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Re: '66 Sunbeam Minx Project - F20C/6sp/4-link/Discs...
Google 'painting aluminum engine block' and you'll find plenty of discussions and info on it. Bottom line is water cooled engines are cooled by the coolant circulating through them, not by ambient air.
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NOS grille or repolished? Looks nice!!!
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NOS, thanks. Karl is trying to convince me to chrome it.
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Chrome would be nice, it'd pull your eyes in for sure. Can't hardly go wrong at this point tho, car is beautiful.
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Yeh, that might just have to go into the future upgrade bucket along with the bumpers. Wouldn't want to let this project snowball...
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Is the grill anodized aluminum? Seen some people take the anodized aluminum headlight bezels on Corvairs and strip the anodizing off and polish them up on the buffer wheel with good results.
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It's really looking very nice. There has probably very few that have had that much attention to detail on the body work before paint.
Are the grills available still. Where did you get yours from. Mine on the Cob has been made from two. Also need the panel the grill mounts to. Cheers Mal |
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Unwrapped the engine and removed the valve cover for blasting and paint. It will be the same red that's on the sides of the car:
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Engine looks great! so does that new grill! keep up the good work
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again.....sweet!
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Cool looking motor! What's the redline on that - 7,000?
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heared repop versions of the grille are still available but dont fit as good
read a story quite some years ago in an english car magazine in wich the owner of a modded angela got a call back aftter asking around for parts and had to hurry and get to a angila destined to be put intoo a container and shipped to india to gas axe the whole front off it i can hardly mmagine the suprize of the new owner of that car once it arived or the telephone conversation with the shipper after that
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sure is a screamer then
think those are rotary numbers
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Very exciting, gettin close.
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Right On!
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Man, you forget how small she is with some perspective around it!
Looks incredible.
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Downhill slide..!
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Your paint turned out incredible! cool video too!
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