Thanks Guys
Thank you all for the well wishes, Cody is doing great and said dont stop the build,he wants to see me race this year, but will see, so I will keep going when I have time.
This 2 weeks have been a mind melt, and life changing, but we are a tuff bunch here.
crank is done
Thanks again all
Glenn
Thank you all for the well wishes, Cody is doing great and said dont stop the build,he wants to see me race this year, but will see, so I will keep going when I have time.
This 2 weeks have been a mind melt, and life changing, but we are a tuff bunch here.
crank is done
Thanks again all
Glenn
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staggs65
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hopefully you find the time to gitterdun. I cant seem to find time to finish my projects with normal life stuff. good luck
So You Want To Polish Your Motor
Seeing that its daddy's day I thought I would throw this up as there's been people that have been asking me how I did this.
First you must clean and degrease your parts.
Second I used a product that is called greaseless compound. This turns your buffing disc into a sander. Picture below is a household drill with greaseless compound applied. You must let it dry on the disc for about 10 minutes or you can use a hairdryer to speed this up. I used 80 grit, 120, 220, and 320 grit. Preparation is everything when doing this. There is a picture of the jug sanded.
Third by using an average bench grinder I polished my parts in 3 stages. Black - rough, brown - medium, and white- fine.
The tools I used to do this was a power drill, a dremel, and a bench grinder.
In general questions at Vmax4.com I have a thread there called motor polishing. I don't know how to do a link on here for you guys but I hope this helps. If you have any questions feel free to ask. I'm a sharing kind of guy.
Seeing that its daddy's day I thought I would throw this up as there's been people that have been asking me how I did this.
First you must clean and degrease your parts.
Second I used a product that is called greaseless compound. This turns your buffing disc into a sander. Picture below is a household drill with greaseless compound applied. You must let it dry on the disc for about 10 minutes or you can use a hairdryer to speed this up. I used 80 grit, 120, 220, and 320 grit. Preparation is everything when doing this. There is a picture of the jug sanded.
Third by using an average bench grinder I polished my parts in 3 stages. Black - rough, brown - medium, and white- fine.
The tools I used to do this was a power drill, a dremel, and a bench grinder.
In general questions at Vmax4.com I have a thread there called motor polishing. I don't know how to do a link on here for you guys but I hope this helps. If you have any questions feel free to ask. I'm a sharing kind of guy.
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That mirror finish is so sick.
99srxracer
New member
Im polishin my tunnel it looking good but looking at ur pics makes a lil spit fall off my lip
mark the shark
Member
We now have a name for our racing team. It will be called Team Dragula.
I have purchased a set of 38 mm carbs for my hotrod and am awaiting their arrival. Jugs have been sent out for deglazing and I will be motoring to Wisconsin next month to pick up more parts.
This summer has been more than a brain drain for me and my family and I haven't cared about much of anything this summer, especially my sled. With the return of some brain cells I am now excited about working on my hotrod again. I hope to have it finished in time for the contest but there's still lots to be done.
Stay tuned
I will be dedicating this build to my wife and son.
I have purchased a set of 38 mm carbs for my hotrod and am awaiting their arrival. Jugs have been sent out for deglazing and I will be motoring to Wisconsin next month to pick up more parts.
This summer has been more than a brain drain for me and my family and I haven't cared about much of anything this summer, especially my sled. With the return of some brain cells I am now excited about working on my hotrod again. I hope to have it finished in time for the contest but there's still lots to be done.
Stay tuned
I will be dedicating this build to my wife and son.
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Glenn- Looking foward to see the Hot Rod come together!
A couple of bucks
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Rob Zombie should be playing.turch said:
Done
I am now done all my polishing and powder coating. I hope to be putting the sled together after Hay Days. After 3 + years I'm dying to see what it will look like. Won't be able to custom paint it till spring. Otherwise I'll be divorced and she'll get the sled in the settlement...lol
All powder coating is done by Jay at www.rideind.com he is an awesome guy and is great to deal with. He's also one of my sponsors. Please check out his website he doz killer work!
I am now done all my polishing and powder coating. I hope to be putting the sled together after Hay Days. After 3 + years I'm dying to see what it will look like. Won't be able to custom paint it till spring. Otherwise I'll be divorced and she'll get the sled in the settlement...lol
All powder coating is done by Jay at www.rideind.com he is an awesome guy and is great to deal with. He's also one of my sponsors. Please check out his website he doz killer work!
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I've made my decision on the paint I will be using. I'm going to attempt to spray chrome my sled and then cover it with a candy purple. I'm going to start with the nose cone to see how well it works. Should have the product by next weekend. If it works it should be one bad *** looking Vmax
staggs65
Moderator
Thats what i'm doing with my race sled, except i'm going black chrome. what are you using for the chrome?
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Yamahakid01
New member
Have you guys thought about a vynl wrap instead of paint they may have the colors you looking for.