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Ace-Garageguy

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  1. Great project. You serious truck guys seem to get your stuff right. Most inspiring.
  2. Very nice. A contender for the dictionary illustration under "hot rod".
  3. Excellent. Great looking weathering.
  4. The Bondo 2-part product works exceedingly well, even for very heavy fills.
  5. Tamiya putties are fine for very small corrections. For heaver work, I recommend Bondo Professional Glazing and Spot Putty. It's a two-part polyester product.
  6. Racing on runways, have to signal planes not to land on ya? Nice save.
  7. Kroger, Publix, CVS and Walgreen's have been out since I got back in town on the 15th. I assume that as soon as a pallet comes in, the jungle drums get the message out to all the panicking hoarders. I wonder what it's like living with a mind that small.
  8. Any of 'em about where you can still get toilet paper?
  9. Might want to check your stats. As of 19:34 GMT today, the global death toll is 73,875. And a little humor in the face of serious, frightening, or painful subject matter is well known for being a stress reliever. https://www.nurseslearning.com/courses/nrp/NRPCX-W0009/html/body.humor.page7.htm
  10. Very fine, everything about it.
  11. "MUST GET TOILET PAPER...MUST GET TOILET PAPER..."
  12. Buncha stuff lately, mostly to fill in gaps for donors for other things. Thing I'm most enthusiastic about though, is a full set of the 5 Tamiya engraving tips and bespoke handle. Not cheap, but exactly what I'm lacking in tools to restart some hanging-fire builds.
  13. I build mostly heavily modified stuff. I like the concept and design phase the most. Problem solving, determining everything will fit and would actually work.The early roughing-in of custom bodywork and mechanical mockups also appeal, as it allows me to see what the final result will be. After that, it becomes drudgery.
  14. Yup. Bought two Thames gasser kits just to get the fuel injection. Bought Challengers and Showboats for the engines, bellhousings, gearboxes, and diffs. And on and on and on...
  15. Yup. The engines are physically of similar size, the engine mounts are in about the same place as most smallblock Chevy engines (the '57 Chevy uses front mounts, while the vast majority of smallblock Chevy mills use side mounts), and in the real-world, GM even kept the same bellhousing bolt pattern, so older gearboxes will bolt up. Pay attention to the routing and positioning of radiator hoses, and that's about it.
  16. No offense, but I'd rather shoot myself than listen to the Dead.
  17. Yup...the OEM FirePower pans and most of the aftermarket place the sump to the rear, for just the reason you cite...oil pump in back. HOWEVER...where crossmember clearance is an issue, it is entirely possible to lengthen the pickup tube forward and use a front sump. Photo below shows where the pickup lives relative to the pump. Obviously, the pickup tube could be extended forward instead. Oil slosh during hard acceleration would be controlled by "trap doors" and/or baffles.
  18. If you're doing a 5-window '36, this should help... Here's a thread on a '36 three-window chop...probably more cutting than I'd do, bit the end result looks good. More pix, same guy, and same kit you're doing, by the way...
  19. Chopping a very similar roof has been covered in some depth in this thread:
  20. Gotta last until dis panik be called off...
  21. I'm workin' on a little rap ditty... I got a roll a TP and a sawed-off You gonna hafta keep yo damm pawsoff...
  22. Not freakin' likely.
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