I'm Back and Brought a New Project Car, 2700 miles and 7 States later Options

[Brett W]

I just got back from Denver where I drug home the new project. Its a 72 chassis with steel flares already installed. Its yellow with nice paint. Not perfect but its good driver paint. My plan is to use the car as is for the time being. I like the color and the wife is happy with it. I have a complete 3.3 Suby swap with a 2.5RS 5spd transmission. I want to get all the mechanicals sorted on the car, build all the chassis stiffening and get the wiring right, then in a couple of years pull it back apart and do a thorough paint job on the chassis.

I found a place down in Mississippi that can back, de-rust, and then e-coat a car so I would like to give them a shot to preserve the chassis for years. Anyway here are a few pics. BTW I didn't pay but a small bit of change and some beer for this car.

[Brett W]

I had some questions about the body stripping, so I figured I would post the info here to help out the rest of ya'll.


http://www.metalfinishings.com/index.html

They first take your bare chassis and bake it in a sealed oven at 800 degrees. That will burn everything off the chassis, then they dip it in a phosphoric acid bath to wash off the soot and clean it out, then they can dip it in a de-rusting tank that has cathodes to pull the rust out of the body and it sits there for about a week. Once it is through that they dip it in acid again and wash the chassis out. Then they can send it over to Nissan's production facility and dip it in E-coat. That means you can get the modern level of protection throughout your car. It will last for many years after this kind of protection.

My goal is to sort out the mechanical bits of my swap and get the car fully functional, then strip the car back down do any body work that I need to and then have the car stripped and e-coated to protect it.

[nathansnathan]

I had some questions about the body stripping, so I figured I would post the info here to help out the rest of ya'll.


http://www.metalfinishings.com/index.html

They first take your bare chassis and bake it in a sealed oven at 800 degrees. That will burn everything off the chassis, then they dip it in a phosphoric acid bath to wash off the soot and clean it out, then they can dip it in a de-rusting tank that has cathodes to pull the rust out of the body and it sits there for about a week. Once it is through that they dip it in acid again and wash the chassis out. Then they can send it over to Nissan's production facility and dip it in E-coat. That means you can get the modern level of protection throughout your car. It will last for many years after this kind of protection.

My goal is to sort out the mechanical bits of my swap and get the car fully functional, then strip the car back down do any body work that I need to and then have the car stripped and e-coated to protect it.

I thought about dipping my car. That there is no place around here to ecoat it was the deciding factor not to, but I'd also been boggled by how to deal with the heater tubes inside the longs getting dissolved?