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Here you can see my unprofessional try to make the round profiles for the front-intake.
I hammered 2" wide sheet metal around my tent pole with a rubber hammer, and it worked!
Then I added curvature with the shrinker on both sides, and atfterwards just one side to get the desired curvature in both directions
I need to smooth them out, guess I'll take the planishing hammer with low pressure for smoothing, but for the first try it looks pretty good!
Carry on Axel, its one of the builds that gives me inspiration to keep building. I have a week in september to start on my build again... if i finish painting!
Thanks Gary! Keep on Building! I am 52 years old now, and I guess I will never stop!
Yesterday I worked on the front-intkake again. I did the corners.
Right is were I started with, left is the result after using the planishing hammer and the shrinker.
The result is quite good, still some little dents, but I will smooth that out.
for the other side I just needed half the time, once you have figured out how it can be done, you are 200% faster.
Thanks Gary! Keep on Building! I am 52 years old now, and I guess I will never stop!
Yesterday I worked on the front-intkake again. I did the corners.
Right is were I started with, left is the result after using the planishing hammer and the shrinker.
The result is quite good, still some little dents, but I will smooth that out.
for the other side I just needed half the time, once you have figured out how it can be done, you are 200% faster.
Thanks! Yes, updates will come soon, I had a lot to do at house and garden this year and my 11 months old son is really taking a lot of my free time, but summer is over now and very soon I will be in my workshop again...!!
dash for my 100hp16V Mini. I wanted to get rid of the plastic 3-clock-instrumentpanel so I took it off.
I installed two metal tubes in the Mini, the upper is bended slightly, and between the two bars I put a wooden panel sprayed with clear coat.
I made an aluminum panel sprayed matte black for my Smiths gauges, installed my Alfa switches which were originally planned for the Dino, and built an 10mm aluminum frame with the shrinker, which I grinded to a matte finish.
The overall look is pretty nice after I installed it in the car, so I thought I share with you, even if it is just a very little project...
I am keeping this car in running condition to have some fun beside all my unfinished projects in my workshop ;-) but those plastic clocks were annoying me all the time...
Thanks guys!
The shrinker/stretcher is an excellent Tool!
Since I have it so much more is possible and it works so easy and quick!
Check some youtube vids for shrinker/stretcher tool and you will be even more impressed!
Even a very tight Radius can be done in Minutes if you look at my alloy frame for the dash.
I just read this thread and I'm seriously impressed. I love it.
I love the Dino and other sports/racing cars from that era. I'm getting ready to build an Abarth SP 1000 tribute. But, I'm doing it the easy way. I found a set of molds that were pulled from an original car and purchased them.
Hello Axel, I haven't started the build yet. I recently purchased the molds and they are being shipped to me right now. Once they arrive I'll lay up a body and then start on the frame.
To me the SP Abarth resembles a little Dino. I'm building the car with Hyabusa motorcycle power. It should only weigh 1000lbs when done. I have started a build thread in the build section of Grassroots Motorsports forum.
...it seems like winter is over already, so I pulled the car out of the workshop for the first time this year.
I wasn't inactive, I did many little things like flanges, reinforcements, brackets and other smaller things which I thought is not worth showing, but I decided to wait with the bigger panels until I can pull out the car in the sun to have a better view on the proportions and the flow of the panels...inside the shop is too dark and you don't have too many angles of view.
Btw, I found very nice taillights, the glas is from Karmann Ghia Type 34- quite pricy and rare- but they do look excellent, and the chrome is from Fiat (850 Coupe I guess). They work good together.
Now next comes the front fenders, front airintake and the bonnet...I am doing a 2 days metalshaping class next weekend, hope that brings me forward!
some impressions from the two days metalshaping class, I know 100% more now, and again it is a question of good equipment!
You don't need many tools, but they should be good! If you buy cheap you buy twice...my mistakes with O/A welding came from bad equipment, the instructor has a Messer-Griesheim 0.2-0.5mm torch, and it works fantastic! Even I could do nice welds!
