Excellent work:beers:

Perfecting my Carb Chromate
 

I apologize, never realized i would be a situation where anyone would find what I do that interesting. :)

That said its spring, gotta take care of things around the house and yard first. Car frame is mostly done and its now back to body work and small parts work sanding and painting.

I have actually been just wrapped up in the human are of learning, trying, failing, trying some more and finally learning just enough about holley and quadrajet chromating to be dangerous. Im very driven and I wont settle for kinda right although the process to do it is quite involved and very process driven. Ive attached a few pictures of one of my first full carbs I have done to try out my skills. This is a 69 z28/lt1 holley. I just realized today that the base plate and throttle shaft is wrong so I found another laying around to make it a complete correct carb. Plan is to sell it as I picked it up with a some other carbs like a 70 l78 carb I got for my dad.

At the risk of getting too much honest feedback, any constructive comments?

That's what makes this site so awesome! Like minded individuals with a passion.:worship:
Looks great!!

Looks pretty good to me. I'd love to be able to do that. Maybe when I get my shop finished and I'm retired I can play around with it some.

To prep the casting and do the coating out of anything i have done on a car is a serious PIA. If your a process focused person and willing to do alot of research, trial and error you will enjoy the journey.

Random Painting
 

Just continueing to sand small parts and paint them in batches. Bumper brackets, grille brackets, misc.....

Sanding and Refinishing, the blood sweat and tears
 

This is the real grind of any restoriation. It doesnt help that I only get nights and weekends to do it. It can take me a half a day or more to fill, sand, and prime say this firewall section. Im about 2 weeks into my trunk at the moment and its almost done.

I think this is the dirty secret many dont know, this takes alot of time and effort depending on how perfect you want the car to look in the end.

Can't explain how inspiring this is. As a middle aged guy with 12 cars and three kids, I can't even imagine having the bandwidth to restore a car to such a high standard, but this is definitely my retirement goal.

Looks great Rick!! Coming together nicely.

Continue Body Work, and a break to lay down some Color
 

Anyone that does there own body work will understand that eventually body work becomes your life. Body is nearly complete. A few more sandings with finer paper both above and below and it will be moving onto doors, trunk, fenders and hood.

Took a break since the heat somewhat decided to give things a break and layed down color on the rebuilt door hinges. The paint is pretty transparent, so 6 plus coats of based followed by 2 light coats of clear. There body hinges, they really dont need that mirror finish the rest of the car gets. First color pictures is laying down the dull coat of base, and the final is after clear coating.