240z - fabbing new front rails

[wheee!]

You should see the shark holding it...

[Captain Obvious]

LOL!!! Are they ill-tempered as well? 

[wheee!]

Stock rad clears the trimmed up rails nicely.  Aside: the stock rads sure are beefy.  Were they meant to serve as a structural brace?
 

Are you going to use the stock rad?

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2 hours ago, wheee! said:

Are you going to use the stock rad?

Possibly!  They seem pretty stout.  Depends on the final engine configuration so I trimmed the rails to keep the option open.

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3 hours ago, grannyknot said:

Okay a little bit but Si/Bz is perfect for what you are doing right now,  joining thin ga metal without the heat warping.

Very good point actually.  Hadn’t really thought about it like that ....

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Hey guys!

So I didn’t feel like welding today so I started bending a new lower rad support...

I started by forming the upper section from 18 Ga on the brake and by hand with the shrinker / stretcher ...

 

 

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Next I cut and formed the lower section to match.  More bending, more shrinker/stretcher ....

 

 

 

More Clecos ...

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PS.   Comparison to stock ...

and, of course, MORE LASERS! ?

[240260280]

Laser Love!

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PPS ... top view

[dmorales-bello]

Great work!!

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Thanks Dr Dave!

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So I got the inner wing stripped and ready to weld in the passenger rail ....

 

The battery area is bad, but not as bad as I initially thought....

 

This braised in patch has to go ....

 

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Started forming a patch ....