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675 hits | 62.31 KB | Posted: 3/20/04
Prep work for paint. Taped off, about to get cleaned.

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774 hits | 57.98 KB | Posted: 3/20/04
Soap. Dry. Rinse. Dry. Repeat until clean (in thise case, just twice). The comes the rust eliminato...

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779 hits | 54.96 KB | Posted: 3/20/04
Metal Etch in progress. It eats away the rust and etches the metal so the paint bonds nicely. Spra...

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652 hits | 61.07 KB | Posted: 3/20/04
Metal Etch done. Now to replace the soaked tape.

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653 hits | 41.98 KB | Posted: 3/20/04
Cutting out new tape covers for the exhaust ports. The valve cover, intake and spark plug covers we...

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736 hits | 60.7 KB | Posted: 3/21/04
Primer on. Seems to go on better than Silver.

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770 hits | 56.93 KB | Posted: 3/21/04
First coat of blue. This paint is REALLY thick. Usually I dont like to thin paints for spraying, b...

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763 hits | 63.11 KB | Posted: 3/21/04
2nd coat done. Taking the tape off after I get off of work. Primer went on at 11pm, 1st top coat a...

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624 hits | 78.27 KB | Posted: 3/22/04
Tape off.

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671 hits | 66.2 KB | Posted: 3/22/04
Another.

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667 hits | 34.32 KB | Posted: 3/23/04

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652 hits | 55.39 KB | Posted: 3/24/04
Exhaust.

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651 hits | 57.99 KB | Posted: 3/24/04
Intake.

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607 hits | 54.95 KB | Posted: 4/2/04

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674 hits | 49.67 KB | Posted: 4/8/04
same process as the heads. washed and taped, ready for primer.

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621 hits | 58.61 KB | Posted: 4/8/04
black por-15 base coat

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689 hits | 43.46 KB | Posted: 4/8/04
1st coat of blue. we went alot thinner on the block than the heads. you can see the black coming t...

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603 hits | 61.95 KB | Posted: 4/8/04
engine ass. just black, no one sees it, im lazy, and it was simple, 1 coat.

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657 hits | 56.24 KB | Posted: 4/8/04