Love the attention to detail, and can't wait to see how this thing turns out! When someone puts that much time, thought and effort into a part that in all honesty probably will never be seen when finished, you know the rest of the car is going to be outstanding. Keep up the good work.

 

awesome work!

 

Excellent work, and progress!

 

I'm planning to go and have a spot or two. I plan to leave on the 1st early in the am so that I can be there on Fri and Sat.

We might need to get together the weekend before it you want to send some stuff.

I call you next week once I know for sure I am going...

 

Thanks a lot I appreciate it! I've looked through your truck builds and they are really nice. That body style is very popular here where I live in Texas. I like your Nova too. I'm assuming you still own the 33 Ford? Did you build it? If so any info on the build on this website?

 

Thanks a lot - the inner fenders have turned out to be quite a bit of work. I had to build a fixture to hold each inner fender so they still mounted back to the frame without any movement from welding, cutting, etc. Also hung an outer fender just to be sure. And then the fins didn't want to weld back together very well until I finally figured out how to weld this particular metal. Anyway, maybe it will look clean inside the engine compartment......

 

Nice work, all the way around, KH!

 

Finished welding, grinding, and working the metal on inner fender #1. I took the finished panel to a painter friend to get the recommended prep to preserve the work until it gets to the paint and body stage (Thanks Phil!). Bought the materials yesterday and here is how it came out. Still undecided if the inner fenders will be gloss black OR the color of the car.

 

Time to construct an identical twin......inner fender #2

 

Beautiful......................with dedication to do it correctly.......Again......Great Job!!!

Ken

 

Thanks for the compliments. As for the '33, I built it before I had a computer or a digital camera, although I did get the camera when I was close to being done. That said, all the pics I have are in a photo album. I should scan them sometime so I can post pics. It's pretty standard fare though, 2001 LS1/4l60e, Heidts MII front end with 4th gen Fbody brakes, 9" rear, 350 gear with posi and Explorer discs. I used to have a dual diaphragm booster but it was so horribly ineffective I took it off and replaced it with a hydroboost, works WAY better! It also has factory GM cruise, Vintage Air and Autometer gauges. I built it to drive, which a lot of people say they do, but I REALLY do. It's pretty much my daily driver in the summer, and has been from the east coast to the west coast, Canada to Key West. I've put a little over 81k on it since I finished it in May '07, cant wait for it to hit the 100k mark.

 

Made all the pieces for inner fender #2 today. Thought I would take a little time and show how the first one was actually made.
Good practice for other fab jobs on the horizon like firewall, dash, etc......

 

Got the louvers in place. This is the tire side. The seam on the new piece will be covered with undercoating and should not be noticeable. Not grinding the welds on the louvers until I weld the other side. Lesson learned on the first one.....it's thin and blows through easily so weld metal on one side helps on the other side.

 

This is from the engine compartment side. You can see where other pieces will have to be welded so the panel will appear to be a one piece factory stamping.

 

Remainder of the pieces to be welded. The challenge is welding all these pieces and maintaining how the panel fits the frame and outer fender. More soon.....

 

Looking good Keith. Sorry I did not call this weekend, I was a bit busy...

 

Inner fender #2 finished. These were much more work than I expected. Now back to the task at hand. I'm going to hang a rear fender and front fender and make sure the axle centerlines are good on both. I'm a real stickler for how the tires fit in the fenders. More soon...

 

I've seen this question on other forums before....How hard is it to remove a paint product called POR 15? My opinion is it can be taken off, but it is TOUGH. I painted my first inner fender with POR 15 and it had some fish eye in it. I have a moisture issue with my compressor to address, but that is another story. I did not want to coat on top of the fish eye later so I had no choice but to take it all back down to bare metal. A bead blaster didn't touch it, and the die grinder discs just loaded up quickly, SO a couple coats of paint stripper and some time was the best solution I found. I've decided to just rattle can prime all the fab stuff for now and deal with paint stuff all at the same time later in the build.

 

Progress

 

Beautiful......................