Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

Tweet

Don nice frame work . How are the durability of those rice cakes. My frame has very little pitting and those and a little sandblast may be my option. I hate blasting when the grit gets in tight creveces in clothes like fiberglass LOL.

Thanks Bobby. The rice cakes held up pretty well, I used about 4 to do the entire frame. The ones that go on the regular 4 inch angle grinder were the cat's meow, they really cut the surface down nicely, and left it pretty smooth. I still have to go over it at least one more time to get it nicer, but it is not bad now. One thing I found out was the rice cakes come apart as you are using them, pelting your body with chucks of plastic. I am wearing some nicks and scratches,so I guess shorts are not the hot setup to wear when doing this job. However, it was 94 in the shop Saturday, so I wasn't about to put on too much.

BTW, I made a major change in the color scheme. I was going to do the frame, body, grille and engine/transmission in that Fusion Orange, but I have changed my mind. I saw a '34 Ford in a magazine I was reading while soaking my sore muscles in the tub, and it changed my mind.

The new colors are going to be Fusion Orange engine, transmission, rear and front axle assemblies, and wheels,with a semi-gloss black body, frame, and grille shell. I can then do the interior in all black, and do some of the suspension pieces in gloss black to accent.

I had been wrestling with what to do about the interior being off white and the steering wheel being the only black thing in there, so this new color scheme will solve that problem. Now the windshield frame can be gloss black too, which I think will be much better than the silver or off white I was planning on.

It will also save me tons of body work to get the body flawless for that Orange color. It seems to magnify every little flaw, and the semi gloss black will be more forgiving in that regard.

And they say women can never make up their minds.


Don

Thanks for the info i'm going to try them out . The black will bring the fusion orange out real well . Light dark scheme works well. That will give it a nice pop and some good eye candy for sure . I started wearing sun glasses looking at the engine and trans LOL it looks great .