Mav1970's Insane 69.5 Street Project

We bought 2 quarts at work to coat the dump box on our Peterbilt. What was left in this can was sitting on a shelf since last summer so instead of throwing it out, I took a shot at saving something out of it

 

I put a piece of plastic between the lid and can as well....but I also keep it in the refrigerator. That seems to help.

 

sky and solstice front end opens with front fenders, lights, very similar to the c4 vette, actually c4 vette may be a cheaper way to find parts...

 

If you look at the front piece of tubing, you can see that it goes completely through both frame rails to replace the stock front crossmember that I removed as far as strength goes. I left some of the tubing sticking out on both sides of the rails as possible pivot points. I was considering building bumper mounts off of those starting point and then building on from there to connect the hood and fenders using some light weight material.

 

Did a little more work to the cowl cover today. Straightened all of the cowl lips getting it ready to re-install back to the firewall once and for all. I found that I had missed a gap that was left in front of the area where the passenger wiper comes through the cowl. This is a part that needed to stay when I replaced my grills with steel. I cleaned out some of the all-steel and underside POR 15 and welded it up. I opened up my gallon of bondo, to finish up the cowl, and lo and behold couldn't for the life of me find any hardner so that will be tomorrow's piece of the project.

 

Has anyone tried storing your POR15 upside-down? ... I have used Rust Bullet and that seemed to help.

It is recommended for house paint ... paint will film at the bottom, close to the air, and trap good stuff in between. With paint it is easier to size the containers to the volume too ... trap less air in the container. But that isn't too practical with these coatings ... they would probably go bad fast in a regular glass jar.

I tend to buy the smallest size in Bullet that I know I will use fast.

 

A few years ago: I began this project buying a quart can of Rust Bullet "Black Shell" - I didn't know, at the time, about putting plastic wrap over the open can before putting the lid back on - the lid glued itself, I kept bending the lid more and more getting it on and off and eventually the contents dried up due to the lid not being able to seal. Live and learn.

Today: The can, that I have now, is only a half a can of POR 15 I got from work since we would never be needing it anymore - someone, who was using it on a dump truck body, had put plastic wrap over the can before putting the lid on so when I opened it later on, I found the lid came off really easy because of that plastic wrap - BUT half the contects dried up anyway - I like the idea of flipping the can over but I would be real afraid of the contents leaking all over the place because of finding that lid not real tight with using the plastic.

 

For this reason POR15 is available in a six pack of very small cans. They're probably 1/2 pint or smaller. The idea is that you would just use up the smaller quantity quicker and dispose of the can and open a new can next time.

 

Last time I bought POR 15 I picked up a bunch of small glass food jars at WalMart for a couple bucks and also did the plastic wrap under the lid thing. That was probably about seven or eight years ago. Last winter I went to use some from a previuosly unopened jar, it had about 1/4" skin on top but was all good below that.

 

The skin seems to be common. Like you said, it's all good underneath.

 

i refrigerated the por 15 i used on my car. no plastic wrap under the lid. i finally opened it 3 years later and there was no skin. the instructions on the can say to keep refrigerated once opened.

 

That sounds like a good idea - Once I'm done with this partial can of POR 15, my plan was to only purchase 1 of the smallest cans at a time so I didn't have 4 ot 5 from a six pack getting aged on the shelf.

 

A little more work done

I had time this past week to lay a couple of thin coats of filler over the modifications to the cowl cover - grill deletes, windshield washer wells and the wells where the hinges go when the hood is shut. This is after sheet metal was welded in all of the areas. The firewall is begining to look a lot smoother than Ford made it originally - still need to get some sanding done

Almost forgot - got the wooden intake installed too

 

you need to make that intake a air gap! and then someone (me) will pay big dollars for that firewood.

cowl grill looks good btw.

 

Are you planning on running a heater or are you going to use that blower motor hole for som kind of fresh air intake? You know, like ram air!