Sleazy's Garage
It's that time of year where we do something dumb in the garage. This year we're making some halloween candy buckets but also testing some theories on how best to get paint to stick to them. Will any of them survive the cat test? Happy Garage-o-ween!
After 25 years my project car finally drives on a public road legally! Even if it was just for a few minutes. This is still a huge milestone and my goal for the year has been achieved! I still have to break in the transmission and rear axle by driving 500 miles before I can finish up the tune. Hopefully we can get it done before the weather turns.
I have to finally learn how to paint with a gun. This is my first try and it came out pretty darn close to not bad! If you paint and have some tips, drop them in the comments, or roast me too that's fine. I ended up doing 3 coats of color and 4 coats of clear.
Finally buttoning up the hydroboost plumbing and getting the power steering and power brakes to work. By the end, the car is completely transformed!!!... and squeaky?
Wow, video 150! Home stretch folks! I don't feel comfortable that I can drive this car on the road without power steering and power brakes. To get there we need to install the PBH Speed Drive system which moves the alternator and makes a place for a power steering pump. So we'll do that now and prepare for the hydroboost plumbing in the next video.
Transforming my "Car Shaped Object" into an actual bonafide coyote swapped Foxbody Mustang GT that's just about drive-able on the road! This video is long, its huge, and its full of progress. If that doesn't excite you then I'm all out of ideas. And apologies again for my shift-boot hissy fit, must've been having a bad day or something.😅It gets replaced with the Daniel Carpenter version in the next video.
Carpet, Quarter Glass, and Weatherstripping - Foxbody Restomod Part 148
Just got my seats, tried them out with a quick ride up the road. I'm working on a massive video to wrap up most of the reinstallation.
The fenders have some surface rust, in this video we're grinding it down to some clean borders, full sand and wipe down, and giving them both three coats of rust reformer, 3 coats of UPOL oxford white paint, and 3 coats of POR-15 clear. Luckily most of the treated area will never be seen. This will do until we do the actual body work on the car, but time is running out!
I was supposed to work on the fenders but other things caught my attention. My ADHD is screaming again but in this video we install some wiring, 3d print a shifter knob so we can install an SVE short throw shifter, unpack the carpet, fix the rip in the front bumper, zip tie some wiring to the car etc. etc.