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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Emptying The Engine Bay (The Continuing Saga)

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The new windshield washer reservoir arrived today! Below are two pictures of the new reservoir next to the original. The design for the res...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

The Reservoirs Are Out

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Today I removed the washer fluid reservoir and radiator overflow tank. Both were easy to remove and secured only with two screws. The w...
Saturday, June 23, 2012

Eradicating The Radiator

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I decided to start by removing the radiator this morning. The previous owner installed a radiator from a Pontiac 6000. Not only is this rad...
Friday, June 22, 2012

A Trans Am's Nose Job

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A picture of the Trans Am nose before we started tonight:
Thursday, June 21, 2012

Removing The Hood

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Tonight Sara and I removed the hood. I want to be able to work on the engine bay this weekend, and having the hood out of the way will make...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Creative Uses For POR-15 Daubers

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All this entertainment for only $23.25! Antennae
Sunday, June 17, 2012

POR-15: Our Final Thoughts

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The POR-15 Dauber Kit was a waste. The dauber ends are much too large to fit in any of the holes on the rails they are intended to coat....

POR-15: To Do List

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This video shows the interior areas we have left to POR-15.

POR-15 Video

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This video shows everything we have painted with POR-15 to date.

POR-15: Act II, Scene III

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This morning I started by reopening the POR-Patch I sealed yesterday. I applied POR-Patch to a lot of the seams in the car that cannot be c...
Saturday, June 16, 2012

POR-15: Act II, Scene II

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The last time we painted with POR-15, we did both coats in black. This time we did the first coat in silver and the second in black. We thou...

POR-15: Act II, Scene I

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This morning Sara started by brushing off all the loose dirt and debris from the areas we planned to paint today.
Friday, June 15, 2012

Back To Prepping

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I got off work early, so I started prepping the Trans Am so it was ready for POR-15 this weekend. One of the areas that needed to be cleane...
Sunday, June 3, 2012

Now All We Need Is The POR-15 We Ordered

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Since our POR-15 has not come yet, we decided to start stripping the t-top rails. Here are the before shots of the rails.
Saturday, June 2, 2012

Another Stripping Saturday

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I started this afternoon by removing the passenger side front ground effect and air dam. I have one bolt that I cannot get the nut loose. Sa...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Is It Screen Accurate? No. Does KITT Need It? YES!

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My latest conversion purchase is the Knight's head logo for the shifter knob. In the series the Pontiac logo normally found on the shift...
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Monday, May 28, 2012

POR-15 - Second Application

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After five hours we applied the second coat of POR-15. The second application took about an hour and a half. We definitely see the advantage...

POR-15 - First Application

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Everything dried overnight, so we were ready to rock and roll this morning. Sara went over the area thoroughly with her parts brush to loose...

Framed

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One of the small things needed for a conversion is the proper chrome frame for the license plate. I found a couple of sources online, but th...
Sunday, May 27, 2012

No Camping Memorial Day Weekend; Just Stripping, Cleaning And Prepping

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Our plan Saturday was to POR-Strip the entire interior of the car. We started on the front floor pans just below the firewall. We followed t...