That hood is a work of art. Cannot imagine the number of hours on it already.
BUILD THREAD “The Juggernaut”
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Using the body lines for the cowl induction hood is pretty slick, Donovan, I’d wager it’s a one of a kind. Really nice job making it happen, it most certainly will turn some heads when it hits the road! 👍
Appreciate it Tony, thank you. I haven’t been keeping track, but I can assure you it’s definitely in the hundreds by now. Still, I’d do it all over again, I regret nothing, it’s been a challenge but also very rewarding.
Thanks Mike.
I love the aggressiveness it lends to the look of the car, my favourite part is the view from directly head on:
I for one certainly wouldn’t want to see this coming up behind me in the rear view mirror!
Well after weeks and months of grinding on it every possible chance I got, earlier this week I finally finished the bodywork on the hood and header panel on ye ole Juggernaut.
What a monumental undertaking.
I actually had to strip part of the driver’s side scoop section back down to bare metal and reshape it by adding an additional 1/8” of crown to the curved transition because it was too flat. Looked more like a wedge doorstop than a nicely shaped cowl style hood.
If you look closely at the two pictures above, you’ll see what I’m talking about. Lesson learned there, before beginning bodywork on a custom built panel, make doubly sure the shape of both sides match perfectly.
To do this, I fashioned a CAD pattern (Cardboard Aided Design) off of the passenger’s side and compared it to the driver’s. The gap on the driver’s confirmed what I was seeing with my calibrated eyeball:
So after carefully determining where the additional crown needed to be added, the offending area was outlined in masking tape.
After grinding out a lot of my hard work and a couple hours of hammer and dolly work, I had reintroduced the necessary amount of crown back into the panel.
Much better now:
Back to square one again, it was time to redo the filler on the driver’s side. It was already looking much better by this point, but still not quite there just yet.
A little more work, reshaping and further refining, I got it to where I was happy with it and now have it matching the passenger’s side perfectly.
Once I finally got that aced, I turned my attention to dialing in the hood to header panel gap. It’s bang-on at just over 1/8” from one side to the other, and looks killer.
A couple of detail shots of other areas of the hood:
While I was at it, why not add to the scope of work right? I further refined the center hood peak line to make a natural, pleasing transition, and also ended up having to refine the inside radius to scoop side area on the driver’s side as well.
Scope creep is real kids.
On Tuesday, I wrapped up the last couple details, filling in a few missed pinholes, and redoing the front edge of the driver’s side where I had to redo that area, officially putting a wrap on the filler work on it.
This is the end result:
After that, I masked off the hood pin recesses, shot epoxy in them, and seam sealed them up the following night. They’re now good to go too.
I stopped in at my local supplier on the way home from work today, and got some further information on sprayable polyester body filler. I’ve never really used it before, so I wanted to learn a little bit more about it. I’ve decided that I’m going to give it a try on this, the additional film build it will provide over conventional high solids, high build primer will greatly benefit me in blocking it out.
I’ll be using Evercoat’s Slick Sand product, it has some very good reviews from folks that know what they’re doing, and have used it in the past. But before I can apply it, I first have to seal the existing surface with epoxy primer. So that’ll be this weekend’s project.
In the meantime, here’s a couple of interesting before and after pictures from almost the same angles.
I’m definitely looking forward to seeing all this real estate in one color again!
All for now gents,
D.
What a monumental undertaking.
I actually had to strip part of the driver’s side scoop section back down to bare metal and reshape it by adding an additional 1/8” of crown to the curved transition because it was too flat. Looked more like a wedge doorstop than a nicely shaped cowl style hood.
If you look closely at the two pictures above, you’ll see what I’m talking about. Lesson learned there, before beginning bodywork on a custom built panel, make doubly sure the shape of both sides match perfectly.
To do this, I fashioned a CAD pattern (Cardboard Aided Design) off of the passenger’s side and compared it to the driver’s. The gap on the driver’s confirmed what I was seeing with my calibrated eyeball:
So after carefully determining where the additional crown needed to be added, the offending area was outlined in masking tape.
