Dont sweat the petty things and dont pet the sweaty things. "RIP George Carlin"
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If the previous owner is watching the rebuild, he is kicking himself right now.lol. Sweet ride.
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bwkelley76
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Thanks! Now back to the mechanical stuff.
[ February 13, 2010, 02:23 AM: Message edited by: bwkelley76 ]
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bwkelley76
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crazy thing... Mustang started running crappy the other day.
It was acting like maybe the power valve in the carb (Holley 600) was going out. Every time I tried to give it gas under power it acted like a rev-limiter, like too much or not enough fuel was present.
Everything except the carb (mystery item and kinda drab looking) is less than a month old including plugs, wires, cap, rotor, and ignition coil, so I decided to kit the carb. I already had a freshen-up kit on the shelf so thought it wouldn't hurt.
Problem was still there!
So I moved on to the ignition and realized the pertronix module did not match the coil I had (pertronix I and pertronix II are not compatible) so I replaced the pertronix module to match the better P2 coil.
Still, didn't fix the problem! Actually made it worse! SO at that point I knew I had a secondary ignition leak somewhere so I swapped out the cap and rotor for a known/good one. That didn't fix it either. I finally looked at the wires and plugs a little closer. The plugs at first glance looked PERFECT.
Sure enough, with a closer look a few of my month-old spark plugs had trails on them and were arcing to ground along the electrodes instead of jumping the gap. VERY MINOR and hard to see traces were found on 4 of them. I got a bad batch I guess. NEVER had a problem like this with an autolite. So I replaced the plugs and all is well.
She runs great again. ...In all my years I've never had one of my own cars suffer from spark plug arcing and I've always used autolites. I've had customers' do it with old/used champion and other brand plugs but never mine. Guess my number was up! lol
[ February 16, 2010, 03:59 AM: Message edited by: bwkelley76 ]
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Dont sweat the petty things and dont pet the sweaty things. "RIP George Carlin"
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89bluenotch
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The car looks great!
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54 f100
R.I.P. SILVERLX
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92stangLX
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WOW.. this thing looks GREAT!!!! Keep the pics coming..
cafords needs more threads like this one of people showing the project(s) they are working on.
Seems like General Talk is filled with too many useless shit talking and Youtube threads.. LOL
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