Spent this weekend working on the mundane stuff again. Good news is, I’m through the rough patch and on the home stretch. I realized what my big yank with this piece of the project is. The in and out, up and down is freakin murder on a guys back and knees. This would be a relaxing job if I could sit at a table and do it. The Aleve is barely keeping up.
Not sure what I’m gonna do when I get to the firewall. I’d like to have the same sound deadener on the firewall that’s in the rest of the car but that would mean taking some stuff apart. Didn’t occur to me when I bought the new firewall mat that sound deadener should be under it. This creative license approach to restoration is a double edged sword. I like it because I can do what I want but by the same token, planning is essential. When a person restores a numbers matching car, they pretty much know the order things go back in. Opposite the way they came apart. Guess I’ll see what I feel like when I get there.
And to answer the question I seem to keep forgetting; Yes, this is sound deadener. But then isn’t that really one of the fundamentals of insulation? Besides the insulating qualities, which I believe this stuff has, sound deadening is the second most widely accepted use of insulation.
I had some rust bubbles on the top side of the floor in the rear foot-well area. I suspect the carpet got soaked or something like that. Wasn’t rust through, just enough that I needed to scuff down the floor and apply some etching primer. I’ll do the same thing in the front when I get there next weekend. Not as bad but might as well as long as I’m there.
I need at least one of these floor plugs. I’ll ask the question here before I make a post in the wanted forum. The driver side is perfect, passenger side, not so much. No since messing around with it, I’ll just replace and move on.
Here’s a reference to where the plug goes.
Couldn’t take it any more so I cleaned the rear glass. Kinda gave me a renewed spirit. Imagine what would happen if I actually washed the car?
This is my next weekend project. Hopefully I can get close to done or maybe even done.
As far as the motor goes, it's gonna be fine. It's gonna run like the wind and make all the power this car will need. It's not gonna run out of breath and will touch sixty five hundred all day long without breaking a sweat. How do I know that, already built one in the past. Not everyone has to have a Dominator toilet sitting on top of the intake manifold to make a real mouse run. The only thing for certain a 302 doesn't like is an automatic transmission. Problem solved, like driving a motorcycle on four wheels.
And at the end of the day, cash just keeps on migrating away from my house and into the pockets of people that have parts I want/need.
Scott, …
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Not sure what I’m gonna do when I get to the firewall. I’d like to have the same sound deadener on the firewall that’s in the rest of the car but that would mean taking some stuff apart. Didn’t occur to me when I bought the new firewall mat that sound deadener should be under it. This creative license approach to restoration is a double edged sword. I like it because I can do what I want but by the same token, planning is essential. When a person restores a numbers matching car, they pretty much know the order things go back in. Opposite the way they came apart. Guess I’ll see what I feel like when I get there.
And to answer the question I seem to keep forgetting; Yes, this is sound deadener. But then isn’t that really one of the fundamentals of insulation? Besides the insulating qualities, which I believe this stuff has, sound deadening is the second most widely accepted use of insulation.
I had some rust bubbles on the top side of the floor in the rear foot-well area. I suspect the carpet got soaked or something like that. Wasn’t rust through, just enough that I needed to scuff down the floor and apply some etching primer. I’ll do the same thing in the front when I get there next weekend. Not as bad but might as well as long as I’m there.
I need at least one of these floor plugs. I’ll ask the question here before I make a post in the wanted forum. The driver side is perfect, passenger side, not so much. No since messing around with it, I’ll just replace and move on.
Here’s a reference to where the plug goes.
Couldn’t take it any more so I cleaned the rear glass. Kinda gave me a renewed spirit. Imagine what would happen if I actually washed the car?
This is my next weekend project. Hopefully I can get close to done or maybe even done.
As far as the motor goes, it's gonna be fine. It's gonna run like the wind and make all the power this car will need. It's not gonna run out of breath and will touch sixty five hundred all day long without breaking a sweat. How do I know that, already built one in the past. Not everyone has to have a Dominator toilet sitting on top of the intake manifold to make a real mouse run. The only thing for certain a 302 doesn't like is an automatic transmission. Problem solved, like driving a motorcycle on four wheels.
And at the end of the day, cash just keeps on migrating away from my house and into the pockets of people that have parts I want/need.
Scott, …
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