How to make a steel hood scoop

fitzy here back at it again got something interesting for you this time it's not rust repair i'm going to hand make a hood scoop for a mustang using uh the roof skin off an import going to be interesting stick around [Music] okay let's get started here what we have here is a fox body mustang has an ls in it with turbo uh the plan is is that uh we're going to make a hood scoop for this now and like we've priced up hoods for these um here in newfoundland uh in order to convert it into canadian and to ship it here we're talking well over a thousand bucks to land a hood here um we're going to make what they call a bubble hubs hood scoop bubble hood scoop i got pictures here uh consisting of uh all the different styles you see a lot of my drag cares and then around now it's a newer style hood scoop so this is the style we're gonna run with uh both boss what we're gonna do we're gonna make one all right and how we're gonna go about making one is we're gonna use a rough skin off around a 2008 high on the elantra touring it's off of we picked this up for uh off a friend of ours we had a bunch of scrap cars around so as you can see it's a nice crown panel and it's got a nice shape to it you can run around and if you look at this way it's got a nice float in front of it there so that's the makings of a hood scoop so let's get started he has plans in the future to uh do an upgrade on the intake and put a large ring tape on it and uh we've after doing some measurements and we realized that the intake that he's decided to go with is going to be about 12 inches high from this point here so it's about there so i'm going to make the hood roughly about this high so it gives it room to grow to be able to put a larger intake out now eventually i'm going to be cutting all this off the hood but for now i'm leaving it all there for the structural strength because one thing i've noticed in the past is when he starts cutting the back out of the hood everything starts to fall so my plan is here is to make the top of the scoop the size of scoop and get it all put together fitting together possibly get it welded together not sure if i'm gonna do it on or off to carry it and then i'm gonna remove it off the hood and then um i'm going to remove the center hood and then do the cutting board on the sides here i'm to take it in on these edges here because the strength there so it'll minimize warpage right and it'll be at an angle such as that coming up to the suit will be a bit more than that so first thing i do now is i've got to sit down now so i gotta figure out how wide i want the top strip because the top strip going right up over the hood is gonna be the same and it's gonna meet on windshield about here somewhere so i'm gonna go ahead out and draw up something to see what i come up with basically all i'm going to do here now is i'm just going to take some masking tape i just lay it out and just uh play around with it and see if i can see something that'll pick that i like the look of just to get some idea good reference point nicest thing about having the the old black paint on the hood because i got references to go by so i'm thinking uh i kind of like that i don't want the center of the hood to be too wide because i've noticed a lot of these here when you come up with them i know now that when i bring up this on this angle here i want scoop to come up to me here somewhere see so this will probably meet this here and scoop so you and i got the center line made out there now so i decided i'm going to go with the top section 80 18 inches wide this is one inch wide so what i'm going to do is i'm going to come over here uh nine half of 18 is nine and that's one inch so i gotta take a half inch off of one so i'm gonna come over here eight and a half inches here and eight and a half inches here hope that was confusing enough for you and that's 18 inches do the same on the back the tape all around eight inches of tape to the edge of the tape here uh that will be my width of the entire scope i'll just double check all the measurements now make sure that's all eight and a half up through there now through there and i'll mark it and i'll start cutting that section out the reason why i'm taking out the center is i want to use these two sections here as the sides of the scoop and i'm taking the full length of it the trick with these are you had to use an suv roof because it's a longer roof these bubble scoops as they call them they go into the windshield of the car so they cover the cowl and they're like 55 56 inches long so we needed a long enough roof and a regular carburetor wouldn't do it so we had to find an suv or something to start with so i'm going to go ahead now double up the measurements and uh i'm gonna start cutting that out mark in this edge like so because i'm going to use the tape as my guide when i stretch the cut and i found in the past that when the heat starts getting into the metal the tape will want to let go and at least have an america now i won't lose my line [Music] foreign [Music] so [Music] i went ahead now got the motor covered over with a fireproof blanket uh one thing that i know now is this point right here on the car we want we're gonna want about to have another two or three inches right here we've already figured it out and i got to put something along here now to get me up to that height so this will be the the highest point on the hood so that when he goes to put the other intake on us uh it'll uh it'll fit so i'm going to make up a little bridge there now something that the scoop can lay on and all fall down past that point all right it's just very simple piece of flat scrap steel i got kicking around uh i got it in my head i'm going to start with five inches at the highest point and i'm going to see what it looks like so all i'm going to do is add a couple inches on either end uh the hole in the hood is 12 inches wide so i'm going to add 12 inches and five and five and an inch on either side so that then i can click go down to the hood and that will give me a frame right so all i'm gonna do is just look back out very quickly and simple one inch and then