My Cuda Project Part II...now at Bruning Auto Design

[JohnC]

Originally Posted by Musclerodz

XV has already put several sets on their in house cars, but have not found them available to the public yet.

[lhkustoms]

glad to see your cars in good hands..... Tim and I used to work together and you will be extremely pleased with the quality of work that will be put into your car
It's ashame the work that some individuals do and try to call themselves professionals. glad to see the project back on track.

[rjsjea]

Your right Luke, it is a shame what some people call professional work

Tim will fix it the way it should have been done the first time.

[DRJDVM's '69]

JohnC...yeah I was suprised the Terracuda was using stock hinges. Figured they would have made some one offs...

Anyway....I spoke to the guys at Ring Bros about 6-7 months ago and they are developing some for the Mopars. Talked to Mike Ring at SEMA and they are still in the works but unlikely to be released until summer...you know how that goes....

I spoke with Chris Fesler about 7 months ago too and he was interested in doing them too. I offered my stock hinges as templates and planned on sending them to him, but then got the impression the Ring Bros ones would be done soon, so just decided to wait.

XV has had some on a couple of cars and when I talked to them about 6 months ago they also said they would be available soon....

Guess that just illustrates how hard it is to develope a product and bring it to market. Sounds easy but its a ton of R&D and up front costs....plus the Mopar market is just smaller so companies are more conservative about jumping into it.

[DRJDVM's '69]

Time for some update pix.... you can find more at www.bruningautodesign.com in the gallery

I'm going to try and limit the number of "Chris crap work pix", but there are alot of them......

Nice door gap...Chris replaced the rocker and quarter on this side and left these nice gaps

The spoiler....just wasnt done well....didnt blend or flow right...edge too thick...holes everywhere....

Filled the door handles...warped all to hell..


Gaps were pretty bad...

[DRJDVM's '69]

Alot of the stuff he did was all warped.....he used MIG for most of it and just didnt control his heat well at all.... alot of the patches improved things but left big waves etc...

[DRJDVM's '69]

Now on to the GOOD STUFF.....
Tim has been hard at work getting the body straight in metal as best possible without starting all over again... its a balance between having it turn out nice and not blowing my budget starting from scratch... so far things look SOOOOOOO much better...

[DRJDVM's '69]

Gaps look way way better


Thankfully the old spoiler came off without too much destruction to the quarters etc...




Dont musclecar just look wicked in bare metal !!!!!

Things look great and Tim is doing awesome work... and pretty quick too....

Mike from Musclerodz got my new trunk lid sent out (thanks again Mike), so once that arrives, Tim will start the new spoiler..... Carter is gonna help me design some new inner fenders so once thats done those will be next.....

I couldnt be happier with the guys at Bruning.... the one bad thing..... I have a feeling I'm gonna just keep adding projects to the list while its there... its addicting when you start modifying stuff...

[rjsjea]

[QUOTE=DRJDVM's '69;I couldnt be happier with the guys at Bruning.... the one bad thing..... I have a feeling I'm gonna just keep adding projects to the list while its there... its addicting when you start modifying stuff...[/QUOTE]


Ned, now you know why my car has been there for the last several months!!!

Metal work looks great.....as expected coming from Tim. Talked to him about doing a spoiler on my car too......looking forward to see what you guys come up with

[awr68]

Good deal! Car looks better already!