on this episode of hands on cars we takea ride in an unrestored 52 chevy while kevin starts blasting the old paint andrust office camaro before visiting a hot rod shop owned by a former nascar leadmechanic hi i'm kevin gates and you're watchinghands on cars we are on a mission but we're also on abudget this is projects and slander 78 z28 camaro that we're doing a budgetpro-touring build on pro touring is tons of fun twistys straight line good performancebut we're going to reach it affordably because we don't have a giant stack ofcash to build this sucker
so one of the best ways to get thebottom of all of the sins in the past is to do media blasting media blasting whenyou farm it out costs don't worry we're going to show you guyshow to do it at home with some reasonably priced equipment and do whatyou need to do without destroying your substrate but there's some things toconsider no we're not endorsing soft drinks but iwanted to show you what you can accomplish with the correct media on theright substrate the point i'm trying to make is thatthere's more than one material on this car there's steel there's fiberglass andthere's urethane and if you choose your
media correctly and your equipment youcan get there you can do a non-destructive job get tothe bottom of things we're using eastwood's dual blastingsystem which has two reservoirs one for an abrasive media and one for anon-abrasive media we're using aluminum oxide on one sideand soda not baking soda but bicarbonate of soda which is much more aggressivebut still doesn't profile the substrate it's a great system because you can useone or the other or a blend of both with the valve here now it's a great systembut it does require a pretty good air supply and more importantly than a lotof bear clean dry air
let's check one out you got to thinkabout the air compressor is the heart of your shop and it's worth spending somemoney on i paint cars i do media blasting i run alot of air tools so i need a honkin compressor this campbell hospitalcommercial-grade compressor gives me 25 cfm at 90 psi it's a two-stage cast iron pump and an80 gallon horizontal storage tank the important thing to remember is it'sgot an after cooler which separates the moisture before it even gets to the airsupply so it doesn't end up in my air tools
it doesn't end up in my paint guns andit doesn't end up in my abrasive media think about it spend the money wiselybut sometimes you just got to spend it on gusta there's a couple of accessories you wantone is a protective hood to protect your eyes and your ears and all the other holes in your head to keepthe media out of it you want to have a pair of gloves toprotect your hands from bounce back and i like to use an old paint suit just tokeep the stuff out of all my cracks and crevices a funnel with some sort of astrainer is a great idea to keep the big
chunks out of your reservoirs and afterthat it's a matter read the instructions and dialing the equipment and so let'sload it up when you're choosing your abrasive media keep in mind that sand it's sand and it's made from silica andthat can cause silicosis which is a horrible lung disease seriously guys not fun aluminum oxidedoesn't contain silica a little more expensive it's a way better media team is a lotsafer hands on cars is brought to you by the eastwood company when you'rerestoring a car truck or motorcycle
eastwood has everything you need to dothe job right eastwood since 1978 looks like kevin'sreally gonna have his hands full removing the paint and rust from the zedsled but it should go quick with the east with dual blaster now remember there's a lot of differenttypes of materials on that old camaro from the standard sheet metal the potmetal fiberglass and urethane bumpers so we're going to get to see how theblaster and the different media types affect each of those materials before wesee what's hiding underneath that old paint
let's check out kevin's recent visit thestreet visions yeah hey we're over here at street visions inpottstown pennsylvania look around we got street rods late models restaurantspro-touring full on restoration all manner of awesome custom stuff derek white is the owner of this shopwith a 16-year tenure in nascar is a crew chief and an engine builder andobviously his talents and skills bleed over into whatever he does in this shop so let's go find derek and give me ashout jack you got some great work
happening here the stingray it'sbeautiful but what caught my eyes and 55 couldn't get a cab induction hood for 55chevy what we did was we took a steel 55 chevy hood and took a z28 hood and madeour own yeah it looks like a stamped pieceanother awesome detail is the smooth bumpers are california bombers i've justbeen educated as to what they're called the panel gaps the color this is a great traditional street rodit's not too far from stock but it's still custom and again we've gotbeautiful custom airbrushed bel-air emblems on the side of this car
it's an awesome street but it'scertainly not all they do here there's plenty more to look at now this is obviously a restoration anda beautiful one at that but the paint is not cut as flat as someof the other projects that you've got in there talk to me like that i'm what we try to do kevin was the guywanted it the way the car was originally painted you know they had peel and i'myeah so he wanted the car restored back to this is the way it was a 65 tab theappeal and it not to have a show car show car
but anyway they came out of the factoryright it was the next year there was strips that was runs and yeah i don'tsee the drips or runs are over spray but you you've recreated what it looked likea good factory paint job in the day yeah what we try to do is just keep thetexture in it and what is also a single stage right so yeah this is a singlestate your thing that we sprayed and then we did white sand and polish if itdidn't cut yes hard yeah so there's technique tothat as well with this you're trying to create the illusion that this is afactory original car right yeah it's a little bit nicer than what a factorycame out and take a look under the hood
this is a restoration look at the hoseclamps the plug wires are only the fourth stamping on the radiator bypasshose the stickers everything everything is faithfullyrecreated and done in a way that it was done may have come off the showroom justlike this down to the state full auto life battery this is the kind of detail that oftengets overlooked in a restoration these guys are street visions thedefendant asked job in this car from stem to stern all the way around well thanks for showing us around we'regoing to get out from under your feet
let's go back to work i appreciate you and eastwood kevin forcoming around and you guys are always welcome here door's always open cool guess what we built on the driverwell i'm gonna hold you to that i want to see some tire smoke from someof these cars are definitely all these cars and leave here yeah they can spin the tires awesome allright thank you hands on cars were out and that's why
