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Well, the weather is pretty cool for painting, but I decided to make a booths to control the temps. I wrapped a pop up canopy in plastic. Used a fan to exhaust the overspray and added a heater to keep the metal warm. I used an epoxy primer on all of the parts. I did not do the upper intake. There is a coating of some type on it and it will have to be removed first. As easy as this was to set up, I’ll do it again for other parts later. Paint booth set up in the garage. I’ll open the door slightly when I spray. I’m using a UPOL epoxy primer on all of the parts. Man it’s difficult getting in all of the little areas. I think I’m going to fan in the pattern and slow the flow of paint to try and get in there better.
I sprayed two coats of Acrylic Enamel paint on. The blue isn’t ant factory forms color. It’s just a standard blue, but I think looks good. Sorry for the bad lighting, I’ll get better ones once I get it out. Here’s a better look at the color.
I got two coats of silver metallic Acrylic Enamel paint on the lower intake, both valve covers, and transmission. I’m happy how the intake and transmission came out. I’m not happy about the valve covers. They were really rough castings and it looks like there are sand on them. I’m not sure what I will do with them. Let me know what you think! Thanks for looking! I tried to get an angle where you can see the rough top. Can anyone see the roughness!
Sh944, thank you! I went back and forth with blue and silver or black and silver. I think in a classic styled vehicle paying a little homage to its roots makes a difference. Cool we are both on Garage Journal. I’m on a forum where one of the Garage Journal guys built a 70 Mercury Cyclone, it’s amazing. His name is Slednut. Search it or PM me and I’ll send you a link.
Amazing work. I just came from the Stutz museum and there was a 69 mustang convertible. The detail on the paint job was not as good as what I see guys in this forum displaying.
Amazing work. I just came from the Stutz museum and there was a 69 mustang convertible. The detail on the paint job was not as good as what I see guys in this forum displaying.
Thank you very much! I’m hoping to gain some traction now.
I put the accessory brackets on and the alternator. I need a couple of longer bolts, but it’s mostly ready. I’ve got a power steering pump that needs to be cleaned and potentially painted. The pulleys will all be blasted and painted semi gloss black. I need to see everything on with a belt. I’m not sure I like the bare aluminum. I’m not sure what color I’d go with though. Thanks for looking.
Little bit of an update here. I had cut the crossmember that holds the factory radius arms. Well, today I cut the rest out to clean everything up and get ready for finishing the front of the frame. I cut the rivets out and punched them through. Here’s a shot where I cut and X in the rivet heads. Then I put a chisel bit in the air hammer and knock the heads. After using a punch bit in the air hammer and knocking the rivets. Here’s the driver side all cleaned up I had to use a cut off wheel to get to one or two rivets. Here’s the passenger side.
I cleaned up the power steering pump, it was filthy. I did a mock up of it on the bracket. I will be painting the aluminum part the same silver metallic, but do I leave the reservoir the yellow plastic??? Let me know if you think I should paint it the same semi gloss as I am doing with the pulleys. Oh yeah, I blasted the pulleys and put a coat of two of semi gloss paint. Thanks for looking! I wish I had taken a before picture. The plastic was 100% black grime. Here’s the first coat on the pulleys. I still need to paint the alternator pulley.
I will be painting the aluminum part the same silver metallic, but do I leave the reservoir the yellow plastic??? Let me know if you think I should paint it the same semi gloss as I am doing with the pulley? .
If it was me, I would paint the ps pump reservoir black.
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