My 74 Dart Swinger
Well, did a bit more work on the engine today I figured why replace parts when the old ones just need a hefty cleaning, I had an extra full set of rockers, cleaned em all up and installed them, installed the TC cover, water pump and fuel pump painted my pulley's so they will look decent until I can afford my March aluminum pulley kit, started looking for other things to do and came across my fan spacer! my ugly *** dull cast aluminum fan spacer I figured hell I have nothing better to do, I went ahead and started to sand it moving from 230 grit all the way up to 1000 grit, this thing was bad it had an area with paint all over it thick enough that it ran down each side and the aluminum was fairly stained from years of use I'm sure your all familiar with how they usually look, well here's mine after 3 straight hours of sanding, polishing,buffing, then running back over it with thousand grit/WD40 and more polishing and buffing.
Here's also how the engine sits right this moment less the intake and carb, they are just sitting on top, not actually bolted. The Black heads were not my idea, I even bought a can of mopar hemi orange just for the heads I don't understand why the shop didnt just use it!!!, now I dont have enough paint to spray the heads as its gonna take alot to cover that black-I have less then half a can. Also I never really believed that parts that have to be replaced should be painted, and yes the black timing chain cover was my idea, solid colors are so boring!Hemi orange engine block and heads, black valve covers, air cleaner, and timing chain cover and aluminum intake, water pump and fuel pump should all go together for a good looking offset in my opinion any ways.
Shawn.
Well, did a bit more work on the engine today I figured why replace parts when the old ones just need a hefty cleaning, I had an extra full set of rockers, cleaned em all up and installed them, installed the TC cover, water pump and fuel pump painted my pulley's so they will look decent until I can afford my March aluminum pulley kit, started looking for other things to do and came across my fan spacer! my ugly *** dull cast aluminum fan spacer I figured hell I have nothing better to do, I went ahead and started to sand it moving from 230 grit all the way up to 1000 grit, this thing was bad it had an area with paint all over it thick enough that it ran down each side and the aluminum was fairly stained from years of use I'm sure your all familiar with how they usually look, well here's mine after 3 straight hours of sanding, polishing,buffing, then running back over it with thousand grit/WD40 and more polishing and buffing.
Here's also how the engine sits right this moment less the intake and carb, they are just sitting on top, not actually bolted. The Black heads were not my idea, I even bought a can of mopar hemi orange just for the heads I don't understand why the shop didnt just use it!!!, now I dont have enough paint to spray the heads as its gonna take alot to cover that black-I have less then half a can. Also I never really believed that parts that have to be replaced should be painted, and yes the black timing chain cover was my idea, solid colors are so boring!Hemi orange engine block and heads, black valve covers, air cleaner, and timing chain cover and aluminum intake, water pump and fuel pump should all go together for a good looking offset in my opinion any ways.
Shawn.
