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Anything to make more work for me. Right?I vote body color.
Anything to make more work for me. Right?I vote body color.
Not at all. Maybe some flattening agent to make semi-gloss or satin body color?Anything to make more work for me. Right?
I second that. It's more work but It's worth it I think. My brides truck gets lots of comments on the under hood finish work.I vote body color.
Alta is the Boonies! Yep 584 That's me. Down town Alta. The house is 100 years old next year. When we bought it , it had an aluminum roof. About 10 years ago I re-modeledthe upstairs, from 2 small bedrooms to a Master Bedroom and bath, I took 16 feet out of the roof and built a shed roof dormer for more head room. Since aluminum roofing is out of style, I went with red metal, only to be seen by satelite.
I think you're right. You guys talked me into it. I've got an entire gallon of the Gun Metal Grey, and only half a CJ + the dash to paint. Black under the hood is too easy, and doesn't clean up as well as a good Urethane finish.I second that. It's more work but It's worth it I think. My brides truck gets lots of comments on the under hood finish work.
YAY!I think you're right. You guys talked me into it. I've got an entire gallon of the Gun Metal Grey, and only half a CJ + the dash to paint. Black under the hood is too easy, and doesn't clean up as well as a good Urethane finish.
I vote you get yourself some color matched RaptorLiner from UPol. Helps with sound, rockchips, ect. Two part, cured, sprays on, tough.The front fenders are darn near perfict and the grill will need to be sand blasted because of all the "nooks and crannies". I'm planning on doing the firewall Body color, but I'm trying to decide it I want to prep and paint the inner fender wells and under the hood with Body color, or used the satin black.
More work? We are just trying to slow you down so the rest of us don't look so bad! Oh, it looks like you can use your left over paint to tint Raptor, too!Seems like everyone want to make more work for me and get me to spend more money. Doesn't Re-Tired meen something like tired again or still tired. And I'm on a fixed income which meens I'm broke$$. But I don't owe anyone anything. Everything is paid for house, cars, all of it.
Keep Moving Forward!
Looks like it was made for it. Oh wait. It was. Nice work.I guess you can say it was an Exhausting day here in Alta. I drove to Auburn first thing this morning and picked up my Radiator from Mark at Servicecenter Radiator and Auto Air. He said I did good on Craigslist. it's in great shape. He just changed the bottom outlet to 1 3/4" to match my 5.0 water pump and boiled and tested it. It's nice that it fits the CJ7 Grille so well.
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I finished up the welds on the Y-Pipe and installed it with new header flange gaskets and built a bracket to attache it to one of the transfer case mounting bolts.
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Everything clears without hitting on both sides and over the crossmember.
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I installed the Holley Red Hot Cherry Bomb glass pack muffler in the middle with slip joints and clamps so it will come apart, plus the Y-Pipe has a 2 bolt flange also.
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The Rover pipe section over the rear axle took the most cutting and fitting to make it work, and it's hung with a rubber muffler hanger at the top of the curve over the axle.
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I re-used the Rover final resonator also at the very back. It's stainless and in good condition. It reminds me a Turbo muffler just a perferated pipe in one side and out the other. And any time I need in the future I can replace with a turbo muffler. I didn't think it alone would be quiet enough, so I used the glass pack also. I needed to fill about 28" in the middle where the Rover huge muffler was, and the Glass Pack from Summit Racing was cheaper than a straight piece of pipe.
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Those of you who voted for body color under the hood lost out. It was way too much prep to get that old hood patched up and presentable underneath, so it's Satin Black. Firewall and inner fenders will still be body color. I might use some sort of undercoat or textured paint with the Satin Black also.
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HUH?That's some fascintating work product. Form, function. Its got an appeal, that is for sure!
As for the surface smoothing, being totally unwware, it seems like a light solution could help. Beacuse, they laser level huge acreages, and tiny silicon chips. A laser would show what needs addressed. Just curious laser leveling is a thing in restos?
If I am understanding correctly, its actually a problem of smoothing a flat surface with dimples. You cant stretch it like a bed sheet because it would bend out of square. You probably could do accretion, add molten metal and grind to level, but that brings other problems.
Im just wondering why tech hasnt solved this.
Okay, now I have a brain cramp!That's some fascintating work product. Form, function. Its got an appeal, that is for sure!
As for the surface smoothing, being totally unwware, it seems like a light solution could help. Beacuse, they laser level huge acreages, and tiny silicon chips. A laser would show what needs addressed. Just curious laser leveling is a thing in restos?
If I am understanding correctly, its actually a problem of smoothing a flat surface with dimples. You cant stretch it like a bed sheet because it would bend out of square. You probably could do accretion, add molten metal and grind to level, but that brings other problems.
Im just wondering why tech hasnt solved this.
I'm not quite sure how a laser would help on the inside of a concave multi angle hood. My cat might have fun with it.That's some fascintating work product. Form, function. Its got an appeal, that is for sure!
As for the surface smoothing, being totally unwware, it seems like a light solution could help. Beacuse, they laser level huge acreages, and tiny silicon chips. A laser would show what needs addressed. Just curious laser leveling is a thing in restos?
If I am understanding correctly, its actually a problem of smoothing a flat surface with dimples. You cant stretch it like a bed sheet because it would bend out of square. You probably could do accretion, add molten metal and grind to level, but that brings other problems.
Im just wondering why tech hasnt solved this.
Now, now....if he makes it TOO purty, he ain't gonna want to get it dirty! I for one wanna see some pics of this clawing through a granite strewn dry creek bed!Ah come on You dont want to make it too easy on your self where's your sense of adventure
HUH?
I'm not quite sure how a laser would help on the inside of a concave multi angle hood. My cat might have fun with it.
The problem was the P,O,'s 12 extra holes he had drilled in the hood, that needed to be filled. And all the compound angles, curves, and the hat channel and support beams under the hood would take days of DA and hand sanding to get it prepped for a really nice coat of paint. It's a Jeep CJ5. Rust-Oleum Satin black and Under coating is fine with me..