Sunday, August 29, 2010

Ode to Salt

Ode to Salt - Speed Week 2010 from Josh Clason on Vimeo.

How can you aptly describe it? The barren land, the salt, the sun? The people, the camaraderie, the cars? You might not understand until you experience it. You MUST experience it.



Music:

Evenings- Friend - Lover http://www.myspace.com/eveningsounds

Excerpts from Pablo Neruda - Ode to Salt



Many thanks to all those I met at Speed Week and allowed me to shoot beside them.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Speedo cable access and another repaint.

After having to take the brake booster out, I decided that the hole that the speedo cable was slotted through was too small and put the cable on to much of an angle. So I used the trusty angle grinder and a couple of cutting blades to make a larger slot for the cable to go through.

I was a real pain to cut due to the location and with how I had to hold the angle grinder, I was going against the blade rotation, so it kicked a lot.... fun times, but after a lot of frustration I got the two cuts made. Then I bent the tab out allowing for a larger hole for the speedo cable to pass through.

Once I had trimmed and the tab, I then welded over the slots. Once again with the fiddling it took over 2 hours to do this little 5 minute job.


After looking at the paint and wanting to have a really good rust proof  finish I decided to use the self leveling satin black paint I used on the brake booster bracket. To allow this everything had to come off, then sanded, washed and whipped with solvent to remove any grease or grim.


Chassis getting naked

Test area.


Another sand, wash, clean.



Chassis jacked up so I can grovel underneath to paint.


First coat going on.