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Red Dragon 79
Dude! It's all good. Don't sweat it. I've been working on mine for 38 years.
Hell, it took me 6 months to do a tranny swap this year! I could have hurried but it doesn't really matter. If you can embrace a similar philosophy you'll enjoy both working on it and driving it.
Originally Posted by Red Dragon 79
Welp. I hit my year mark. I started this journey a year ago and it is starting to feel like I haven’t made any progress. I was shooting to get it painted before the cold came, but then I got sick. I missed my goal. Fetch.
Nice work, keep charging ahead one step at a time. I would be verry leery of painting with an open flame in a closed garage, you may or may not get away with it, if and when you are painting if the vapors get into the range between the upper and lower explosive limit it will ignite in a verry bad way. I painted my plane pieces in a 2-car garage in the wintertime, don't forget about PPE and ventilation. I used a 3M full face respirator with organic filters, with a full painter's suit.
Are you going to reinforce the upper radiator support?
yeah. I’m going to build a brace that bolts in and connects them and also the air snout hooks to, so that I can make the brace a little lower and still be able to get the radiator out if needed. Even though I was wearing safety glasses a piece of the cutting wheel went flying in my eye so I had to cut it short.
There isn't much room there when you see where the hinges are.
Whoa, that's bad. Hope your eye is ok.
I tried to mount a C4 intake and filter assembly on my 77. I considered doing as you did and cut the crossmember. I reconsidered because the clearance with the hood open between the AC condenser and hood was too close . There's not much room up there with the hood open.
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