Travis' 1984 Supra Rider

[sydneyACE]

Ok, so it's officially been almost a year since I last posted on this thread here.

I have been super-busy, changed jobs, moved, etc.
Not too busy to play with the Supra, but mostly too busy to keep this thread up to date.
I have been posting here and there about this and that, and it came to my attention that I should try to get a good update going.

Put a temporary floor in the back of the boat, then put some temporary carpet over everything.
I found a sweet, temporary, rear bench seat on craigslist in the form of a rear-bench out of an old Ford van.
It works well for now and it actually matches the boat's color nicely.
I started wet-sanding the hull, but progress is very slow and it's not on the top of my priority list.
Have been playing around with ballast (basically, that means grabbing anything heavy that I can find laying-around and cramming it in the boat somewhere).
More on that here:
http://www.supraboats.com/bbs/showth...r-Ballast-Fun!

I do have lots of sweet pictures but I don't have a card-reader on my CPU so I have to rely on my GF to email them from her CPU to me.
I'm gonna make her do that tonight, I promise.

Anyway, that's all for now. I will get some pics up tonight.

[suprasam]

I have been on this forum for a while, but I have some how missed this whole thread. Its a perfect thread to watch.....great motor rebuild/paint and what not. My boat I believe was used in salt also, and show some minor rust here and there. I am slowly taking things apart and painting when I get a chance, or when they need to be replaced they get painted. Good luck, and cant' wait for the pictures.
Nice job on it by the way!

[sydneyACE]

I have been on this forum for a while, but I have some how missed this whole thread. Its a perfect thread to watch.....great motor rebuild/paint and what not. My boat I believe was used in salt also, and show some minor rust here and there. I am slowly taking things apart and painting when I get a chance, or when they need to be replaced they get painted. Good luck, and cant' wait for the pictures.
Nice job on it by the way!

Thanks Shane!

I haven't been up-dating it at all, so that's probably why you haven't noticed it.

When you paint stuff, be sure to get all the rust off first. Do a couple thin coats to start, a couple thick coats, then finish with a thin coat.
The reason I say that is because, I don't think I used enough paint on mine. My intake manifold rusted-through the paint down in the little "valleys" where it got wet a few times. It didn't "bubble through" from underneath, but I think the water soaked down through the paint. Same thing happened to my valve covers, thermostat housing, etc.

Maybe look-into getting some of that original PCM paint that skidim sells. Supposedly that's the stuff that PCM uses on exhaust manifolds/risers. Maybe that would be more "water-proof". I plan to re-do some of my parts this fall when I winterize.

Yeah, most my pics from this season are of the wet-sanding/buffing proccess. I just need to poke my GF over and over until she will email them to me.

Thanks for the kind words. My boat is definately one of the roughest/ugliest boats on the forum, but hopefully as I get more and more done, the turn-around will just be that much better!