Painting the Chasis Rails
Today I focused on getting the engine bay ready so that I can start putting the steering and suspension together again, once they are refreshed. I needed to spend some time cleaning the cross member a bit more as when I did my last clean, I focused more on the gearbox tunnel and under the car than I did the engine bay.
With the last of the crud removed from the cross member, I went to work sanding the chassis rails, cross member and engine mounts. Dad and I decided that the chassis rails and lower would look great painted black, rather than the silver of the rest of the car. We thought that it would break things up a bit. Once everything was sanded and wiped down, I got out some POR-15 and started to paint. It went on really nice and had hardly left the brush before it started to smooth itself out and come to a mirror finish. It was interesting trying to maneuver under the car, paint and not get too much on me (I should have worn gloves).
I got most of it done, except for the back of the cross member and a little across the front of the engine bay, this will have to wait till next week. Dad and I think that it has come up looking really good and breaks up the engine bay exactly the way that we thought that it would.
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- Painted Chassis Rails and Cross Member
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- Painted Chassis Rail
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- Closeup of the Gearbox Tunnel, Firewall and Chassis Rail