i let's see what we got we did fordistinctly different substrates for completely different materials tosandblast with two different types of media the first being soda and these gillsthey're made out of pot little very soft very fragile metal aluminum oxide wouldeat it up soda smooth as a baby's butt and honestly itkind of bounced right off of there didn't take very long at all let's move on now the front bumper covera little bit different story this thing is in sad shape lots of sundamage lots of damage from it just being
exposed this urethane isn't uv strongand the paint while underneath the paint it's pretty smooth the soda moved it it didn't do as greatas we thought i think it was just sort of bouncing off so if you're going tosort of last year thin bumper you better have a couple of bags of sodaand a little bit extra time on your hands because it's just going to take awhile now with the fiberglass rear spoiler and quarter panel extensionssoda did great it left the surface very very smooth andthe paint practically blew off plus the added bonus is i could do this on thecar
i don't have to worry about my lightsand i don't have to make stands but i did kind of mess up i want to show youcome a little closer right here you can see the surface is degraded a little biti mixed and some of the aluminum oxide with the soda and it ate away thefiberglass surprise surprise i was just trying toget the job done a little bit faster and it bit me in the butt so now i know only soda on the softstuff finally right here i use a hundred percent aluminum oxide on this surfacerest which was nasty and is completely gone is completely removed and the bonusis no warpage so i'm fine with that
my goal was never to strip the entirevehicle with the dual blaster it was to utilize two different types of mediathat are kind to the substrate or the surface that i'm working on and notdestroy anything so mission accomplished we're going to strip the rest of thepanels with stripping discs and be done with it get down to the substrate findout what since the other two or three or four paint jobs are hiding so we got to tear the car part throw iton a rotisserie and start attacking this floors yeah feature wings and this is why it'sa really good idea to bag your
carburetor second snowstorm the tastebad by the way you're doing what we'redealing with the car assembled make sure your windows are done up oryour sunroof is closed now that we showed you the dual blast they'rehandled all the different parts of the camaro kevin's going to take the body off theframe and really start digging into it if you'd like to learn more aboutblasting click the link to visit eastwood.com and remember there's moremedia types and just aluminum oxide and soda
we also offer wanna shells ground glassand glass beads with a chart that shows you the best uses for each before wecheck in on kevin's progress we're going to take a ride in this oldunrestored chevy with eastwood zone matt murray you probably know matt from oursocial media sites as well as project pile house he recently found this cool oldunrestored car and we're going to check it out so can you see out of this mirror overhere at all i can't see anything out of this one ican see here no i can't see anything i
can't even see the passenger and thedrivers bear and swaps around so how long have you had this i've had this thing probably about threemonths now since the day i actually pulled it out of the raj 1952 debbie styleline the locks and it's a235 with a powerglide in it so is that what you're looking for imean 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 wasinterested i knew anybody that was said it was a four door and i pretty muchimmediately sit down right on interested but as today send me some pictures youknow i'd like to see somebody get a hold of it and he sent me some pictures of itinitially in the garage all covered in dust boxes stacked on top of it so i agreedto come take a look at it and when i
went to see it and heard the whole storyabout the card kind of fell in love and your daughter says 51,000 almost fiftytwo thousand i've been it's probably a hundred fifty thousand on it the guy ibought it from seems paul is a grandfather bought the car / a new and52 and drive it daily it was a family car for a few years andpaul's father bought it from his dad he pretty much had in my entire life soit's not a tony stores craft is still good place to buy alcohol with you maryland and get thrown off there we goi bought the car took it home
immediately the next morning i startedworking on and i got the fire up the same with less than 24 hours of buyingit probably the biggest thing savior ofthis whole project was useful in aerosol injected cleaner and look every singlehardline off the car because paul's father had rust proof and recruited thewhole car every hard line was still in pristine shape so i pulled all the hardlines few lines of brake lines and use their so injector cleaner an idea insideyeah that's great everything out so i have a couple of pretty good pictures onon our blog and eastwood blog about blowing out these lines and show him youknow 20-foot some breaking fuel lines
and a can of that pressurizing it which is never shakenout the other side yeah but the interior it looks it looksoriginal apparently when the car was only a handfor your full of years old either his mother's grandmother stitcheda new headliner for the car door cards sun sun visors 60 year old car big bench seeds just a ton of history imean you don't make people probably did it i mean like right here where we'resitting right now i i actually kind of
joke i just all about next video isn't itanother story told me was that i him bar and dads 52 picking this group hisgirlfriend up with you know take her out to on gates if they don't you know i'mgonna talked about what who knows what could have happened onthese on these seats and it's pretty pretty neat you got any plans for this card i did acouple of modifications like i lowered it can be fine popcap's on some stufflike that just little things going to set a wide whites but i kept buyingsupplies because if i wanted to keep it
kind of again know . correct goingthrough the car was like walking back in time i got the you know the originaldealers repair manual you know the spare tire still in there the jack and theroad flares they're in there and it's not kept all that stuff it's kind ofcool to display the trunk well i guess thanks for giving us a ride problem and we should be there and backthe woodwork unless you want to film and where is itthat we could we're not getting anywhere to quit that have a goal of doing this is not tostrip all the paint off is to see what
kind of metal needs to be replaced andthis is telling me that i could patch this around here but i'm going to need atrunk floor kind of disappointing but at the sametime 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 carskevin replaces the floor pans in a camaro and takes jaden to the nashvillegoodguys show before we dig up the real dirt on this canadian rocker