'69 Camaro Temper

[Nine Ball]

Nice fab work, and creativity. Welcome to Texas!

Tony

[CamaroAJ]

Originally Posted by Nine Ball

Nice fab work, and creativity. Welcome to Texas!

Tony

Thank you.

[srh3trinity]

I like the duct flowing into the rear gills. I have always thought there was some potential to do some inventive things. Just when you think you have seen everything that you can do to a 69, somebody steps up. You have some cool ideas and it looks like the talent to back it up.

[frankv11]

Agree with others . Great fab skills, especially those cooler housings " may steal the idea "

[syborg tt]

Looks great.

Make sure you buy a 2nd windshield as verify the fitment with the 2nd windshield. Just in case you damage the 1st glass.

They all never seem to be the same.


Marty-MJ

[CamaroAJ]

So I've been working on the front glass still as I only get an hour or so a day to work on it. Things were going pretty good until my mig gun gave up the ghost yesterday and the new one won't be here till Monday.

So here is where I'm at.
The whole outer frame is welded in and took forever as to not warp the metal. Here it is partially welded.


All ground down


The new lip is started and welded on the driver side


The side ground down and the top in progress. This is when the mig gun gave up on me. This is three pieces in order to make the bend in the corner.


Since I could weld I fitted the remainder of the lip so it's ready to weld in.


To wrap things up my Ring Brothers door handles and trunk hinges showed up Monday. My carbon fiber parts from Anvil will hopefully be here this week too. It was shipped Friday after 11 months of waiting.

[CamaroAJ]

I forgot, since I'm sans welder I started on the recesses to mount my Infinity boxes

[preston]

So for the glass you filled in the side and top gap - did you add anything to the bed where the windshield sits ? How much depth is on those edges ? In other words if you lay the windshield down on the opening, how recessed is the glass from the edges in the "vertical" direction - ie how much padding will go under the glass where you glue it and if you do need any spacing there how will that be accomplished ?

although I don't know why I ask, I'm way past the point where I would ever be motivated to put in flush glass, I'm just curious !

[CamaroAJ]

Originally Posted by preston

So for the glass you filled in the side and top gap - did you add anything to the bed where the windshield sits ? How much depth is on those edges ? In other words if you lay the windshield down on the opening, how recessed is the glass from the edges in the "vertical" direction - ie how much padding will go under the glass where you glue it and if you do need any spacing there how will that be accomplished ?

although I don't know why I ask, I'm way past the point where I would ever be motivated to put in flush glass, I'm just curious !

It's about 5/8" deep roof line to mounting lip. I measured new cars when they had the glass out and they are in the area of 5/8"-3/4". The glass is almost 1/4" thick so that leaves me with around 3/8" thickness of urethane to glue the glass in.

[syborg tt]

Very nice


Marty-MJ