A '54 named Busty

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by 8man

Holes plugged. Check. Inside primed. Check. Plugs made for large round gauge holes. Check.
The list is shorter today.

Thanks, mate, but none of those items were even on the list !?!?!? ha ha (what kind of operation am I running here)

Originally Posted by 8man

BTW, those gauge hole plugs are nice!

Thank you, not bad for doing it free hand.

[dsraven]

Going back to the state down, the chair and gin you should tie the hood down and run it like that just once. Ain't nobody gonna run up against that on the street. Looks like it eats imports for breakfast, haha. Just mean for no reason.
Keep it up and you'll be done in no time.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by dsraven

Going back to the state down, the chair and gin you should tie the hood down and run it like that just once. Ain't nobody gonna run up against that on the street. Looks like it eats imports for breakfast, haha. Just mean for no reason.
Keep it up and you'll be done in no time.

ha ha, I be lying to you if the thought hadn't crossed my mind, even considered tapering the front to match the hood Prowler style and running open wheels in the front (... but that's not on the list!)

[Gregski]

... and now a Quick Lunch Time Photo Update (QLTPU) from our field correspondent Lonnie Earl:

take it away LE

this morning we made the ceiling KRYLON semi flat black!... turned out, sooooo... [ahem] well, black! hee hee

[Gregski]

then we prepped the area behind the seat (I honestly don't know what it's called: the back wall?) to make that... you guessed it: Black

[Gregski]

and we shot this section Gloss Black ?! because it's what we had and it is going to get covered up with SEM Undercoating anyways

and we sprayed until we ran out of paint (two cans) and yes the first stupid nozzle got stuck in the spray position so I just sprayed it out on the cab floor which I didn't plan on painting yet (second can of KRYLON spray paint this has happened on, now I would expect this on a $4.00 dollar can of spray paint but not on an $8.00 dollar one, I mean come on right?!

[Gregski]

... and now this:

Quarantine beards and respirators do not mix, I was wondering why I'm sucking fumes in my trusty 3M mask, so I changed the cartridges and still I was tasting paint, and then it hit me, my ZZ Top beard had to go

[8man]

Nice paint work.

Tell LE that he's right about the beard interfering with the mask seal.

[Gregski]

Originally Posted by 8man

Nice paint work.

Thank's mate, though I did look like Soul Man afterwards, I was too lazy to find my body suit.

Originally Posted by 8man

Tell LE that he's right about the beard interfering with the mask seal.

will do can as soon as he's done sharpenin' his sling blade

[Gregski]

guys I don't know about you, but I am terrible at doing something for the second time, like if I was to rebuild a cylinder head I would do a knock out job on the first one then put the second one off for six weeks

same goes with painting the driver side door, after I already painted the passenger one, ha ha

so here's what I did instead...

Update from the future: this product is cheap and broke upon first use (threads stripped on the arbor shaft and it was nearly impossible to remove the cutting wheel)!!! Horrible at cutting 16 gauge sheet metal

[Gregski]

Ol' Milwaukee hole saw blade, Ol' Milwaukee arbor, Ol' Milwaukee corded drill, grandpa would be soooo proud

... and blue tape on the metal, all professional and such so as not to scratch it ups

Note: drilling on the edge like that sucked! Saw would catch and want to do stupid stuff!

[Gregski]

nice thing about this there design is that you can Clock It before you Tack It !!!

say what?

you can turn / spin the inserts to what ever position you want the gauges to be at

oh, why didn't you just say so

[Gregski]

with the big holes cut out it was time to cut the small ones

first of all let me just say that the Milwaukee hole saw cutting system appears solid on the surface but is a total piece of cheap junk, and no I am not blaming my tools poor craftsman style, it is like asking a carpenter to build you kitchen cabinets using a circular saw and tools to build a fence - did I mention the arbor broke after first use, that's right the threads got all mangled to where I could not unscrew the 3 1/4 saw off of it (it's a design flaw, you can either screw on the hole saw all the way tight and have the 2 reinforcement prongs not align with the holes, or screw it on loose so the two prongs snap in, I chose the second option)

second the Milwaukee hole saws are not precision tools, they did not have the 2 1/16s one so I bought the 2" one and check it out the gauges fit just fine, so there is a ton of discrepancy, I do not recommend these tools for cutting metal at all and I did not Gorilla these cuts and I even used WD-40 as lube while cutting

[Gregski]

things are beginning to take shape now

[Gregski]

alright let's keep going, I am still in shock that I am doing both sides at the same time, I usually put off doing the second of anything for days!!!

Note To Self: if there ever was a time for a drill press, this would have been it!

[Gregski]

so let's do this Optometrist style:

A. - ?





please forgive the slight crookedness in the moch up fotos - this is just to give you a conceptual idea, getting the panels to stay up there without falling out was a bear

[Gregski]

or...

B. - ?

[Gregski]

more gauge pics coming - this is just a place holder

[Gregski]

hey look who finally painted semi flat black the other door

VERDICT = Don't like em! I really can't do the murdered out all black interior bit, feels like I'm in a coffin...

[Gregski]

so trying out some lighter colors for the interior (dash, that rear window panel, etc. the floor and ceiling will still remain black):

Stone Gray Satin

um, hello, what a bad @ss name - done!

[Gregski]

now where were we, oh yeah, painting things semi flat black, the steeringnator was next

first we scuffatize it

[Gregski]

I've used this product to paint over chrome with good results

[Gregski]

primer time

hey look Greg [mongocanfly], using the PROFESSIONAL series, gotta be good (actually it sprays and covers ok, the primer from AutoZone ie same formula for twice the cost seems to cover better in my opinion - maybe it's just phsychological, I'm that guy who's identical TV is better cause I payed more for it, ha ha, you know who you is!)

[Gregski]

ok we get it, you're gonna paint it black next, save us from scrolling down

hey I just got done with three days of weldering holes in the firewall, I'll post as many steering wheel pics as I darn please, jk

Fun Fact: that little red square/rectangle on the tip of the nozzle - it rotates so you can have a horizontal or [ahem] not horizontal spray pattern, super useful on a ROUND steering wheel, whaaa haa ha

[notsolo]

You did really well cutting those out Greg, only other option is having someone else do it with expensive tools for cutting clean holes in metal ...Drop them off somewhere, wait 2 weeks and see if they lost them.