Wood Grain Vinyl Wrapping test on 1949 Pakcard 8. Just laminated over old defects and all no cleaning or prep using fingers only, no wrapping tools used. Goal was to insure recess details. No problem, time to strip all the pieces and do it for real.

Heat is your friend to conform to the curves and recesses.

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I have seen lots of singe color pat's.

My two 56 pats are factory painted and door tagged Corsican Black, and the other Norwegian Forrest Green.

Both Chrome Reynolds Wrap, Trim, and Gold Scripts that really pop.

To add more to the discussion, here is a forged JE Piston. Kind of a modified cross brtween barrel and slipper skirting

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Late in response. But yes the valve rocker assemblies are Heavy Cast Aluminum and polished natural. But again alumablast looks great too

Great job Howard looks good. Too bad I didng see this sooner I am just getting to wrap a 49. I have three 49 complete interiors I'm wrapping. I'll share the success or the disaster as it unfolds

In a perfect world, I would love to cut from a billet 2618-T61.

Main reason with cracking is the silica content while making more "slippery" so to speak, it makes them very brittle. Once a crack starts it does not stop until failure.

2618-T61 if it were to crack, the crack will stop once the stress is relieved and less likely to hand grenade.

2618-T61 is used for NASCAR and Top Fuel Pistons. I tad bit overkill for night on the town with the Patrician but solid characteristics.

I have a 374 up on the stand now ready for assembly. I can drop the eggs in one and jahns in two and do some comparison mearuments on skirt to counterweight clearances etc. I am really courious to see the differences in deck height with the pop top. I'll post the finding when I get a chance to do it.

Sorry guys..... Yes the one of the Left L1956 is the Egge 374. They cast it last year for me at .060. The pop top on the Right is a Jahns .030.

Interesting however, is late last night, I got them out and measured the cam grind. Jahns has a .012 grind between A-A and B-B as expected with Aluminum. On the Egge, I measured no grind. I will check again today on the measuring stand at the shop to verify.

I can say I do the same.

I use only sealers if problems arise and it is absolutely necessary.