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Whatever was in the welder. Yes, it was steel. Started life as an aluminized muffler delete on my pickup
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Ugh.... I hate welding that stuff... It may be the next worse steel to weld than galvanized.... I've had the best luck by burning off the coating first with a torch and then using a stainless steel brush to clean the surfaces first... You did a darn good job if you were using .030 wire and didn't burn and clean the surfaces first...
.023 wire will let you control the heat a little better..
Ugh.... I hate welding that stuff... It may be the next worse steel to weld than galvanized.... I've had the best luck by burning off the coating first with a torch and then using a stainless steel brush to clean the surfaces first... You did a darn good job if you were using .030 wire and didn't burn and clean the surfaces first...
.023 wire will let you control the heat a little better..
I want to say it was .030 wire in the machine. I just tacked it up for mock up and then burned them in. Looked like this before welding.
Yeah, in my opinion, pretty much the only way you're going to weld something that thin with ,030 is to stitch weld it one dime at a time as to try and burn a continuous bead would just overheat the work and blow holes in it.. There are guys that are better weldors than I am that might be able to do it..
Body work. I hate bodywork, but since I had already paid the shop in advance to do all the body and paint my budget is blown big time. They went out of business before they even got 2 good days into the project - they had the car for over 3 years.
I finally got enough space cleared in my shop to do the work.
I'm working on reassembling and fitting the doors today. GT40's are tough cars to work on since the tops of the doors make up roughly half of the roof.
Did you gas weld that? MIG would have been a chore with something that small and close together.
Still Not bad. All it has to do is hold back a little pressure...
Did you get any money back?? I would be hurting someone. Sweet project though. Love to take it for a spin
Thanks.. Didn't get anything other than my car back... I had to borrow a trailer and hauled it home in the salt spray which etched the aluminum chassis and started rusting everything that is steel.. I've got a lot of work to do to finish this car which is one of the reasons I'm selling off all my other toys as this one will probably take me the rest of my days to finish.
Managed to get the driver's door reassembled and mounted. I'm not perfectly happy with the fit, but it only has one day of fiddling..
When I did the hinge and latch systems, I also made anti-intrusion beams and steel mounts for the door handles etc. most of these cars are built by guys that just bolt hinges, latches and handles to the fiberglass. I wanted something more solid and that would be crashworthy..
So - if you guys want, I will post a bit of my progress from time to time..
It is a replica.
Not really a kit per se. These are component cars.. You get a whole butt-load of parts, then mix those parts with a bit of talent, a lot of fabrication and a ton of money - when you're done, you have a replica of the car that defined the term "Super Car". The car that won Lemans 4 years in a row and kicked Ferarri's tail all the way back to Italy.
Check out Race-Car-Replicas - 586-329-1573 or you can check out my website (woefully out of date) http://www.GT-Forty.com ...
It is a replica.
Not really a kit per se. These are component cars.. You get a whole butt-load of parts, then mix those parts with a bit of talent, a lot of fabrication and a ton of money - when you're done, you have a replica of the car that defined the term "Super Car". The car that won Lemans 4 years in a row and kicked Ferarri's tail all the way back to Italy.
Check out Race-Car-Replicas - 586-329-1573 or you can check out my website (woefully out of date) http://www.GT-Forty.com ...
Very awesome project. Definitely a lot of time will be needed
