RRT build day

[unklian]

Can you guys use a '40 Chevy passenger car hood...

Something like this ?


...only life size.    

[39deluxe]

The way that hood rolls down in front might be just the ticket.

As for the windshield/roof question. The doors are already chopped and welded so the windshield will keep it's original rake angle. Right now I'd say that the rear window will have to be laid forward to make the top reach. Or the whole top moved forward and a strip added to the rear body panel. It's all apart so anything is possible.

Tom

[enjenjo]

With a 2" chop, do you guys plan on
laying the windshield back ? Or stretching the roof ?

Stretching the roof.

[Charlie Chops 1940]

Just like that....only life size.

Charlie

Can you guys use a '40 Chevy passenger car hood...

Something like this ?


...only life size.    

[GPster]

With a 2" chop, do you guys plan on
laying the windshield back ? Or stretching the roof ?

Stretching the roof.

Yes we previously had talked about needing some kind of hatch out through the roof for the driver. Even though the doord are hinged to open with the roll cage and engine set-back an emergency exit might be needed. We might look for a factory roof with a hatch in it. That would give us some stiffening structure and metal for the stretch. GPster

[GPster]

Can you guys use a '40 Chevy passenger car hood...

Something like this ?

...only life size.    

That would work if we just want some stretch but I think the thought is for some slope down too. Could slant that hood down but the top of it looks like a pretty straight line so the curve down would be minimal. The thought of the roof (or hood?) off an old Buick was given to get the length and I spent the afternoon trying to think if I knew where there was one (not the best thing for me to do while driving) and came up empty. Then an idea. How about the roof off and old VW Beetle with the windshield top edge at the cowl and theback window opening being the air inlet for the engine. I know they always said that that airfoil shape would fly at 93 MPH but it would be backwards. GPster

[unklian]

That would work if we just want some stretch but I think
the thought is for some slope down too. Could slant that
hood down but the top of it looks like a pretty straight line
so the curve down would be minimal.

Any similarly shaped hood can be bent, and manipulated to suit.
The later car hoods might be longer. A truck hood might also work.

[unklian]

Trying to decide if we can use the front end we have. Don't look like it at this time. I'm going to see if I can find an old Buick hood, and see if we can build around that.

Just curious, what is "wrong" with the stock front sheet metal ?

[enjenjo]

Trying to decide if we can use the front end we have. Don't look like it at this time. I'm going to see if I can find an old Buick hood, and see if we can build around that.

Just curious, what is "wrong" with the stock front sheet metal ?

Well, in addition to some really Horrendous "repairs" it not very aero.  I am not ruling it out, but I think we can come up with something that looks better to the airsream.

[39deluxe]

That Chevy hood is fairly flat on top so it could be vertically sliced in several places along the sides and curved down in the front. Considering how low the car is that nose portion could be pretty close to the ground.

I also was thinking about how thin that roof panel is. After it is modified to fit and before it is installed permanently we could lay a couple of layers of fiberglass mat on the inside of it. That would stiffen it plenty without adding much weight.

Tom

[enjenjo]

That Chevy hood is fairly flat on top so it could be vertically sliced in several places along the sides and curved down in the front. Considering how low the car is that nose portion could be pretty close to the ground.

I also was thinking about how thin that roof panel is. After it is modified to fit and before it is installed permanently we could lay a couple of layers of fiberglass mat on the inside of it. That would stiffen it plenty without adding much weight.

Tom

I also have some roof panels out back that we might be able to rework to fit for the crown.

[purplepickup]

I looked at all of those pictures and with all that talk about doors I expected to see something that looked like a door....LOL
Charlie

I'm a little late posting some pictures I took yesterday but they do show doors.

It was a beautiful day and after a few discussions about the build in general I think we made a good start.  Anything we do is progress and working together is a really good experience.  The longer we worked together the better we were about seeing what needed to be done and just jumped in.  It's only going to get better.  I'm looking forward to this project.

Here's a few pics I took.  Had the camera set wrong and all the pictures were blue.  I tried to adjust the colors so they aren't quite right but you'll get the jist of what's going on.

[papastoyss]

Looks like a bunch of guys standing around watching one guy work.

Other picture shows a bunch of guys sitting around a table eating.

That is exactly what happens at my place everyday.

Looks like fun though.  I wish I could have been there.

John

Around here we call that a "city job"

[enjenjo]

Well, fatcat and I got the right door frame pretty much done. It's chopped to match the door, I have to make up a lower door frame, the original was rusted too bad.

I think we are going to ask that a couple people take the doors home and get them to the primer stage. I sill have some work to do on the left door, finish welding the chop, and installing the patch panel.

So now we need a date for the next build day. Some time in June?? End of May??

[unklian]

So now we need a date for the next build day.
Some time in June?? End of May??

Billetproof in June 6.
I think the Thompson Gasser event is the same weekend.

Goodguys Indy is June 12,13,14