my 1966 corsa project

[cad-kid]

Wow!

[DT-VAIR]

Is it greasy at all? Looks great!

[coleslaw31]

Its about like armor all but one I did a day ago is not at all and kept its color. I figure if the stuff is good for your skin it cant hurt this poor old plastic,

[coleslaw31]

Also I only really would use it for colored plastic like this, belt buckles things like that, it really is amazing and seems to give some spring back in it.

[BobWitt]

coleslaw31 - nice results with the crinkle paint on shifter trim and dash - what product (Brand, etc.) are you using? Do you have 'before' shots and how did you mask off the aluminium/chrome that was to not be black?

Thanks for any hints, I'll be going down this path soon!

[coleslaw31]

The paint was just some hi temp wrinkle paint I picked up from advanced auto brand was "VHT" I cleaned painted area with steel wool to knock anything loose off taped up chrome (took my time and a lot of small pieces to cover the edges)

ready for paint

[coleslaw31]

Well its the little things that count I guess. About the only thing I got done was putting a new rubber piece in the shift boot

little fabrication skill

Not sure if this is factory correct but looks okay

[coleslaw31]

Got the engine running yesterday but seems it got water in it from sitting out in the weather. Plan to rebuild but seems it may be sooner than I thought, what do you guys think?

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[rondo]

your project brings back a lot of fond memories of the early days of my resto. (66 Restoration) Keep up the good work.

[coleslaw31]

well after seeing how the 66 runs I really just need to stop trying to beat up on a tired old engine and just get a nice dependable drive train. Started going into my engine I bought awhile back which I was told was a good one. So far spirits are high, engine has lightly used pistons that are .020 over and a new oil pump and heads show no signs of a dropped seat. I plan to still put in new seats, seals all around and give it a good cleaning along with refreshing the trans and diff.

Advice is much appreciated, I just need to get a proper running drivetrain then I can focus on body work.

[coleslaw31]

Started digging more into the engine I got. Looks like a lot of nice work was done on it even has reconditioned clutch and pertronix ignition. Still batting around if I should put new seats in the heads or not, if not I would put new valve springs seals and cut new gasket areas.

looking good inside

reconditioned clutch

pretronix

heads

heads

[Gregory_Miller]

Progress!

[coleslaw31]

Spent this evening deflashing my heads. some of the holes were just not there. This should give some really good cooling now!

[Leon Tombong]

I'm liking what I've been seeing here! Can't wait to see you complete this. A restored 66 always gives me a refreshing feel. Keep us posted man!

[coleslaw31]

Getting progress on my engine. Once I have it running and driving the real work will begin and I'll really crank down on body work. Thanks for the support I think it'll be neat to see a 66 corsa among the 65s.

[GasDaddy140]

You have a really cool 66 Corsa project! Keep it up.