Thread: Some Basic Advice

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Originally posted by snows
Ya no worry, we took the plugs out one at a time and made sure of the right firing order as well. Thanks for the concern. I think I may be finally deciding on an Angle Grinder with interchangable disc capabilities so that I can sand instead of grind. Seems thats all my own price range will allow right now. BTW concerning the engine troubles, umm we tried boosting the Malibu and still didn't get enough power it seems to turn over, so if this info can point to anything else that could be the trouble, please let me know. ttyl

Change the battery cables, there probably what's making it turn slow.

Well gang, just to fill you in on whats going to happen. Tomorrow is going to be the official starting date of "Project Malibu". Tonight after I get back from church, we are having ourselves a meeting at the friends house to try and plan out an attack phase so that we have somewhat of an idea of how to begin this overtaking. So, I'll begin letting you know of our progress and hopefully start getting some pictures posted of our progress as well. Should I keep this thread in here or is there a proper place for posting project info and what not? Maybe it will do fine just here? ttyl

When you get to the part where how much money you think it will take write your figure down , and double it.....................I think most of us that have been around doing this will vouch for me.

I'm not saying you cant stay within your budget , but most likely you will find alot of little hidden costs.
SprayTech

Good luck and have fun

Im gonna have to agree with spraytech. Better start turning in overtime now if you plan to get that car running in the next year.

hi, thanks for the kind words, we'll definitily have fun, this is all going to be a learning experience since we are all pretty young compared to most of you out there. Hey maybe you pros can throw out some money saving tips when it comes to this restoration business lol.

Its not cheap tp build any car but for your first rebuild and since you said your youngers heres a few things to keep in mind to help keep the cost down.

Hit the swap meets and salvage yards as much as you can and also keep a eye on the local "trading" papers. Even if your not at the point of needing say a carb but you will need one in the future of the build buy it when you see a good price in the trader paper and put it aside for when you do need it.

Reuse as much as you can from the car from the begining....instead of chrome this or that take the parts and clean them really good then sand them down and paint/clear coat them. You can always chrome stuff later but the painted parts will look good till you can afford chrome.

Keep and eye on ebay..parts are not as cheap as they use to be on ebay but there still are "some" good deals out there.

Anything you dont plan on using but is still "good" try to sell it on ebay...from my experiance Ebay is a good sellers market i've made alot of $$$ on stuff i was just gonna take off the car and throw away.

last but not least do as much of the work as you can yourself!

Good luck with the "boo" hope ya have fun with it and keep us posted.

BG

snows, you might check the local pawn shops for body tools, but beware as those places do sell stolen stuff , but it could be a good place to find the hand tools , like hammer and dollys, sanding blocks, a few air tools..ect

Will try and help you as much as we can , but you will have to make sure you try and give good detail on your problems so we all can help address them accordingly.

It is a tough issue to try and tell some one how to really do Body and paint work in just words but will try to explain it in easy terms.

SprayTech

with responses like these you continually remind me and others I'm sure just how awesome this community of people are. Thank you for all advice given and advice given in the near future. I will keep you posted, thanks again for helping us out. "Blown Goat" thanks for the tips, I'll keep them in mind throughout all this. ttyl.

Not a problem man car guys are a close family let us know if we can help ya with any info during your project.

BG

Well the first day has begun with some hands on action, with angle grinder in hand we decided to begin with the trunk lid. I had a "Rust & Paint Stripper" accessorie on the grinder and it worked perfectly from what I can tell lol. We only punched in 2 hours since we started kinda late but for our first attempt I am pretty excited. Sadly when you have pessimists walking around pointing out problems and always looking at the downside of everything it really gets you down, but I try to ignore them few. Thus far I can see that the surface of most things are going to turn out well but the underbelly of it all is just rusting away it seems, I dunno if there is anything we can do about that? Oh and one question that we were wondering about, since we really don't have great facilities to begin with, and the majority of this project is going to be a "Drive Way Project", we were wondering if there is any such product that can be sprayed/wiped/painted/etc, etc on the bare metal while its waiting for paint to prevent rust to reapear? Hope I make myself understandable.

Back again, finally with the trunk lid sanded down, now a question, whats a basic tool that works best for trying to hammer out a few dings and bumps? Just your basic Ball peen hammer? or is there others? Pics coming soon hopefully, Just waiting on them to get sent to me.