custom metal boser in 3 days... 56k no go zone.
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custom metal boser in 3 days... 56k no go zone.
Emergency custom fabrication
Well, you've gotta love emergency fabrication sessions
Anyway, to make a long story short, my Carbon Fiber hood flew off and shattered last tuesday, my car was required by my sponsors to be at their booth that next weekend for H2o.,,,, What to do, what to do...
Well, What I did was called up my buddy at DTR racing and we Fabbed up and painted a custom metal boser hood in a matter of 3 days. Now thats 3 days STRAIGHT neither of us slept for more than a 3-4 hours that entire time. I have nothing but praise for Mike @ DTR after this enormous effort and we managed to get the car to h2o and in Unitronics booth looking better than ever!
Here are some pics of the process.
In the dealership parking lot after the hood blew up on i-95
Hood was replaced in the parking lot
Fabrication starts
Some grinding
Some more welding
Some more grinding
Now the fun stuff, icing applied
Some sanding
More icing
Basic shapes done, mean as hell with the lights on
Cruising to the paint shop
Prepping for paint
Primer being applied
Test fit
Prep for primer on top surface
Primed and now being sanded AGAIN
finally base color coat applied and now being taped up for center color
Final product pre-wet sanding
Finished hood pre-wetsanding on the car
And the car with the new bumper and hood fitted and almost ready for show.
Well, you've gotta love emergency fabrication sessions
Anyway, to make a long story short, my Carbon Fiber hood flew off and shattered last tuesday, my car was required by my sponsors to be at their booth that next weekend for H2o.,,,, What to do, what to do...Well, What I did was called up my buddy at DTR racing and we Fabbed up and painted a custom metal boser hood in a matter of 3 days. Now thats 3 days STRAIGHT neither of us slept for more than a 3-4 hours that entire time. I have nothing but praise for Mike @ DTR after this enormous effort and we managed to get the car to h2o and in Unitronics booth looking better than ever!
Here are some pics of the process.
In the dealership parking lot after the hood blew up on i-95
Hood was replaced in the parking lot
Fabrication starts
Some grinding
Some more welding
Some more grinding
Now the fun stuff, icing applied
Some sanding
More icing
Basic shapes done, mean as hell with the lights on
Cruising to the paint shop
Prepping for paint
Primer being applied
Test fit
Prep for primer on top surface
Primed and now being sanded AGAIN
finally base color coat applied and now being taped up for center color
Final product pre-wet sanding
Finished hood pre-wetsanding on the car
And the car with the new bumper and hood fitted and almost ready for show.
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Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 3,398
From: Lancaster pa
RE: custom metal boser in 3 days... 56k no go zone.
looks great.. best 3 days job ever, guess you werent running hood pins eh ?
atleast the old hood didnt shatter the windshield and mangle the roof.. you would have been s.o.l
atleast the old hood didnt shatter the windshield and mangle the roof.. you would have been s.o.l
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RE: custom metal boser in 3 days... 56k no go zone.
there was a small stress fracture in the rad support from the side impact of an accident a few weeks earlier. It ended up that the rad support material around the hood latch gave and the latch along with the section of rad support holding it in were ripped out...
Yeah, it damaged the roof and rear pillar when it shattered, we fixed that in the 3 day period as well as the initial accident damage on the front fender and drivers door... Was a busy few days.
Black roof as well as ALOT of other goodies on the way.. just ran out of time before the show so this is what we ended up with at that point.
Yeah, it damaged the roof and rear pillar when it shattered, we fixed that in the 3 day period as well as the initial accident damage on the front fender and drivers door
... Was a busy few days.Black roof as well as ALOT of other goodies on the way.. just ran out of time before the show so this is what we ended up with at that point.