Fabricating a Custom Aluminum Car Body | Boat-tail Speedster Pt.24
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- In this video I show the process of roughing out the aluminum panels for the hood and cowl of my homemade speedster. The next step is to build a sub-frame to replace the wooden buck and weld the panels together. Total hours for this build now total 729
You are one special young man, the world needs a lot more of your kind
This is some great work, I like it a lot!
I am building a CBR600 buggy, check it out on my channel
I would love to do something like this, unfortunately it's not legal in my country :(
Elias Van Loon Building a car is illegal?
@@syrapianrule407 in most places yes, unless you are official manufacturer, building a road car from ground up is illegal or you can make them, but not drive on public roads. That's why many people in europe for example build cars on beetle frames, as that is still legal somehow.
There’s more of us out here, the issue is most of us lay low because all the old men think they know everything and try to correct us and badger us. I build custom Harley Davidsons (cafe racers and scramblers) and I often hear a lot of shit from the old men.
FANTASTIC education of the use of the English wheel.
I am 72 and you are teaching me a lot.
We have 26 pre-1950 cars in our small museum. ½ of which need bodywork.
I have subscribed to a dozen of the best channels of bodywork. Yours is right up at the top.
Thank you for your time & efforts.
G'day from West Australia,
38yr career this end.
Glad to see a young fellow,
Doing what I got taught by some of my Father's old coach building buddy's.
As an old school guy happily tack my hat off to you. Well done so far😉🙂👍👍
Another west aussie
I'm in esperance
@@fowletm1992 nice my Mum was born in Pemberton 12 miles down the track and 6 miles off the track as mum's always saying. Born 1931in a house my grandfather built with his 2 hands from scratch.
LMAO like you needed to know that😉🙂☺😀😁😂👍👍
West swan 6055
@@steveveness3829 I have been a metal man for 52 years born and live in Bridgetown .
@@jeffbaker655 🙂 Australia as a whole doesn't have a great number of old school guy's left.
Nice to know one is only a couple of hours drive away. 😉🙂👍👍
Perhaps one day I can say g'day in person, nice place Bridgetown, lots of history as one of the early shipping ports to name but one piece of history.
I’ve been watching your progress for a while now and I have to say that there is still some hope in this world with brilliant people like you that are not afraid to jump in there and do it. I am gobsmacked and can’t wait to see more.
I once was a body man and if I ever had a body shop you sir would have a top dollar job waiting for you.
hands down
This is nuts, went on the hot rod power tour and stopped at the indy car museum on the way through, told dad I wanted to build a modernish indy car style rod. Kinda spooky, surfing YT and this came up as a recommended channel! This is pretty much how I was planning on doing it too! Looking forward to watching more.
Marco you are like Einstein . I have worked in this fabrication 35 years and you are good.
Now days we need more young kids like you, and NOT kids that are seating in front of a computer all day. You are very talented . If I had my time over again , I would employ you as quick as a flash
Looks good. Nice to see some resurgence of these methods. Used to be nobody knew what an english wheel was, now you can pick one up at HF, and watch people operate it, and explain the principles online. Good times we live in.
Very nice explanation of the english wheel and the rubber band to limit the spread. Fascinating! Subscribed.
I like what your doing to your car and hope to see more of your videos soon. You take care and see you on your next one D.
Just watching I can feel the cuts all over my hands. I can never getaway without wearing gloves, it must just be the way I work. It’s looking good, I love finding channels where projects have long been in the works, and not having to wait! BOL
Found your channel by happenstance and am now a subscriber. I just have to see this thing through. As a carpenter, fabricator and all around dreamer, I absolutely love seeing a young man taking on such a daunting and challenging project. My hat is off to you Sir, awesome garage built project you have there.
I can very easily recommend all of his projects.
The instant I saw you laying out your cuts with a drywall square I knew that no matter where or who you are, we are brothers.
I've been watching the progress from day 1 of the build you have done an amazing job keep up the great work you're an inspiration to all
Good job. It's nice to see someone young developing skills like that.
Wow! That back end will be a challenge, but you will do it. It's really coming together. Well done.
You are "A Man of many talents !" From building Tanks to bending Metal... love watching your videos ....
What a fantastic start, well done!
