Golden Goddess heart surgery

[Cheapsunglasses]

Spa day for the Goddess was a success, now I need to let the mess dry

 

[64fury74charger]

Nice spa day and now things will become much clearer….lol

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

Yes much clearer, like my crappy engine paint




Tech tip, if you have oil leaks, don’t milk it for a year, take care of it!

 

[Black_Sheep]

Sorry if I missed it earlier, are you going to leave the patina? The Golden Goddess appears to have good bones…

I have a friend that’s done a couple patina builds, people just love them.

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

I repainted the engine bay several years ago because it was awful, I think it say outside for 20 years without a hood, and I repainted all the suspension parts.

I’m not going to repaint the entire car, it looks good enough, just some usual rust, doer dings, and whisky dents

Being a big fan of the 70s, I’d like to put an a12 style hood on it, and after seeing @Chongo 68 s car, it gave me an idea. Instead of putting a vinyl top back on, I’m going 70s with it, but as much as his, a little more subtle like this ca. Gold and black, endless lines and lace on the roof, reverse on the hood. And then I’ll scuff it a little to match the rest.

Number Nazi resto warriors are ok. But I like things different, I love the past when people made these cars family, and did what they wanted!

 

[Black_Sheep]

Hell yea! It will be a throwback to the good old days…

I have seen Chongo’s car in person, the flake, panel paint and asymmetric designs are really well done.

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

That’s my plan with this car. The joke for the Golden Goddess is she’s the goddess of the good old days, and shenanigans!

 

[Chongo 68]

Can’t believe I missed this thread on the Golden Goddess! Guess I have been distracted with snowmobiling hee-hee…nice work and thank you for sharing! Car is so bad ***!!!

 

[Islandkent]

She would certainly look sweet with some kind of paint job like that

 

[ckessel]

Grunge. Its not just a music style out of Washington.

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

Alright, question time. I have these awesome call custom valve covers. The generic grommet I gave on my generic pvc sucks. It doesn’t seal great, it’s loose and sloppy. Is there better?

 

[Kern Dog]

Do you have an auto parts store with a HELP section?
Several stores out here do. It is a wall of products from Dorman and other manufacturers. Grommets, brackets, springs, clips, clamps, nuts-bolts-specialty washers, all sorts of oddball stuff. I've picked grommets from the wall for weird applications.

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

I’ll have to checkout Oreillys, I didn’t think about their wall

The best part is easy return

 

[Tinker67]

I repainted the engine bay several years ago because it was awful, I think it say outside for 20 years without a hood, and I repainted all the suspension parts.

I’m not going to repaint the entire car, it looks good enough, just some usual rust, doer dings, and whisky dents

Being a big fan of the 70s, I’d like to put an a12 style hood on it, and after seeing @Chongo 68 s car, it gave me an idea. Instead of putting a vinyl top back on, I’m going 70s with it, but as much as his, a little more subtle like this ca. Gold and black, endless lines and lace on the roof, reverse on the hood. And then I’ll scuff it a little to match the rest.

Number Nazi resto warriors are ok. But I like things different, I love the past when people made these cars family, and did what they wanted!

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I did several jobs similar to those ,loved them at the time. Still trying to remember what I was smokin'. Customers were happy though ,and thats what counts.

 

[moparedtn]

It's always fun to see someone going through some of the fun stuff we've all been through before for
the first time, eh? Especially someone as well-suited for the site who has been a positive contributor!
Does an old heart good to see, honestly.

 

[Black_Sheep]

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

Yep, my favorite style

 

[moparedtn]

@Black_Sheep
Damn, give a fella a little heads up before you go throwing that stuff up, will ya?
#acidflashbacks

 

[Cheapsunglasses]

I was trying to wait to order the headers, but stock dwindling and I don’t want to get stuck in a back order purgatory. This may seem like a dumb question, but for the collector gaskets, do I order the size of the collector in the header, 3”, or the the size of the collector on the exhaust, 2.5”?

 

[Black_Sheep]

I was trying to wait to order the headers, but stock dwindling and I don’t want to get stuck in a back order purgatory. This may seem like a dumb question, but for the collector gaskets, do I order the size of the collector in the header, 3”, or the the size of the collector on the exhaust, 2.5”?

Size for the collectors, I assume you have or will have reducers to mate the collector to the exhaust pipe…