hello everyone this week I really should be doing some sanding and bodywork to
get this car closer to paint but I just can't stop welding all right
what's wrong with me okay the truth is I I did order some new sanding blocks and
some filler some better filler material and it actually hasn't arrived yet it
should have been here last week I am going to be mixing in some bodywork and
sanding but I am also gonna continue to work on this chassis improvement sort of
strengthening the chassis adding provisions for things like through the
body sway bar I'm gonna be adding the strut braces in the front doing some
tricks on the back end like I talked about
RSR kind of bracing so that's gonna continue I do want to get this thing
painted today I'm gonna work on those front strut towers last week I left off
with this piece this is a strengthening plate that's gonna go on top of the
front strut tower and I cut it out with the plasma cutter and I just need to
kind of trim the inside a little bit just put a few marks on the plate here
with my sharpie to highlight the areas I need to open up a little bit please take
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it seems like I'm procrastinating on a painting process which I am it will get
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again and let's get to work and now this fits really well over this
opening on the strut tower so now I just want to try to maybe pre bend it just a
little bit because it has a lot to has a lot to do to meet the shape of this I
mentioned last week I would you know get it as close as possible and then you
know weld in the areas that are fitting tight and then just hammer as we go so
having the the heat and the shape of the car to help form it might be the best
way to go but I'm going to try to pre Bend it here on my bench just real quick
if you're interested how I formed this this sheet I mean I was able to get a
pretty good curve on it it's heavy gauge material so it's it's it's hard to form
it takes a lot of force so I have this rotor in my vise clamped down to the
bench and then the trick here is I don't know if I can hold out there the trick
here is to use a heavy counterweight on one side and then form it around using a
hammer on the free side
okay I've got this plate formed as best I can and it's fitting it's fitting okay
here in the car it feels that's really well against the inner fender flange
which which is good so I think the plan and I'm not 100% sure this is gonna work
normally when I do stuff I have a pretty good idea how it's gonna turn out this
one I'm actually a little bit worried okay here's the plate that I'm trying to
install it fits nicely around the top circle here and then back here in the
back where it goes into this this fender flange it's fitting really really nice
so I haven't formed well along here and all the way here so that's about you
know let's call it 40% good fit and then I knew that this portion here was cut a
little long and I plan to roll it over as much as it is the material it will
allow me but if it won't Bend I'm gonna have to cut it and just weld it on and
then back here is where it starts to deviate and this is a compound curve so
not only does it Bend this way but it bends this way and I'm gonna have to
close up this gap I can almost stick my finger in there once this is welded in
the back it should form down and conform to the car but that's the part I'm
worried about I don't know how easy it's going to be able to form it down I may
have to put either weight on the on the strut or use a dolly on the back side so
let's see what happens plan B is whatever I weld I'll have to
unweld I'll have to cut it out so I'm not going to do continuous welds here
I'm only gonna do enough so that it'll have support to bend the plate I am
thinking ahead if I have to cut it out I don't want to weld it solid so let's see
how it goes
okay the first round of welding is done I got a pretty solid weld here really
solid back here little tack weld here another pretty solid tack right here and
a few here on this inner circle so that's enough to support it while I sort
of hammer this side back down so you can see it's a little springy I don't have
anything to hit it with but it's it's definitely springy it's got some space
underneath there but like I said before I don't want to just crush everything by
hammering it down so I'm going to do some work on the underside in fact I
think what I'm gonna do is I'm going to open up the three holes that need to be
there anyways for the strut bolts I'm gonna clamp in a camber strut plate and
lock it down so it has some structure to it and then I'm gonna hammer the rest of
this way down it seems like it's gonna be okay
I got a fitting tied up here in the back so let's just do that
bolting that down really did the trick I got I got this much tighter or down here
this is still overhanging a little bit I'm gonna try to roll this down a little
bit
okay I was lucky to get this to fit down flush all the way around and see it's
welded all the way along the backside for the majority of it there's a small
section there right where the hole is comes around fully fully welded down
blending in with this factory seam right here so I did use the TIG welder a
little bit on the top and I just touched up some of the MIG welds where there was
a little bit of a start and stop action but really happy with the way this came
out if it wasn't for bolting it down I never could have shaped it with just the
hammer alone so the hammer worked but bolting of the the stock camber plate
down really really cinched it down I'm gonna show you from underneath okay from
down here you can see that this is just in stock form I was I was able to not
distort any of the the stock sheetmetal and if you look closely you can see I
still have some trimming to do on those square holes I just kind of roughed him
out so I get those bolts in place okay so putting that plate on top of the
strut towers I think it was well worth it I did measure it before I installed
it was about nine ounces so for nine ounces and you know zero cost I think
it's a worthwhile upgrade not sure that I'm gonna be using the coilovers but
even without the coilovers I think it gives a much more stable surface and I
think it I think it was worthwhile so let me know what you think in the
comments below
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