measure off five inches and then we got six one two three four five six eighteen there we go five one two three four one two three four five and one inch oh it's exactly 24 inches what i'll do now is i'll just cut that off there and i'll bend up then little points there and that'll give me a height nothing fancy [Music] so so make sure bottom are the same left and right there's my little reference point my little jig if you want to call us make it an even 24. i know roughly about it's in this area here and it's got to be about four inches i'm going to raise it up quad to give us a lot of room so like i'm not being precise on this and it's just gonna fit just so just take that down there so there we go it's a reference point now when i go is to make the scoop up i can lay it on top of that deer and i know that i got room in here for the new intake and all i've done is i put tape on the uh front of the hood to center it off and i line it up with the top of my head there now and now i'm going to uh make sure that is square all back over the hood and uh i'm going to mount it up front first so that i always got a permanent point to put it back and then i'm going to start shortly shortening up the back and see where i'm going to go and it looks to me to be a bit high i got one clean coat put in the front corner so it is centered and i got to get it at 17 and 3 16 on this back holder edge which is right there so now we'll drill the other hole over here that way i always got a point to return to and i know that that center section is square on the hook now these bubble scoops they don't go straight back like a cowl hood these come back and they fall into about here and you have a crown edge on it i'm still thinking that i'm thinking that might be a bit high there for what we're doing with us it may be uh if i lower that down from there i gotta cut this back to here somewhere and it just falls more so i'm gonna have to do is figure out now i figured like this is falling here and i wanted to fall here or fall here i'm pretty sure i think that if i came straight up and i hit a little small but i'll get it because this is going to roll because of the roll of the hood so i'm going to do first now i'm just going to start creeping up on it i'm going to take a piece out of it here probably here somewhere just so i can get the downward roll on it and see where it falls because i figures if i cut this off here is going to want to come down here somewhere and we'll be getting close so i'm going gonna haul say six inches at the others the trick to always start with when you're doing this touchdown is to always have a square piece to start with and always take your measurements precisely off it because as you make things smaller if you just rough cut stuff it'll uh it'll throw everything right out of whack so i'm just gonna take off six inches here now and see where that falls for me so it's still a bit high it's one of those things you're gonna creep up on because you don't know where it's gonna want to fall it's starting to come down and that's still a bit high there i wanted to come down even more i only wanted to hear uh iphones when they're too high on the windshield they haven't got a nice pair of snow right so i'm after kinking that there and i'm going to get that after and what i'll end up doing then so i'm going to end up taking another i'd say i'll take another three inches out of it and i'll cut that three inches out and we'll see over here so here's what i come up with i went and turned around and lowered this bracket one inch lower down the hood i found the hood was too high up on this section right here and then of course that was the first piece i trimmed off and then i trimmed off three inches and then i didn't like that i trimmed off one inch so now i'm pretty happy with this back here the only thing i find is that when it comes up here it goes flat so what i'm going to do i'm going to raise it up a bit here because these are called a bobble hood for a reason when i put that in there i get a nicer flow going on the hood and i think i'm pretty pleased with that there the way that's going to look there going around us as you can see i got the dimensions of where i wants to go with the hood where i want it to meet on the windshield and what i'm going to do now is i'm going to start building these side pieces uh to go on the side of it but before i do that i'm going to make a brace in here similar this one here that'll hold the back up so then it'll all stay in its own place so i'm going to go ahead now i'm going to make that piece and then start sizing up the side panels i only got nine inches here and i got 10 up here on this end here so what i got in my head i got to cut five feet off of this piece so i'll come back past this here and cut all this off but i'm gonna follow this line here just so to keep it even so when it gets down here it gets a bit brighter and hopefully i'll be able to get enough out of it to do it but i'll go off five feet here and i'll just cut that section out and we'll do a test fit on that [Music] so all right there's our piece down the edge down there gonna follow the edges everything [Music] but the first thing i got to do is gotta get it fit back here on the windshield so i'm going to cut this on a bit of an angle again i'm just going to sneak up on it i got lots of excess up front so i'm just going to draw a diagonal line like that and just trim it and see how it fits i went ahead and trimmed off that corner edge just going to test fit in here all i'm doing is i'm laying it into this edge here the factory ledge on the hood and i'm going to put a couple of clay goes in there to hold it in place move back as far as i can so i got lots of uh wiggle room back here when it comes time to trim it i'm gonna have it like so and i'm gonna film that now in a couple of spots and see what it's like now that i got it mounted along that body line you come over here and you can see it less resting on the center section here and what i'm going to start doing here now is i'm going to start trimming up a little bit at a time here to get some of this out of the way i'm laying on