I am just starting my Auto body apprenticeship and have been thinking about seperating the inner hood brace from a Late Model im working on, welding up all the holes and mating the 2 upper and lower hood pieces back together. Ive never seen it done before and i think it would be a real nice subtle touch, however tedious. Has anyone done it before, or know a good reason as to why i have never seen it done ? Thanks.
Being late model, you will never see it here. Try some metal fab sites. This is Traditional Rod & Custom stuff here.
I know its tradition rod and custom stuff here, but it doesnt matter what the car is, most cars have hood bracing. I could have said it was a shoebox ford.
"but it doesnt matter what the car is," Don't think that would go down well here .. ps .. This might be useful http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=18
Since it doesn't matter what we talk about according to FNG Aircooledrules...and his name fits my question, I'm restoring/building a Herbie VW clone. Do you think I should use vinyl letter 53's or have them painted on?
i like cake. returning to the topic; i don't think you'll end up with what you are looking for. the work to separate the sections, close the holes in the lower section, and then put them back together seems to hold all manner of pitfalls regarding warping, shrinkage, stretching of metal... NOW; if cleaning up the underside is the ultimate goal, i'd consider forming a panel that could be attached to the underside of the hood framing mechanically, so that IF it became necessary to get in there to repair something, you wouldn't be cutting up a welded ***embly to get there. just my tuppence.
Aircooledrules FNG just do it........and learn... Bad shifter ,,,,,,wow nice little cruiser,the little guy looks good. hope to see it on the streets of S.F.V soon ???????
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