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ccracin · #**281** 09-26-2012, 09:41 AM

Hopefully the new hood will be delivered today. While this has been going on, we have continued our work on the rear of the truck. I decided to spend some time installing the rear rolled pan. This is meant to be a bolt in item, but the only fastener locations provided were along the upper edge so that it can bolt to the rear main cross sill. The rest would just hang in space. I didn't particularly care for that so I decided to add some tabs to the lower corners and then gap the panels a bit better. Well, alot better. It didn't fit very well. The pics I took of the tabs etc. didn't turn out for some reason. I will have to go back and get those again. Anyway, here is the what the rolled pan fit looks like now. Thanks for looking!

HWY Nova · #**282** 09-26-2012, 09:42 AM

Chad,

Great work...... AS USUAL!

--Eric

**GregWeld** · #**283** 09-26-2012, 02:44 PM

Nice!

Hey -- Did you ever get the commuter car up and running with the LS6??

ccracin · #**284** 09-26-2012, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by HWY Nova

Chad,

Great work...... AS USUAL!

--Eric

Thanks Buddy!

Quote:

Originally Posted by GregWeld

Nice!

Hey -- Did you ever get the commuter car up and running with the LS6??

Thanks ! Yea, I thought we had talked since then. Got it in and running. I probably have about 5000 miles on it. It is running great. I think I am leaving some power on the table without a tune since it is the LS1 computer. But, it is still stout!

**waynieZ** · #**285** 09-26-2012, 08:32 PM

Chad the roll pan looks good. Progress is good no matter what end of the truck its on.

**Sieg** · #**286** 09-26-2012, 09:21 PM

Good stuff Chad!

ccracin · #**287** 10-04-2012, 09:56 AM

So first let me say, I've found another one of the Good Guys in this car world. I also have a build thread over at 67-72 Chevy trucks. One of the site vendors over there saw the pics of our hood issue and contacted me.
His name is DeWayne Morgan and he owns Nsane Hotrodz in White Pine , TN.
http://www.nsanehotrodz.com/
He stepped up and offered to try and get us new hood that he could fit on a truck he is building to check it out before he shipped it. We took him up on the offer an received our new hood a couple weeks ago. It definitely fit the truck he has alot better than the hood we had on our truck. He took the time to send pictures and all. He absolutely went above and beyond! Unfortunately, when we got the hood, it wasn't much better on our truck than what we had. Some of the issue is our fenders too. Those will be getting massaged too.

So here is what the new one looks like and where we are going with it.

Knowing that simple alignment just wasn't going to cut it, out comes the cutting tools!

This has alot to do with the issues!

Continued------

ccracin · #**288** 10-04-2012, 09:59 AM

After finally being able to use my size to my advantage and persuading the inner structure to fit like it should, it's looking better.

Te next step is to look at the hood skin. Preliminarily, it looks like the body saw and welder are going to be called into action again! Stay tuned!

**GregWeld** · #**289** 10-04-2012, 10:10 AM

Nice work!

..... and that's what hot rodding is all about!

Guys can whine and boo too.... but it's easier and faster to just pick up a tool and start hot rodding the stuff... 'cause it ain't going to get fixed all by itself!

**waynieZ** · #**290** 10-05-2012, 11:00 AM

Chad no one can ever say this truck wasn't home built! Nice job and nice to see some one offer to help you out. Good practice whe nyou come to fix the gaps on my Camaro. LOL