this pin down here so i'm going to get that out of the way and let this lay down a bit more i got to do some work back here because there's a bit of a strain on it because the way the back of the hood wants to go but it's the style that i'm after i want that lay right down an angle like that to follow that line you can see here now the way this comes together like this so what i got to do now is i got to cut this back this way so this will roll into this section of the hood here but as you can see on the back side here everything seems to be fitting pretty good it's coming together as tight there because i haven't got that bottom straightened away along here is coming along pretty good it's getting there and you see the way it goes way up there but that's because the hood got a roll back but now you're getting an idea of where it's going okay i got it all trimmed up i went and went back and i went and tied it up and trimmed his back a little bit and clean them all up and you know fine tune a few things here and there get the salt fit nicer because all i'm doing right now is getting uh three pieces cut out of the design that i'm after because i got a good fit and a lot of windshield here because my plan is here i'm going to roll this last half inch on this panel and also on this panel here when it's all said and done but now that i got this side done what i'm going to do is i'm going to take this panel and i'm going to mount it on the other side backwards and see how it fits hopefully that is the same because then all i'm going to do is i'm going to duplicate this piece here over off of that section of the roof there and i have two sides of the the two sides made up and then i can start doing the rolled edge section all i'm going to do is remove this section here now i'm going to measure back from the back of the hood to where that first hole is to for the clay call it over there the measuring tape i'll just measure back it is an inch and seven eighths inch seven inch back i'll give you an idea where i want to put that hole so we'll come back inch and set an eighth to there okay so i have an idea where that goes and all i'm going to do now is i'm going to place that in place and drill the hole for the back one that way when it comes time to duplicate the other one all i got to do is just drill the same hole so i'll just lay that like so just drill that back hole then [Music] now we're going to set up i got it so the bottom of the metal is right on the edge so all i have to do is just go right along each edge and set it up as a knoll the hardest thing when it comes to sheet metal is the easiest thing in the world is to make one but if you've got to make two um you're going to get into it so that's why i'm not taking this too far that works nice there the trick is to not take it too far because if you go too far start shaping everything up onto one piece you're going to end up trying to run into problems i'm using flat panels here now i'm trying to duplicate them using the exact same holes and the locations try to make that side look like this side if you can duplicate each side you're miles ahead of the game so now i'm going to go ahead and i'm going to take this panel here now flip it upside down and go over to the old rough skin and cut out a panel the same as this one here just take your time with us [Music] so so there you have it going to remain the same right now the holes are the same locations so now i got a lift and a right to go on from so from here right in now i notice i got two panels of the same so now i'll start doing a rolled edge on i did a quick markup now to show you the three pieces i'm very pleased the way it's going so far the way everything's fitting together now the next step now that i got the three pieces made and i'm happy with everything being centered and the height and all that next thing i got to do now is work on joining these two panels together but what i want to do i want to roll this edge and roll this edge i don't want to square an edge on this here so i'm going to roll this one here and roll this one here and let them overlap a small bit so that way there's a little rolled edge all the way around the whole panel and it also adds strength when it comes to welding it up because this is thin metal so i'm hoping i don't get too much warpage on it but we'll see so now next thing to do is to set it up now to roll these edges all i'm going to do now is give myself an edge allowing here to roll from so now i got it marked off i'm going to try to keep my roll below on this side of the black marker so not to get too far into that there and all i'm going to use is my uh t dolly and the hammer i'm just going to lay that there like that and just roll that edge just a bit at a time all the way along all it is i clamped it down give myself a bit of support and all i'm going to do now is just go along the edge of it here and holding my thumb against it so i got something to go off and just slowly start keeping below that black mark [Music] you see me tapping on us what i'm trying to do is i'm trying to get this inner edge here this one right here i try to make sure that's nice and straight because if you roll this over too far this edge will want to come in more so you try to keep it half straight it's hard to see there you can see me going right along the edge you can see the rolled edge with the lip on it so this is a consistent roll because if you rolls the edge too much you'll move this in it'll throw everything off right so you just keep checking with it and just go right along the entire thing you see it better there there you go see where the rolled edge is nice and straight going down through there hey [Music] [Music] so now i got the both sides of these sanded and ready to go and put this all back together what i'm going to do i'm going to put a reference line right down this edge because when i overlaps i'm not going to know where my edges to so i'll move my reference reference line in 3 8 of an inch or so just like this here and use a marker one of my finger longer so when i start adding the side piece on i'll have something that a guy to go by to let me