Make A Hot Rod Grille For $30

today I'm gonna turn this into this [Music] [Music] hey welcome back to score rod Steve here I'm going to take a little break from the structural stuff I've been doing on the 36 grip and as you can probably tell by the intro video I'm going to make the the rad the radiator grill so I've taken some time and I've tain it up as you can see I now have actual clean workspace and even the one over here of clean forgiveness the rest of the garage is still a disaster so yeah yeah I'll show you I'll show you the parts I'm going to be using and my vision of how this radical is going to work so this is the rad shell you'll find on a 36 I'm not sure if it's the same on the sedan it's definitely not the same that you would find on a 56 Chevy truck have noticed that it's in pretty good condition of a bland the inside at the bottom there which I'll need to just cut that garbage away and just you know weld on a little bit actually you know I'll just cut out away and make it smooth I'm not going to need that anyway so no it did find a brace that must have cut off when I was dismantling stuff which is pretty handy so this set some the inside there because remember the fenders mount to those holes there which is also part of death so that will people all all reg it and stop any flights between the fenders so that needs a bit of a cleanup novela Mir this is where your headlights attach so instead of coming like on a bar coming up and sitting there the whole amount to the side like that no as you can see Yates don't let me just just I saw that coming okay so as you can see the prey high which is fine and for either specific okay because they wanted them quite high so that you could see the road ahead but you know we don't care a bit things like safety these days so my plan is to move these brackets down maybe 2 inches I'm not sure for good offer maybe an inch and a half so instead of setting there the lights will set a bit there and I'll just get a kind of sleeker look ok so before after will see that bracket the year a or mating bracket whether it's cold that's fine this one however is it's broken someone has tried to glue it together I don't know if they've used GB weld or whatever you obviously can't weld this stuff I would like that a bit stronger than just glue so I'll look into fixing that so for now I'll take them off and I'm not going to bother too much a bit clean and all that out to snow because all the work is going to be on the inside I'll show you in a sec so this is what the inside looks like these are your big gay brackets for that s only the headlight brackets the insides so mmm mate I don't think I can really relocate that section because it's welded on so maybe just have to make a new section on it so I will probably just make this really just a squid wait to stuff in that section up move it down the 2 inches that's what to say Don SEMA not say no the grille itself I'm going to make a continual piece that goes all the way around there all the way down there back up and joins them so that will be one section that goes all the way around and then all the Potters on tool sorry all the vertical strips will wailed onto that it shouldn't be too difficult to be honest I'm not going for a rare a total reproduction here I just want a semi-decent looking girl now I'm gonna use quarter-inch steel rod that stuff was surprisingly cheap each 10-foot section was $2.00 they have only quite a lot because what I'm going to do I'm going to put a section in the middle and then I'm going to use another sation as a spacer and then weld another section down another section as a spacer next one down so it will be quarter inch rod quarter inch rod quarter inch rod all the way around so of what they are needed by 18 seconds parasite that is the plan let's clean up this and then make the the beg a mounting oval thingy my assistant has arrived will be here you can with the help to please I have no removed the obstacles no have noticed there's little lay tabs all the way I don't that have been Tabak the beef on oh yeah so we'll sit in I was sitting that carved their model around there isn't one at the bottom unfortunately so now how about secured a tender these tabs for no I don't imagine they're going to appreciate being bent back and forward many more times and their lives so probably have to make well all they're secured in brackets so we need that many maybe to each side one at the top one at the bottom should be fine to hold it right let's start bending some right so the first thing I need to do is take some measurements of the circumference this roughly I can always cut it down there to wanted to show [Music] okay let's try 40 for the entries [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay looks like these are fairly symmetrical right and obviously these well well together roughly like that so I will clamp these into the shell temporarily take that the tagged out there and I'll probably add another a angle in there of the rod just to keep it all nice and square you now that's a hard part done so that is the top if you can see the shape there so next time I'm going to do well the rod in the middle roughly there I'm not roughly exactly exactly there you want some happy that that's all square I will then make an angled section it was in to do to join all that together and then start doing all the vertical rods Fontaine's [Music] hey have we stage just the other have to go and then I will be grinding around the whole circumference make it smooth [Music] right so now just need to chop off all to be extra bets are all the way right and then they grind I sort of carve [Music] we go rough-and-ready supposed to be better see fit fence I'm not gonna do this with one hand so I'm just gonna hopefully insert it into the Horsell and clump up on see if it fits back in a sec not too bad it's a little bit of massaging at the bottom of the gaps you know fairly straight let's see how it looks in the car shall we now we'll do nicely not too shabby right that's all you get for today we're pretty much all locked in so I will be working on this thing every day is something cool happening tomorrow pick it up and you toy excited anyway thanks for watching and if you haven't subscribed yet I'm very disappointed in you so hit that subscribe it costs nothing thanks see you next time tomorrow bye [Music]

Channel: Scott Rods

Views: 2,893

Rating: 4.9733334 out of 5

Keywords: 1936 Chevy Coupe, Master deluxe, chevrolet, sbc 350, hot rod, coupe, Trunk lid strut, support, gas struts, hot rod grill, rat rod grill, hot rod grille, rat rod grille, diy grille, rad grille, radiator grille, grille, grill

Id: 5jEpys7ygaQ

Length: 20min 45sec (1245 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 22 2020