Dave,

It looked like the big pieces are Cad, the hardware items were Zinc. How did you decide on which plating to use? And it was baked, good for you...

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Freshly plated fasteners show attention to detail and/or fanaticism. In either case, it looks marvelous. :)

Here's one potential dilemma. If you're a zip-lock bag and sharpie type guy, after plating, you would have a collection of fresh fasteners and bunch of empty, but marked zip lock bags. :eek: I guess it depends on the details of the bag ID system.

Sherwood

You know, those aux. oil cooler lines can be polished..............

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Mitch, Everything you see in the photos is yellow cadmium. 99% of my parts are cad-plated. Some very esoteric stuff, like my MFI fuel enrichment solenoid, was zinc plated. The difference in the surface texture and brightness that you are noting, is the difference in the prep of the 'raw' steel parts. Bright polished/burnished steel goes in, shiny satiny cad plated part comes out. Dull bead blasted steel goes in, dull nonreflective part comes out.

Sherwood - forget the cost of correct cad plating - organizing and cataloging the stuff takes an obscene amount of time and effort. You nailed it. I spent many many evenings sorting and boxing the hardware.

KTL: :p

I've got to thank niner11 for resurrecting this post - I think he must have ESP. I say that because, just today, about two hours ago, I brought the car back to my garage. It has been at my parents' house for the last few weeks while I finished up some other projects here at home. I'll have pics up soon, but I am now getting ready to assemble and finally ENJOY this car. Heartfelt thanks to everyone for your support of this restoration over the last six years.

Dave,

That's the best looking Cad I've ever seen... You make a good point about shiny in, shiny out... I wonder if Soda Blasting would give you a better finish than using glass bead or other equivalent media? I'm going to look into see what it would take to convert my bead blast cabinet into using soda blast media.

Thanks Mitch!

Here's the homecoming. I am guessing I am going to be completely worthless for the next few weeks as I put this together. No matter what I do, I cannot get a camera to do this paint justice, but you get the idea:

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Dave,

Great hood fit, The paint looks like it's perfect, it's nearly glowing... you're doing it right. Pretty tight working space?

oh no ... :(
I'm probably an up coming member :(

Dave... a suggestion: take a huge breath... step back a bit from the car... now THINK... think of all that you have learned, knuckles cut and bled, sh^t you have breathed, TIME you have spent to date...I believe it is yrs right??... keep this all in perspective as to what YOU want the finished car to be... and proceed in that direction... slowely... don't rush now!!

**MOST IMPORTANT *** don't damage the paint job that looks PERFECT!!! Buy a new cover and put it on the car to keep a neighbors cat off the car possibly... keep areas covered that you are not working on at the time... get overhead items away that could fall on the car...
It looks a bit tight there but the effort now to clear 'stuff' away from the car could save the day...
Keep up the great work and congrats as you are almost there!!!
Bob