Thanks for the information guys. Is there an explanation of the kind of heat treat we could do at home ? I assume you need a large enough oven. I know true heat treating is a pretty meticulous process.
Also, back to applying epoxy so we can do body filler. There has been some talk about using powder coat as a pre-paint application instead, and I know powder coat would stick to aluminum. Would that be an effective method ie powdercoat the panel, rough it up, and then start on the bodywork ?
ANd for that matter, Powder coating would be a controlled 400 degree bake. Would this add any strength back into the material ?
I have built some big TransAm/DTM wheel flares out of .05 5052 which is probably too thin, but with the flanges and such that were added its reasonably strong. I never annealed it but I did obviously tig weld it along the entire seam. Its not OEM strong and I dont' expect them to be but I would like to think they won't just disintegrate on track at speed !
