Christopher Malouf
~ Elite 1000 Member ~
This is the engine (for the righteous "My Ol' Lady") I posted a couple of months back ... installed and running well with 400 break in miles to date. The exhaust heat shields are new and were installed today.
I would like to thank Brian Powely for his great recommendation to use Custom Chrome of Grafton, Ohio.
The folks there were awesome and did a spectacular job plating the heat sheilds. They had them back in one week. They did a flash copper triple plate.
Also would like to thank Tira for "Tira's Tips" ... I wasn't sure what she meant when she said to watch out for the "compound curve" on the heat shields until I got to the "elbow"
. An interesting challenge indeed. I just had to make sure my scroll had no horizontal cuts in that area.
As for the Magnum handpeice which I bought to complete the heat sheilds ... that thing plowed a 120 graver deep through the mild steel. It's performance really exceeded my expectations. I was able to finish the long heat shield in the same amount of time it took to cut the shorter one with the 901 handpeice. I wish you guys would forgive me for my apprehension and cautious approach to buying another tool darnitt!!!
For the scroll background, I used a very rounded off (and very dull) stippling tool to simply displace the metal. I would have preferred dot punching to match the engine but a large dot punch really requires a good whack with a hammer and I wasn't quite sure if I'd get a dent along with that dot.
I used my usual high tech parts holding aparatus ... a bag of corn cob (Burberry's pattern of course), The steel is mild enough to not really have to worry about rotating the piece. For some difficult spots, I just held the heat shield in one hand and let the Magnum push the 120 through the cuts.
Well, a bunch of you guys were looking forward to seeing these photos of the finished project so here they are .... enjoy!!
Chris
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I would like to thank Brian Powely for his great recommendation to use Custom Chrome of Grafton, Ohio.
The folks there were awesome and did a spectacular job plating the heat sheilds. They had them back in one week. They did a flash copper triple plate.
Also would like to thank Tira for "Tira's Tips" ... I wasn't sure what she meant when she said to watch out for the "compound curve" on the heat shields until I got to the "elbow"
. An interesting challenge indeed. I just had to make sure my scroll had no horizontal cuts in that area.As for the Magnum handpeice which I bought to complete the heat sheilds ... that thing plowed a 120 graver deep through the mild steel. It's performance really exceeded my expectations. I was able to finish the long heat shield in the same amount of time it took to cut the shorter one with the 901 handpeice. I wish you guys would forgive me for my apprehension and cautious approach to buying another tool darnitt!!!
For the scroll background, I used a very rounded off (and very dull) stippling tool to simply displace the metal. I would have preferred dot punching to match the engine but a large dot punch really requires a good whack with a hammer and I wasn't quite sure if I'd get a dent along with that dot.
I used my usual high tech parts holding aparatus ... a bag of corn cob (Burberry's pattern of course), The steel is mild enough to not really have to worry about rotating the piece. For some difficult spots, I just held the heat shield in one hand and let the Magnum push the 120 through the cuts.
Well, a bunch of you guys were looking forward to seeing these photos of the finished project so here they are .... enjoy!!
Chris
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