[Essex_29]

Thank you TFoch and sixball.
 
Continuing on the exhausts.
Here's how I made the plumbing, I guess it's pretty self explanatory now.



As always  with cars, when you are done, you have to do it again on the other side.



Exhausts done as far as I can before the body is back on the frame. The floor wraps pretty
tight around  the rear axle, and I want the exhaust to go over the axle as close to the center
as possible. Hope my plans work in practice.

I think the plans for the near future involves some painting (firewall and grille shell) and such
before the weather turns really cold. The last few days we've had some frost, so regarding
heating I'm already late in the year for warming up the garage for paint and filler.
I'm cheap, so always hoping to keep paint work and such focused to summertime, but it doesn't
often work out.

[Essex_29]

Turning to some engine work now.
I have been thinking about the oil filter placement and procrastination has been the
go to action for a long time. I decided to try and mount a replacement oil filter mount
from the local farmer's equipment shop. It is for a Massey Ferguson 135 and allows
one to use a spin on oil filter.
Thinking this through as good as I could, I drew a sketch and got this part plasma
cut from 3/4" thick steel plate. As you do in this part of the  world, measurements
are in millimeters.



It was nicely cut, but they had removed the mill scale with a grinder, so some sweat
and maybe a couple swearwords got used along with almost all sand paper and
emery cloth I had, grinding by hand on a thick piece of glass. The result is okay, I
think, but what a lot of wasted work.



Some drilling and tapping later, both the filter adapter plate and filter mount fit the piece
of plate I made earlier this year.



I drilled 5/8" size oil passages, one which coincided nicely with the ones on the side
of the engine block, and one that had to be filed at an angle. The new adapterplate
 was ground and filed to a nicer shape too.



Here the whole assembly is trial fitted on the engine block. It just fits, there's maybe
a sixteenth of an inch of space between the filter and the engine mount.



Right when I had painted all the parts, I suddenly realized that I had forgotten
about the oil pressure sensor.
Like always when you think you have got it done, one detail is missing...

[Essex_29]

I bought an oil pressure idiot light switch, a tap to go with it and a suitable drill bit.
Also hex socket head bolts to make room for the filter mount.



The oil pressure sensor just fits behind the power steering pump.

Provided I don't get any leaks, this should be the oil filter mount done. Finally!

[Essex_29]

Ignition wire looms painted and mounted on both sides.

[Essex_29]

Having had issues seeing pics in this forum, oddly enough only the ones I posted myself.

Anyway, i got the wire looms done per the pic in the above post.

Starter painted and mounted. Cool piece of tech, it has a planetary gear, thats probably why the V12 BMWs sound so odd when cranking.

Then went on sanding the body and doors down to bare metal. Quite a chore, as many of you probably know. First 80 grit, then 180 to get a suitable finish for the epoxy to adhere to.

[Essex_29]

Body and doors sprayed with epoxy.

I bought a metric shi#!load of filler, there will be a lot of filler work on this body in the wake of all my hammering and welding.
I got the shape pretty much dialled in where the Volvo V70 roof meets the Buick roof line today.
The doors are ready for the next layer of epoxy, which I use in lieu of sanding sealer.

[sammons]

Essex you are just cruising right along. Great work as usual! Keep at it, nice to see someone making serious progress.

[sixball]

I agree with Sammons. Thanks for taking us along.

[Essex_29]

Thank you sammons, for the nice words. I'm trying to keep some kind of a pace, I
have to if I'll have any chance of driving the Buick next summer.
You too,  sixball, it's fun if someone reads my posts, and even better if anyone
can learn from my mistakes and maybe when things go as planned too.

The bodywork has been intense and endless. A few days ago it got more fun, when I
thought of adding a small feature to the cowl. Earlier when I sanded off the paint, I noticed a
barely visible crease in the cowl, and thought I'd make a thing of it.
I laid out a line with a speed square and taped along the line. Then added
filler, and took off the tape. When the filler had hardened I added filler to the other side.



Some sanding later I sprayed a coat of primer on the new crease, and took a pic as it was
still wet and shiny.



Last sunday when everything was as smooth as I could get it I sprayed on a couple coats of epoxy.



Today, when the epoxy fumes had gone away so I could breathe in the garage again, I filled a bunch
of pinholes that I hadn't noticed before and then sanded the firewall with 360 grit.



Some primer squirted on where I'd gone through to the sheet metal and cleaning up was done, some
more sanding, and now it's ready for a coat of black paint, probably going to get that done tomorrow.

Paint is going on the firewall only at this point. No use painting the body, I'd scratch it up anyway
when I start working on the fenders.

[EDNY]

Looks like a professional operation..pics are super.

[Essex_29]

Thanks Ed. Far from professional if you ask my buddy who owns an actual body shop, but I'm doing my best.

I got hardener today and some more thinners to wash the spray gun and got busy as soon as I came home
from work. I ran the compressor last night to hopefully keep the dust settled and poured water on the floor
before doing anything else today.
The firewall was washed with wax and silicone remover and then the hardener was mixed with some paint
I bought in the spring.
The paint could have had some reducer added, I didn't have any, and I got a noticeable orange peel as a result, but
otherwise no runs and no dry spray.
#goodenough

[sixball]

You are showing your human side. 

[sammons]

Essex looks good! 

Lol, thats little orange peel compaired to the late 70s and early 80s factory Ford paint jobs. My uncle bought a new 1977 Ford LTD 2dr in black for wife. That thing was terrible with orange peel. When my aunt first waxed it, she like to never got the wax out of the peel.

[sixball]

Or all the years when the GM truck paint just peals off. My cousin in Texas painted all the pealed spots with whatever rattle can color he had and found out from his daughters that the kids in town.a pretty big town. called it the Clown Truck. 

[TFoch]

Very nice!  Great workmanship!