my 67 impala, another round.

[cantcatchmitch]

More body work pictures.

For some reason, I decided to completely slick out the front frame section. My fingers will never forgive me for that! Also I put a lot of work into the door jams, an area thats often not given much attention. I had a few breakthroughs of the first round of polyester (tan), so it was recoated in polyester again in gray this time. The black coating you see over top the primer is guidecoat, which I used a lot of to make sure the car is straight and to make sure there is no heavier sand scratches left behind. The primer was blocked in 100,220,320 and then 500 before paint. The last picture is an up close of the fitment of the windshield moldings after hours was spend re fitting them.

[214Chevy]

Lot of hard work right there. Gonna be nice for sure. I take it you're planning on painting the frame instead of powdercoating it...

[cantcatchmitch]

Originally Posted by 214Chevy

Lot of hard work right there. Gonna be nice for sure. I take it you're planning on painting the frame instead of powdercoating it...

yes the frame is built into the body now. so paint it is. another update coming soon.

[cantcatchmitch]

It took me months to decide, but I chose BMW Tanzanite Blue as the body color. I pulled the body apart, and built racks to hang all the body panels seperate off the car so the jambs and everything could be painted at once. I sealed and basecoated the car early one morning, then tacked off and cleared the car the following day. 6 coats of clear on this thing used up a whole lot of material!!!! I let it sit with the heat cranked up for a few days before I started wetsanding it with 600. Then I let it gas out for another week before 1000,1500,2000,2500,3000, with guidecoat used in between each grit to make sure the sand scratches got eliminated. It was my first time using guidecoat on clear, and it saved me a lot of time both sanding and buffing without having to try to fight heavier grit scratches with the wool pad.

The engine bay actually got painted first, with a matte clear over everything. all the suspension pieces got sterling gray with a matte clear as well.

[DWC]

Very nice. The finish looks great.

Daniel

[214Chevy]

Very nice!! That deep, rich blue looks sick.

[waynieZ]

Wow!Sweet! I love the color

[WSSix]

Fantastic color choice!

Can you expand on how you used a guide coat on clear, please? Do you mean like using a guide coat when blocking primer?

[cantcatchmitch]

After the buffing was wrapped up it was time to put the drivetrain in. This is about the only area of the car that didnt get completely changed from previous versions. The engine is a 468 with edelbrock performer rpm heads and a lunati voodoo cam, all forged gm rotating assembly and pistons. Transmission is an old Richmond R.O.D. six speed, which is basically a doug nash five speed that they added an overdrive. Its proven, so it stayed. The engine was painted VW Habenero Orange, the valve covers are just 39.99 summit cheapies that I painted the Chevy script on. Trans was painted in Sterling gray metallic and mated up to the Lakewood bellhousing and Centerforce clutch. One major change is I bought an Edelbrock Toker 2 intake that I welded injector bungs into so I could run EFI. For an ecu I used a holley hp, with a dual sync distributor to run coil on plug. Coils are 585 truck coils and injectors are zl1 injectors, easily available in case an issue would arise. The accufab throttle body and torker intake keep it LOW, because hood clearance is at a premium. Headers are actually the same Hookers I had on the car with the stock frame, i just had to move a tube to clear the steering.

[ScotI]

Glad is old school powered. I bet an updated EFI BBC & 6spd is FUN.