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No pictures to show. got the tranny case all cleaned up and picked up all the rebuild parts for it.
also ordered the Gardner exhaust for it today. and the pistons should be here this week. slowly getting there. |
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Dan, is Eaton still making this fan clutch, or is this a NOS fan clutch?
I have been looking for this exact style of fan clutch for some time now. Thank you <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Postsedan</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...an2012/713.png http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...an2012/714.png </div></div> |
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Repros are a close match and originals can be rebuilt/restored (not cheap tho). Can't remember the repro dealers, but several sell them. Donnie's looks to be a restored original.
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Thanks Rick - I was thinking of another Corvette fella. That is pretty reasonalbe considering the end product...i.e. Donnie's looks great!
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Body is getting close to paint. floor pans have a coat of epoxy on them one more to go then top coat. fenders, doors, trunk lid and quarters are epoxyed primed and ready to start blocking. underside of hood is finished.
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Very nice Donny!
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Looks great Donnie!
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Looks fantastic!
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Nice! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/whistle.gif[/img]
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Egg-sa-lant-taa............
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All of the hard parts for Donnie's engine are in now and (almost) everything's back from the machine shop, and I got started on the engine build today.
Barring any further delays and/or snafu's, I hope to have the engine long blocked tomorrow or Wednesday, and the engine should be built by the end of the week. I'll post up a build thread in my forum and link it in this thread once I'm a little further along. |
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Donnie car is looking good. I saw it at Daves when I picked my car up. Car was in reall great shape to begin with. Look forwad to seeing the finished product. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]
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I thought I would add in a little piece to Donnie's restoration. I stopped at his place on my way back from MCACN to drop off some parts to him. I also brought his drive shaft back with me to drop off to Quanta for restoration. Since we all know how picky Donnie is in regards to his attention to detail [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img], I decided to clean up a part of the drive shaft to reveal the original stripes painted on it and take some measurements.
Cleaning revealed stripes in this pattern... Orange Blue Black. Each one is approximately 1/4" wide and spaced 3/4" between orange and blue, then 1/2" between blue and black. The orange stripe begins 26.5" from the front of the drive shaft (outer edge of the U joint casing) The black stripe is set 27.5" from the back http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...C/IMG_5981.jpg I even used correct colored Sharpie markers to illustrate! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...C/IMG_5980.jpg I am going to drop it off at Quanta on my of my journeys to Maryland in the next couple weeks. |
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That is some nice detail! That prop shaft is in real nice shape. Anyone have Quanta restore one before?
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Thanks Tom!
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Quanta does 98% of all of mine. They are not technically assembly line correct as an original is cold rolled steel with a welded seam and welded ends which are blued from the heat but it beats paint! Only virgin shafts or NOS shafts can be saved with plastic media blasting and retain an the original appearance. Below is an example of a Quanta restoration after I reapplied the stripes.
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Nice Rick. Thanks for posting.
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Greg Gorniak in Dayton, OH does a beautiful job on driveshafts and even replicates the heat affected zone. He also will replicate the extrusion mark.
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Mark,
Would you please PM me his contact information? Thank you. |
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Rick
I'll post it right here, I'm sure he won't mind. You'll be very happy with his work. Certain Corvette high performance applications had their half shafts shot peened and Greg also does that. Careful though, he's an airline pilot and we know how they are. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img] Mark Greg Gorniak 937-369-5519 |
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Finish and bluing look good w Dayton fellow, but photos look like he is leaving some pitting in the metal.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SS427</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Quanta does 98% of all of mine. They are not technically assembly line correct as an original is cold rolled steel with a welded seam and welded ends which are blued from the heat but it beats paint! Only virgin shafts or NOS shafts can be saved with plastic media blasting and retain an the original appearance. Below is an example of a Quanta restoration after I reapplied the stripes. </div></div>
Only "problem" I have with quanta. Is they send them out. Then they triple charge you shipping. They never told me this when I placed my order. Also, I built a 4" pcv tube( spent about $32) and they stole it and sent it back in a single wall cardboard box. When I asked where my tube went they said oh FedEx, broke it. Didn't file a claim or bother telling me. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/mad.gif[/img] DL |
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motor and tranny are in. working on odds and ends. when I get the exhaust on I'll send some pics to Dan.
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More pics......
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...an2012/875.png http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...an2012/876.png http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...an2012/877.png http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...an2012/878.png http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...an2012/879.png http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...an2012/880.png Dan |
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<span style="font-size: 17pt">Real nice! Like the wheels and the bigger bias ply meats!!!!</span> [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]
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Looking good Donnie. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/beers.gif[/img]
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That chassis is so nice it almost seems a shame to cover it up with the body.
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Thanks Dave.
will be putting engine accessories on next then I'm basically ready for the body. it is painted needs buffed, trunk spattered and dash painted. |
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Looks great Donnie!
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dave Rifkin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">That chassis is so nice it almost seems a shame to cover it up with the body. </div></div>
Agreed, but I still wanna see that perfect white body come sliding into place. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/hmmm.gif[/img] Wait, .... that didn't come out right. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/blush.gif[/img] |
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dave Rifkin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">That chassis is so nice it almost seems a shame to cover it up with the body. </div></div>
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