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NEEDING A MUNCIE CASE AND TAIL SHAFT HOUSING RESTORED WHO IS DOING THIS SERVICE THANKS

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www.z28camaro.com. He did an intake and a set of valve covers for me and they are perfect!
Buddy

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: x77-69z28</div><div class="ubbcode-body">www.z28camaro.com. He did an intake and a set of valve covers for me and they are perfect!
Buddy </div></div>

Jerry did a case and tail for a Vette project I had not long ago and they came out wonderfully

Dan

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Will anybody email me at [email protected] that has <span style="font-weight: bold">CURRENT</span> knowledge or opinions
on the Aluminum Restoration that z28camaro.com is doing ??

The die cast pcs were run thru a Vibratory shaker machine...........
The sand cast case was shot blasted with fine steel shot in Wheelbrator machine

Fasteners were manganese phosphate plated and then sprayed with Fluid Film

There are many companies that can Flame Spray an Aluminum Coating onto Cast Iron to protect the surface from rusting !!!!!!!!!

Those pieces came out nice Chuck. I like the factory sheen.

Have you done any valve covers yet?

Mike

I can make anyone's Muncie case look like this, PM for details.

Jim

The process that is claimed to be "re skinning" is a combination of vapour blasting and or tumbling. I have Used both processes and the vapor blasting had the best outcome on Aluminum without any distortion to part numbers or critical casting details.
There is no process that I know of that puts a new "skin" on parts. It just freshens up the old one.

Never heard of vapor blasting......surprised its never been written about on this or other restoration web sites ????

You see vapor blasting associated with motorcycle resto shops for some reason.....

Results are amazing - vapor blasting on brass and copper is WOW!

I used it a lot on the ferrari restoration - uses ultra fine media, chemical agent and water under pressure. We did alt cases, trans cases and believe this is the ticket. Tumbling works well also, but you get the media marks in the metal which gives that unique sheen. Remember that on 4 sp cases, it seems that all the alum seem to be of different grade, thus the finish on each is a little different.

Jim, your muncie case looks great....

I've seen alot of the re-skinning and tumbling and wheelbrater Muncie castings and they all look nice, but when you put them side by side with an NOS Muncie trans or NOS Muncie castings they're different colors and texture/smoothness...

As far as the black coating on the bolts goes, not all the bolts holding a Muncie together have the black coating, it depends on the supplier at that period in time...

In the early years most bolts were natural, later on they used some coated bolts...

I have an NOS 1969 M-21 only the front bearing retainer bolts are coated...

So to sum things up as nice as all this looks, its getting close to being over restored...

Hope this helps... Crash