Today I decided to rebuild the carburetor which was a Holley 600 cfm. The car has not been running right and was dumping alot of fuel into the engine. So the car was running very rich with smoke coming out of the exhaust. It was putting so much fuel that it was getting into the engine oil which is not [...]
I planned on finishing the car without the chrome wheel well molding that was originally on the car. This made it more crucial to ensure it was smooth where the lip of the newly welded quarter panel met the inner part of wheel well. The lip was welded in place so it was quite imperfect with a lot of wavy [...]
There was another large flaw in the paint of the trunk lid from chemicals eating an area and causing a little bit of surface rust. Here I sanded it well and primed it with etch primer. I noticed a pin hole on the corner of the hood. Since it was so small, I added a layer of JB weld to [...]
One of the new quarter panels that I welded on to replace the original rusty panel did not have holes for the louver ornaments (or whatever folks call them - gill accents).I first tried placing the ornaments up near the indentation spots in the quarter panel and scratching the mark where the hole needed to be drilled. Then I was [...]
The trunk lid had quite a bit of surface rust where the “Firebird” letters were near the edge. The letters were removed and sanded the rust as best I could. Then added a layer of rust oleum rust reform and seal.
Today I finally installed the front valance panel, along with the two front fender extensions. These previously had rust spots that were cleaned up, minor body putty work and primed several time in earlier months. The inside of the doors had some rust so I sanded that and used rust oleum paint. The added paint to the bare metal from [...]
