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Funny thing was as I was looking at the foam piece I straight away thought, that looks like early Corvette!
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Looking Great, compared to the Red Stocker in Pic, you don't realise the amount of change and the work you have done in such a short period.
All I can say is WOW, very nice.
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Dane
you are knocking this project out of the park!!!!!!! we appreciate the time you are spending to share it with us! your approach and explanation is educational to many. Steve
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Thanks for the compliments guys! There are days (weeks) it seems like I do nothing but tread water, but that's how it goes with these large projects. It's not every day that major progress is going to be accomplished and some days you may even go backwards!
This update will focus on fabricating the "pocket" that the bumper will nest into. I fabricated up a pocket that the bumper will fit nicely into leaving a fairly tight gap around the bumper edge. The vision is to have the bumper just "floating" inside the body. Here is with the bumper test fit into the pocket. You can see how the reveal is maintained around the perimeter of the bumper. An initial trim and test fit into the rear corner of the car. Test with the bumper in place just for a better visual Here I've trimmed off the bottom of the rear body panel in preparation for attaching the pocket I've fabricated to go across the width of the back. Same work, just on the driver's corner. Also you can see the rear full width pocket is fit into place here. As I was near this rear corner, I took a little time to cut out and repair the rust area. I also welded the vertical seam up to the tail light. Here the driver's pocket is welded around the perimeter and the rust repair / seam is cleaned up. Also some more bumpers showed up for me to cut up and modify!
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I like that bumper detail , but I live on a gravel road . Are you going to make it easy to remove / pull bumper out so that it can be cleaned and polished . A couple of small reese hitch sockets or linear actuators to make clean up more fun. Sorry for bein' a PITA , I do like the bumper detail.
Don
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Once each bumper half and it's corresponding "pocket" were roughed in, it was time to figure out the area left below the bumper. A foam roll pan was carved and shaped until we were happy with the appearance of it. The customers one request was that it had a center exhaust exit (remember I already did the exhaust pipes back and around the frame rails in prep for this earlier) The oval exhaust (will actually be two "D" shaped tips back to back to fill in the oval) are a play off of the oval tail lights. The foam mock up roll pan was shaped up until we were happy with the look. This roll pan blends into and around the center oval exhaust exit. A view of the mock up roll pan and exhaust exit from the rear. View from the side. A quick simple paper pattern was taken off the foam mock up and transferred onto flat sheet. Some basic reference lines were drawn on for my roll / radius and some pie areas form major shrinking. To be honest, to save time and work I did a rough cut out of these three wedges, rough hammered into the curve and radius, tig welded the seams back up, worked my welds flush and did the final tweaking and shrinking on my deep throat. The passenger corner panel taking pretty good shape. It's still roughing out and needs final smoothing but it's a good fit. Tough to see in the pic but the bottom on the quarter panel portion is actually a crisp peak that gradually blends off into the larger radius on the rear of the roll pan. A side view of the panel shows the shape and flow of it. A test fit on the car with the bumper set in place. Side view looks good. Blends into the quarter panel / wheel opening good as well as a nice flow up to the bumper. A view from the rear. A bit more simple from this end. The same work was duplicated and roughed out on the driver's corner. Happy with the shape here as well. A view from the rear with both sides taking shape. Next up.....the center exhaust area.
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Rush too much trying to get to the end when the end is closer when you take your time. Dane Last edited by pplace; 04-01-2019 at 08:49 PM. |
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Very nicely thought out and executed.
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Elegance in your simplicity!
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This will be a pretty short update. Just a few pictures of the center exhaust area on the roll pan and a few more of the bumper process.
The first thing I did was shape up a simple section of roll pan to span straight across the exhaust opening (not worrying about the oval) After that was shaped to math the body and the existing side portions of the roll pans already fabricated I rough cut out the center oval. I bent up an oval opening around a template with a 90 deg. flange. I temporarily tapped this into the hole I cut in the center roll pan. Once the center oval opening was roughly in place, I was able to start shaping up the lower half (technically 1/4 since it's only one side of the oval I guess) Here it's roughly taking shape...... This is after a bit more refinement and it's also been trimmed and tacked to the center oval opening and the previous simple section of center roll pan I used as a basis to build from. This view also sort of shows that the oval isn't just flat from the side. It has a radius to it up and down. Not as drastic as the bottom of the roll pan, but enough to just give it some contour. With all the pieces roughed out close enough, it was time to weld them all into one. This would make fine tuning everything easier....it was just a handful with so many panels not welded together previously. After cleaning up the welds and doing some more metal work. It's not perfect yet....but it's certainly close enough to get ready to fit and weld to the corner sections of the roll pan. From there I can do any minor tweaking and adjusting to get it a bit better. With the center exhaust opening in place it basically completed the overall look of that area. The only exception was the missing center portion of the bumper. I bent up some heavier pieces to match the Corvette bumpers and trimmed and tacked it to each bumper half. We now have one bumper! A view looking down and the bumper. I just made the center section straight and then made some relief cuts to get the gentle radius of the body as needed later. A 3/4 view of the bumper and roll pan area. And a side view to finish up with.
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Dane
Congratulations on a job well thought out and well done ! Peter PS I have looked at the whole post of your build and man!!!!.....The must be some hours put in to that beautiful work ..a credit to you BRAVO!!!!!!
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