Bonnet Shape

[Jon Green]

Hi all,

 

At the moment im driving round my 2b without the windscreen as I've not got round to fitting it yet. I've trial fitted it but when I look at the car from the front the top of the windscreen isn't parallel with the roll bar.

 

The bends on the bonnet aren't the same! So i need to change the shape of the bonnet. I've tried bending it to the right shape but its very difficult to get both sides the same and I'm trying to be lazy and avoid taking the nose cone off and splitting the bonnet halfs.

 

My plan is to take a piece of 25 x 25 angle steel and chop out slots on the bottom leg of it to then allow me to bend it to a curve and then weld it in its new shape. Make two and use them like ribs, bolting the bonnet to them pulling them into the shape i need.

 

Anyone done this? any pictures or advise.... or am i best just splitting the bonnet and doing it by eye and muscle?

 

cheers,

 

 

Jon

[enforcer]

If you look at Bill and Joey's site I believe they made a former to take the shape of their scuttle using this method.

 

Mind you they did put the battery in the boot, bless 'em.

 

This is it (Bill / Joey please excuse the blatant copyright infringement - and battery reference)

 

Firewall

[Guest Battery Bill]

No problem Richard How much do I owe you in publicity fees

[Dave R]

i added a bit of ally angle under mine to lift the screen a bit and make it fit better

will see if i can sort some piccys out tomorrow

[Mitch]

No problem Richard  How much do I owe you in publicity fees 

 

twice as much as you owe RHSC

 

 

Mitch

[Guest macca]

No problem Richard How much do I owe you in publicity fees

Not nearly as much as you owe google

[Guest Battery Bill]

 

Now what was I saying,,, OH yes

 

 

Google everyones favourite search engine use it a lot folks

 

[Guest chris brown]

Google everyones favourite search engine use it a lot folks

Bill how come "robin hood 2b" still works with I'm feeling lucky seeing as how you have changed your web address?

[Guest salty_monk]

He still has the old domain name forwarded to the sites new resting place at a guess...

[Guest Battery Bill]

Chris

Dan is right look at the address you get with Google IFL its the old NTL one but it contains a redirection