Technical - Cleaning up chrome headers | The H. A. M. B. I have been playing with chrome pipes or headers for a long time and have yet to find anything that takes the blue away, it works from the inside out I have cleaned them up with an SOS pad to keep them shiny, SOS pads have some good soap and polishing compound in them *They work on about anything chrome plated
What to do with rusty, peeling CragarSSs? | The H. A. M. B. The wheel in the photo has about 2 hours work into it with SOS pads and a hand polishing with wenol Have any of you guys come up with a trick way of making these old dogs look good? Maybe sand blasting lightly and a coat of variprime to do a cool paint job or perhaps some powdercoating? Maybe they'll be a good platform for some full moon discs
Technical - Is there a Westleys Bleche White Alternative? from my old stock of whestleys , main ingredient ,Tri Sodium Phosphate ( TSP) they removed it in the new formula ( replaced with sodium meta silicate ) , and the store TSp is not true tsp its its EDTA and sodium meta silicate , I clean tires with a SOS pad as there is caustic in the soap and it cleans them good
Ed Elliot Advertising - The Jalopy Journal Nobody talks about Ed Elliot anymore, and that is a goddamn shame, because without this man the whole greasy cathedral of hot rodding as we know it would be almost entirely unrecognizable The details of his origin story are fuzzy, as they always are with the truly important figures, but somewhere in the early 1950s this lunatic decided he was going to plant his flag in the middle of the speed