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12-02-2015, 07:49 PM
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New Here
New here. Been building a FFR '33, heavily modified the chassis to accommodate a supercharged S65 out of a BMW M3 with the full BMW drivetrain, controlled by a Cosworth SQ6M. Redid the back 1/3 of the chassis to accommodate the IRS, bent the roll, etc and hand fabricated the bumpers and a Hallock style windshield Tripped on this sight looking for techniques on bead rolling panels for the interior and blown away by the craftsmanship. Have a build page up on the FFR. Have a build page on the FFR sight at the link below, and here are some pics. Super inspired by the level of craftsmanship I see here.
http://www.ffcars.com/forums/120-fac...uild-page.html     
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12-02-2015, 09:03 PM
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Extra, extra COOL 'stuff'. Welcome to the forum.
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12-02-2015, 11:20 PM
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hi Ira welcome to the forum
Peter
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P.Tommasini Metalshaping tools and dvds www.handbuilt.net.au Metalshaping clip on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEAh91hodPg Making Monaro Quarter panel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIpOhz0uGRM
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12-03-2015, 12:04 PM
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Hello Ira and welcome.
You will find lots of good info on this site and people are willing to give you any advise you may need, just ask. Oh yeah lots of pictures please.  Jere
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Jere Kirkpatrick Valley Forge & Welding HEN-ROB Torch Dealer.  Teaching The Fundamentals of Metal Shaping www.jerekirkpatrick.com All tools are a hammer except the chisel.....That's a screwdriver.
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12-05-2015, 01:03 PM
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Thank you all so much. Although new here, had about 3,000 hours in the project and was looking at learning skills to help panel shape the interior. Now probably be much more for the next project.
After not being out at the car the last couple of weeks with kids home for the holidays and knowing the holiday break was fast approaching was going to make a big push this weekend to get the removeable floor panels finished and section a '49 Ford dash so I could get off to paint after next weekend. I was literally that close to being done. Picked up steel and aluminum Thursday night. Tacked a broken bracket on the compressor yesterday so could use the plasma cutter. Few minutes later, saw a bit of smoke, went to grab the extinguisher that's always close by, before I could grab it, I saw an eruption beginning, jumped out of the garage as fast I could and within a second it looked like this. All the aluminum parts like the grille, radiator, plenum, supercharger completely vaporized and disappeared. The alloy block and heads have parts that literally melted away with remaining holes. The rims melted. My daily driver Cayenne, 50 feet away--the taillights and rear bumper melted. That said, I am feeling incredibly lucky that I was a fraction of a second from being totally consumed and gone today!!! I am insured. I've made incredible friends and had amazing support of co-builders and really special vendors (I'll put up a separate post later about their amazing contributions without the morbid pics). And: I'm going to scratch build a better badder ass hot rod as soon as I have a shop again to get going in taking into account all the mistakes made and the lessons learned along the way (In the meantime going to go find some classes on TIG welding and panel shaping so I'm ready!!!) Thanks you all for your help on this part of the journey.    
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12-05-2015, 01:58 PM
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Ira that sucks. What caused it to go up so fast?
 Jere
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