I got the lock catch installed today , as I did in the hinge area cleaned and ground everything to get a good surface for bonding the plates I fabricated with 6m screws welded in.
I made up a epoxy slurry and glued the plates in with 5 min epoxy then layed 3 layers of carbon fiber.over the whole area to give a large area of support for the plates.









I did a trial fit to make sure everything works.



Next task to complete is to fab up some plates for pneumatic arms .


Thanks for visiting

Stay safe
Wayne

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A bit of a update
I finished up the bumper finally finished sanding and epoxy seal primer then painted it in HotRod black





I also worked on the 4 driving lights disassembling them , sanding everything with 320 scotch bright pad then sprayed with epoxy primer then sprayed with HotRod black.
I'm happy with the look they came out just as had hoped ,I mounted two of them for a peek 👍 next I need to redo the mounts for the lights , I don’t think they are sturdy enough to keep the lights steady while the car is being driven at speed. Going from 18 gage steel to 1/8”






stay safe
wayne

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quote Originally posted by Franked: Digging the blacked out grille/lights!

Thanks Franked ,I think it is the right look .

I moved onto fabricating some brackets to mount the pneumatic arms , the difficult part was trying to figure out where to attach everything.
I started with a set of arms that I had originally purchased for the rear deck from Rodney Dickman somehow I ended up with two sets so figured I might as well make use of the extra set.



Then it came down to where to attach the arms to the hood, as there isn't any extra room under the hood I elected to drill and tape to the hood hinge.



Then it just came down to making a bracket to attach the other end to the frame.




I then had to decide if I needed two arms or one ,I decided to mount two as I figured I could always remove one if I found there was too much lift on the hood.

I decide to try out my powder coating equipment on a few pieces to finish them off, the two grill light mounting brackets and the fender standoffs.





after blowing the powder onto the pieces into the oven it went


from start to finish the process was quick it only took 60 mins!!

Voila~



My resin and supplies arrive on Thursday so back to build and finishing the molds

Stay safe
Wayne

[This message has been edited by dobie1 (edited 08-31-2020).]