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One of my former classmates from high school caught up with me a few months back, and had some work he wanted done on a hood for his Tubbed V8 Plymouth Arrow. Still has the same car from HS almost 4 decades later.. He said he wanted a more professional job over what was done back then..
He had bought an NOS hood for it some years back, so at least he has something solid to work with.. He said the metal flopped a bit around the opening he cut, so I thought we'd add a wire edge around the opening and make some new bracing on the underside while we were at it. Here's the phenolic dies made for the Lennox to form the new bracing..
Here's a test sample run...
...and a test fit
Next, the bracing we wanted to install needed to go around the bigass hole, and some of the existing brace needed removing.
Our new brace designed to go around the hole... cut in the flat and run through our dies..
And here's about where it will sit....
He had bought an NOS hood for it some years back, so at least he has something solid to work with.. He said the metal flopped a bit around the opening he cut, so I thought we'd add a wire edge around the opening and make some new bracing on the underside while we were at it. Here's the phenolic dies made for the Lennox to form the new bracing..
Here's a test sample run...
...and a test fit
Next, the bracing we wanted to install needed to go around the bigass hole, and some of the existing brace needed removing.
Our new brace designed to go around the hole... cut in the flat and run through our dies..
And here's about where it will sit....