Build Thread 1978 Mercury Cyclone. The pig is in the pen.

RaggedGT · Mar 1, 2017

madmike1157 said:
Wrong thread Raggedy,......Dave's the one using gray.

Well then... Dave agrees with Me..

CarMichael Angelo · Mar 1, 2017

RaggedGT said:
Well then... Dave agrees with Me..

Only Dave ain't painting engines gray.
He's painting a whole buncha sht gray,..just not engines.

Davedacarpainter · Mar 5, 2017

Alright Mikey, it's been what.....a MONTH since you've given us an update? This will not do.

I had to go back THREE pages to get to your thread!

What's going on with the Monster?

Noobz347 · Mar 5, 2017

Davedacarpainter said:
Alright Mikey, it's been what.....a MONTH since you've given us an update? This will not do.

I had to go back THREE pages to get to your thread!

What's going on with the Monster?

Mike says he's painting everything gray now including the engine.

Davedacarpainter · Mar 5, 2017

Noobz347 said:
Mike says he's painting everything gray now including the engine.

Thanks for the update Noobz.

CarMichael Angelo · Mar 5, 2017

Davedacarpainter said:
Alright Mikey, it's been what.....a MONTH since you've given us an update? This will not do.

I had to go back THREE pages to get to your thread!

What's going on with the Monster?

I'm on the down hill slide to nothing to talk about Dave,...Three pages today,.....Archived in a warehouse tomorrow....only a matter of time.

I told you what I was doing....I'm changing the engine color....I'm detailing the engine bay (What I can of it w/ an engine bolted in place anyway).

Lets see what a pic looks like shall we?

What can be seen when the engine is back together is now engine enamel wrinkle black. I'm gonna have one piece of the cold side powder coated to give it some durability, and clean up everything else. There is still dust from the body work all over the lower half of the engine bay, and several small details that need attention. I am undecided about having Medusa High heat coated, as the paint that is on there is holding up...but......like I said,....I'm undecided.

I still gotta remove the side cover and re-seal that. Now that the intake is off,..I'll probably give it a fresh coat of the same paint that's on it..(It's the same wrinkle paint that's now on the engine)

I'm in pretty deep in the fittings for the water lines so that kinda forces me to use the existing rubber hoses. Other wise I'd up grade the exposed front hoses to braided.. but I may just balance out the money spent, and coat the cold pipe, and add two braided hoses to the front instaead of high heat coating Medusa, and call the engine "detailed"

Davedacarpainter · Mar 5, 2017

Sure....you TOLD me what you were going to do. Pictures make it all worthwhile though.

Glad you're making progress.

Have you got the rear end set up to hook a hitch up for the big move? Hook up a Monster trailer to it then?

CarMichael Angelo · Mar 5, 2017

Davedacarpainter said:
Sure....you TOLD me what you were going to do. Pictures make it all worthwhile though.

Glad you're making progress.

Have you got the rear end set up to hook a hitch up for the big move? Hook up a Monster trailer to it then?

No,...The car will move under it's own power. It will NOT be dragging anything over to the new house except me.

tannerc91gt · Mar 6, 2017

Wrinkle black looks like years of sludge in the picture. Hopefully that's just the picture, I'm sure the finished product will look nice as always.

CarMichael Angelo · Mar 6, 2017

tannerc91gt said:
Wrinkle black looks like years of sludge in the picture. Hopefully that's just the picture, I'm sure the finished product will look nice as always.

Nope,...looks like years of sludge in person,....it wrinkled like mad.

The problem was I loaded the paint on thick. It went on wet and stayed glossy for hours. I thought it was somehow "defective". so I sprayed more on hoping it would wrinkle.

When it dried over time though...........prunesville.

