Customs Drive line tunnel

Need to modify my floor pan found this picture on here no info any one recognize or know if this custom tunnel is available to buy I have no slip roller or brake need about 48 in long

 

Measure it out and have someone make one for you, or make one yourself and make it square.

 

long ago i would just bend them around a parking post always worked well , shippimg on that would be cost prohibitive https://www.hotrodssheetmetal.com/undrshtu.html heres a few
fabricator john
miss you dad

 

Agree with above, seen guys bend them around telephone poles, welding gas bottles etc.

To make one exactly as pictured above you would probably need a metal brake.

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Peice of pipe or whatever for the round. two pieces of heavy angle iron channel whatever. Easy peezy.

 

I’ve made friends with a sheet metal shop whose principal work is AC ducting . They have a 12 brake, shear, and roller…. They like I pay in cash and beer.

 

You should have mentioned it the other day, I have ways !

 

Hopefully, using a round welding gas bottle will be empty at the time of use… if that is the chosen way to make a pattern.


Hello,

When we were at the stage of getting the 10% set back in place and moving a new firewall installed in our 1940 Willys Coupe, we knew we had a interior floor hole to cover up and make it look nice.
1959-60
Everything was taken out and we had not installed our two foreign car bucket seats as yet. We measured and thought the same thing. No one we knew, except for the high school metal shop had a roller machine that we could use. So, being one of the top students in the high school metal shop as he went through school with the same teacher, my brother took the cut out aluminum sheet we bought at the Douglas Aircraft Surplus Yard and used the roller machine.

The teacher was happy to see my brother and his idea of the aluminum sheet idea. Our first thought and try was to hammer it around a steel milk container we had sitting in the corner of our backyard garage.
It was sturdy, perfectly curved for the size of the center tunnel and hard as a rock to pound on with the aluminum sheet and padded hammer.

The size and shape was perfect, as per our art drawing poster board, practice sheet. It was flexible enough to curve over the big hole in the floor behind the firewall. As we took the aluminum sheet over the steel milk can, we used a hammer covered with a protective padding and it worked in shaping the curved bends, but, it looked awful.

So, luckily the aluminum sheet was inexpensive and we got another sheet for the professional roller machine at the high school metal shop. The finished project was bent using the straight edge brake machine also in the high school metal shop. Now, all we had to do was to install it, covering the big hole. It fit perfectly.

Jnaki

The rest of the interior was minimal, with other aluminum sheets for the door coverings. We knew a full upholstery job was coming down the line, but, the floor hole project and doors got the aluminum sheet covering. YRMV

 

My dad was 66 and made one for my stock car. I went to work, came home and it was cleco'ed in place. He used a split rail fence to do the form and it looked good.

 

Maybe I need to come see your shop I call you soon

 

I also use a local sheet metal shop that does AC duct work. He's been bending or rolling pieces for me for decades and always using my metal since all he has is galvanized sheet metal. So far he's never charged me over $10 for his time, and always tells me he'd do it for free if his wife didn't get on him for using the equipment and not getting something for it.

 

If you have a press available ...... lay the sheet metal over a length of hot rolled channel big enough to suit your radius/diameter and then push a piece of similar diameter pipe into it. It doesn't need to be a perfect size, just close enough to get the shape started.
That's how I did mine

 

where in the Pacific Northwest are you?

 

Ask nice I'd bet Anthony could point the way.

 

I got it done my young strapping crossfit trainer coworker helped we used 19 gauge steel with a 6 inch welding bottle and motorcycle tie down straps

 

Tools are where you find them.
At one job, I used to make prototype flat springs.
The telephone pole out front got used more than once.

 

Shops that do work for my son or I always get a photo at the track. They’ve always smiled when I came in. Working on a race car or hot rod is always fun for them….

 

Same for my local shop. He loves it when I stop by and need a sheet metal project done for a hotrod. Always stops what he's doing and jumps right on my work. He tells me to stop by when it's driving and show him the car, so I always do that too.

 

Pipe Anvil