68 Dart

I know its not everyones cup of tea but its mine so here is the dry fit tomorrow we try to make vroom vroom noises.

Nice.

Shiny when they are clean...now the trick is to keep it that way. Looks real good !!

When we had the boat I called it a labour of love but this is more like a heavy dose of lust

Looks nice, just got to keep it that way.

One good way to keep a shine on things is to polish them BEFORE you bolt them down, specially the intake cause that is the hardest to reach part. If you don't have any chrome cleaner I suggest to get some.

Dam I always like the look of chrome under the hood, and yours does look good.

2nd crank and shes alive!!!
https://youtu.be/8MV0OYIK2SY

Sounds nice.

For the short time that you had it running, it sounds good.

Ya did not have any cooling hooked up so 20 seconds was about it. I am installing all the other paraphernalia this weekend.

Shes running really nice, just need to chase some electrical issues next.
https://youtu.be/5evqqe9t0hE

Sounds good. Looks like you have the good weather to take it for a short spin.

The day was amazing we had 14 at the house don't know what the official high was. I need to chase some grounds, the tail lights are barely visible and the headlights are non existent so now the real head scratching starts.

Start with making sure that you have a good body to frame ground as well as a good engine to firewall ground. Good luck chasing down the Gremlin.

Yes the engine to firewall ground is virtually non existent the body to frame is ok but theres my start for sure. I have no dash guages working so I am doing nothing until the grounds are fixed. Gremlin is a good description but I will wager there will be other not so nice names before its done eh.

As you may or may not know the engine is out and i am taking this opportunity to detail the engine bay.
Before

After

Looks real good.

Looks much better now.
So when does the engine go back in ?

Thanks guys it sure does look alot better, must admit I am surprised how nice a job it is for rattle can paint.
The motor is awaiting the main bearings and for me to paint it. We have been waiting for some nice weather but of course its arrived this week ahead of the bearings. I would guess the motor will go back in after Easter, we are camping that weekend so nothing happening then thats for sure.

Done from a rattle can. How does the color match up? Is that an Mopar touch up paint or something that was a close matchup ?

Dan that was a local company they copied a can that came with the car which was from the states and was factory match. It is very very close, a little hot on the yellow but it will settle down as it dries, I am happy with it.

Reg, don't get me wrong, it looks much, much better. It's probably not heavy on the yellow, the old paint is probably just faded. It' s going to look great with all that chrome under the hood, once the engine is back in.

Yes you are right. I have no idea how old the overall paint job is and for sure its got some age on it but this is a driver/car show auto not a concours show car so if someone does`t like the match to bad I like it. It may be a bit bright under the hood with all the chrome eh, that good and I am smiling like hell

Nice job.