know where i'm too i'll do fancy as long as i can see it one of them on both sides so [Music] i taped it on the windshield because they found that there's a slide from side to side so an epic step so talked about this reference line this is what i'm talking about you can see this edge here i got this line to go from i can push that in and out there so my plan is now is to keep the same distance right along where i'm putting this as i'm welding it on so i make sure that the distance from here to here is always the same on both sides so i got something to go about because if you never had a line or anything you'd be pushing it up here and then you'd have it pulled out down here and you wouldn't have it this would be like this going all the way along so what i'm going to do next now uh this is ready to weld together what i'm going to do is i'm going to weld it here in the middle on both sides i'm going to work out from both sides at the same time i'm not going to weld one full side and do the other because when i does that something's going to happen over here it's going to fall off and i'm just going to work my way back and forth i got an engine blanket over where i got a wire blanket over the engine so that's all covered up not worried about this windshield it's all busted over there we got to put another windshield in this so we're going to replace that enemy so i'm not concerned about it so but if you got a good windshield of course you're going to have to cover it over so all i'm going to do now is going to go in here and start setting this off and start welding together so so much of this here going over to that side and go moving back and forth until i get this whole section welded together back here up here is a lot of twisting involved so i want to have strength in the middle before i start twisting the back and the [Music] front [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] let's see what happens now i'm gonna let you go is it gonna flop or is it gonna hold the shape i want to take it off then i'm going to dolly up everything before i start cutting them [Music] that's not bad so you just lay down be gentle be gentle be gentle that's not half bad i'll probably show you what i'm talking about here now when you look up across that there you can see that this here rolls in i want to flatten off this here it's a bit more and i got a spot up here i'm going to work with where's that right here that's a bit low there i got to clean that up but over on this side here looks pretty good all the way down just got to flatten this one off i need you to show you with a roller [Music] right when you lay that across here like that you can actually see how much is opposing so i'm going to dolly that so it comes half flat there before i start cutting a button but i'm very pleased with it's holding the shape good all i'm going to do now is go down with a dolly and just slightly hammer all this airplay so i get the nice i'm working way longer one thing about the newer metals uh it doesn't take much to move gentle blows you don't need to uh [Music] as long as i'm hitting that there all that is going on it's going where i want it to place there now just subtle taps a lot of people will try to make these scoops like make steel scoops on the vehicle and like cut the center out of the hood and raise it up but that geometry throws that off because when you bring a scoop off it goes back on the back so that it has no strip across the back uh i prefer to make the scoop like this here have someone take it off the car if i run in any issues with this here i can repair it now as you can tell i can do this now the last thing is going to be welded on is going along here and along the front of the bottom that's the easy part in my mind it's getting this hair set up right and getting all this hair well having this half smooth and this has smooth without getting too much walking dinner but uh i'm pleased with the software just something to keep in mind is better building off the car than the design car okay i've had this off now a few times um just basically uh fitness getting everything to fit nicer and letting go a couple spot welds back here because this wasn't sitting where i liked it to be and stuff like that so now i'm ready to start uh cutting and button this down so i'm gonna start on the back side here and start working my way forward and start cutting and button on both sides um you would think you could probably do this off the car take it off and lay down the bench but the problem with this when you start when you take this off everything relaxes and you start to weld this this is not going to want to go or i'm going to leave it on the car to do this so that nothing moves from where it's supposed to be before i welds on the car i'll take it off to grind it and whatnot but for welding purposes i'm going to leave it on the car [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] now i got all cut emboss all the way up along there as well as the other side now what i got to do now is some of this is still not where i like to hit for it to be so i want to value that all but what i'm going to do first is i'm going to knock the head off each one of these here so when i do turn it upside down and start dollying it this here is not going to interfere with my dolly so i'm going to grind all these here flush now and uh on both sides so i can do the dolly work off it [Music] here it is off there's a lot today okay i got it all dollied up and i'm after grinding in here for one particular reason these panels are very thin it's on a high end i know for a fact if i start welding and grinding this on the outside flush i'm going to run in the issue so i'm going to do something a little bit different than this one here is what i'm going to do i'm going to do my first welds all on the inside i want to leave the weld in here i don't want to have too much work on the outside of it i notice i'm going to have to fill it right but if i weld it on the outside and then grind it all off i know for a fact i'm going to be grinding this stuff really thin and it's just going to make it weak what i'm going to do is i'm going