big boy brakes
those are awesome !!!

 

Pure ****

 

 

New updates soon

 

Last week we finished the car to can start and run a test in a circuit









I don't have any picture or video from that day but I have videos soon

Now the car is in the garage to make the rear fenders

 

Rear fenders finished

 

Food for the baby...

 

This whole build is amazing; job well done! Some of the parts on here are just OMG...

Can you expand on what was done to the rear quarter panels? It looks like they've been pulled ~1" judging from the misalignment of the rear bumper. And to that end, how did you shape the bumper to allow for proper alignment after the pull was done?

 

Thank you. Yes we expanded the rear quarter around 1/1.2"

First we expanded the lip with a pliers then expanded the rear quarter with a spotter and finished the work with a polyester putty

About the rear bumper first we cut the internal metal rib and then we applied heat to make the form

 

Thanks for the follow-up!

I'm not sure that I really follow though unfortunately which may be my reading comprehension or simply lack of knowledge of body work.

You said first you expanded the lip with pliers. Are you referring to essentially rolling the inner fender lip? Then you "expanded the rear quarter with a spotter" not sure what that means unfortunately...the putty portion is pretty straight forward, I get that.

And then lastly you cut the metal rib to the bumper. Did you cut it off completely or just slash cut it to allow it to fold out?

I'm in the process of doing a similar thing to my rear quarters but am struggling making it look proper and not wavy especially where it meets the bumper portion. Any additional pictures or feedback would be awesome since this seems to be the best execution I've seen yet pushing the rear quarter a significant amount.

 

Sorry maybe I didn't explain me very well I don't don't speak english very well. I will try to explain me better with pics

In the first step we expand the lip with pliers similar than show this picture

http://classicdatsun.com/new/How%20t..._043.sized.jpg

Then to not use a lot of polyester putty we used a spotter to expand the rear quarter as show the picture

http://mlm-s1-p.mlstatic.com/uni-spo...716_9227-F.jpg

The spotter that we used was similar than this

http://www.cebora.it/folder_news/new...g/ico_news.jpg

About the bumper metal rib we just slash cut it to allow it to fold out

I hope that I explain me better now

 

OK perfect thank you for following up! Your English is perfectly fine, no worries with that, you just used a couple terms that I wasn't familiar with

Now I understand why your rear quarters came out so nicely. Using the stud welder or spot welder (whatever they are called!) allowed you to pull on the panel in different areas to help distribute the load evenly. You embraced the fact that followup paint work would be required which is something I was hoping to get around aside from minor touch up.

As for the bumper that sounds easy enough so thank you for the additional info. I ordered my wheels the other day so I will do some test fitting prior to hacking up my bumper. The slash cuts sounds like a great idea. Once you bent out the plastic bumper cover did you re weld the bumper rib so it'll keep its new shape?

 

Yes I knew that I would need paint

No, we didn't welded the rib we use heat to make the new bumper shape

 

One picture

 

Oh wow that came out awesome! That's a much larger pull than I thought but the photo from the back really show how much you stretched the metal. Thanks for the additional info. Looks awesome job well done, sir!

Now, to make mine look half as good...lol