Thanks everyone for all of the feedback. We do appreciate it. Here is our next set of build picture updates. In this set of pictures after getting all the front end sheet metal installed and gapped out we discovered that the body line in the new AMD front fenders wasn't lining up with the door body line. It was 1/4" off. You can really see it in the picture with where the body line was drawn on and where it was suppose to be. So we cut and welded up the fender and made/adjusted the body line. Also after we removed the pinch welds we had to fabricate a new lower fender attachment set up so we fabricated our own lower fender mount. We wound up drilling up through the rocker and attaching the fender in from the bottom. Take a look at this next set of build pictures and give us some feedback.
Elitecustombody: The front fenders are ordered right from AMD along with the rest of the body pannels we ordered.
Hey everyone here is a few more updated pictures of our cuda build. Well as posted earlier people wanted to know what we were doing with the marker lights in our front fenders. So we stuck with the rest of the theme of the car and went ahead and shaved those as well. Here you can see how we laid out to cut out the marker light recess. We cut out the recess so we can hammer weld and metal finish our welds to require no filler at all. We also make templates of the actual contour of the panel. We pre stretch all patch panels with the English Wheel, to fit the proper contours. This requires less metal work to the actual panel. Here are a few pictures of us performing this next step.
Hey everyone here is another update of our build. This is step one of our front end bumper construction and lower valance. After spending the time to go ahead and fabricate our rear flush mount bumper. We started to look at the stock front bumper and decided that it just wasn't going to work. So we fabricated one from scratch just like the rear bumper. After looking at how we changed the shape of the rear quarters to fit the stance better we went ahead and used our same jigging plates from the rear and used them on the front. After doing that the lower valance was too narrow and we went ahead and changed that as well. We fabricated our own bumper mounts and fabricated the bumper out of 1/16" ga. steel. This stage only shows the basic shape and lay out of us fabricating the bumper and extending the lower valance. Stage two of the front end to follow. Take a look and tell us what you think.
Hey everyone here are a few more build updates of our cuda build. This is Stage 2 of our front bumper and lower valance fabrication. In this set of pictures we finalized the new smaller opening of the lower valance. Also finilized the shape and fit of the valance to the new bumper. We fabricated the ends of the bumper and welded the bumper structure all together. Take a look at our new build pictures and give us some feedback.
Hey everyone. Here are a few more updated build pictures of our project. In this set we wound up getting our Rick Stainless Steel tank in and started to fit it in. We fabricated our own tank mounts and started to get it square and level in the car. We tacked in all of our mounts and then fabricated the start on our filler neck. We didn’t make the whole neck up still deciding on where we want to put our filler neck inlet. Take a look at our pictures and give us some feedback.
Brian Hobaugh SCCA National Tour June 2014
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