some of the work from my shop

Nice variety of skills you folks have!

 

thanks man, i am trying to gather as many skills and knowledge as i can since it is just me in the shop lol

 

finally back on this one for some work. i pulled all the sheet metal out to weld all the floor skeleton up and ad some bracing that was all beat up form being a drag car

welding all the 1x1 up







here is how the bracing has been all beat up and destroyed



here is a new brace a bent up to replace the old ones



a before and after shot while making the braces, and some during fabrication pics









a finished pair



new and old



new one in





started another fuel block today, this one is a 2 port finned block still needs the ports drilled and tapped. soon i hope to be producing these to sell. this one is also machined aluminum then sand blasted to look cast

 

Hay MIKE Your thread is great . Johns coupe looks real nice . I hadnt seen it sence you guys got it together >.I sold him some parts for it when i lived in Blanchester. keep up the good work.I get down your way ill stop in. Kenny g.

 

How did you bend the braces?

 

i bent the braces with a shrinker and stretcher

 

thanks

 

more on this one, things feel like they are going slowly but i am at the point where it is all small detail finish work the seems to take forever and not show much progress.

both new ( front ) braces installed



making the sheet metal panels that will separate the passenger compartment from the trunk area










made the final body mounts and welded them to frame, drilled to be bolt able



lots of grinding on the welds to get the sheet metal to lay flat



floors getting welded in

 

Excellent job.
Your pride in your work shows

 

i have had this car on the schedule to come in for a few months, so today it showed up as planned. it was a VW beetle cut down to look like a 1929 bugatti type 57SC coupe. the gentleman that owns the car owns Scalded dog speed parts here in Cincinnati. he re creates vintage ford 4 cylinder speed parts, such as the lion high compression head, roof over head valve conversion, riley two-port conversion, as well as a ton of other cool stuff . so all i have to do is make the 4 piece hood, pretty basic and straight forward

as it came in





the engine, a model b banger with his roof 101 cyclone heads





cut the center hinge to length and trimmed the edges for clearance



getting the first panel to take shape



and the hood side mocked up

 

so first thing this morning i got started on the driver side hood top.



then i had to cut the hole for the carb scoops to stick through, after i cut the hole i had to add 1/4 inch flange that came up from the hood top for strenth as requested by the owner.







then moved onto the hood side, here is all made up, i added an 1/8 in wire edge on the bottom and ran a flap wheel over it to clean off some marring left of doing the wire edge







then i went back to the passenger side and started to fit the mesh screen into the opening i had cut. here it is mocked up for a good visual, so it only has bolts in every other hole or so





then onto adding the latches and lift handle





and a few pics of how she looked before i left for the night.







now after the owner stops by tomorrow and checks to make sure he likes the way it looks it will be time to disassemble, drill drill drill, and do some buck riveting to hold it all together

 

VERY NICE
im gonna build a similar style hood for my 39 roadster
where did you get the piano hinges from?

 

the hinges came from mcmaster

 

thanks!

 

awesome work man! I'm trying to get my butt into gear and get some better equipment to learn more so as I'm seeing your pics I'm trying to visualize what that took...skill!
Good stuff. I saw a couple of your videos and the bead roller cross hatch one. Good stuff. Was that a tipping die on a skateboard wheel?

 

the center hinge pin didnt fit in the hold downs very well so i machined a sleeve out of aluminum to take up the slack



got all the holes drilled ready to put together







then started making a gas tank cover panel for the rear of the passenger compartment

 

f..... you cats can weld!!!!!!

 

Great skills! Thanks for sharing.

 

finished this one up today, it is ready to go back to the owner





and whipped up a cover for the front of the frame rails

 

over the past couple days i have been working on the floors of this roadster. trying to get my part finished on it in the next month or so, so the owner can finish it up for the summer

made all the floors and cleco'd them in place





removable panel to make it easier to fill the brake reservoir





all welded up









then started on the panels the will separate the passenger compartment from the trunk area

 

looks great, as always

 

finished up the panels that go behind the seat and separates the passenger compartment and trunk area





moved onto the door panels and kick panels





the before and after



after, and before sand blasting and scuffing





and the driver side in

 

Excellent work, wow.

 

you got skills!

really impressed about the design and look of the fabricated stuff

also somethings to learn from your pictures

really cool!

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i have been working on this car for the past two weeks getting it ready to go off to the paint shop. the frame is all welded solid, ground and cleaned up. we were doing some checking on the rear end making sure the drums and backing plates matched the brake off set, and cutting off the brake line mounting clips. when i though " i really wonder what is under the filler on the housing ( the previous owner had welded all the brackets and smoothed everything out and primed it). well i am really glad i decided to grind out some of the filler to investigate. some of the worst welds i had seen in person were holding all the 4 link brackets on.

to get it all fixed right i gutted the housing, put the housing in a holding stand and installed my narrowing jig to hold it all straight. when i installed the narrowing jig bar there was some tension on the bar so that meant the housing was bent from all welding on the brackets. so i used a torch to heat shrink/ straighten the bend before i started the welding repairs. then i ground out all the old welds and re welded everything making sure to jump all around to keep warping down. then after the welding was finished i had to do some more heat shrinking on the tubes to take out some of the warping from me welding on the housing. now it is all good to go after about 8 hours of repair on the rear end housing.

all the "welds" that i found under the 1/2 inch of filler













cleaning out all the old weld



some of the new welding done on the housing



heat shrinking/ straightening the housing tubes



finished product

 

Wow, amazing work and it looks like you have a quick turn around...Great job...

 

damn I wish you were closer to me..... fine work

 

Mike, you never cease to amaze me, for such a young guy, you sure have the skills of an old craftsman.

 

Very Nice!!!

 

thanks for all the compliments guys

making some progress on this one.

frenched in some 59 caddy lights, the old tail light holes



the new going in





welded some supports in on the back of the tail light can





all welded up and ground down



made some brackets to hold the fuel cell



welded up and smoothed out the gas tank/ cowl side seam



working on setting up the steering, got to love string



more of the steering also got the pan hard bar installed