51 Ford

[idrivejunk]

what happens to any water that get into the scoops?

I did everything except beat folks over the head for answers to my questions like that. Gave up and just did something. :?

[kb426]

This isn't the 1st hood to be done like that in the past few years. There's a red Ford that has the same treatment. My thought is "garage queen". 2nd thought: you pull over and hit the AHR button. It lifts the hood and dumps the water all over the firewall.

[chimp koose]

if water collects in there you are just not driving fast enough !

[idrivejunk]

No suprise that it's been done and seen. I was pushing for how do you want the drain answer (how many months ago?) and got mostly blank stares. All I needed to know about that was whether to run a tube from the pocket to a hose near the hinge or to just direct it away from the engine. The show cars never get wet though, they get dusted with fancy spray mist and dust mop. If wiper shave isn't in the budget they put billet covers over the nubs and keep one wiper in it sometimes maybe. Life without a few enclosed trailers and tow rigs is unfathomable, I presume.  

One does need eye protection and good air pressure to blow debris from the pockets. I can bear witness to that.

[enjenjo]

Windshield washer pump connected to the wipers to pump it out.

[chimp koose]

At car shows you could also fill them with water and put Siamese fighting fish in them for a splash of color.

[jaybee]

Great answers. The one I prefer is that the front end of the trough is supposed to have screens because it's a hood vent.

[idrivejunk]

The fish idea rocks.  

The relevant conversations, images made near the end of last year, hacked original hood, suggestions, and stuff thought up concerning hood "vents" is / was all for naught. Coming back to me now and heres the deal:

He doesn't care if theres a hole there. Drain or otherwise. So the features atop the hood can only be called that. Not scoops, not vents, not extractors. Nothing. Perhaps a smidgen of some sort of trim or faux grille. I was thinking if there were a bezel or hole, a drain slot could be obscured by that. The day came to weld the front pieces in and I wanted to but knew better than to ask if anyone had given it thought. In they went, there they are, and backside pics when I feel like. You won't be able to make sport of the hood much longer, it is black now. Can't prove it though, yet.

[idrivejunk]

Before posting these, I gotta quote this statement off an ex-forum:

"Well I'm about to upset a lot of people here. Welding sheet steel with a mig is butchery. They are NOT welds they are TACKS. A whole row of them that have to be ground down and Tacked over the missed bits. This is not welding. I know there's lots of "experts" on youtube doing this method, because it's quick and nasty. Covered up with bog. Have you ever seen the back side of these experts' welds ? NOPE. Because it's crap. Tig and Oxy-Acetylene takes practice. Both of these produce a far better result. I'm old school and every time I see this TACK method I'm upset and amused at the same time. They won't last long. Body work used to be an honourable skill. The craftsmanship was respected and appreciated by those that didn't have those skills. Now It's those that don't have those skills call themselves craftsmen. ( they are TACKERS and Cake decorators ) :LOL:"


 

And THATS why to divorce the internet..  high and mightys.







No examples of that forumer's work. It was a dry gulch post (ambush, poor OP) and one thing is for sure... the author quoted above will never work in a body shop. :?

[jaybee]

What's the best way is to do something?

Whatever actually gets the job done.

It's everything else that isn't worth doing.

I just saw an argument over HEI-style distributors for Ford engines. Those who think that doesn't look "Ford enough" don't have to put one on their cars. GM built too many of them to try to claim they don't work or they're junk. Then they became the hot tip for an inexpensive upgrade for Chevys which came equipped with points. They turned them out by the millions, they worked well, the volume made them cheap, so the approach was adapted to other engines.

[idrivejunk]

Its the name calling that is out of line. Top of every forum no-no list. Talk like that ought to earn a trip to the ER or at least a dentist.  Paddling is probably more appropriate at that stage of mind development but just as against the rules. Butchery? Step outside and don't expect fair play, mister.  

Thats neither here nor there and especially not here thank goodness, but an HEI is tough to beat for street.

The ability to TIG and torch don't mean spit if they ain't around. Points are for hokey bragging rights, I am amazed they are still available. Dad taught me how to do the job with them and I got many Chevy miles from that knowledge, same with Q-Jets and 2Gs. It just doesn't give me a right to talk down to anyone.

When Dad was in the service, he found that when theres whole barrels of points and condensers it is possible to selectively pair some resulting in an outstanding lifespan. Stuff like that is neat to know and I guess I am glad somebody has that knowledge. The sense of entitlement the size of Texas must come with every new TIG welder, as far as I can tell.

[chimp koose]

I guess I am a cake decorator ! I can see the penetration through the back and it doesnt matter as there will be upholstery over that side .   I seem to remember a welding adapter from eastwood from long ago that helped you weld sheet metal with a stick welder. It would allow you to put in a series of tack welds so as not to warp the panel using a thumb operated plunger to tack and lift. 70's era cake decorating before mig was readily available.

[idrivejunk]

I added that last paragraph afterward, sorry.

Reckon I'm a tacker to that guy. I was a dot welder to UglyOlds Bob but was I never sure if he wanted to talk down or what, about it. Here. I suspect he did want to. Trouble is, the good butchers over there supported reinforced filler use. Someone who knew better finally chimed in but ...

Oh, I just file it under the heading of you never quite know just who you are standing next to. And boy am I glad I split.

CK, finishing rust work on the T changed your tune. Happy posts. I know how you feel.   No sappy back pats, just know your big grin made it over here to me.

Top of a new page, needs pictures... old will have to do. Art don't seem to be a wanted thing though.







Lots of wasted personal time and effort represented there. Not to mention the versions of this-



Here is a legitimate other people's project and that old boy outta CA don't play around. He gets stuff done! I was a little worried, it took him a few weeks before the first profane yelp was heard from his stall.  But he has fit in just fine. Valuable hire.



All that work... nothing but straight butchery. A decade on the same piece of butcher block will be completed by me in a few weeks. I should be ashamed!

 Zero cares. I am my own person and my personal take on the tig vs mig riot follows. Spoken in the softest way, of course. Fight the tears. :cry:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iQtXEb7C30o

[kb426]

Has the new guy from Cali said anything about missing his former climate?

[idrivejunk]

He hasn't to me, but we exchange very few words.

Shop is closed tomorrow due to snow.