After grinding out a lot of my hard work and a couple hours of hammer and dolly work, I had reintroduced the necessary amount of crown back into the panel.
Much better now:
Back to square one again, it was time to redo the filler on the driver’s side. It was already looking much better by this point, but still not quite there just yet.
A little more work, reshaping and further refining, I got it to where I was happy with it and now have it matching the passenger’s side perfectly.
Once I finally got that aced, I turned my attention to dialing in the hood to header panel gap. It’s bang-on at just over 1/8” from one side to the other, and looks killer.
A couple of detail shots of other areas of the hood:
While I was at it, why not add to the scope of work right? I further refined the center hood peak line to make a natural, pleasing transition, and also ended up having to refine the inside radius to scoop side area on the driver’s side as well.
Scope creep is real kids.
On Tuesday, I wrapped up the last couple details, filling in a few missed pinholes, and redoing the front edge of the driver’s side where I had to redo that area, officially putting a wrap on the filler work on it.
This is the end result:
After that, I masked off the hood pin recesses, shot epoxy in them, and seam sealed them up the following night. They’re now good to go too.
I stopped in at my local supplier on the way home from work today, and got some further information on sprayable polyester body filler. I’ve never really used it before, so I wanted to learn a little bit more about it. I’ve decided that I’m going to give it a try on this, the additional film build it will provide over conventional high solids, high build primer will greatly benefit me in blocking it out.
I’ll be using Evercoat’s Slick Sand product, it has some very good reviews from folks that know what they’re doing, and have used it in the past. But before I can apply it, I first have to seal the existing surface with epoxy primer. So that’ll be this weekend’s project.
In the meantime, here’s a couple of interesting before and after pictures from almost the same angles.
I’m definitely looking forward to seeing all this real estate in one color again!
All for now gents,
D.
Scope creep.... very real. I don't know of many who can take it to that level.
Great job D.
Great job D.
What is wrong with you? Your perfection makes me fill so inadequate when I work on my car. But seriously it's looking fantastic. I'm always impressed by your work, and it gives me the motivation to try and do better on my project.
Awesome! Haven't seed the original CAD used in a while!
Thanks Tony. I appreciate the kind words.
I gave up trying to figure out the answer to that years ago. Besides, I don’t think we have quite that much time and space on this website to list all that!
😅
In all seriousness though, thank you, I do sincerely appreciate it. It’s always flattering to hear that you’re an inspiration for somebody else.
Crude, but highly effective. If it works, I’ll use it!
Hood is officially in epoxy.
I got most of it masked up last night, and today Mike came over and together we pulled the hood off and got the rest of it masked as well. A couple rounds of cleaning, plus a blow off and a tack down, then it was two wet coats of epoxy.
No more patchwork quilt look of different layers of filler!
It’s still pretty wet in these pictures, so it’s easy to spot the imperfections. But this is only epoxy primer, and the imperfections are really minor. I have to leave it sit for the next 24 hours, but then it’s going to get a thorough sanding with 220 on the DA and then I can apply the polyester spray filler. Most likely on Tuesday night.
I knew it wouldn’t be perfect at this stage, but it actually turned out better than I had thought it would. So I’ll consider it a big win.
I got most of it masked up last night, and today Mike came over and together we pulled the hood off and got the rest of it masked as well. A couple rounds of cleaning, plus a blow off and a tack down, then it was two wet coats of epoxy.
No more patchwork quilt look of different layers of filler!
It’s still pretty wet in these pictures, so it’s easy to spot the imperfections. But this is only epoxy primer, and the imperfections are really minor. I have to leave it sit for the next 24 hours, but then it’s going to get a thorough sanding with 220 on the DA and then I can apply the polyester spray filler. Most likely on Tuesday night.
I knew it wouldn’t be perfect at this stage, but it actually turned out better than I had thought it would. So I’ll consider it a big win.