Doing great at such a young age. You will be an awesome "engineer" with time and education. Thank you for sharing, and explaining what you doing, and why.
I am so glad that these days I can get an idea, look it up on CZcams, marvel at the execution, decide that it’s too much work for me and settle for doing the body out of fibreglass, all in the span of 10 minutes.
amazing as heck , i would consider rivets and leather stitching and leather belts , a combo of all 3 , imo that would look killer cool
Outstanding! A combination of skill, and determination. YOU are a madman! I'm blown away bro. Awesome video, keep up the good work man.
Looking good! Keep up the good work. Can’t wait to see what the finished project looks like.
So much fun watching what you're doing !! You're an inspiration !!
In a world full of Kardashians this awesome young man is a massive breath oif fresh air, keep up the great work!!
Thanks, as always for showing us this as I’ve been eager to see how you get on with creating this part of your project. As suspected it seems that this is something else that is not beyond your capabilities. Well done. Please keep up this great work. You’re doing a wonderful job
love the old school approach. wish I had the time and patience to lean the english wheel.
sweet job mate........its going to look great! please consider aircraft flush or domed rivets over welding to avoid epic warpage!! please post more when you have time!
Nice work, great channel. Good to see the old coach building skills still being used.
Phenominal work, you are developing mad skills
I agree with the post further down, do not weld these panels, apart from warping the material, these types of bodies were riveted, old style rivets that you peen over with a hammer and rivet tool.
Take a close look at a Lago Talbot, or a 250f Maserati for inspiration.
FANTASTIC WORK SO FAR!!!!! My fav build on you tube at the moment. Thanks for keeping old skills alive
I agree whole with Pretonesfpv a 110%. Sugguestion: Why not use aluminum tubing instead of steal, that way you make your body frame lighter. One other thing aluminum rivets like they did in the old days . It would be quicker to assmble the body and quicker than trying to TIG weld the panels. They did aluminum to save weight, which I was thinking what you would want. Also with your frame or the back end of it. You might want to think about narrowing it to fit your dove tail. Love your channel and keep up with the great work.
When I make a hood top, I just use an acetylene or oxygen cylinder, it's faster than the E-wheel. To make the compound curve of the top cowl you should take your part upside down and perpendicular to your first round of rolling. I don't know if it's understandable but I believe Lazzee did a quick vid on how to do a compound curve a long time ago. It looks to me you're using 1mm aluminum sheet, if you plan on driving the car you will regret it, any gravel that will hit the body will leave a dent, if you do shows, there will be a numbnuts who will press with his thumb on the body and leave a nice round dent on it. 1mm is good for racing not a street car.
Good job. Thanks for demonstrating how its done.
You're doing it in a way that will keep me watching, so keep on😁👍
mate as a sheet metal worker i would advice you to not weld the alu sheet. the warpage will drive you mental.rivet or bond your panels
Evan Taitt I second this, plus rivets look badass, possibly some brass ones to mix it up a little bit.
Evan Taft have you checked out this work? Runge Cars czcams.com/channels/vDlcjivNGDfluG7C0FsXag.html
Evan Taitt sorry about the above spelling
@@mikearmstrong7866 no worrys.never seen that channel before cheers buddy.👍
Or he could learn a new skill set!!! Other's weld their aluminum panels and I think he will be able to do so as well!!! I'm sure he will practice off the car on scrap first!!! Never hurts to learn new skills!!!
You'll have a unique car, and I hope it gets a special paint job. I'm looking forward to see what you do for a gas tank and a radiator.
Woo looking good. Keep that English wheel wheeling 🇬🇧
You're doing great! A tool you'll find invaluable for shrinking high spots/blending areas is a slapper made from an old car spring. Don't hit too hard and keep the face flat to the workpiece. Work on your sand bag as the dolly. Also you will need to anneal (soften)the metal when it has hardened from working. Mark the area needing annealed with a sharpie, heat with any flame torch (oxy acetylene or a propane burner) until the sharpie ink is burned off. Will make the ali soft for easy shrinking, working, etc. Good luck...
