nioce work !!! that dash is looking sweet ,i might wip my plastic welder out and fix my dash

so what was there to eat in japan ?? dont tell me you had to eat raw fish and stuff :S

so the ute is coming along realy nicely ,what colour are you doing it ??

this is happening extremely fast i love it, inspiration for my ute.

thanks guys

like the feed back guys... as for the colour jesse i'm gona paint it a flat mat sort of black sort of rat rod but not, it will have a glossy finish to it though... should look tough.......
i haven't got around to doing much today but i did get the dash painted and the diff back together should have the diff in tomorrow... hoping to have the rear quarter in primer and then its on to preping the car for paint which i hope gets done this weekend...
hope to have pics up soon my camera is full and so is my hard drive so i need to sort that mess out first before a can take anymore pic's dam it.... but should have sum up soon...

haha yeah nice my daily is my rat project and will be experimenting with a 2 tone matte paint job

Ok then... i got sick of body work so i started to rebuild
the A12 engine that was in the ute when i got it...
it will be quicker to get it over the pits with the A12 rather than a ca18det...
but the ca18 will be in the ute in the future..

sooo... i pulled the engine apart then clean it with oven cleaner, man that stuff is magic...there is a few pics before and after of the block
it gets rid of all the oil burn stains off the head and the block..
well i painted the block blue cause thats the only heat resistant paint i had but who cares....it looks alright.
The body of the ute is almost done just got a few little area's i need to touch up and then it should be painted.
i also have a couple of pic's of the dash here will have the finished product up soon as i needed to give the dash another coat of paint.. hope you guys like it ....
will have some more stuff done soon
works be busy.... oh yeah i cleaned up the door cards i have they came up really nice...

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heres a pic of the door cards and the dash as it was getting painted.
plus a pic of the engine parts now as they are painted....
there is a nice pic of the head here it shows you how good oven cleaner cleans up parts....

i hope to have a bit more done than this last week more pic's will be up soon....

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well the dash is done looks good...
i also painted the needles on the gauges... i'm just missing the tacho....
also painted a couple of other bits that go with the dash hope the pic comes out alright as the bits are pretty small....
will have more stuff done soon...

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looking good glad to the project getting along again cant wait to see it in paint

been there done that

steering wheel looks amazing! great work man