The BAD AST Project - Faze II

[wellis77]

Nice Mark. I love your shock towers. I have something similar planned for my chassis in another month. Keep up the good work!

[astroracer]

The rear end and spindles got a Rustoleum black hammertone finish. I worked on deburring the housing yesterday and ran the spindles thru the sand blaster and got them primed.
The housing after I had sprayed it with rust converter. It was ready for primer after this stuff dryed.

Another shot.

After a couple of coats of rustoleum grey primer.


I decided to go with a darker color for the housing and spindles. Just to break things up a bit.


The spindles in ALL of their modified glory. I still have to drill and tap for the Corvette brake adapter.


Let me know what you think!
Mark

[SRD art]

Let me know what you think!
Mark

I think it's lookin fantastic! Can't wait to see it all bolted together and runnin' down the road!

[astroracer]

I think it's lookin fantastic! Can't wait to see it all bolted together and runnin' down the road!

You and me both Ben, thanks.
Been picking away at the details during the week. I get home from Warren around 4pm so I have some time to spend in the shop in the evenings. Last night and tonight I worked on painting the 3rd member and UCA cross shafts and drilling and tapping the suspension bushings (8 of them) for grease zerks.
Here is the 3rd member before paint. I used the same Rustoleum Black "Hammered" that is on the housing.

and after

Drilling and tapping the bushing sleeves in the upper control arms.

After tapping

and with a zerk installed.

Same process on the rear link bars.

here are the cross shafts in R.B.H.

Tomorrow night I will drag out the blasting cabinet and blast the rack and lower rear shock brackets. They will get the same black paint.
Thanks for looking
Mark

[astroracer]

Last post for today! Can you tell we got a hell ofa lot of work done this weekend?
The upper and lower control arms were run thru the blasting cabinet after I deburred them.
These are the upper arms... The one on the right had just come out of the cabinet. It was the guy on lefts turn next...

As the parts came out of the cabinet I would hang them on my trusty step ladder and prime them.

I got all of the arms primed Saturday afternoon. It sure was a beautiful day for the middle of November!
Here are both lower arms in their Grey coats

Both upper arms.

At this point I am ready to start a mock build. This will probably end up with the van on the chassis so I can get tire clearances established and start building the cage...
Thanks for looking, I know this got kind of long.
Mark