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[steves86ta]

Well Christmas is starting to get here, got most of the parts to throw the lower end together.


Still waiting on Rod bearings and piston rings, then can start throwing the lower end together.

while i was organizing everything and getting parts together, i picked up some spray paint at O'Reilly's. It is by Duplicolor and called Metal Cast. My boat has a lot of pieces that were originally Anodized but the anodize is no longer colorful. So i googled this Metalcast stuff and the results looked good online. It is a 2 step process (3 if you add clear). Needless to say, I am very impressed.

After cleaning
Step one
Spray what they call "ground coat" I did one light coat, followed by 2 heavy wet coats



Step two
Spray the color coat, this stuff comes in Red, Blue, and Yellow i believe. Same process as before, 1 light coat, then 2 heavy wet coats


Then for good measure, i sprayed 3 coats of clear ontop of the red

Heres what the finished product looks like, you can see the red almost matches the anodized rub rail perfectly


And the carb bowl. Im going to break up the red with the silver (ground coat) I just cleared over the "ground coat"


The red is really hard to photograph correctly. But its a nice deep red. It almost looks like a pinkish hue in the pics

[314joey]

Wicked looking paint

[steves86ta]

heres the finished product, also did some valve covers

[HB Vic]

Looks like candy apple red to me. Nice!

[steves86ta]

Got the engine block painted went the same color as the carb and valve cover





Then started putting the headers together

Started with this


Ended up with this




Still have one more to do

[Jason Aschle]

Very cool !

[steves86ta]

I've made some progress since i last updated this thread

Got all of the pistons dropped in, mains torqued. and the cam in. Measured the pushrods and need different ones



But i couldnt help and throw everything on to see how its gonna look






Also did some polishing while i was cleaning up yesterday

[steves86ta]

not much movement during the week. I spend most nights at the GF's house....

I was home to run some errands, pay some bills etc. Got one of the heads assembled. These springs have a lot of pressure. They literally turned my (autozone style) claw compressor thing into a pretzel had to order the tool seen in the picture