[Bentwheelbob]

It's been kind of a slow week around here, but a couple things got done. Mainly the EGR and backpressure valve got disassembled, cleaned up and put back together. I believe this is the original piece and I am tickled with how well it cleaned up. The gold plating is still fairly fresh looking and the inked part numbers are still visible. I just gently cleaned and clear coated the gold cad parts, but the metal bases were cleaned on the wire wheel and then painted with POR 15 manifold paint. Both this assembly and an extra one that was on the spare intake I bought had a blue striped vacuum line which I replaced. MPD has gotten his hands on some metal gasket material and we'll use it to cut a new gasket where it connects to the manifold. Here's a few pictures including a pretty cool picture of the garage. We had a big snow yesterday and that combined with the nearly full moon made a nice photo. The elevated walkway connects the house to the apartment over the garage.

[Bentwheelbob]

Kind of a slow weekend, but a few things got done. The main thing was getting the original radiator shroud cleaned up, primed and painted. It is finished and looks really good. It had been shot with some type of gloss clear that made things difficult. Ultimately, it all had to be sanded to get it off. I then primed with SEM high build and duplicolor high build primer, sanded it with 320 grit, and then primed it again and sanded with 600 grit. I used used Krylon Plastic Fusion in flat black to paint it and generally applied three coats. I am happy with the results.

I also got a lot of the intake manifold stuff sorted and in process. I got several things prepped to send off for gold cad plating and got the brake booster and carb to vapor canister hard lines cleaned up, cleared and ready. The choke heat tube is also mostly cleaned up and ready for some manifold paint, the radiator is ready for paint, and I plated two more batches of bolts.

Here's a few pictures.