New Page with 3 rolls of frame off pics is up

[zachary zehnacker]

I finally got a scanner, so I got my pictures of the frame off scanned and
put them on the website http://smsgmc.webjump.com . There are thumbnail
and nonthumbnail versions on the site which are both available from the
main page. The quality of these pictures is much better than the digital
camera pictures I posted before at the site. The scans are of even higher
quality, but I made the pictures smaller to speed up the site. I would
appreciate any suggestions or comments. If possible, please use my email
address here to make comments as I check it more
often than the one I listed on the site.

Zak

 

[bartz paul]

Zak:

Visited your web site. Very impressive, with all of the photographs. They
all loaded very quickly from the thumbnail versions.

What color did you paint the front suspension A-arms? Anything besides
personal preference lead you to choose the color vs. the normal black
color??

How is the engine paint holding up under use and temperatures?? What color
and brand? Sprayed with a gun I assume??

Paul Bartz
From: Zachary Zehnacker [mailto:zakz]
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 1998 1:10 PM
Subject: GMC: New Page with 3 rolls of frame off pics is up

I finally got a scanner, so I got my pictures of the frame off scanned and
put them on the website . There are thumbnail and nonthumbnail
versions on the site which are both available from the main page. The
quality of these pictures is much better than the digital camera pictures I
posted before at the site. The scans are of even higher quality, but I made
the pictures smaller to speed up the site. I would appreciate any
suggestions or comments. If possible, please use my email address here
to make comments as I check
it more often than the one I listed on the site.

 

[zachary zehnacker]

Paul,

Thanks for your compliments on the page.

The A-arms, and the other silver pieces (gas tanks, etc), are a silver
metallic color sprayed with a gun. We just went to the auto paint store
and picked out a chip color that we liked and had them mix it up for us. I
can find out the exact color if you want. We have used this contrasting
color technique before on some other cars and liked the results. We feel
it makes the whole thing look much more appealing and clean. It also
proves that all the parts came apart . We really just like the look.

The engine block was hot tanked before rebuild. It was then primed by gun
with the self-etching acid primer used on all the other parts. This primer
is not really a high temp primer, but it seems to be working well so far.
It was then painted with spray can engine paint (our engine builder painted
the engine). We have had very good results with this paint on many engines
over the years. We use it on the race cars as well. It is made by
Plasti-Kote and is called engine paint. It is sold in most auto parts
stores and comes in a variety of OEM and nonOEM colors. We used GM
corporate blue because we could not find the original Olds blue. It comes
in a mostly silver and white can with a top that indicates its color. They
also sell a primer version of it which we have also used on other engines
with good results. The paint has held up very well everywhere except over
the exhaust ports of the heads. It did bubble and brown a little in that
area.

Zak
http://smsgmc.webjump.com

PS - I was tempted to answer your question "Anything besides personal
preference lead you to choose the color vs. the normal black color?" by
telling you that the silver paint was stronger than the black paint because
it had metallic particles in it . I figured someone might take me
seriously though .

>Zak:
>
>Visited your web site. Very impressive, with all of the photographs. They
>all loaded very quickly from the thumbnail versions.
>
>What color did you paint the front suspension A-arms? Anything besides
>personal preference lead you to choose the color vs. the normal black
>color??
>
>How is the engine paint holding up under use and temperatures?? What color
>and brand? Sprayed with a gun I assume??
>
> Paul Bartz