68Moparmaniac
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Finally got the chance to paint some of the car this last weekend. Engine bay, trunk and cabin. Getting the last little stuff done before the money shot
68 RT Charger
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showard
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Looking Good!
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Looking awesome and I am not even a fan of yellow but it works on Mopars.
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Molded parts installed, clips fit nce
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showard
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Great!
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Trying to catch up with you
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You’re doing some inspiring work bro. Encourages a lot of guys to keep the one to the grindstone. The payoff looks like where you’re close to. Very nice
Taillights look great. I have a 68 440 R/T 4 speed that is far from being completed. It is my next project. Were you able to clean and recondition your tailllights or did you purchase new or replacement units? I have two that are pretty good, but would love to understand how best to restore them.
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The tail light housings are original to the car, they weren't mint but in real good condition with some pitting. I sent these out to a plating shop and they did what they could as far as cleaning up surfaces and pitting. The bezels and lenses are new. I finished out the detailing with some hot rod black and argent silver.
Thank you for the details.
Nice stuff. Good job and good luck!
Back in the day when I restored my yellow 70 Charger R / T SE, I primed the roof with lacquer primer and had the vynal top installed, then painted the car. And it probably would have been fine had I left the car in the garage, but I was painting an engine compartment in a friend of mines 69 Charger, so I put my Charger outside, and we got about 6 inches of snow, well the snow melted and water penetrated the vynal top, and the porus primer allowed water to get to the metal, and I got rust bubbles under the vynal top. Lesson learned, I always paint the roof on a vynal top car before having the top installed!
68Moparmaniac
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Main reason vinyl tops failed back in the day. I've always painted and clear coated the roof before installing the vinyl top, if water does get under it the paint will keep it from corroding the steel. Just need to scuff the paint so the glue has something to bite into and go about the usual install.
68Moparmaniac
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Actually a good question. I felt I had a better chance painting the outside assembled than separately. Mostly due to the size of booth I have to work with, I have a better paint match shooting it all at once.
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Proflo 4 and the Aeromotive 340 Phantom stealth in tank came in. Pretty slick units, straight forward design and well built, hope it works as good as it looks. My first build using something other than a carb.... so it’s gonna have a learning curve for sure.
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Finished up the front half of the fuel lines, back half should be done this week
I am kind of in the same boat with the fuel injection system. I bought the Fitech dual quad fuel injection system for my Hemi engine, in the Daytona stock car. I am concerned that the fuel injection system might run lean during break in of the engine. I asked my engine builder if he wanted to break the engine in on the dyno with carbs instead of the Fuel injection, and he said that he wanted to break the engine in with the system that will be run on the car. I agree with you, they look great,I hope they run as good as they look! You are making great progress on the car!
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