Author Topic: The new guy and his new car (Read 1288 times)

buening · « **Reply #25 on:** April, 19, 2010, 04:44:03 PM »

Quote from: daveSanborn on April, 19, 2010, 12:34:35 PM

By any chance is your wife named "Jeremy"?

Lets hope she doesn't look like him :lol :scar

68bucks · « **Reply #26 on:** April, 19, 2010, 05:16:48 PM »

Welcome to the site, nice choice for a car!

johnpro · « **Reply #27 on:** April, 19, 2010, 06:58:05 PM »

Hopefully the body shop has discovered and disclosed your biggest worries. The car looks pretty good in the pics, but I know that it's pretty easy to polish a turd in a photo.

Congrats on the car. Take your time, do it right, and enjoy the journey.

lethal289 · « **Reply #28 on:** April, 20, 2010, 03:31:54 AM »

Quote from: buening on April, 19, 2010, 04:44:03 PM

Lets hope she doesn't look like him :lol :scar

:lol :lol :lol

buening · « **Reply #29 on:** April, 20, 2010, 05:02:20 AM »

:ga

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little :lol

wayjon0 · « **Reply #30 on:** April, 20, 2010, 05:21:17 AM »

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Hopefully the body shop has discovered and disclosed your biggest worries

It has a little more rust than I expected, but so far doesn't seem too bad. After seeing the front frame rail I'm going to go ahead and pull the motor and have the engine bay blasted too.

I got all of the interior out and so far the drivers side floor will need some attention. That tar based sound deadening crap is a pain to scrape out.

daveSanborn · « **Reply #31 on:** April, 20, 2010, 05:39:09 AM »

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That tar based sound deadening crap is a pain to scrape out.

It's easier to remove if it's "warmed/heated". A heat gun will soften it up, but a torch will turn it into "goo" in short order.

sigtauenus · « **Reply #32 on:** April, 20, 2010, 06:15:29 AM »

Wow, dude joins a site, has a cool 68 fastback, so obviously a guy we want to keep around (particularly if he ends up painting it green) and in his first 6 posts he already had to witness a dude in a balerina costume and the gay flag. That's one heck of a welcome mat we just laid out, huh?

BTW, didn't say this earlier, but welcome to the site. Can't wait to see pics of the progress you make with this car.

KBMWRS · « **Reply #33 on:** April, 20, 2010, 06:33:13 AM »

Quote from: sigtauenus on April, 20, 2010, 06:15:29 AM

Wow, dude joins a site, has a cool 68 fastback, so obviously a guy we want to keep around (particularly if he ends up painting it green) and in his first 6 posts he already had to witness a dude in a balerina costume and the gay flag. That's one heck of a welcome mat we just laid out, huh?

Well it best that we don't hide family secrets to new people. Leaving Jer in the closet would be wrong. He's free spirit. :lol

And he know's he's welcome here, heck he has a Mustang.

wayjon0 · « **Reply #34 on:** April, 22, 2010, 07:31:43 PM »

almost ready to get the orange blasted off

daveSanborn · « **Reply #35 on:** April, 23, 2010, 04:45:09 AM »

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almost ready to get the orange blasted off

I'm not really sure what you mean by that statement.....

Does it mean you're almost ready to media blast? Or that you've made some progress disassembling the car?

Honestly, you've still got a ways to go before the car is ready for blasting. In a perfect blasting scenario every nut, bolt, screw will be removed from the car leaving ONLY the shell.

wayjon0 · « **Reply #36 on:** April, 23, 2010, 05:00:50 AM »

yes, I meant getting it media blasted.

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In a perfect blasting scenario every nut, bolt, screw will be removed from the car leaving ONLY the shell.

I'm going to remove the paint from the front frame rails tonight, but if they look good I'm not going to media blast the front end. Almost all the parts are new and I really didnt want to pull the engine unless I needed too.

From the firewall back pretty much everything is out of the car. Thanks agian on the Tar removal tip, that was nasty stuff.

AzPete · « **Reply #37 on:** April, 23, 2010, 05:02:34 AM »

Quote from: beach pony on April, 15, 2010, 04:45:17 PM

In the immortal words of our very own Azpete: If it ain't broke, we'll fix it anyway!

The correct words are in my sig............not like anyone reads that :lol

As Dave said, when blasting of any type, it should be a bare unit. That media will get everywhere.

Welcome. I take it you don't like the color it came to you in......

daveSanborn · « **Reply #38 on:** April, 23, 2010, 06:11:19 AM »

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when blasting of any type, it should be a bare unit. That media will get everywhere.

This is what I was getting at in my earlier response.

I've done some pretty crazy $hit, but I dunno if I'd attempt to media blast a car with the drivetrain still in it. I've had cars blasted with minimal suspension items installed, but all of these installed items were removed after blasting and then discarded (worn out UCA/LCA/coil and leaf springs). Your front suspension/brake pieces appear to be fairly new, I doubt you'll be wanting to throw them away.

The media makes a BIG mess. It get's into cracks and crevices that you wouldn't think would be possible. Cleaning the media out of a stripped shell is a pain. Cleaning the media out of a half disassembled car would be a living nightmare that I'm betting you will regret. To clean the car of ALL media, it's likely that you'll have to completely disassemble the car anyway.

From where you're sitting now (looking at your picture)..... you're about 8 man-hours away from having the car completely stripped. If you leave the drivetrain/suspension installed, you're looking at considerably more time than that to seal the installed components from exposure to the media (if 100% sealing is even possible).

Proceed with caution.