1973 Mustang – Project SportsRoof – Engine Bay Components.

I thought I’d take a minute and catch the readers up on #ProjectSportsRoof.

I wanted to touch up some of the engine bay components, horns, vacuum canister and battery tray.  I didn’t want to alter some of these too much, I like having the numbers, logos and other info visible, not covered under a several layers of primer and paint.  So these items were lightly sanded and then sprayed with primer and black engine paint.

 

Battery Tray – in the process of being sanded with dremel.

The horns were cleaned up with break cleaner then sanded by hand.

A lot of the paint just came off with the cleaning.

Horn in the process of being sanded.. Note the “LO” and other numbers. My goal is to keep them visible.

A coat of  Eastwood Rust Encapsulator  and then a primer coated applied – tried to keep the numbers, etc. visible.

A little more sanding and then some paint.

Vacuum Canister

Battery Tray and Horns

I think they came out O.K.

There is a quick video.

 


Coming up distributor install and transmission update.

Thank for reading.

Tim

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2 Responses to 1973 Mustang – Project SportsRoof – Engine Bay Components.

  1. Tim Sweet says:

    From Reddit – /u/Occams_Dental_Floss • reply

    You might want to do some electrolysis on the battery holder. It still looks pretty rough and I suspect the rust will come back.

  2. Bill says:

    I’ve always like Eastwood products.

    I’m seeing more and more ‘average guys’ soda blast the components in the driveway. I’m amazed how clean the components come out after just a minute of soda blasting.

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