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It's got a good bit of angle to it and it seems like the hook could bind because of that. The longer linkage shaft wouldn't be as susceptible to binding. The offset distance is the same long shaft or short shaft but the angle is worse on the short shaft.

I wonder if that shaft is binding in the mounts because it is so short?

Jeff, like the soft edge tip!

That definitely sounds like college!

I would use tank sealing product. There are several to choose from: POR15, Red Kote, Caswell, Eastwood tank sealer

The low vin's are hard to pin a price down on. I would say it's worth half that, but who knows. It might bring 10k with the market the way it is now

Texas car in LA. It also has more than a little rust! Seems like a lot even for an early car, maybe not though. It is still a big project

That most likely means you have problems with your brakes. One circuit is probably not working. Are your stopping distances longer than you think they should be?

Is the pump fully submerged? If so then there is no concern on overheating a restricted pump. Just thoughts. It is quite the pump!

There are certain views of that car that I think are great. Like the side profile view. then things like the front view I don't really like. I also like the exhaust in the center and the wooden dash interior. That's a lot of money with 5 days to go. I would think it would get close to $1 mil

So your taking a 2" discharge and necking it down? To what size? Then adding air at the gun?

Do you have one? Many people are able to clean them up with CLR

I'm 6'5" and have no issues fitting in a 2 seat S30 car.

Bertram, TX I've been through there. My wife is from Fredericksburg. Great area!! Like others have said, you will be money and years ahead to buy the best car you can with the least amount of rust. Always remember with rust, there is at least 100% more rust than what ever you can see!

You have this crew confused with some other group!!!!!

I like the idea of the six speed behind an L series motor. I wonder how the shifter lines up with the stock shifter location?

"the hardware" mostly refers to fasteners and it does include some smaller meal pieces. I have done no work on any chromed pieces. I don't know that I know which pieces are supposed to be black zinc. Although I have a fuel filter holder that I believe has been refinished by a vendor in black zinc. I have up to this point done all of my hardware refinishing on the car I am currently working on. All of which has been yellow zinc and blue zinc, which are both chromate finishes. This question has really surfaced for me due to some health issues that I am trying to run down. If there is cadmium on the car it will dramatically change how I process parts

To make the lip you were asking about earlier, you really need a metal brake. Then you brake the edge up for the seal lip and it stiffens the panel. You can weld a lip on, but it's tedious and easily warped. If I were going to weld one on. I would make it oversized and then cut it down to the right size along a scribed line, so it's straight

That may be where I end up eventually.

Chris or Alan do either of you have any insight on this? @26th-Z @HS30-H

The rebuild kit I am using was $75 from Harmon Brakes in GA off Ebay. I thought about having him rebuild it and I may do that on the next one, but this way I can replate all the hardware inside and out first and treat the rust inside the shell and paint it. If I have him do one, I will break it down for him and plate all the pieces first. Then send it to him for reassembly. Whether that happens will greatly depend on if I have a working booster at the end of this process

Are you trying to recreate the top panel, that is available, or the panel underneath it? It's not quite clear?

Thanks, I struggle to plate larger parts. I do fine on bolts and such, but it is difficult to get good plating on larger or odd shaped parts. There is a plater that is not too far away I may talk to

Rich, The dash looks great! On another topic, when you get all that hardware plated. How do you prevent it from rusting? I thought what you did was de-grease it and strip it. Then you take it to get plated. It seems like it would be prone to rusting while it is waiting to go to the plater.