Gosh we are amazed at all your precision and attention to detail with this entire project. Very excited to see the finished product, I love seeing all the work along the way 😁👌
Yeah, I think it looks better and more authentic. I studied lots of pictures and cars to see what the factory did. One of those cars is on Bring A Trailer right now and I think the bumper is pushed in too far! Oh and it's bid up to $440k last time I checked!
Tom your tag welding is amazing which one of your videos mentioned the amperage and wire diameter yo-yos I’d like to hear that again I thought it was a real helpful Tip
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t2xomaxWhFc.html Check out this vid, but in general 20-30A with variable foot pedal. .040" tungsten and .035" wire. Thanks for the compliment 😁
Great video Tom. A great tip for holding the shape when fibreglassing, some masking tape and Aluminium foil or even better aluminium tape. I'm pretty sure you guys call it Aluminum though?
Thanks Mick, I got it done and luckily the other side doesn't have an exhaust cutout or at least it's already been filled. Yeah, we say alum-in-um. How do you say condominium? A few extra "I"'s? Or Mississippi?
@@GarageTimeAutoResto condominium is the same, same for Mississippi..hahahaha. We spell "color" colour, but sounds exactly the same, but with our Aussie accent....hahahaha We also say solder, where you say sodder.
Working with fiberglass is the worst! It's smelly, sticky, it itches, requires many layers, etc. Perhaps on the exhaust cutout, you could have made some kind of temporary backing for the fiberglass? Maybe clamped some sheet metal lined with waxpaper or something. Something along those lines, just to help with forming the initial shape. Once dry, pull the sheet metal, and continue adding layers of resin and fiberglass.
Agree fiberglass is no fun. I probably should have just taped the exhaust cutout with wide masking tape. The hole wasn't too big so it wasn't that bad. The fiberglass was very thick near the cutout so it will need to be built back up. I'm going to add some lightweight filler to the resin when I smooth it out.
The bumper is too long and I didn't even think about heating it. That might work but I didn't try it. Seems like it would get rippled and the corner would still stick out too far.
