[sammons]

Beautiful day here, sorry you guy's in the northeast. It was 72° today, 76° tomorrow.   

Well I went consevative with the louvers (4-rows @ 19 each). Could have easily ran 160 plus on this big hood (straight lines). Sometimes less is more? I went on an angel in stead, shot for the middle between straight and the side angel of the hood. Terrible,  I own a press and only put in a few. Good thing, my buddy came by after work to give me a hand. Started getting dark, and I can't see sh** anymore!   Right or wrong, I like it!

[FATnLOW]

Looks good...Outstanding job

[62131]

The louvers look great on the hood I think you nailed it.

[logride]

Good looking hood!

[chopper526]

I am not much of a louver guy, but that looks really good and I think the angle is a good touch.

[TFoch]

Sammons,
Love that windshield shot.  That amount looks just right.  Glad you have great weather, it's 9 am Tuesday and we already have a foot of snow.  Supposed to snow all day
Tom

[chopper526]

Sammons,
 it's 9 am Tuesday and we already have a foot of snow.  Supposed to snow all day
Tom

Tom, we dodged a bullet down here. They were calling for 6-10", we got 2" and the streets are almost clear.

[Dugeman]

Sammons , love that redneck English wheel .  I will be using that idea in the future. Great job on the grill shell and hood.

[ghost28]

Sammons,
Love that windshield shot.  That amount looks just right.  Glad you have great weather, it's 9 am Tuesday and we already have a foot of snow.  Supposed to snow all day
Tom

You have a talent Sammons. The hood is looking great.

 Damn TFoch I am really glad I am here in ColoRODo today it about 70 degrees right now, with blue skies.

[28chevyguy]

looks awesome !! 

[sixball]

Rainy here but we had to go to Tahoe this morning and it was snowing between here and there.

That is just a good amount of louvers. I wanted to do just one side of my pickup hood, a sort of 6 cylinder statement, but My engine leaks so many fluids I wouldn't be able to see out the windshield.

[sammons]

Thanks for all the nice comments fellas. I know with a bit of a dirt track look, it's bound to rub some of you the wrong way (maybe alot) It's nice that no one has jumped my butt about that!

Dugeman make sure if you use the rolling pin method that you roll it out on a clean level surface. A rock or crack in the concrete will mess up your day! Also check your progress often, like I said the crown came up quicker than I had anticipated!

Sixball that is a unique idea (like it). Inliners would get it even if nobody else did. one thing about louvers, you will know real quick if you have any fluid leaks!

It got up to 80° here today, got the lawn chair out and took a nap in the sun

[sammons]

Well I haven't done much since I got the hood roughed out, I had a bad R.A. flair up. I got back to it Wednesday and finished making the seat rails (to raise the seats up 2" and set back 4" from original vette location). Much better! Made the steering column bottom bolt flange and welded up and the drop cut and rewelded. Column/steering wheel and seat fit is damn comfy now, and one of my friends can slide the seat back and has plenty of room (he's 6' 7" tall).   Now i'll have to make a new gauge cluster layout as the column is off set to the left (although centered at the seat)

[sammons]

Yesterday and today I got the steering completed. I reconfigured everything and got down to one double borg joint and one stand off heim. Clearance on the third header tube back was 1/4" from touching, so I cut in a notch. Made the standoff and just welded three nuts inside the frame to mount. Real smooth now even with out the P.S. running.

[chopper526]

 Now i'll have to make a new gauge cluster layout as the column is off set to the left (although centered at the seat)
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That cluster looks really nice. Can't you just modify it a little to accomodate the steering column?