Gramma's Car: the new project!

[njsteve]

Since it has been raining since saturday morning and it's supposed to rain all week, I figured I wouldn't be able to paint the engine until at least next week. Around 5:00 PM the sun came out for about an hour and I quickly rolled the engine out in the driveway to get her painted up.





I used the Bill Hirsch Engine Enamel. The stuff is amazing. The color match was exact. 1975-77 Pontiac engines have this weird, heavy metallic, royal blue color that is similar to the Oldsmobile blue and not available anywhere in spray can form. I used one of those Preval, do-it-yourself aerosol spray bottles, diluted the canned paint by 1/2 with lacquer thinner and sprayed away. I used about 1/3 of the quart can.

[Norwood]

steve are all the rockers like that? did you replace all of them?

[njsteve]

That rocker had the hole a fraction of an inch lower than the rest. So I just swapped out that one with the best original rocker I could find. (My machinist had examined the original rockers and noticed that most of them were a bit too scuffed up in the pocket area, so he recommended getting a new set.)

(Oh, and by the way Craig, if you know anyone with a nice 73 SD, my son would be happy to consider trading the '72 T/A for his future project [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img])

[Norwood]

I will forward this message. I know a few....but those SD guys think thier cars are worth way more than our &quot;striped cars&quot; [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

[njsteve]

Everything is bolted up and, remarkably, there were no nuts, bolts or parts left over!

I need to get my hoist back so I can join the engine and tranny together and throw the drivetrain back in the car. Hopefully it will finally stop raining this weekend.

[SuperNovaSS]

Steve,


What's with the piece of wood under the front of the engine? Didn't trust the bolts?


Jason

[njsteve]

It's a speciially designed device that took years of testing and innovation to create. It supports the front of the engine under the pan flange and mounts against the front brace of the engine stand. It takes some of the stress of all that weight off the four mounting bolts in the rear of the block.

It only remotely resembles a long 2X4. It's actually a bioengineered, organic laminate support fixture, (a.k.a. wood)
[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

[Xplantdad]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: njsteve</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It's a speciially designed device that took years of testing and innovation to create. It supports the front of the engine under the pan flange, and takes some of the stress off the mounting bolts in the rear of the block.

It only resembles a 2x4 piece of wood. It's actually a bioengineered, organic laminate. (a.k.a. wood)
[img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img] </div></div>

Steve...you crack me up... [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

[Verne_Frantz]

Steve, You are a very fortunate man to have your kids involved like this. That makes it more than a project; it makes it a really good memory.

Verne [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

[njsteve]

Thanks for the kind thoughts, Verne! [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]