today was rather interesting

[White95DodgeRam]

well today was the first day of work on my 78 firebird, and lets just say it was rather interesting spending 4 hours cleaning up the top side of the engine compartment (will save the lower half for when i can get it going to a coin wash so i can use a pressure sprayer).....


i used 4 cans of that gunk gel engine degreaser a gallon of purple power straight and a tooth brush it isnt 100 percent clean id say rather maybe 50-75 % clean until i pull the hood off.



and for referance this is what my engine compartment looked like when i started.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/mikeyutep/enginebird.jpg


my sister stole my digi cam so i have no "progress"shots but hopefully i can get some on sunday when i go back for round 2.

[ScottB]

Are you rebuilding a Screaming Chicken ???

[White95DodgeRam]

yup gonna get that 305 up and running until i can get my 4 bolt main 396 stroker built for it :D

[sparkie]

Get your digi cam back. I want to see the after! I'd be looking Sunday!:D

[supercharged]

Looks like you need a bottle of DP engine degreaser for sure.;)

[White95DodgeRam]

heres the pics as promised....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/mikeyutep/semicleanengine.jpg

semi clean its been really windy so more pine needles


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/mikeyutep/engineshot.jpg

another shot i really need to figure out how i can get that grim off the hoses

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/mikeyutep/birdinterior.jpg

interior is shot.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/mikeyutep/afterpolish.jpg

spot polish to check the condition of the paint under ( lots of sap that wont come off) and heavily oxodized.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/mikeyutep/padafterpolish.jpg

the pad after yes i was polishing by hand :D


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/mikeyutep/complimentsof1989.jpg

the icing on the cake compliments of 1989 :D

[scottgt]

get that paint looking fresh again woot woot

[ltoman]

wow - you got some job there boy - can't wait to see whatcha do with it! may i ask what that was you used on the paint?

[White95DodgeRam]

ssr 2.5 followed by 1.0 and the clay magic bar that i had laying around

[ltoman]

ssr 2.5 followed by 1.0 and the clay magic bar that i had laying around
just one that one spot? by hand? to get it that good?

[Nuke33]

I cant wait to see it when it is done...

[klumzypinoy]

jeeze that's a disaster to work on. You brought its color back though.

[White95DodgeRam]

yup about 15 minutes by hand on the one spot (that time includes rinising off the pad about 4 or 5 times) haha


i also did the rear spoiler but my arms gave out on me and i gave up til i can get ahold of a pc and some xmt 4 !

[sparkie]

If you weren't so far away, I would bring my rotary, OC, PC and DG#101 and #105 over and help you out.
Thanks for sharing your pics. Keep us updated!

[White95DodgeRam]

ive been wantin a pc for so long i just cant seem to save the cash for the xmt kit, ive been putting the money into cars :D but this was probably the kick i needed to save up i dont want to hand polish the entire thing for mediocre results