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Author:	illldeca [ Thu Aug 20, 2009 12:36 am ]
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Quote: well any 500 degree engine paint will do and i have tryed them all, i like rustoleum's engine enamel (4.99 a can) the most important thing i guess is making sure the parts are clean, like uber clean ( either sand blast or use 180 grit sand paper on the clean metal ) primer then paint. mine i ran thru the parts washer, blasted or sanded, primered then painted. anyways i'm off to work to pull 2 engines and all the other crap i gotta get done before i can work on my car. what paint would you recommend for painting headers i bought some old hookers true duals and they need some sanding and painting.

Author:	hantayo13 [ Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:14 am ]
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any 1200 degree bbq paint.....but even that will burn off over time

Author:	MiDi [ Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:08 am ]
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VHT header paint or wood stove paint does the trick but all of it burns off with in a year.

Author:	MiDi [ Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:53 pm ]
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well the last of the parts are here and its all comming together FINALLY! man all i have to say is what a looooonnngg haul this has been. but hey i'll have a new car from the tires up. it's really sweet how everything is comming together and i woudl like to take a min to thank everyone that has made it happen: ed .. thanks dood your awesome thor: you have helped a ton and u rock randy: u got more work to do so get on it .. but serrously thanks mike: your a ninja @ body work DI: your godlike when it comes to bent six dizzyz anyways here is another run of pictures: making sure the slicks fit her mike doing his stuff well i wanted these black but we had tons of orange so its orange more to come as we wrap this up in a few more days, thanks to everyone for letting me share this massive project. its helped be get off my butt and get out a wrench cheerz neil

Author:	MiDi [ Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:16 pm ]
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todays progress i learned a lot & finished the disc conversion ok here is how it went down: 73 charger rotors,spindles and calipers ... 66 charger lower ball joints and 73 to 76 dart upercontroll arms. and here is that: body work by mike: 67 charger rear 10" brake assembled and yes black moving after market gauges for the new pedal assembly and clutch linkage hmmm look what thor is doing .... WRONG YELLOW DART GT! you need to help me with mine .. kidding bobby has been a huge help and a great co-worker! wear that wildcat t-shirt proud buddy! after thor lost 2 of his rims in his valiant totaling i gave him 2 of my wheelz ready for the trans instal ... mmm sincrometch .. marilyn only drinks the best .... blondes are never a cheap date my playground

Author:	MiDi [ Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:30 pm ]
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well u can do a lot in a day but not everything .. this is what happened today. thor finished up my rear brakes and ... thor ,ed and i tossed the idea around of some tail light mods wich bobby is gonna tell us all about! it took us an hour of comparing rears and digging for parts to complete them ... it's like ok we have the parts but where the hell are they! i worked on the front disc bearings and oil seals ... all new, cause i don't truct junkyard bearings! the nitrous line is cleaned up and out of our way! thor and i are both running eldelbrock stainless steel flex fans ... with good results so far on his .. here is mine i'm running a oem fuel filter for a EFI dodge V8 truck ... it does the job and then some .. and its metal! plastic fuel filters are junk! i'm uploading a u tube video of mike doing his thing! but here is the second coat of primer and sanding the 10" drums assmebled with new hardware, cylinders & nice shoes SWAY BAR! too bad we couldn't find one for thor but next time he is up i'll have one pulled for him. another 20 mins shot digging thru here for flywheel bolts ... half the day we where just working on finding stuff or looking @ completed cars to figure out how the hell this stuff went together! flywheel ok huge pain in the ass here .. 2 diff spedo pinions and the 64 904 is way diff than the later 230 ... iafter talking to ed we figured out what was up and i pulled 2 spedo cables and finally found a 1967 dart that worked and the cable was in good shape ... after picking the spedo gear and mounting the cable came the a230 frist drinks of sincromesch! afco cluch .. man they know there stuff! absinthe powar! the back shop bobby and dave talk tail lights & mopar

Author:	MiDi [ Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:43 pm ]
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thor and his bumper http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhLFjkAHwFY body work and video of my car http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WiOgX3i95c

Author:	MiDi [ Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:15 pm ]
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ok i switched out the pedals: before: after: i had to remove the instrument cluster and drop the steering wheel. my set of pedals that i cleaned up and painted did not work so i grabbed a set of 65 dart pedals and they droped right in. next i mounted the power boosted and bracket ... only problem is now the brake lines to the master cylinder are now too short. on top of that the nitrous mini switch is now in the way also ... i'll figure out a better way to mount it tomorrow. i moved my after market gauges and re-wired them in a better way. i also added my vaccume gauge. and a closer up shot here is the engine bay with the power booster sitting on a proper bracket with a stock linkage ... i rigged the old setup and it was starting to become non-fuctional!

Author:	hantayo13 [ Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:59 am ]
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hey midi why didnt you fix the rust behind wheelwell?????

Author:	MiDi [ Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:08 am ]
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Quote: hey midi why didnt you fix the rust behind wheelwell????? well both rear quarters and wheel wells are being removed this spring and new quarters put in. this is just a temp fix to keep her look'n good. it's off to buy 2 brake lines and then to work to try to get them in before we open @ 9am

Author:	MiDi [ Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:40 pm ]
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well today was a long and bad day for me so not much got done, we where slammed with customers and projects .. like getting ready for this saturdays party. i didn't even get to pick up a wrench for my car untill 6:30 tonight. well i did get some things done and here is that here is my lineup tool from a busted 230 3 speed. flywheel, clutch,backing plate & bellhousing are in the car i bought a set of mickey tompson racing slicks from randy for a great price since he needed the money. they fit my car and i'm hoping @ the next race i will be running them! now the bellhousing brackets are different between the automatic and the manual transmission setups so i had to pull a bracket and clean it up as of right now this post is @ 1700 views ... thanks guys! and thanks to goldyn for helping me out with some of the new parts.

Author:	MiDi [ Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:43 pm ]
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well i got to see a board member today so that rocked and i hope his new windsheild will serve him well. trans is in! now to start cutting the hole in the floor picking a driveline is hard when we have over 500 of them and that count was donw a few years back! here she is almost done, i'm tired, broke and i want my car back!

Author:	slantsixbob [ Thu Aug 27, 2009 12:37 am ]
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holy -__- thats a lot of drive lines.... guess we know were to go if we need one cant wait to see it all together and running neil you will definitely have to post a youtube vid/pics

Author:	MiDi [ Thu Aug 27, 2009 8:15 pm ]
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ok i found a driveline and i cleaned it up, saturday i'm buying new u joints for it and sticking the proper a230 yoke on it. the driveline is out of a 73 dodge polara. and it fits liek it was make for my car! it's sure nice that somthing is going right! after that i worked on the brake lines, since i'm now using teh proper booster bracket my old lines where too short. hopefully tomorrow brings more progress!

Author:	ceej [ Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:20 pm ]
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Hey Neil, Making great progress! Your blog here really belongs in Slixers Gallery. Unless you have a reason for it to be in the social corner, I'm going to move it over there. Are you going to try to have your car done for Redding? I may have the car put back together by then. Lot's happening! Have fun this weekend! I'm still plugging my tranny together! CJ

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