The next task will be to remove the brake booster and clean up all that rust hiding in the frame rail below it. it's all surface rust down there. The nose has quit a bit of rust too. There's also some areas down in the nose below the headlight buckets that have surface rust, but honestly it will take soo much time to abate all of that, it might just have to stay. I'm not trying to make a concourse car here.. as long as its insansely fast, handles like a go-kart and won't fall apart on me i'm good to go.
Grind, sand, sand, scrub, sand, primer...
It's new year's weekend. I got some time today to scrub out some more rust from the engine bay. I have been working on cleaning up the engine bay one small space at a time. I was using the sand blaster for places that are too small to reach with the 5" disc sander, but I've been having issues with my compressor and after blasting for a while a lot of moisture comes out the line and clogs up the blasting gun. I spent $30 for a filter for my air compressor and installed it this morning, the thing is totally useless. I read the fine print and it says the filter is useless against water vapor. crap.
Today I busted out the torch and cut out the battery mounting bracket. that thing is huge and will be in the way of the s14's intake. The torch made for quick work of the removal, but took about 45 mins to grind down the old welds that held it in after I cut it out. The car cuaght on fire only once... i guess when you use an open flame hot enough to melt through steel that the surrounding areas get really hot too. Some of the surrounding panels had grease/grime on them that like to burn. Lesson of the day is to keep the garden hose handy when you're working with a torch on an old car.
I also got some 1-guage wire from the welding shop. Man that shits expensive... 14' for $40. The guy actually through in an extra 4' for good measure, that was nice. Once the engine bay is squared away I'm going to put the battery in the trunk and make a nice terminal block for the starter and engine electrics out of some brass hardware.
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