on this episode of hands on cars we take a ride in an unrestored 52 Chevy while
Kevin starts blasting the old paint and rust office camaro before visiting a hot
rod shop owned by a former NASCAR lead mechanic
hi I'm Kevin gates and you're watching hands on cars
we are on a mission but we're also on a budget this is projects and slander 78
z28 camaro that we're doing a budget pro-touring build on pro touring is tons
of fun
twistys straight line good performance but we're going to reach it affordably
because we don't have a giant stack of cash to build this sucker
so one of the best ways to get the bottom of all of the sins in the past is
to do media blasting media blasting when you farm it out costs
don't worry we're going to show you guys how to do it at home with some
reasonably priced equipment and do what you need to do without destroying your
substrate but there's some things to consider
no we're not endorsing soft drinks but I wanted to show you what you can
accomplish with the correct media on the right substrate
the point I'm trying to make is that there's more than one material on this
car there's steel there's fiberglass and there's urethane and if you choose your
media correctly and your equipment you can get there
you can do a non-destructive job get to the bottom of things
we're using Eastwood's dual blasting system which has two reservoirs one for
an abrasive media and one for a non-abrasive media
we're using aluminum oxide on one side and soda not baking soda but bicarbonate
of soda which is much more aggressive but still doesn't profile the substrate
it's a great system because you can use one or the other or a blend of both with
the valve here now it's a great system but it does require a pretty good air
supply and more importantly than a lot of bear clean dry air
let's check one out you got to think about the air compressor is the heart of
your shop and it's worth spending some money on
I paint cars i do media blasting I run a lot of air tools so i need a honkin
compressor this campbell hospital commercial-grade compressor gives me 25
CFM at 90 psi
it's a two-stage cast iron pump and an 80 gallon horizontal storage tank
the important thing to remember is it's got an after cooler which separates the
moisture before it even gets to the air supply so it doesn't end up in my air
tools
it doesn't end up in my paint guns and it doesn't end up in my abrasive media
think about it spend the money wisely but sometimes you just got to spend it
on gusta
there's a couple of accessories you want one is a protective hood to protect your
eyes and your ears and
all the other holes in your head to keep the media out of it
you want to have a pair of gloves to protect your hands from bounce back and
i like to use an old paint suit just to keep the stuff out of all my cracks and
crevices a funnel with some sort of a strainer is a great idea to keep the big
chunks out of your reservoirs and after that it's a matter read the instructions
and dialing the equipment and so let's load it up when you're choosing your
abrasive media keep in mind that sand
it's sand and it's made from silica and that can cause silicosis which is a
horrible lung disease
seriously guys not fun aluminum oxide doesn't contain silica a little more
expensive
it's a way better media team is a lot safer hands on cars is brought to you by
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eastwood since 1978 looks like Kevin's really gonna have his hands full
removing the paint and rust from the zed sled but it should go quick with the
east with dual blaster
now remember there's a lot of different types of materials on that old Camaro
from the standard sheet metal the pot metal fiberglass and urethane bumpers
so we're going to get to see how the blaster and the different media types
affect each of those materials before we see what's hiding underneath that old
paint
let's check out Kevin's recent visit the street visions
yeah
hey we're over here at Street visions in Pottstown Pennsylvania look around we
got street rods late models restaurants pro-touring full on restoration all
manner of awesome custom stuff
Derek white is the owner of this shop with a 16-year tenure in NASCAR is a
crew chief and an engine builder and obviously his talents and skills bleed
over into whatever he does in this shop
so let's go find Derek and give me a shout Jack you got some great work
happening here the Stingray it's beautiful but what caught my eyes and 55
couldn't get a cab induction hood for 55 Chevy what we did was we took a steel 55
Chevy hood and took a z28 hood and made our own
yeah it looks like a stamped piece another awesome detail is the smooth
bumpers are California bombers I've just been educated as to what they're called
the panel gaps the color
this is a great traditional street rod it's not too far from stock but it's
still custom and again we've got beautiful custom airbrushed bel-air
emblems on the side of this car
it's an awesome street but it's certainly not all they do here there's
plenty more to look at
now this is obviously a restoration and a beautiful one at that
but the paint is not cut as flat as some of the other projects that you've got in
there talk to me like that
I'm what we try to do kevin was the guy wanted it the way the car was originally
painted you know they had peel and I'm yeah so he wanted the car restored back
to this is the way it was a 65 tab the appeal and it not to have a show car
show car
but anyway they came out of the factory right it was the next year there was
strips that was runs and yeah I don't see the drips or runs are over spray but
you you've recreated what it looked like a good factory paint job in the day yeah
what we try to do is just keep the texture in it and what is also a single
stage right so yeah this is a single state your thing that we sprayed and
then we did white sand and polish if it didn't cut
yes hard yeah so there's technique to that as well with this you're trying to
create the illusion that this is a factory original car right yeah it's a
little bit nicer than what a factory came out and take a look under the hood
this is a restoration look at the hose clamps the plug wires are only the
fourth stamping on the radiator bypass hose the stickers
everything everything is faithfully recreated and done in a way that it was
done may have come off the showroom just like this down to the state full auto
life battery
this is the kind of detail that often gets overlooked in a restoration
these guys are Street visions the defendant asked job in this car from
stem to stern all the way around
well thanks for showing us around we're going to get out from under your feet
let's go back to work
I appreciate you and eastwood Kevin for coming around and you guys are always
welcome here door's always open
cool guess what we built on the driver well I'm gonna hold you to that
I want to see some tire smoke from some of these cars are definitely all these
cars and leave here
yeah they can spin the tires awesome all right thank you
hands on cars were out
and that's why
I let's see what we got we did for distinctly different substrates for
completely different materials to sandblast with two different types of
