Modern-day Miura

[heinke]

Originally Posted by Steve Hamilton

Looks great Joel, that is a challenging panel and you killed it!

Steve

Originally Posted by Gojeep

Looks very factory pressed, which means a job well done.

Thanks for following and your support.

[heinke]

I find myself having an unproductive day, so I figured I’d accomplish something by posting up an update. While I live in the once beautiful state of California, our electricity delivery these days is about as reliable as a 3rd world country. While I do a lot of my metal shaping with hand tools, I still need electricity for critical stuff. Needless to say, I’m not happy with the elected officials that are responsible but it seems that providing a reliable electrical grid is low on their list of priorities. Enough said on that and on with the update.

I’m working to fill in the smaller nooks and crannies on the front of the passenger side door frame. The plastic piece from the C4 Corvette provides a good reference for this purpose.





I started by making the “Z” shaped pieces where the door seals mount, shrinking/stretching them to add some curve and then tacking them in place. Then I made the surrounding pieces to fill-in the remaining holes. I try to keep the weld seams away from the corners as much as possible. Here the top area is welded together, metal finished and the bottom area is ready for tacking.



My plan is to fit up and weld in the piece that goes all the way across the bottom of the door frame next. Here I’m working out a plan for the best join lines to the door frame bottom piece prior to welding up all the adjacent bits and pieces.



My goal for the door frame bottom is to do it in a single piece; this single piece to include the flange for mounting the outer door skin. I had to outsource to a sheet metal shop the weather seal bends already in the piece but am hoping to be able to tip in the flange myself for door skin mount.

Now if the electricity would just come back on so I can weld in the waiting bits and pieces to make some progress.

[Antoine_P]

Incredible work, much inspiring, thanks a lot for sharing!

Cheers,

Antoine

[heinke]

Originally Posted by Antoine_P

Incredible work, much inspiring, thanks a lot for sharing!

Cheers,

Antoine

Thanks for the praise. Lots of similarities between our projects at this stage; lots of small panels welded together to form a larger complex shape.

[heinke]

I decided to do a “rinse and repeat” on the drivers side door inner front door frame before I forgot how I did the passenger side. It’s good that I didn’t wait longer as some bits had already escaped my memory and I almost screwed it up. On the second bend, I tried to do it with a ½” thick hammer form when it should have been the ¾” thick form. Luckily, I was able to re-anneal the bend, reform it back to straight, and then use the proper thickness hammer form to put the proper thickness bend back in.



After metal finishing the welds, the piece came out well. And of course, it took much less time than the first one.

[Steve Hamilton]

Looks great Joel
Thanks for sharing
Steve

[Gojeep]

I'm glad I post my progress as sometimes have to read how I did it the first time if too much time has passed.

[123pugsy]

Really nice stuff there Joel.

[Jaroslav]

I'm looking at your work and it's great. Yesterday I solved something and I did a test piece that worked. I immediately made another 2 pieces with the same machine settings. So I don't have to remember - how it was right ... Yeah, that head. She is small for so many thoughts.

Originally Posted by heinke

I decided to do a “rinse and repeat” on the drivers side door inner front door frame before I forgot how I did the passenger side. It’s good that I didn’t wait longer as some bits had already escaped my memory and I almost screwed it up. On the second bend, I tried to do it with a ½” thick hammer form when it should have been the ¾” thick form. Luckily, I was able to re-anneal the bend, reform it back to straight, and then use the proper thickness hammer form to put the proper thickness bend back in.



After metal finishing the welds, the piece came out well. And of course, it took much less time than the first one.

[heinke]

I just added a post to the Miura station buck thread: http://www.allmetalshaping.com/showp...5&postcount=51

I won't repeat it here but will show a couple of pics: