Cheers,great work as always Stu!
Very kind of you to say so.best channel on youtube, can lose ages watching this restoration
I've never used powder coating and while I admit it does look nice it does appear to chip then lift offGood to see the epoxy on the various suspension parts. A lot of people use powder coat but for me there are very few automotive applications where this is preferable to epoxy. Both are pretty similar in toughness and abrasion resistance BUT epoxy adhesion is just so much better. Once rust or water gets under powdercoat, the whole coating is toast. It just doesn't spread should epoxy get damaged. Epoxy all the time for me with a UV protective top coat ideally.
BTW the cheap stuff for garage floors is as far as I can tell no different to the premium stuff such as 123 sold for automotive restoration. You can even get high zinc epoxy primer for metal really cheaply. I haven't used raptor so I have no idea if/how it's different from standard epoxy, I guess it is different in terms of the finish obtained
I'm not an epoxy chemist but I do know one who we work very closely with. Epoxy floor paints are very different to the coating used in vehicle restoration, and I certainly wouldn't use a cheap floor paint to coat my car underside with.
Epoxy products are designed with many parameters, e.g. Toughness, water resistance, ability to bond to bare metal, ability to soak in and bond better on more porous surfaces, wear resistance, flow characteristics, cost, UV resistance, chemical resistance, etc etc.
Fitted a standard cam, was going to fit a 3.9 cam from rimmers but was out of stock so got a standard one from Geoff at winnsHi stue
Have you fitted a standard cam or upgrade one?
Love watching your videos keep all the good work up.
Paul