Glen-L Hot Rod

1. Second corner lamination at Frame # 4 clamped.

2–3. Another custom clamp was fabricated to smooth out the radius.

4. Corner at Frame # 4 completed.

5. Second lamination at center Frame # 4 clamped.

1–2. Normally the deck fiberglass would overlap the deck-sheer junction with a two or three inch overlap on the sheer. This would entail refairing a two or three inch wide strip of fiberglass along the complete length of the sheer. This is a lot of extra work ! We've laminated two 3/4" wide strips of 2 ounce fiberglass matt to the sheer to form a 'shoebox' flange to which the deck fiberglass will be draped over. Total area to be sanded is reduced to a 3/4" wide strip along the sheer. The flange is wide enough to receive a stainless steel rub rail.

Exhaust manifolds and other painted parts were chemically stripped and sandblasted.

1. Parts were primed with DuPont 2580CR DTM urethane primer.

2. Aluminum oil pan was etched with DuPont Metal Conditioner prior to priming. This promotes paint adhesion on bare aluminum parts.

3. Flywheel.

4. To stabilize the color and kick up the topcoat, we sprayed a white basecoat. Paint is DuPont Imron urethane.

5. We couldn't get an Imron color match to the Chris-Craft blue, so we used a Nason acrylic enamel which was custom mixed using DuPont's Kodak color match system.

1. Rebuilt heads. New valves, valve guides and valve seats.

2. Marine head gasket.

3. Cylinder heads torqued to 65 ft/lbs.

4. We completed the valve train by replacing the old solid lifters with a Comp Cams solid lifter kit. The original pushrods and rocker arms were in good shape so they were cleaned and reused.