Really nice work man, love this build! 👍🏻
Great job, that worked good on those panels
Could hardly wait to see the metal forming. It's gonna look awesome. I always wanted to hand fab a 32 coupe in aluminum, maybe someday, I have all the tools and a complete 283 I just need the time. I love your work, keep it coming!!
WOW, good job for first time.
Very nice work; amazing for a beginner. Please put on the safety specs and gloves when using the nibbler, though. Sharp little bits of swarf can fly around.
I love this project but I would advise you hem the exposed edges of the sheet so later on it don't become an issue.
That would look even more sick with wider tires insanely good job for first time manipulating aluminum.
Looks great. You really did a great job, for just working with aluminum for the first time. WOW I could never do that good. Can't wait to see it when it's done. Going to Florida on Friday. So have a great weekend.
Might want to look at how aircraft are built. How inner support and structure is made out of aluminum. Even the best welds will create stress fracture due to vibration. And steel and aluminum in contact react badly. A steel 6-8 point roll/cockpit cage welded directly to the frame will help with stopping frame flex. This frame twist/flex will create havoc whatever seems you use for the aluminum panels. Be amazed on how a flat sheet of aluminum with the edges bent 90ish degrees. And center area punched with tapered holes can make a stiff structure to rivet the outer panels to. Study how old aircraft wings and bodies had been made.
Great work and skills. People at Morgan Motor Company (UK) must be proud.
looks amazing man.i cant wait till she up and runnin
Nice work 👍
This looks great, you have a lot of talent for sure and I've been into old cars for 40 years, I'm building a couple of MG YA specials based on the chassis of the MG YA saloon from 1947-52. I've picked up a lot of tips from watching Ron Covell, a great teacher. On your boat tail, I would say make it in sections and join them together as this is likely what someone like Ron would do (see his building a fender video) I think a lot of people make the error of thinking they can form a panel from a large sheet, its very difficult as the metal has to move in different ways. One of my projects will have the slab fuel tank like the early MG cars MG TC, TD and before, one will have the 'boat' type tail like the MG Q type from 1936, check out the MG QT which is an MG T type special usually a TA (1936 -39) or TC (1946-49) chassis base with a Q type style body (its a re-creation of the Q type on a later T series ladder chassis), Steve Baker in the UK has done a lot of these. I am considering using a 'top hat' shape metal section for making some of my framework and seeing if I can then run it through my small English wheel so that it curves it, like an aircraft fuselage frame is built. I may have to stretch the outer edge flanged surface so it follows the shape properly. I have seen a pop rivet 'dimpler' which stretches the metal and allows a pop rivet to be hidden flush with the surface metal, I am going to experiment with this method making some tooling to use on the frame sections too so I can use say 1/4 inch or 5/16 rivets which will sit flush with the sheet metal. Check out Ron Covell's Bomber Seats videos, he uses a bead roller machine to make one. This project looks great. I have come across some Aluminium soldering sticks that work with heat from a propane torch, it melts the solder and bonds very strong, it is used to repair castings, an alternative to TIG Welding which can distort.
It looks great. It's always fun to learn something new.
Dude! It’s starting to look nice!
je pensais que parfait c"était pas possible, j'ai 60 ans et je me suis trompé .bravo.
Looks awesome! Just a suggestion: I think the body would look really coo if you riveted the panels together.
Killer build man. I agree with a few of the comments that you should hem the edges and rivet the panels to the substructure. The aluminum will soak up the heat from the tig and move all over the place. Likely never fitting again.
Looking good there 👍
Looking great. Seems like you are getting the hang of the English Wheel.
Nice work.
Drawing the boxes is for a compound shape like a bowl the shape u need for the steering wheel section is what we call a reverse curve or convex u need to stretch the top and bottom edge but more to the top edge where the steering wheel is and don't wheel in the middle where u drew the boxes it will make the front and back flare up and the centre stay down then start to bend it by hand in the other plane but when u bend it all the shape will come out so keep wheeling the front and back edges of the panel until it fits and holds it's shape when u bend it over hope that makes sense it can be quite confusing at first but your doing really good keep up the great work.
I changed my mind and decided I didn't want the reverse curve
Pretty good
Very impressive. Looking forward to see more.
Beautiful car 👌👌
Wow, that is looking like it will be a sick ride. I bet it's gonna rip with that flat head V8.
