[ZeGermanHam]

Work on the odds & ends continues... Today I experimented with stripping the anodizing off of a spare piece of very scratched up aluminum window trim that I had laying around from my donor doors. I used Easy-Off Heavy Duty oven cleaner (yellow can, with sodium hydroxide), and it worked pretty well. I checked to see how much progress it had made after 10 minutes, which was not much. So I let it sit an hour, and that did the trick. All the anodizing came off pretty easily at that point with a green scouring pad.

At this point, I'm leaning toward not re-anodizing my aluminum trim. Based on what I've read from others here, it seems people have a pretty easy time keeping it looking good just by hand polishing every so often.






Also finally got my hands of every part of an exhaust system, including some Doug's headers. I'm going to cancel my order from Ram Air Restorations, since there is no ETA on when the manifolds I ordered in April will arrive. The rest of the exhaust is Flowmaster 2.5" mandrel bent tubing with H-pipe, and 16" Dynomax Super Turbo mufflers. Should sound good without being overly obnoxious, hopefully. I'm more of a turbo muffler guy rather than a chambered muffler guy, even though turbo mufflers hurt performance somewhat.


Lastly, I cleaned up my wiper motor, which was pretty ugly but functional before I removed it. Looks better now.