1970RT
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Much appreciated. That cowl is designed to *barely* clear that exact blower. The plan is to build an NA motor, but there's room for more if 750ish hp gets boring.
David
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Jarven1977
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Pure fabrication **** in this build. Been a while since I checked in but you've made great progress lately.
Greetings from Sweden, keep up the good work!
Greetings from Sweden, keep up the good work!
1970RT
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I’m spending 3/4 of my time prepping another vehicle for a show in November, but I’ve been squeezing in time for the car.
Setting driver position, steering rack location, header clearance, and firewall fab all have to happen at about the same time.
Test seat, test wheel, test column drop, but the actual flaming river column.
Clearance to headers will be tight.
Final bead roll layout with room for master cylinders.
Recessed column pass through.
Prestretch.
Rolled, windowed.
Welded, hammered, blended.
Test fit before final seam weld.
Just a few finishing touches left to wrap this part up.
David
Setting driver position, steering rack location, header clearance, and firewall fab all have to happen at about the same time.
Test seat, test wheel, test column drop, but the actual flaming river column.
Clearance to headers will be tight.
Final bead roll layout with room for master cylinders.
Recessed column pass through.
Prestretch.
Rolled, windowed.
Welded, hammered, blended.
Test fit before final seam weld.
Just a few finishing touches left to wrap this part up.
David
Hemirunner
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The culmination of excellent design, careful planning and flawless execution…. Well done. Now, let’s get another video update out, lol.
1970RT
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Thanks man. Really do appreciate those kind words. As you know from your build, there is a lot of designing parts in free-floating 3D space and that just burns a bunch of test and fit time to get it “right.”
Videos come out again starting in September, and some more in February. Views go waaay down in the summer.
David
1970RT
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Getting seams like this perfectly flat takes some time.
The fit was already super tight, so most of the tacks are autogeneous. I still use filler on the weld, and lately I’ve been using a “backwards” travel direction. I just pedal pulse 7-10 dabs at a time right to left, with each grouping stacking up left to right, so the last dab of each grouping ends where the prior one started. The penetration is super consistent, and heat input doesn’t grow across the part.
I stumbled across the technique, and will keep using until I find something that works better.
Bumping and blending this 18” seam alone takes a little over an hour.
Meanwhile, SendCutSend boxes have arrived, and it’s time to work on the truck.
David
The fit was already super tight, so most of the tacks are autogeneous. I still use filler on the weld, and lately I’ve been using a “backwards” travel direction. I just pedal pulse 7-10 dabs at a time right to left, with each grouping stacking up left to right, so the last dab of each grouping ends where the prior one started. The penetration is super consistent, and heat input doesn’t grow across the part.
I stumbled across the technique, and will keep using until I find something that works better.
Bumping and blending this 18” seam alone takes a little over an hour.
Meanwhile, SendCutSend boxes have arrived, and it’s time to work on the truck.
David
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