1978 Pontiac Firebird Week 2009 01 18

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Projects for Week 2009 01 18

This weekend’s projects:
Drop the right side ladder bar and finish routing the fuel line
Continue to examine the seat selection

The big thing I would like to get done is power wash the front frame rails. I will need help in pushing the car in and out of the garage to do that. I will be the brave person to stand in the cold to do the washing. (This did not get done as it was 10 degrees outside)

We did remove the driver’s side roll bar and several other small projects

All are welcome
Show starts at 9:00.  Don’t be late or you’ll miss out on a good time.  Advanced notice will get you more to eat.

I enlisted the efforts of all the members of Rochester Street Rods and Finger Lakes Classic Chevrolet clubs.. We had Tom Deyle and Vince Falco..

The car at the start of today’s projects.
	I enlisted the efforts of all the members of Rochester Street Rods and Finger Lakes Classic Chevrolet clubs. We had Tom Deyle and Vince Falco.
	First task of the day , Drop the right side latter bar and finish routing the fuel line The line needs to run in back off (in between the bar and the frame) over the top of the subframe connector and along the outside edge of the car.
Next task is to remove the drivers side roll cage bar. It is not high enough got tech. inspection. Actually I have been wanting to do this for a while to provide excess to the inside of the car. I am not as young as I used to be and getting in and out of the car to work on it with this bar in the way is a pain in the …… The bar will be put back in with pivot points and at the right angle to make the tech inspectors happy.
	Turns out that the bar at this joint was not welded in very well. The outside edge was not welded at all. The up right bar cleaned up very nice with the grinding efforts of Vince.
Tom removed the center console brackets, and patched up the holes in the floor.
	Vince, do you do windows?
	Well, the shop is once again in a mess. That’s Ok, I find all kinds of stuff that has been missing for years this way.
	We spent so time in the basement. Sprayed up some engine sheet metal (oil pan, timing chain cover, an valley pan with Pontiac Metallic blue and then laid several coats of clear over the top of that.The valve covers are Moroso. They originally had a gold anodized finish and then had been painted black. I thought the gold would look notice next to the aluminum intake (which has had a coat of clear powder coat applied) and blue metallic on the block. I was unable to strip the paint so we sandblasted them applied chrome powder coat, then gold powder coat and then clear powder coat. We shall see if all thet work was worth it.
Baby it is cold outside, this is why the car did not get rolled outside today to get the engine compartment (front frame rails washed down.