to weld it in here i'm going to just knock the head off and i'm not going to take too much of the welding off so there's lots of strength weird weldings too and all i'm gonna do is dress the outside of it and any spots that i think there's like gaps or anything like that i'll just weld them in and from the top side and grind them down but i'll have the strength on the bottom side um they're trying to finish this like i finished the uh the earlier metal the 20 gauge metal it's a bit trickier because it's so thin won't take much a bit of heat and it burns through so i'm going to go ahead same as before i'm going to spot well every inch and then come back cool it off come back and then spot well next to every other inch and just do that as i'm going being very very careful with this slight stuff so i don't warp it up so let's see how i make out here now [Music] [Music] [Music] this is basically what you're seeing you see the reflection going back through it it doesn't look like this uh very much warpy gentler down the sides [Music] this is what i got down here you can see what i got the way i got this welded up here i never welded it and running you we can come back here we want to and we can re-weld all this and finish it but this is like 24 gauge metal and i'm thinking that if i go fooling around with any of this i'm going to end up warping all this or when i go to grind it off i'm going to grind it out to sour edge or this part here too thin i'm going to leave this just like it is up along here and it's it's got a nice finish to it there now and like a little skin of fiberglass over that and filler perfect now that i got everything figured out what i got to do is if you notice that the the scoop was laying on the panel here i got to have this so this raises up off this so it's not actually touching it so what i got done here now i got a mark on both sides what i got to do now is i got a little frame inside of this here to support this and support this down here so what i went and did i need to what i'm going to do i'm going to mount this to the bench the scoop but i got to push it apart this far and set this up like this because when you let's just go everything goes in so i marked it here and i'm acting on the other side as well so then i got reference points here and here which i'm going to mark with america so then i can go up over on the bench and mount it to the bench over here you can see that these lines here i measure from here over to there and i got uh it's 32 and a quarter inches so all i did is i come over on the bench and i marked on the bench right here and come over and reacted over here at 32 and a quarter inches and had that line is where the edges to i welded it onto the bench steer and i welded it under the bench there now i got the back end of it all secure the vacuum and i'm gonna have to build something in here now to support that across the back here's what i got done i took a scrap piece of metal which was another project i had before remember the door about them check out the video on that one anyway i used um reusing that now i got it uh caught marked out cut like this here so shaped like the back end of this here and i'm going to cut the piece out of it and my plan is i'm going to put a a bottom in it and a top section on to give a strength and then i'm going to put a few holes in this hair so i'm going to go cut that out now and start test fitness i got that all trimmed out and test fitted and uh it fits up there pretty good and everything and now i'm going to find a way to mount this upper and all i went and did is i went through my scrap pile and i had to strip strip of metal here and i throw something out and that's been over there stood up in the corner for i'd say six months and so i cleaned the paint out of that all i'm going to do here now [Music] is i'm going to mount that like so on that edge there and then rotate that all the way around there so there's an outer structure on it as you can see it's all done every few inches i went and spot welded it on still haven't cut it off but you can see now i got a decent strong little structure going on here all right i have it clamped in place now over here and over here you can see the way unless it fits up along the top here top edge and the bench is right here so what i got to do is going to trim this back a bit along here now so i can put a flange along here my idea the more i think about this i like to have it so that this section here rests on the cowl and i'll trim it off on an angle here just to give the illusion that it's sitting over here and it's up off the cowl but leave this section here alone and have it so that there's a brace going across here much the same way as i've done up here that rests on the cowl so i'm going to trim that up and i'm going to make a piece to go across here now clean up another strip head down the corner i got the brace i got to cut it off on the corners here and round it out on the edge of it and all i'm gonna do is lay it on top of that now and center it off and weld that right to that plate there now you can see i got to put up place there it's just going to rest on the uh the hood here so now i want to do i'm going to put some holes in this now just to dress it up a bit and make it look nicer you hold this out here you can see what i got here going on there's only 22 gauge metal that's got an edge put on us and it's nice and solid you can't bend it or twist it or anything like that so like you know the strength comes in the structure not so much in the material you use right you make things strong with light metal if you just put it together right so every time you make an i-beam out of anything you uh you bring strength to it you ever have trouble trying to figure out centers here's a little thing i've been doing for years and it's just something simple is i got a regular measuring tape i got four inches there i got eight inches over here right there and on the other side i put four sixteenths or five sixteenths five sixteenths and five sixteenths to the four five sixteenths to the eighth six is in the middle all i've done is i marked the center out and that will