Old Project Revitalized - 56 Track Car

Pappy- are you a fabricator/car builder by trade? :drink:

Thanks. I'm just an old, retired fighter pilot, but the operative word is "old". I have been practicing fabrication for 60 years - started when I was 13. If I would just move faster and leave well enough alone, maybe I would get this thing on the track and out of the jack stand class.

Pappy

I think the jack stand class is alot of fun.

those limiting heim joints (?) are a thing of beauty i love it. freaking elegantly simple.

I love the fabrication on this project.
 
Here is a product I really like. It is a tough paint with stainless steel in it. Called Steel-It. Available in black or gray. You can weld through it. It is tough as nails - hard to chip or scratch. A lot of the off-road suspension manufacturers are starting to use it on suspension components.

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Here is a product I really like. It is a tough paint with stainless steel in it. Called Steel-It. Available in black or gray. You can weld through it. It is tough as nails - hard to chip or scratch. A lot of the off-road suspension manufacturers are starting to use it on suspension components.

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can you spray it? i may try it on the front grille I am making
 
Here is a product I really like. It is a tough paint with stainless steel in it. Called Steel-It. Available in black or gray. You can weld through it. It is tough as nails - hard to chip or scratch. A lot of the off-road suspension manufacturers are starting to use it on suspension components.

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can you spray it? i may try it on the front grille I am making

Yes, but it is pretty thick. Goes over bare, sandblasted (or 36-grit sanded) metal - can't go over paint.

Edit: I think it is available in spray cans.
 
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Speaking of paint...I finally got finished with all the glass work in the interior and got it in Epoxy primer. Now I just need to clean up a few rough spots and get it in a durable, final paint. There will be no carpet and the door and kick panels will be exposed carbon fiber.

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Looks nice, what seats are you planning on using?
 
Thanks guys. No carpet for the weight savings, but I may put a NASCAR-style heat resistant pad/mat in the driver's side floorboard. For seats, I have an OMP WRC and an OMP full-containment HTE-R that I had planned on using. However, I eliminated the passenger side footwell when I move the firewall back for the dry sump tank, so I won't have a passenger seat. It is a track car and the passenger seat was just for grins if someone wanted a "ride". The HTE-R is too wide at the top of the head support, so it forces the seat forward and costs me a couple of inches of leg room - so I'm not going to use it. It will fit my Focus track car to replace the Sparco that has run out of FIA certification. I am talking to TKO Motorsports about a couple of modifications to their Viper full containment seat to make it fit. The head support is narrow enough to slide all the way back.

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Well, I created myself some extra work. I painted the interior with a PPG single stage black urethane that I "flattened" 50%, which should have been satin black. That didn't work - it came out as a pure gloss, which I don't want. So I'll sand it off, re-prime with DP-90, and topcoat with SEM Hot Rod black, which I have used before. It has a nice satin finish.

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That looks pretty good in the photo, but I understand why you would prefer flat.

That car is really shaping up nice!
 
Well, I created myself some extra work. I painted the interior with a PPG single stage black urethane that I "flattened" 50%, which should have been satin black. That didn't work - it came out as a pure gloss, which I don't want. So I'll sand it off, re-prime with DP-90, and topcoat with SEM Hot Rod black, which I have used before. It has a nice satin finish.

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I've used flat clear with success - sand the gloss off, then flat clear it...
 
Okay, I sanded the shiny paint back to the epoxy base primer coat, re-primed with DP90, and painted with SEM Hot Rod Black, a satin urethane. I am much happier with the result. Two days off my life.

Too shiny
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Sanded
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Refinished in satin black
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Looks good. As they say, you could eat off that floor!

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