69 rr grille/hel bezels

[5.7 hemi]

Bezels are finished. Now to paint the grille and I'll be done.

 

[69roadr]

real nice 5.7 hemi. btw, you might want to check your rez setting on your camera/cell/etc...

 

[5.7 hemi]

If I put my camera on high resolution, it wont load the pics on this site so I have to put it on the lowest setting.....my apologies for the way the pics turned out.

I finished the grille this evening, need to do a few touch ups and I'll post pics tomorrow.

 

[5.7 hemi]

After looking at the semi gloss black, I noticed it was FUGLY. So I have re-sanded and gonna shoot it again. I suppose I could have left it that way, but I want the next guy who gets it to be happy with it.....meaning when I like it, hopefully you will too.

 

[tallhair]

If I put my camera on high resolution, it wont load the pics on this site so I have to put it on the lowest setting.....my apologies for the way the pics turned out.

I finished the grille this evening, need to do a few touch ups and I'll post pics tomorrow.

Load them on imgur or another pic hosting site, then upload the url but uncheck the "Retrieve remote file and reference locally" box

 

[5.7 hemi]

It's done!!! Going in the "for sale" section.

 

[Dad's69RR]

For sale section on this site?

 

[dsd1967]

5.7 hemi....... I see earlier in the thread you said you used oven cleaner. I redid a 67 belvedere grille and was looking into the cost of the oven cleaner and being a cheap-o, I didn't want to foot the bill for several bottles of ez-off. I read that the active ingredient is sodium hydroxide.....and that rung a bell. At work we use a concentrated floor cleaner called Zep that the active ingredient is something like 98% sodium hydroxide. I "borrowed" a little to try and it worked wonders. I went out and bought 5 gallons of the stuff and soaked the grille and bezels in it....worked like a charm. To do the grille, I made a trough with 2x4's that was wide enough and deep enough to submerge the center section. I then lined it with heavy duty visqueen and filled it with Zep until the grille was totally submerged. 15 minutes later the anodize was gone. Dipped the bezels in the same solution with the same results. The nice thing is that the Zep was reuseable....I put it back in the 5 gallon jug for future use.

If you plan on keeping doing grilles, it may be cheaper to go the zep route than to continue to buy oven cleaner. The submerged/soak method is pretty low effort and not too messy.

 

[Dad's69RR]

5.7 I will trade in my grill and bezels for the set you just finished!