CURRENT PROJECTS #1

1957 Chevrolet 2 door Sedan

Updates

5-6-2008 the '57 placed on a Rotisserie and the bottom restored and primed with factory color primer.

4-6-2008 Phots of the 57's (86) 350 Tune Port Injection Engine now on the website.

2-24-2008 Not much to update since the last update in Decemberr. I think I have caught just about every virus to be had this winter. I ordered some Engine dressup machined Billet for the 350 Small Block Chevy TPI and a new Serpentine System Billet Pulley System for the TPI. The body is ready to paint. We are waiting for warm weather so we can take the body off the frame and put it on the rotisery and detail the bottom.

12-9-2007 All the sheet metal has it's final coat of primer and is now ready for paint. But first the body has to be put on a rotisserie, flipped over, and the bottom of the body blasted, cleaned, smoothed up, and primed the same color that the 57's bottoms came from the factory with.

While the body is off the frame, the frame will be cleaned, blasted, prepped and painted satin black, then reassembled and the engine and transmission installed then the painted body set back on the frame and the car assembled.

Check out all three webpages for this 1957 2 door post below.

Page 1    Page 2    Page 3   Rotisserie Photos


5-1-2008: Click here to see the process of making the bottom look as if it just came off
the assembly line in 1957. All '57 bottoms were this rustic brown primer when new.


February 04, 2007
1957 Chevrolet 2 Door Post Bel Air Project is pictured Long Blocked with 80 grit
sandpaper and now ready to start block sanding with wet 220 grit sandpaper.


Primed and long block with 80 grit, then primed again
and blocked with 220 wet sandpaper then two wet coats of
primer and it is ready for blocking with 400 grit and
painting. (Primer is still wet October 2007)


Final coat of primer dry and ready for blocking with 400
and then paint. The bottom looks as good as the top does.
October 2007


Door is ready to paint after long blocking with 80 and wet
blocked with 220 and primed.


Door jam and back of door ready to paint.
Novemeber 2007

 


February 04, 2007
Left half is blocked with 220 grit wet sandpaper. Then when 220 blocked, 2 good wet coats
of primer, block sanded with 400 grit then it is ready for base coat - clear coat paint. 1957
Chevrolet Red.




February 04, 2007

 

New!!! .....Engine photos update...
 1986 Small Block Chevy Tune Port Injection


March Billet Pulley System with Compressor.
6-6-2008

Installing a 1986 Chevrolet TPI in this 57 two door post.

Procucts used in Engine Dressup.

1. March Pulley System for Small Block TPI.
2. TPI Billet Dressup items by Custom Billet Works.
3. Valve Covers and Oil Pan by CFR Performance.
4. Also includes very mild Comp Cam
                    and a adjustable fuel pressure regulator.
5. Intake runners and Intake Power Coated light gray.
6. Engine Chevy Orange by Dupli-Color®.

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