be the first hole you can use a hole saw for this uh i have hole hole punch tools here so i'm gonna use them and then all it is i just uh played around with it till i thought i found where the centers would be and i just marked off three and a half inches to that hole and then three and a half inches to that hole and same one over on the other side that way all of them are evenly spaced apart so now let's drill them out [Applause] [Music] do i've never seen one of these before it's a for punching holes i picked this up a number of years ago with a yard sale and uh they're great for doing gauges and cars and whatnot but there's just a simple setup it just goes together like that and when and the two metal switches throw and it cuts it off i'll show you know all of those like clamps in the voice there's a whole drill in that drops it down at all and holds me tight which is good there we go you can use the drill with a hole saw i just find you get these cleaner the hole saw as the tendency to bounce around a bit the hole is not precise in the middle listen for the crack one two here we go so there you have a nice little hole now i haven't got a dimple die so gotta make my own i got a piece of pipe here i have the thing i cut the hole with i have top off a tank and i got a bit of tape all i'm gonna do is gonna i gotta find my center so i can eyeball it nothing fancy so all i do is i just take this down i'll lay this over this like so and center it up so it looks centered again i'm only winging it you can be really fancy with this stuff when it comes down to it it really doesn't matter overthink it too now i got that all i'm gonna do now is i'm gonna take this here and lay that on top of that there line up them black marks like so take my round ball thing lay it on top of that take my big persuader a couple of taps here you have a dimple die here's where i'm too i got the brace made up it's all working and i came over here and figured out where i wanted it to go sitting roughly about there on the cowl section and i noticed that it's back roughly about two inches back from this here now i had to lower the center of the cowl down because the back of the hood on these is not flat as you can see it's sort of around so what was all open back here all i want to do is to rest here and then rest over there so i just lowered the section here a little bit so then come over here this is what i got done over here i took the measuring tape then i marked where that edge of that place was to the edge of the cowl and i'm marked up here and i measured back two inches and i marked this right now i fit the panel in place like so and that's where that's going to go like that roughly now what the thing with this is i don't want to go welding this on too much i'm going to weld it right here where it's been welded to before i'm going to weld it on this end here and weld it on this end here i'm not going to weld it nowhere in here or nowhere in here i'm going to do is i'm going to take some seam sealer now put three little blobs there and a little blob there and then push it into it clamp it place and then weld it in a few small spots there where is structurally strong around the end where's out there and then between the seam sealer holding it and the and the welds here it should be solid in place and it'll keep it from rattling up against this hair so this helps add strength makes it more rigid all you ever done from the factory push that down into that wiring up on my lines so i have don't worry about squishing out there that here [Music] there it is well in place i welded it here and here on both sides and up on this end here and up on this end here and the uh the black uh urethane now i'll hold all this in place here and it'll give strength to the rest of it as well i didn't want to get in well in this here because it will warp all this up in amongst all this here and same with out here on the sides you got to watch doing this like where i've already welded it here and here the the strength there so i said i'll run a bead there and be there and more or less the hood is going to be held on with that i went ahead and reinstalled it what i'm going to work on now is i'm going to work on getting this hair fitting nicer and along the windshield here you got the windshield i'll bite out of it all together now we removed that yesterday i just got a laid in place turned out until it gets this style done and put to the windshield so what i'm going to do first is i'm going to concentrate on these side sections here i'm going to raise them up and then have this saw just barely uh there's a clearance there so when it comes time to paint the car uh this here won't be rubbing all the time so i'm going to take this off now put a roll lip on both sides here i'm going to mark it first and cut it so i'll get a nice straight edge on it and do the same on the other side i got it marked here this is the gap between the hood and the cowl but i'm going to end it where the hood was to i have it marked on both sides i'm going to cut up there probably a quarter of an inch or so and we're going to take this lower section here i'm going to fold it over and put a nice so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so as you can see i got the two lips spent over here now and uh you know i just use basic stuff i laid this piece of angle on across the front of the bench uh because the edge of my bench is pretty rough with grinder marks numbering and i just wanted a sharp edge to hammer down and just i won't be beaten into the dents like if you had a wooden bench this is all you need is to clamp that onto the wooden bench and then a scrap piece of angle iron old ruler reason why i do the ruler thing is because uh trying to get it rolled over onto onto itself sometimes you'll end up damaging the outer edge of it so you use this ruler to protect the outer edge and you hammer it into here to bring it down then once it gets it rolled over just turn around and flatten it out but uh that's basically another test fit just now see was like as you can see now uh the gap is here it's a little bit tighter there i'll work that now when it gets to