Tom's long hood conversion

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You need a JDSquared tube bender. I used one on my test cell headers and it was super. The manual bender and a digital level you can make anythin...

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Tom Perazzo is a contributor to this sight. Since the lock down is now lifting and we all still have nothing to do. I thought I would share Tom' s fabrication...

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Jim

Block sand the crap out of the primer, inspect it from every angle. The 22 line goes on pretty thick, but flashes out well. Has a decent...

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I have shot a couple coupes with 22 line in the last year. A gallon is enough, I had about 1/2 pint left to make touch up kits with.

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wedcome, where are you located? that looks like Garrett Goldsmiths old car.

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Roy

welding with jigs and fixtures keeps the tolerance. Actually that part was pretty stright forward. Winding the coils has been a task....

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This is a T-6 but they are the same. This is unmolested original. The rubber is glued to the door frame, be sure the paint system is in good shape, I...

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Thanks Phil,

It's not not too hard to understand. The hexagon and coils will have a fixed pivot on Far side and have a Load cell on this...

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Ran out of wire.. Awaiting parts. Story of my life. Got the rotors cleaned and coated, I now have "RRR" Ruby Red Rotors. Alignment and clearances...

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Started winding coils, such joy, probably should have contracted this out to a motor shop. Anyway the math worked the coils came out the right size and...

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Got the octagon welded up today, worked well came out within .004.




After that we checked the clearances for the rotors,...

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Phil made a better tool, it's about 7 pages back in the restoration tools....

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Wednesday update. Wound the first coil 1.2 ohms about a pound of 18 AWG wire. Coil works as expected. Did a design change to the load. The original concept...