A car with no name. by 67catmando

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3-12-2012

I will try to get one on the ground today but here is what it looked like on the lift.

They are generic stainless exhaust tips I found at Tognotti's. They had to be modified a bit to get them to fit. If you look close at the picture you can see that they were notched top left and top right to clear the tank and the spring shackle. I had em notched so they would have a longer profile on the underbelly of the exhaust tip. I figure once they are painted black inside you wont see the notches. They run real close to the tank so I will have to shield the pipes a bit.

3-18-2012

Yeah, if I think it is too noticeable, I will work out some kind of perforated screen to put in there. I got all of my headlight pieces except for my probe brackets which I have yet to fabricate. 

I will probably drop most of it off for powder coating on Monday. I stopped by a powder coater and he was confident he could coat the pot metal without damaging it. So I will take him a scrap grille and get him to confirm before he moves on to the grade A 68 pieces I selected. 

Then I am going to drop off some metal work to my welder. Feels good to make some progress. I wish I had all of these metal working welding skills. If I had let things like not having skills get in the way of embarking on this project,...I never would have!

4-17-2012

I picked up the powder coating today. The color of low sheen black came out great. For the most part everything came out great. There are a couple of pieces I will may have do again with a new part due to some warping. Good thing is I have lots of cores. Specifically, the driver side headlight door's chrome grille warped a bit from hanging and/or the door warped a bit. Either way they are not fitting together as well as the passenger side. I may try to have a pair of doors coated without separating the chrome from the door. But all in all I am very pleased considering I knew the risks of powder coating. Surprisingly the main part of the grille came out great with only minor distortion to the thin grille bars. Nothing that cant be straightened out with a wooden spoon. This was what I was most concerned about because grade a pieces are hard to come by. I had everything blacked out including the little headlight trim rings and I think it is going to look great when I reassemble them. Here are some pictures.

Hopefully my metal man calls soon about my other project...

Thanks guys. So I tried to gently bend one of the headlight door grilles that was warped. No such luck. I broke it in half! It was surprisingly easy. Well back to the powder coater with another set of doors...This time I think I will have him coat them without taking the chrome grilles off. We'll see what he says.

It will be a week or so before I reassemble these. I need to do a big batch of hardware with the oil and phosphate. All of the j clips and bolts etc. Then I will be ready to reassemble the halves.