the the back end of it straight in the way here uh i may have to change the angle it's a small bit more again but i can do that after the fact because uh i got to get more strength into it in order to get this to work right i may have to cut grind over well this corner and it'd be a lot of strength in it then when i can grind up i can't do it right now but what i'm doing next now is this rolled edge there's the windshield i'm touching the windshield there it's hard to see all right so i'm going to cut off this lip here i'm going to do the same thing i'm going to roll that right around just have it so that there's a gap i can pretty much roll my finger right down around through the windshield all the way around i gotta trim off a little tiny bit there you can see that because she's touching in the middle there but when i rolls this edge is going to bring it back to here which would be lots of clearance on the glass so i'm going to trim that up and roll the images now went ahead cut off the images along here all the way along i cut the corners out of it uh it's kind of hard to roll a corner on an edge this roll like this here i'll make them after and same with down this corner here where i roll the slip in underneath i had to remove the lip on the inside here so i can roll this in underneath it so i'll trim this back a little tiny bit more should be caught on an angle and the inside one as well and so now what i'm going to do is i'm going to go ahead and start rolling these edges so do [Music] there you have roll it all the way along i can get the fingering along that edge there and along that edge there it's been pretty good now this corner i'm not happy with it as you can see here there's a a gap here and then it fades away so i'm going to have to cut this and re-weld it i went ahead and i cleaned up this lip and you can see the the roll lip that i had here and over here i end up having to cut it off i chopped it off here because it faded out this originally went up this way so now i got it all cleaned up so i got to do another make a little lip going along here to give it strength plus also down here i got to in this spot here and this spot here right and i gotta do the same thing over here so i'm gonna go ahead now and just make a little lip i'll show you how to make that there now to go on that here scrap piece steel play it on the back side of it move down a bit make sure you're over here lots access there just trace it out now oh my god tony what are you doing all right so that goes down this way never mind it up there so this is the shape that it's got to be on the outside edge now i want the lip to go on the inside if you cut this here it will be it won't be right because of the lid so all i'm going to do now is i'm going to make my lip down here come in parallel to that again i'm never fussy with it i can be real fancy with this and now and i'll just cut along that line there and that'll fit in there all i'm going to do is i'm going to wrap that there all right that there put that over the top of it i'm happy with it and then i'll mark that there and i'll mark that there now we're happy that whereas two i'm going to go ahead and we'll put them on oh there is a tackle bit on there there and there so now that i got the piece in place i got a nice little nipple on edge i'm gonna flip it all over and out and trim it off [Music] [Music] then kind of propped up on a standard now so you can see it better but you can see there's the inside lip and the edge there all i'm going to do now is i'm just going to weld that entire edge hurdle on there take my time weld it and i'll grind and dress it then after the fact okay got the lips all done newly put all the way i'm welding down there coming along here got them done coming along here i'm done and up here i got them done all i did is i just welded the lip on the lipped edge and i just grinded it down and smoothed it off and dressed it up so now it actually looks like the lip goes right on around us but that is actually a welded arm piece right on both sides right along here so now i got that done i'm getting close to the point now where i'm finished what i'm going to do with that i'm going to start uh prepping it to weld it on so let's do one last test fit that's a nice fit there now going along there it's not touching it it's up above us like the edge coming off here i'm going to weld that solid iron along there and i got nice clearance here going off here and up along the windshield here and across top over here now i'm going to show you even better i had a dolly some some stuff so you can slide down and eat that there see that's not touching that of course it's up along here gap a lot of windshield around there so i'm happy with that now so that's basically where it's going to sit every time it's mounted on the car so now what i got to do is i got to uh weld it on to the hood but the first thing i got to do now is i got to take this off i got to scribe the mark and i got to remove so much to this inner structure here's what we got going on here i got the frame over here that comes out to about right here underneath i'll show you in a minute uh i'm just going to cut it off here and i'm going to weld this to this i'm not going cutting and butting every bit of this hood you're going to run into major issues cutting and butting a hood uh because it's such a long flat panel up front here i'll cut them bot i'll cotton butt back to here i'll cut this along here and what i'm going to do is a frame an inner frame i'll show you now and i'm going to weld to the frame here leave this here and then i'll do is i'll seam seal this edge here for strength all right so here's what i have as you can see there's a frame going right along up along the front here and along here i want to leave that there all the way around i'm going to cut everything right tight to it all the way along here and i'm going to plug weld this from the top side to give it strength all the way around so then that's done and i'm not going to remove nothing from here but up here in front i'll remove everything out of there i don't want any debris getting in there it would be an issue