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  1. redboost10

    13th Annual Elliott Museum Car Show!

    wow, that 4-4-2 is beautiful. my dad has one of the 914 '69 hurst olds 455, only came in one color that year which was white with the gold stripes and spoiler. im a sucker for those late 60's oldsmobiles
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    my latest project

    thank you. i appreciate it. cant wait til its out of the oven and done
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    What does 56k mean?

    56 kilobits per second which is the speed that the modem can send data
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    Oil From Babies

    i was going to mention this as well. baby oil intensifies uv rays from the sun and causes skin to dry out. it will dry out vinyl for sure, so i would only assume that it can dry out exterior trim as well beings
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    Which Do You Recommend?

    ive always liked mothers mag/alum polish, and i recently used the crappy polishing pad that comes with the pc for a little bit more power over elbow grease, shined the intercooler tubes and intercooler up. for the tires and trim i recently got some poorboys trim restorer. i could not find much...
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    my latest project

    Thank you Ryan, installing it is a whole different ball game. I made it a tight fit and as big as I possibly could have. I need it to align perfectly to the headlight and then worry about the turbo side of it later. At least we were able to keep the plug once we popped it out of the mold so...
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    my latest project

    1st pic: both sides of the mold without the plug 2nd pic: after we pulled the plug out more oven cure time for like an hour at about 180 degrees 3rd pic: i wetsanded with 2000, then did two steps of polishing on the inside of the mold 4th pic: starting to lay the carbon 5th pic: 4 layers of...
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    my latest project

    1st pic: prepping the other side for gel coat, waxing it, cleaning the excess clay out from the cracks 2nd pic: sprayed it with gel coat and let it get tacky 3rd pic: had to repeat the process of laying down fiberglass matt then cloth with some resin in between each layer 4th pic: we had to let...
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    What does 56k mean?

    anything is better than dialup.
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    What does 56k mean?

    i always hated going home from college on the weekends. my parents live out in the country where all there was was dialup aol, but now there is satelite internet which makes the drive home more comforting, haha.
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    What does 56k mean?

    i think its the speed of dial up internet?
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    Best choice of finishing wax

    although i cannot compare it to anything else rather than goldclass, hence my new guy status, i love nattys blue on a black car.
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    What detailing has done to me

    after seeing that picture, i just bought a 4" 90* bend for my aluminum exhaust. anyone know where i can get that lid thing? a john deere maybe? haha thank you for the pictures harleyguy
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    my latest project

    we tried to make a turbo manifold out of 16 gauge tubing and it didnt work, which we kinda figured it would be too light for supporting the turbo weight. but we tried and ran outta time last season so i ended up shelling out the cash for a turbo manifold. the two things we did not make on the...
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    my latest project

    thank you harleyguy. a lot of work for sure. the mold can be used to make about 50 parts before it starts decomposing, but i really dont plan to make more.
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    my latest project

    the orange stuff is gel coat. before the gel coat, we had to spray it with pba which dries as a film and serves as like cerran wrap so the mold releases from the flange. after this got to where it is just tacky but not wet we then had to lay down fiberglass matt, then cloth and repeat that 8...
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    my latest project

    here are some more pictures. 1st pic: sprayed with polyester primer 2nd pic: you can see the orange spots where we had to fill some small pin holes with glaze so they wouldnt show up on our mold 3rd pic: the plug after two steps of polishing and some wax. i never new primer could be so shiny...
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    Hell from San Antonio

    no cure and major side effects like chronic emptiness of wallet and ocd
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    Black 1968 Corvette with 427

    The chip guard stuff looks like it has a shine to it. Just thought id ask if you dressed it with something. Thanks Rasky
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    Black 1968 Corvette with 427

    is that bedliner material on the rear quarter panels in front of the tire? if so, what did you do to dress that up?
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