media
the first being soda and these gills they're made out of pot little very soft
very fragile metal aluminum oxide would eat it up soda
smooth as a baby's butt and honestly it kind of bounced right off of there
didn't take very long at all
let's move on now the front bumper cover a little bit different story
this thing is in sad shape lots of sun damage lots of damage from it just being
exposed this urethane isn't UV strong and the paint while underneath the paint
it's pretty smooth
the soda moved it it didn't do as great as we thought I think it was just sort
of bouncing off so if you're going to sort of last year thin bumper
you better have a couple of bags of soda and a little bit extra time on your
hands because it's just going to take a while now with the fiberglass rear
spoiler and quarter panel extensions soda did great
it left the surface very very smooth and the paint practically blew off plus the
added bonus is I could do this on the car
I don't have to worry about my lights and I don't have to make stands but I
did kind of mess up i want to show you come a little closer right here you can
see the surface is degraded a little bit i mixed and some of the aluminum oxide
with the soda and it ate away the fiberglass
surprise surprise I was just trying to get the job done a little bit faster and
it bit me in the butt
so now i know only soda on the soft stuff finally right here i use a hundred
percent aluminum oxide on this surface rest which was nasty and is completely
gone is completely removed and the bonus is no warpage so I'm fine with that
my goal was never to strip the entire vehicle with the dual blaster it was to
utilize two different types of media that are kind to the substrate or the
surface that i'm working on and not destroy anything so mission accomplished
we're going to strip the rest of the panels with stripping discs and be done
with it get down to the substrate find out what since the other two or three or
four paint jobs are hiding
so we got to tear the car part throw it on a rotisserie and start attacking this
floors
yeah feature wings and this is why it's a really good idea to bag your
carburetor second snowstorm the taste bad
yeah
by the way you're doing what we're dealing with the car assembled
make sure your windows are done up or your sunroof is closed now that we
showed you the dual blast they're handled all the different parts of the
camaro
Kevin's going to take the body off the frame and really start digging into it
if you'd like to learn more about blasting click the link to visit
eastwood.com and remember there's more media types and just aluminum oxide and
soda
we also offer wanna shells ground glass and glass beads with a chart that shows
you the best uses for each before we check in on Kevin's progress
we're going to take a ride in this old unrestored chevy with Eastwood zone matt
murray you probably know matt from our social media sites as well as project
pile house
he recently found this cool old unrestored car and we're going to check
it out
yeah
so can you see out of this mirror over here at all
I can't see anything out of this one I can see here no I can't see anything I
can't even see the passenger and the drivers bear and swaps around so how
long have you had this
I've had this thing probably about three months now since the day I actually
pulled it out of the
Raj 1952
Debbie styleline the locks and it's a 235 with a Powerglide in it
so is that what you're looking for I mean
that the exhaust follow
that's it gets it the rare heads on the
and Mark bombs
childhood friend of mine
his father in law on this car and
he gave me a car asked me if I was interested I knew anybody that was said
it was a four door and I pretty much immediately sit down right on interested
but as today send me some pictures you know i'd like to see somebody get a hold
of it and he sent me some pictures of it initially in the garage all covered in
dust
boxes stacked on top of it so I agreed to come take a look at it and when I
went to see it and heard the whole story about the card kind of fell in love and
your daughter says 51,000 almost fifty two thousand I've been it's probably a
hundred fifty thousand on it the guy I bought it from seems Paul is a
grandfather bought the car / a new and 52 and drive it daily
it was a family car for a few years and Paul's father bought it from his dad he
pretty much had in my entire life so it's not a Tony stores craft is still
good
place to buy alcohol with you
maryland and get thrown off there we go i bought the car took it home
immediately the next morning I started working on and I got the fire up the
same with less than 24 hours of buying it
probably the biggest thing Savior of this whole project was useful in aerosol
injected cleaner and look every single hardline off the car because Paul's
father had rust proof and recruited the whole car every hard line was still in
pristine shape so I pulled all the hard lines few lines of brake lines and use
their so injector cleaner an idea inside yeah that's great everything out so I
have a couple of pretty good pictures on on our blog and eastwood blog about
blowing out these lines and show him you know 20-foot some breaking fuel lines
and a can of that
pressurizing it which is never shaken out the other side
yeah but the interior it looks it looks original
apparently when the car was only a hand for your full of years old
either his mother's grandmother stitched a new headliner for the car door cards
sun sun visors 60 year old car
big bench seeds just a ton of history I mean you don't make people probably did
it
I mean like right here where we're sitting right now I I actually kind of
joke
I just all about next video isn't it another story told me was that I him bar
and dads 52 picking this group his girlfriend up with you know take her out
to on gates if they don't you know i'm gonna talked about what
who knows what could have happened on these on these seats and it's pretty
pretty neat
you got any plans for this card I did a couple of modifications like I lowered
it can be fine PopCap's on some stuff like that just little things going to
set a wide whites but I kept buying supplies because if i wanted to keep it
kind of again know . correct going through the car was like walking back in
time I got the you know the original dealers repair manual you know the spare
tire still in there the jack and the road flares they're in there and it's
not kept all that stuff it's kind of cool to display the trunk
well i guess thanks for giving us a ride
problem and we should be there and back the woodwork
unless you want to film and where is it that we could we're not getting anywhere
to quit that
yeah
have a goal of doing this is not to strip all the paint off is to see what
kind of metal needs to be replaced and this is telling me that i could patch
this around here but I'm going to need a trunk floor
kind of disappointing but at the same time and speak to learn it now trying to
find a silver lining
it's a cloud of poo
on the next episode of hands on cars Kevin replaces the floor pans in a
Camaro and takes jaden to the Nashville Goodguys show before we dig up the real
dirt on this Canadian rocker