All MetalShaping

Go Back   All MetalShaping > Metal Shaping Projects > Automotive Projects
  Today's Posts Posts for Last 7 Days Posts for Last 14 Days  

Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
  #11  
Old 08-31-2014, 08:26 AM
RockHillWill RockHillWill is offline
MetalShaper of the Month Jan 2019
 
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 3,089
Default Update work on speedster

Andrew Slater came by the shop this weekend and we finished the layout and cutting for the header and pipes.

Name:  ExhaustAssy.jpg
Views: 2919
Size:  26.4 KB

Name:  willy1 003.jpg
Views: 2825
Size:  54.8 KB

Name:  willy1 027.jpg
Views: 2781
Size:  54.9 KB

Name:  willy1 029.jpg
Views: 2862
Size:  57.9 KB

Name:  willy1 033.jpg
Views: 2843
Size:  53.7 KB

Name:  willy1 035.jpg
Views: 2889
Size:  73.3 KB

Name:  willy1 038.jpg
Views: 2851
Size:  54.4 KB

Name:  willy1 040.jpg
Views: 2688
Size:  63.6 KB

Name:  willy1 042.jpg
Views: 2833
Size:  51.3 KB
__________________
Will
Reply With Quote
  #12  
Old 08-31-2014, 10:04 AM
fred26t fred26t is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Garden Grove, Ca
Posts: 251
Default Fishmouth

That was a nice way to do the fishmouth's on the headers. I used to work for Doug's and all we had in the '60's was a metal scribe and a torch. Fred26t
__________________
Fred26T
Reply With Quote
  #13  
Old 08-31-2014, 11:19 AM
crystallographic crystallographic is offline
MetalShaper of the Month October '14 , April '16, July 2020, Jan 2023
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Western Sierra Nevadas, Badger Hill, CA
Posts: 4,388
Default

Sure is coming along nicely, Will. Funny thing, it takes a bit for me to get my noodle around the geometry thing for cut-fit tubing work, then it all goes along and all of a sudden it's done before I am ! Real clean intersections. They should weld like a dream. What will the finish be on the steel tubes - old timey bbq black or the hot coat insulating finish? Still have the oval scars from working around hot headers long ago.
__________________
Kent

http://www.tinmantech.com

"All it takes is a little practical experience to blow the he!! out of a perfectly good theory." --- Lloyd Rosenquist, charter member AWS, 1919.
Reply With Quote
  #14  
Old 08-31-2014, 12:23 PM
Dave Deyton Dave Deyton is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Fuquay-Varina, NC
Posts: 217
Default

Really looking good Will. Your engineering always amazes me.
Got to get back down your way again.

That speedster is looking great.


Dave
__________________
Dave Deyton
Reply With Quote
  #15  
Old 08-31-2014, 12:48 PM
bobadame bobadame is offline
MetalShaper of the Month Feb 2015
 
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
Posts: 1,192
Default

Hey Will, did you show how you created that cool WC logo on the side of the Speedster? Simple minds want to know.
Reply With Quote
  #16  
Old 08-31-2014, 12:48 PM
metalman sweden metalman sweden is offline
MetalShaper of the Month May 2012, Jan 2013, Oct 2013
 
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Sweden
Posts: 1,049
Default

Nice job as usual!
This speedster will be very nice, wish I was there to give you a helping hand old man
__________________
Per
www.metalmansweden.com

https://www.facebook.com/metalman.sweden
Reply With Quote
  #17  
Old 08-31-2014, 01:10 PM
RockHillWill RockHillWill is offline
MetalShaper of the Month Jan 2019
 
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 3,089
Default

Bob, that is just how I have signed my name since back in the racing days, and this particular version was simply from a .dxf file that I did in Solidworks and had water jetted. it has just lasted more as a logo that anything else.

Per, I sure wish that you were still here. It seems al that I have done since the 'Roundup' is mow grass, fix fences and visit Jim Hery. Could use a 'young man' around here, LOL

Name:  LogoSm2.jpg
Views: 2464
Size:  55.5 KB

Name:  1978-nascar-3.jpg
Views: 2404
Size:  11.6 KB

Name:  LogoSm1.jpg
Views: 2484
Size:  53.7 KB

Name:  WClogo.jpg
Views: 2480
Size:  32.2 KB
__________________
Will
Reply With Quote
  #18  
Old 09-13-2014, 10:20 AM
RockHillWill RockHillWill is offline
MetalShaper of the Month Jan 2019
 
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 3,089
Default

More updates. Been VERY busy with customer work and visiting with Jim Hery at his Tenn. shop and mowing grass, etc.

Been working most recently on the cockpit panels that go around the driver and passenger. I had the opening contour cut in a 'stitch' pattern on the water jet to maintain the panels 'alignment' while I was doing the shaping to fit the bulkhead contours. It is my intention to fit the panels to the bulkheads, then form a wire edge configuration, install a #9 gage wire, shape it to the contour and then rivet it around the openings. Then to cut out the 'stitched' area and hand form the opening edge around the wire edged forms giving me a 5-layer of materials to maintain the opening configuration and provide strength for getting in and out of the speedster. Some of the pictures show the SoldiWorks drawing of the closing die before the stems are welded and the side cut away. There is a 6" wide Pullmax die that results in a 'P' shaped section of metal. The lead in and exit ends of the 4 ft. long segments are poorly done in the die and will have to be cut off. I pre-formed a 135 degree edge on the panel to put the 'P' contour in because it was too small in width to maintain straightness and the formed edge made it MUCH easier to feed straight and push thru the die. Once the edging has been done, I will fit the ends of the panel to the bulkhead and then trim and install a joggled edge to make allowance for panel overlaps at each end. The panel rolls were done with the rubber tire in an old nglish wheel frame.

Name:  3wc110 056.jpg
Views: 2322
Size:  40.2 KB

Name:  3wc110 057.jpg
Views: 2331
Size:  32.2 KB

Name:  cockpit1 002.jpg
Views: 2282
Size:  47.5 KB

Name:  cockpit1 003.jpg
Views: 2280
Size:  36.9 KB

Name:  cockpit1 004.jpg
Views: 2259
Size:  43.6 KB

Name:  cockpit1 005.jpg
Views: 2372
Size:  51.1 KB

Name:  SeatRing.jpg
Views: 2374
Size:  53.2 KB

Name:  BodyRingDie.jpg
Views: 2232
Size:  50.9 KB

Name:  wd93 009.jpg
Views: 2229
Size:  56.4 KB

Name:  willy2b 006.jpg
Views: 2331
Size:  54.0 KB
__________________
Will
Reply With Quote
  #19  
Old 09-13-2014, 06:16 PM
Oldnek Oldnek is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Ulladulla, Australia
Posts: 1,346
Default

Lookin Good Will.
__________________
John
EK Holden V8
Reply With Quote
  #20  
Old 09-14-2014, 12:57 PM
crystallographic crystallographic is offline
MetalShaper of the Month October '14 , April '16, July 2020, Jan 2023
 
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Western Sierra Nevadas, Badger Hill, CA
Posts: 4,388
Default

Now there is one stout wired edge, Will.
... And I thought using 3/8" gas line was a good way to stiffen a cockpit surround on an old racer.... Your PM roll-up dies are similar to some press dies I see in my press-die design book.
__________________
Kent

http://www.tinmantech.com

"All it takes is a little practical experience to blow the he!! out of a perfectly good theory." --- Lloyd Rosenquist, charter member AWS, 1919.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On

Forum Jump

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 04:12 AM.

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.