Great work, definitely use rivet for the same reason as mentioned below and also it will look much better.
My first attempt with sheet aluminium would have looked like a dogs dinner, impressive work. The advice about jointing the panels is sound. You know you are going to have to brush that alu rather than paint it!
looking really good.
you make it look easy well done
Great job can’t wait to see it run
I would love a Kirkham Cobra but I can’t afford the asking price. This has got me thinking.
Very impressive. Good luck.
,Don't weld, consider clekos and aircraft rivets, no warping
Are you putting any luvers in to cool your engine
You are a fine tradesman,
Sean
Too many kids this day and age are smoking hemp and playing video games, they have NO AMBITION what so ever and have NO interest in cars either!! So for an old fart like me these videos are amazing to see such a talented young man making a car!! I do wonder how hard working with steel would be, and I say that only because I used to dream of doing the same thing as you, but sadly two ex wives, a massive debt I owe (second wife SUCKS) have pretty much killed most of my dreams of owning or building cars!! I haven't even ever had an actually SHOP (even now at 54 years old) to work in....so I don't have room for a welder let alone an English Wheel! In the end I have turned back to my skills in wood working, because that is all the space I have in my micro shop (8 foot by 8 foot space) to work in!!
Am I the only one who knew sheet metal mechanics who were his age when they were drafted during WW II?
Take a look at the traditional hot rods from the early 40's, who do you think built all the "race car noses" and belly pans? Not every young sheet metal mechanic learned the trade in California's air craft factories.
Back then public schools taught metal working, what do they teach now???
Are you going to louvre the hood? It would look awesome. Great work on this project. Nice to see younger people taking on something like this
Good job.
Kinda surprised you didn't anneal your pieces.
Rolled aluminum sheet has tons of internal stress from the manufacturing process.
Heating it with a smoky acetylene flame containing little to no added oxygen will somewhat evenly bring the temperature up to 375-400. Allow it to air cool, then your work piece will be dirty; but softer to work with and less likely to crack.
Repeat annealing occasionally in areas that need more complicated forms, as aluminum also quickly work hardens, which will cause cracking.
burntorangeak more of an issue when hammer forming or on really tight shapes. not so much on large pieces with gentle shapes.
I’m Impressed!
Very cool. Looking great!
Impressive!
I'm new, was just wondering what you plan on powering it up with? Amazing work, you know in the early days of the auto people would just buy a driveable chassis brand new and take it to some one to let them build a body for their car. Case in point, there was a family who immigrated from germany and had a farm. The two boys didn't want to grow up as farmers so they took in building bodies for peoples cars in their barn. They went on to what we all reconize today, their last name was Dusenburg. You seem to have it together, good luck.
Amazing!
This is way better than any videogame eh?
Very nice design. Maybe flush rivet fastening?
Looking good so far, keep it up! 👍
bery nice job,exelent .
You are just amazing young man. Most people practice this are their whole life and not be that good. Oh and you better slow down you're gonna hurt yourself going that fast lol. I just made a funny lol.
I thought about using a Y block in mine but the flathead looks nice.
Parabéns amigo ótimo projeto ,sucesso!👍👍👍
Your doing great but you need to add some bead rolling to make the panels stronger otherwise they will dent very easy
I agree. It surprised me that you left so little metal along the edges. Seems like there should be more to allow the edges be folded, bead rolled, or flanged.
You look a natural
and the rubber wheel I see you using
Thanks
I dunno about sheet aluminum, but i´d be worried to work with it bare handed. From my experience with steel it ends up being pretty sharp... still, looking great so far Vince.
you want to be able to feel the metal otherwise she'll slice you if you don't treat her right
Great job 👍👍 congrats
am taking photos and putting them on twitter then share next video this is really cool build. done all to twitter no. 28 peace out aja
Awesome - THANKS!
Please tell us WHERE you got the rubber band that fits your top wheel? I can't find one anywhere for that 8-inch wheel.
Been waiting.
great video i been looking for something like this
Parabéns! Está ficando lindo.
Looks great!
Most impressed !
Nice work,
Have a look at the videos from Runge cars and an Aussie called Tom Peach and Peter Tominisi, fantastic info in these videos.
Cheers