I know w/ heat the wrinkles tighten up to a fairly aggressive texture,..(The intake was painted that way, and it did the same thing) so we'll see.
What it does is force me to add some bling to contrast against that background,..means that I'm buying some expensive assed -10 180 fittings and hoses.

tannerc91gt · Mar 6, 2017

I'm incapable of wrinkle painting myself. I've never successfully wrinkled.

droopie85gt · Mar 6, 2017

I bet Elon Musk's engineers don't have that much tubing and hoses to look thru when one of their Falcon 9's blow up.

I hate oil leaks. The chickey china chinese chicken heads on my car leaked like hell from the valve covers. It's like the upper rail is too far down the gasket barely hits. On that one, I ended up going to cork because they were the widest I could find and I glazed that over with rtv like snot. It doesn't leak now, but I never want to pull the valve covers off.

I'm glad someone else commented on the prune effect....I was worried...hopefully heat will tighten that up!

RaggedGT · Mar 6, 2017

Imagine this-

Only more Gray

Noobz347 · Mar 6, 2017

RaggedGT said:
Imagine this-

Only more Gray

You did it wrong:

Imagine this-

Only more Gray...

jrichker · Mar 6, 2017

tannerc91gt said:
I'm incapable of wrinkle painting myself. I've never successfully wrinkled.

Just wait until you're 70 or so, you will have started to wrinkle...

95BlueStallion · Mar 6, 2017

Saw a video on Youtube of an uber high hp Plymouth Belvidere that had a trailer hitch hidden behind the bumper. The license plate flipped down to access it. Thing was, he didnt pull trailers with the car, it was a place for his removable parachute to mount to the car. I thought it was pretty slick.

Boosted92LX · Mar 6, 2017

95BlueStallion said:
Saw a video on Youtube of an uber high hp Plymouth Belvidere that had a trailer hitch hidden behind the bumper. The license plate flipped down to access it. Thing was, he didnt pull trailers with the car, it was a place for his removable parachute to mount to the car. I thought it was pretty slick.

I saw that car on MT on demand. It's a Troy Trepanier car. 1500hp TT Hemi stroker. Bad to the bone!

CarMichael Angelo · Mar 6, 2017

Ok then. Just committed to 100.00 worth of hoses and shiny fittings to bling up the front of the engine..

Only one problem.....I can't get those hose barbs out to replace them w/ threaded AN 90 degree fittings.

That means that on one end of both of the hoses,.....................I'll have to use those hokey worm gear clamps that look like a hose end.

I've never used a braided hose like this before,...I've never tried to slip it over a hose barb. When you look at the ID of the hose, and the OD of the barb, there is a difference of .100 that has to stretch over the barb...will braided hose stretch that much?

General karthief · Mar 6, 2017

I guess we're gonna find out!

CarMichael Angelo · Mar 9, 2017

Making the decision to fix oil leaks has turned into a multiple hundred dollar venture.

Firstly, the braided hose that I'm using as an upgrade over the standard hoses was a 100.00 investment. Getting braided hose to go over a pipe nipple is do able, but barely. As a visual upgrade though I think it's an improvement.

The fake nut that covers the hose clamp is imperceptible, you cannot tell that it's not a hose end screwed into a fitting, so it's all good.

The black wrinkle paint is also gonna mostly disappear, so again,..bacon saved. In the end I think it'll be an improvement over the orange engine. The side plate is resealed, the gaskets for it, and the intake are completely made from RTV,...hopefully this works.

I took the charge tube to a powder coated this morning, it's going gloss black. As far as cosmetics go that will be the end of the bling-blings this time.

Still waiting on the oil pump, and still undecided about bumping the WG springs up to 10 P.S.I. Over the 7 pounders currently in the gates. I do have a boost controller installed and wired into the mega squirt, and that should allow me to bump up the boost in the settings. But I don't know if it works, or how well it will if it does work. I'll be pssed if I get this thing back together and it doesn't work, and the pain in the ass to remove waste gates were right in front of me.
For now, I'll hold off on doing anything until I get some feedback from some of you that know better, or have this boost controller in place,...won't even have the oil pump back till next week anyway, so I still have some time.

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