Lotta progress today

[48builder]

My wife was away today so I had no other directions to follow so Spent the entire day on the '48. First I finally got my gas filler tube hooked up. The donor Taurus for thew door had a 1 inch filler, but my tank had 1-1/4. I bought a couple mandrel-bent thin wall 1-1/4 els from Performance Tube Bending in California. One of the slipped right over the Taurus filler tube. I welded that on and then used another el and a couple sections of rubber fuel line to tie them together.

Then it was on to my window regulators. Years ago I fabricated a mount for the Z's motors on the 48 regulators and today replaced all the rivets and rollers. Found a good deal on them at H and H reproductions. They sell them for 55-57 but they are all the same. All the early chevy parts places only had the 1/4" rivets and my cars has 5/16. Thes from H and H are perfect.

Then sandblasted my exhaust manifolds and coated them with POR 15 high temp gray. They look great.

Then painted the inside of the front fenders with POR-15 gloss black.

The last project of the day was a PIA. I bought this special "space-age" heat blanket at a NSRQA show 15 years ago. Company called Insulshield. The aluminum has what they call a ceramic interior and it just crumbles when I cut it. You have to tape up anyplace you cut and it took me 2 hours to make a small piece for the firewall. I still have to make pieces to go over tranny and down the side up to the seats but once the firewall piece is in place I can start putting the wiring in.

[jaybee]

Little bits all over...

How does that POR high temp hold up?

[48builder]

I don't know. I had the can sitting on my shelf for 15 years and this is the first time I've used it. I hope to have this thing started up in a couple months and I'll report then on how it looks after being heated.