Lateral-g Forums - pictures of my drip rails so far

The rails look GREAT!! Not to take away from your great work but Ill show how I did mine. Prolly similar. JR

The original drip rails. Ugly IMO, and useless for me, I dont drive in the rain with the window down.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...Nova/start.jpg

Then I scraped out all the old caulking to see the body lines better and make it possible to cut the drip rails off. After scraping and cleaning I peeled the drip rail down with channel lock pliers to get more room and visibility.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...Nova/bent2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...Nova/bent3.jpg

So my idea was to use a thin cutoff wheel to take small slices off, tack welding every four inches. Well that didnt work!! Im not good enough with the cutoff wheel, it would skip off the cut, onto the hood and I wasnt liking that. So I taped off a nice line and broke out the plasma cutter, what a dream that thing is. So with the plasma torch and MIG torch draped over my shoulder I started to cut. Zip, four inches, tack, zip, tack, zip tack. It was about 1 minute each side, they were gone and the hood was still in place. And with the plasma I was able to get a very straight cut.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...Nova/tack1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...Nova/tack2.jpg

Then I started a long round of tacks. I split the difference in distance all the while till I was tacking right next to tacks, melting them all together. Its ugly but really solid. I know there is a solid continuous weld bead under all them lumps of tacks. Well sorta. After sanding the tacks down I did have a couple pin holes. I zapped them closed and sanded smooth. Came out alright. I like the look better and its only at tops a two hour project. That is if you are already in plain steel, no paint. :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ova/tacked.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ova/ground.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...versfront2.jpg