R. Thorne

A 1 barrel on a v6? Sure it isn’t a 2 barrel carb?

I like beeswax, myself.

Thanks, guys. Much appreciated.

Try using beeswax.

Almost forgot, happy 4th to everyone.

Some pieces painted mostly yesterday. Did some door panel detailing with Tamiya tape cut with dual bladed knife, painted with primer to emulate Mike’s car.

A quick synopsis of the 68-72 Novas for Nhra class racing, courtesy of Henry Kunz and Classracer.com. Sanded of the Delco on the battery and painted it and some other “fiddly bits” today. Also, some hood filling, sanding, and priming. Will post some pics tomorrow.

A little motor assembling and some rubber black on the inside of the 9” slicks.

Thanks, Daniel. Some piddling work done. Terrible picture of the electric water pump after adding some 1/16 rod rod to the end. Then cut some narrow masking tape strips with my handy dandy dual knife blade that I previously have used for bare metal foil strips. Then a little black paint from mr. Color. Not the best job, but, ok, I guess. A little eBay research to verify my old brain on spark plug location. Finally, my modified ultra high dollar sander that I got from Amazon a couple years ago. Wouldn’t recommend it as a powerhouse sander, but it helped me out this time. I am also going to try it out on the hood(s). The valve covers after some ts17 Tamiya.

Installed the oil filter and transmission (with super glue). The valve covers looked like BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH (too rough sandpaper). Was going to hand sand the paint off and smooth the scratches off, but, upon looking in my sandpaper drawer, I spied a small reciprocal sander that works off a aa battery. I don’t remember where I got it from, but, with some 400 grit paper, it was a lot easier and quicker than hand sanding. Sprayed with a heavy coat of #500 mr. Surfacer primer. We’ll see how it turns out.

Thanks in part to you, Roger. Took a day off for other stuff.

Some more painting I did yesterday.

Sometimes, I just keep messing up on the same part on a build, and you just have to work through it. I was painting the front wheel wells and, as I often do, I looked around for anything else that needed to be painted that color, also. Grabbed the (2nd) hood and sprayed it. Then I remembered I had not primed it after sanding off the emblems. Well, let’s just say it’s taking a bath in 91% alcohol.

Some aluminum paint applied to the Chief Joseph quadrajet and the water pump. Plus some black paint on engine.

Started scratch building a water pump, then decided to modify the stock pump that came with the kit. Put some aluminum paint on the trans and valve covers with my handy dandy micro brush, then some GreenStuffWorld chrome on the headers, trans pan, and breathers. Also, patched the hole in the timing cover. Had some chrome left, so did up some wheels I may possibly use on this build.

Sent you a pm, Roger. Thank you.

Marked, drilled, and installed breathers on valve covers.

A coat of gray primer on some small parts.

Whoops, just realized that last picture is a five lug pattern. That one’s out.

Some possible choices for the front. Leaning towards making some copies (a first time for me with the HobbyLobby kit) of the Pro-Tracks or the Shapeways. I have got to do some more digging for the rear wheels (they’re gonna be the toughest for me, I think. Any suggestions?

After a mini slump attack, I got the firewall patched and thought about modifying the kit valve covers ( to look more like Mike’s welded up and hold down bolt slotted ones). Decided to use some NASCAR ones and scraped off the Chevrolet insignia and tried to sand and scrape some angles on top. The pictures don’t show the results of this very well ( perhaps after they are painted?).

Thanks, Steve and admin. As I suspected.

As the title implies, what happened to the country of origin and part of the country the poster is from in the bio? Just curious as to the reason why. Makes it more difficult to give advice without knowing what part of the world the poster is from.

Thanks, Ace. Much appreciated.

Not much to report. Some cutting on the firewall to remove heater core box and wiper motor. Also, cut the stick trans off. Scratch build of sub frame connectors and electric water pump is next.