and of course back here i'm going to leave this frame in here and cut all this out some people would want to remove this frame and cut all that out and butt weld it all i can tell you now you're going to run into a nightmare it is a steel hood welding the center of hoods is much the same as welding roofs it is a tricky thing to do with all the reinforcement and everything is here now it's going to make it easier to weld together here's what i got done i got the outer roof skin caught right off back to this brace goes right along the inside structure this is where the top looks got it all cleaned off everything underneath scoop and where it's going to be welded to i'll be welding the scoop along here and i'm going to be leaving this and what i'm going to do is get from the inside then i'm going to seam seal this edge here so no moisture gets down between the two panels all the way along up along here now up here in the front what i got done is i'm going to be cutting this embodding and cutting at the front of it because i don't want no moisture trapped up here i just want this left open and the way it was so i cut this back here as you can see back into the line here and here in the middle i cut it back past the line so that when i cross this piece out it's easier to get this piece out and try to make two of them out of the one right big two of them out uh also what i'm doing here now is like i have holes drilled spot wheel holes drilled i'm going to actually weld the hood skin right to the frame underneath it to give it some rigidity make it stronger because uh with that scoop on it now where it's a peanut hood is always going to be wanting to do this so the stronger i could make it better it is so when you weld the outer skin to the inner frame it all becomes one economy stiffens it up a bit trick to it is i would not be doing this like it is here laid out on this sawhorse weld these on the best place to do them is on the car all right i got all them spot welded up grind it off all dressed up ready to go so all that there now is one piece went down in the inner structure so now i'm going to uh i got the scoop all cleaned up so now i'm going to mount the scoop on her now and get it mounted back onto clecos and then start spot welding it around so i got it all tacked on that's where she's going to live all the way around across the front here now on the cotton about that rough sides i'm just going to weld it on into the corner looks good along across the windshield across the cowl don't look half bad here won't need a lot of uh body work done to us the uh looking down across it a lot of warpage considering it's so light such slight metal you stand back and get the profile of us have to care across here as well the base of windshield and then just a bit of view from the cockpit so now all is left is to uh weld it on solid i'm gonna go ahead and do that now and get that part done here's a closer look at the the weight or spot welded together there's two spot welds there there's two there first i made a pass all the way down with one and now i'm back again now putting the second spot weld on so i'm just going along like that eventually i'll just come back and put another one there until everything's filled up all the way along slow process i'm cooling it between each row of welds because front i'm going to weld this side and the other side and i'm going to come back and then i'm going to cut and bolt the front here okay got all that gear welded up on both sides go on there what i'm going to do now is i'm going to finish this off here done so all i gotta do is worry about this front section here so i'm gonna go ahead now i'm gonna grind all this up and get it look presentable looking on both sides all right i got this here all grinded up gonna do some touch-up stirring on it's pretty good there now and i got the front up here all uh caught and bought but i haven't got to finish welding yet i went and had to take the hood off and removed the two sections from the front of it i think that's where that went like that see right there and the other piece went down so what i'm going to do now is i'm going to finish welding all this up and grind that up and i got this side grinded up i'm just going to dress it up then and see what it looks like there you have it got it all welded up got it all grounded up i'll finish it up there now i didn't want to go this video is getting really long here now so you've seen this cotton bot many times now and i gotta weld it all on there i'm not doing much else with this so there it is all done and as you can see i never done no primer no filler work or nothing on this reason for that is uh this is a car that young jordan's putting together and our racing season opened up early so we've been thrashing at this now for two weeks or whatever trying to get it ready we've already already had it at the track once got a few runs and still working the bugs out of it but uh we decided to have been fun with it and just leave it all right get all the metal work all the rockers done on us i was gonna do videos on them but they got too short of the uh a timeline so i'm sorry about that because i told a few that i was going to do this quarter section over here video on if you remember that was all gone there's a gas tank door and of course up here when i've done the the dump there was that rocker panel i end up putting a complete rocker on it again and lower quarter section around the wheel lips but uh we're pressed for time we got it out got it done so we're just gonna leave it like it is for now for the year and with any luck we're going to uh get it uh all cleaned up and painted for next season uh we towed with a tow bar they're not the wheels he got another set of super lights for slicks for the back of us we hold this for the tow bar so anyway hope you enjoyed this one hope the tips were good and until next time wow never saw anybody working to carry around with dinners before gotta get her all cleaned up for a weekend get around ready jordan got me put to work cleaning up the disgusting you

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Published: Sun Sep 13 2020