70 Camaro project

[glassman]

Originally Posted by slenning

Perfect timing When I saw your post this is what I was working on.


My son Taylor cut all of the parts on his waterjet. The latch is a QuickLatch push button latch. There is a piece underneath the top itself that forms a rest for the door to sit on and bumps out to mount the lower part of the latch to attach to.
I have DXF drawings of most all of the parts we've made, on parts like this I usually cut everything out of wood on one of the CNC's at my cabinet shop first to make sure everything fits before Taylor cuts it.

I'm doing the same to mine, was going to use wood but seeing this has convinced me to do metal. I do not know how to weld, and do not have any weld connections (that i trust anyways, cept maybe the paint shop i used).
But i can fab aluminum.

I was going to use the corvette rear glove compartments, one for safety equipment, other for the "permanent tools" every car must have. But, i really do like the idea of putting the battery there, however, these cars usually have a 52/48 weight distribution, so keeping it in the trunk area is what i'm going to do. Although, the COG is lower where your mounting it.....