I have work litle with my shoebox The trunk lid have get brakets thats move the threded hols 15 mm backwards so the lid moves forward and up I have grind the welds on the big sheet betwine the rear window and the trunk lid I screwed bak the trunklid to test of it were better fit and i was that but it need som adjustments next thing will be the rear window placement and maybe i it will be some more pics tomorrow thanks for coments and your time for look at my old Ford shoebox /Stefan
hey STEFAN...well you prove there's more than one way to skin a cat. you have a few body choppers scratching their heads! i guess it's the finshed product that count's. and we will be watching very carefully. i see you have the last edcel in sweden! HA! call me POP...or the old FART!
After some welding it were time for grinding of the new weld in the backend of the rearwindow frame the gap betwine the plates were little to big for easy welding and grinding so i have to fill it with weld next thing will be to put on the roof on the frames I hope you want to see how i will do that. I seams not be more done on the until thursday after my job I have begin to think of the rear power windows and i have back door window lifters from a Volvo 850 that i will modifi to work on the shoebox. Thanks for your comnts /Stefan
I can show how i want do my rear side window lifter There is 3 plastic bushings thats slide to a guid rails The volvo 850 back door sax lifter will be atoutched to the sliderhols Do you think is good ide or not?? /Stefan
The only problem I can imagine is that the Volvo will have curved side glass and the window lifter will make a curve as it goes up. Or do you plan to remake the lifters? Great build BTW!
There is no problems with that volvo have curved glas the sax lifter lift stright up and not moving side ways i will not remake the lifter expt i have to grind litle in the end stopper for little higher lift
The roof skin is off I cut up my roof skin in peices have it sand blasted and grund painted I have cut out 100mm [4"] right over the roof for made it shorter must i weld it together. I have a extra front mid part that is little bigger than the original part I have put up the roof skin for test. I will fillut the middle of the roof skin with a 25mm [1"] plate piece so it will be wider I are thinking to weld it down on the floor like the other welds on the roof skin
Thanks for your comments I have put togther the halfs of the roof skin I will weld it tomorrow i need some help to hold when i do the first spots welds /Stefan
I have spot weld the smal piece in the middle of the roof and i test the roof on the car i beleve i have to change some of the rear middle part of the roof skin i have problen with deforamtion after the sand blastring and it seams not to be better after some welding. The pictures are showing to diffrents hights of the sides of the roof witch is to prefere? the first with less hight in the rear or the last with little moer hight in the rear /Stefan
Im sure it'll be nice when it's finished, but man that seems like a lot of work! Isn't there an easier way to accomplish what you're trying to do?? I'm just wondering, not putting you down my friend!!!! Keep it up though!! Ian
the second pic looks more even to me,the first pic looks like it's going downhill just a bit..so I prefer the second pic VERY KOOL
It's like you're re-inventing the way to chop.....but it's working, so good for you....I like the energy you guys have in Sweden, it's got to be twice as hard to get American cars to work on, and getting parts etc....I can only imagine......I've seen lots of great cars built over there, and can't wait to see this one on the road.....keep up the good work......
I have begin to weld the roof together If it not want to be good i will do a new roof skin in the english wheel i have weld and corecting the welds but it have some waves in the roof skin but i'm not ready yet the shoebox without the roof skin I have spot weld som piceses on the sids to fit the roof skin easer to the roof bows
I have now welded the roof skin I will shrink the sides i the rear end so get more ronding of the rear end for better fitt but i need some help with that so maybe to morrow will i fit the roof on the shoebox
The roof skin is up time for welding It is not perfect fit in the rear the roof skin is to low in the middel but i will high it up for fit her have i begin to weld it I have begin to fit in the roof skin to the rear window frame The front part is welded The rear end is now spot welded There is some welding and grinding left of the roof skin and window frame The next thing is to close the big hols in the pillars and the middle part of the front of the roof skin
Now were it time to fill up the middle part of the front of the roof I used a part from another roof to not get so many welds next thing will be grinding and than back to the back of the roof /Stefan
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