GTM Hood Issues II

[kabacj]

I'm starting to see that now. Getting the hood to work smoothly has been my biggest problem so far. This is the car that I chopped the front off of and welded in a new frame with dimensions from Shane. So it's a combination of a crappy hood and my work needing a little tweaking. Screenshot_20231227_195916_Gallery.jpg

Yeah well the biggest challenge of building a GTM is definitely the bodywork. There are so many variables from how you put the body on. Its s easy to move the body 1/2 inch forward or back on the frame. Of course that has a major impact on all the other bodywork. the hood and doors all have rigid mounting points so if your body is 1/2 inch back the doors and hood are both also going to off a half inch as a starting point. When you have a whole car to complete you can average all the parts so they fit as well as possible.

Since your body is already done, just get the hood to open close and latch nicely . Then move the body lines on the hood as needed.

[Rigdotcom]

Yeah well the biggest challenge of building a GTM is definitely the bodywork. There are so many variables from how you put the body on. Its s easy to move the body 1/2 inch forward or back on the frame. Of course that has a major impact on all the other bodywork. the hood and doors all have rigid mounting points so if your body is 1/2 inch back the doors and hood are both also going to off a half inch as a starting point. When you have a whole car to complete you can average all the parts so they fit as well as possible.

Since your body is already done, just get the hood to open close and latch nicely . Then move the body lines on the hood as needed.

Thats where I am now. The hood is definitely off, but it is opening and closing fairly smoothly now. I'll just adjust all of the lines when I'm comfortable with it's operation.

[VRaptor SpeedWorks, LLC]

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Yeah, it's a lot of work....

[Rigdotcom]

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Yeah, it's a lot of work....

Yes. I am running out of space. I had no clue how I was going to work around that, the cutting and pasting for the edge is genius

This reply gives me so much grief lol. It looks like I'll only have that issue on the passenger side. I'm not 100% positive that they're on the correct sides. This may end up with a special bracket if they are, and I'm still running out of real estate.


Side note, did you already knock all the rough edges off of the hood pictured?

[Rigdotcom]

Are you bonding with 3M 8115? Or glassing? I'm doing the headlight holes too and I planned to fill the gaps between the layers to make it smooth.

[VRaptor SpeedWorks, LLC]

Make sure you open up the holes in the headlight buckets to allow for adjustment of your headlights before you fill the gap. We don't fill the gap here.....you can't see that once the headlight is in place.

[Rigdotcom]

The buckets that were in the other hood were filled. I thought it was the norm. Good to know. I have a good bit of work ahead of me.

I pulled the hood forward and the back side on the passenger side is the only one that needs modification. The brackets were on the right sides, so I cut the original hood latch, welded it to a steel plate the same thickness, lined it up, and I'm bonding it now.