Vlad's rides thread

[vlad01]

several hours of literally getting down and dirty (and agonizing burning of eyes and lungs) the car is nice a clean, free of oil, grease and dirt.

not much left to uninstall before I get out the old acetone, rags and chemical mask.

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only wax was keeping the paint intact. Strong cleaner shows the paint for what is remaining of it.

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brake fluid carnage. At least its not rusty

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more brake fluid stripping action.

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one of the hardest parts to fully de-comtaminiate is the bonnet lock. I did a great job (as viewed from the inside)

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Chassis rail, was a challenge but got it clean. I leanred from few projects ago, grease, oil and crap in here will seap out of the seems outside and stuff all changes to do any prep or painting work. So I spend good effort here to make sure its 100% clean like the rest of the car.
Zoom in and you can see the squeakiness.

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Underneath

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only 30 sec exposure to the degreaser. this paint is stuffed. The areas not exposed to the sun showed no change in shine but the exposed areas went instantly to chalk powder.

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Back inside. Just have to do the bonnet at some stage.

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[ejukated]

Looks amazing! What did you use to clean it?

[vlad01]

first normal engine degreaser, the solvent based stuff in the aerosol can, then alkaline water based engine degeaser. Very similar to the POR15 "marine clean" or KBS "aqua blast" but you can buy it in various brands at most auto shops as a bulk water based engine degreaser, has virtually the same ingrediance as the KBS and POR15 water based prep wash.

The latest stuff is "workshop" brand, 5L bottle. Its ingredient is sodium hydroxide and alkaline salts. most are just alkaline salts so this one was extra nasty.

I used a pressure cleaner with turbo head to blast the fuck out of everything.

[immortality]

I always wash down with water after working on the brake system even if I haven't split any brake fluid. Better safe than sorry....

[vlad01]

Progress progress!

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[HQ355]

Bout time you pulled your finger out ! Lol

[Holden202T]

lol

[vlad01]

Bout time you pulled your finger out ! Lol

what you talking about? this is the easy quick part! drive train took several 100 to a few 1000 hours to do I'll have you know, I had to sacrifice having a life to get this far lol

[HQ355]

Get off the keyboard and get out in the shed ! Pull your finger out !

[vlad01]

keyboard time is on company time

anyway, how long did your car take to finish? was it 7 years I recall?

On other news I bit the bullet and bought 2 Athlon XP 3200s and a Tyan dual CPU socket A server board for an old school gaming rig. The board doesn't officially support XP series CPUs but from what I read it seems to work, worst case I can buy some Athlon MPs instead for what the board is designed for.

Seems impossible to find any 6800 Ultra card on AGP let along PC versions? like since when did the torrent of Mac versions of these card come from?

I know you can flash the bion on the card to change them if the hardware is physically the same but all I find is dumb asses wanting to flash PC card to Mac versions not the other way around?

Anyway I found a cheap MSI 6800GT in AGP which would work well, 16 cores by today's terminology. The called them pixel pipe lines back then and shaders. Much better than the 8 my old 6600GT had back in the day.

Does anyone have an old beige server case? or at least one that takes E-ATX boards?