Archive for the ‘Engine Compartment’ Category
Engine compartment reconstruction
Began reconstruction of the engine compartment. Cleaned/Painted and re-installed the blower motor and wiper motors.
Primer/Paint in the engine compartment
After sandblasting the engine compartment, got the primer down. Sanded it and laid down the color which is a candy apple color purchased from paintforcars.com. It’s not a candy process, but a color/clear coat process that mimics candy apple. The primer and paint were sprayed with a generic HVLP 20 oz gun obtained from Harbor Freight Tools. It turned out very nice…for a hack.
Sandblasting commences…
Decided that sandblasting the engine compartment would be the easiest process. It saved lots of time. Ben and I created a nice little tent to contain the sand (black beauty) and it worked quite well. Sandblasting cleaned up the painted surfaces on the firewall, wheel wells as well as the k-frame.
Driver side stripping begins
Started the same process of stripping the paint from the driver side engine compartment.
Passenger side engine compartment stripped
Used a combination of a wire wheels and chemical stripper to strip the passenger side engine compartment paint. After paint removal, used 320 grit sandpaper and then primered with some Red Oxide rattle can primer.
