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| The Build - Jan 2009 - ?? |
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| 03.05.09 - SEM Vinyl/Carpet Dye - 9 months later |
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- Dye held up well on top of seats, door panels, and arm rests
- Did not work well on actual seats
- Possible reasons for failure
- Bad prep
- did not use SEM soap or SEM prep solution
- Maybe seat material can not be dyed
- has a plastic-like/nylon sheen
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| 03.03.09 - Valve Cover Clean Up & Design ideas |
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- Decided to use 'customized' Mercruiser valve cover, may purchase Offenhauser cover at a later date (expensive).
- Removed Mercruiser stickers and started sanding
- Came up with preliminary design for logo
- Logo will be acid etched into an aluminum plate, then attached to valve cover
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| 03.01.09 - Rear End cleaned up and painted |
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- Found a 1965 Nova rear end with 3.08 gears
- Degreased rearend and gave it a coat of paint
- Gears will be swapped out for 3.55s eventually
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| 02.21.09 - Decicision made on rims - rims located |
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- Decided to go with OE Style Rims. Will paint them black and try both hubcaps and bolt on Shannon Cones
- Rims Sizes
- Front 14 x6, 3.5" backspace
- Rear 15 x 7, 4.5" backspace
- Will order Shannon Cones in a few weeks
- Rims tested with calipers for fit
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| 12.18.08 - 01.01.09 - Researching options for rims |
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- Need to find 5 - Lug rims for disk brake conversion and rear end swap
- Spent last couple of months researching rims options
- Option 1 - torque thrust II/Coys
:: Pic 1
(shown on non-Nova)::
- Option 2 - Rally Rims with bullet center caps :: Pic 1 :: Pic 2 ::
- Option 3 - Rally Rims with moon caps :: Pic 1::
- Option 4 - Painted OE Style rims or smoothies with stock hubcaps
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- Option 5 - Painted smoothies with spider caps or bullet center caps :: Pic 1 :: Pic 2 ::
- Option 6 - Painted OE Style rims with bolt on Shannon Cones :: Pic 1 ::
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