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    Louvers for a 35 Chevy

    Cody Walls drove down from Delaware today so we could punch louvers in the hood sides for 35 Chevy he's been working on, see some of his beautiful work here...

    http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/t...-chevy.976318/

    After using the samples we punched last month, Cody wanted to run one more test sample with larger louvers to check the flow against where the headlight lines up. Here Cody and Kyle wheel a new test sample...



    Using the Lennox to punch the louvers, stops were riveted in place.





    Clamped to the hood side, we decided on a slightly larger, with more to be added at the rear than the front..



    The Driver's hood side takes it's turn...





    One down.....



    Passenger side....



    All finished up...





    Can't wait to see these on the car..
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    Damn that's some cool stuff. How do you get the different lengths? Is there more than one die?
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    The die is made for a reciprocating machine, with open ends to make the louver whatever length you wish. On the last pass, you rotate the handle in the front around to "coin" the ends..






    The angle pieces riveted on in the previous post act as the stops..
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    For those that followed the Louver job on the 35 Chevy hood sides, Cody Walls (the builder) and Dave Thomas (the owner) will at the Grand National Roadster Show Jan 29-31. The 35 will be the feature car in The Rodder's Journal booth in building 4, so if you're going be sure to stop by and check out Cody's craftsmanship and attention to detail.. absolutely beautiful car..

    TRJ will also have a full feature article in the next issue.

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    Looks like a very well done hot rod, including your part.

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    Very nice hotrod Robert!!! Reminds me of my buddies 32 he is having built. The metal work is so nice I told him to just clear coat it.





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    Well soon after the 35 Chevy returned from GNRS, Cody had it blown apart again to tackle more items on the to-do list.. One of them being inner fenders, which he had asked if we would punch some louvers in those as well. He hand fabricated these parts, seen here:





    He had quite a bit of work in these and had suggested shipping them down, but we aren't that far apart so I suggested meeting in the middle to pass off the parts rather than trust them to shipping. So we guessed on Parole, MD as being close to a good midpoint, and picked the Double TT Diner to grab some breakfast and catch up on his trip to Pomona. Kyle and I arrived and had made about one lap through the parking lot when Cody pulled in, so this worked to be a good halfway point between Southern MD and Milford DE.

    Here's what we picked up....



    This has a tighter radius than what we had done for the hood sides, so for the punch to better follow the contour, or sit perpendicular to the point of punch, we plan on a rotational fixture attached to the linear slide that the "trough" of the inner fender can be rolled from side to side.. and just in time, the Mini Cooper wheel bearing/hub assembly had come in yesterday (looks like this)

    ....so the first order of business was to void the warranty. Made a trip over to David's shop to make sure the press was still operational, and pressed the hub out of the bearing. We need a flat surface for the new material clamps, so Kyle worked on the lathe to get rid of the excess metal here:


    He got this far tonight...



    These are the new clamps we'll be using, the single 8mm bolt will connect it to the flange Kyle it working on..



    Meanwhile, I cut out the plate to hold the bearing...





    The top will be folded 90* and that flange bolted to the top of the glide blocks here...



    Once complete this should allow us to rotate the inner fenders as we punch the louvers.
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    With the wheel hub faced, the flange is trimmed...



    The attachment bracket....





    Pressed back together...





    "test run" videos:

    https://youtu.be/zsDe02QEmyo

    https://youtu.be/1JB4kHLbjQc



    Material clamps should be here tomorrow, so we'll try and get some louvers punched next week.
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    Worked on some louvers tonight, wanted to get some practice pieces done to see how well our "theory" might fare.

    Kyle cutting an inside lip off the clamp before cutting it in half..





    Meanwhile I got the holes (and some spares for height adjustment) drilled in the wheel hub flange...





    Clamps added...





    We used a "squaring plate" to align the panel for louver angle..



    The punch needed some relieving to insure the corners didn't hit the inside radius of the panel...







    Cleaned up the grinder marks with a Scotchbrite pad..





    Looking at the louvers...


    Action shots:


    https://youtu.be/EEyI10qb4BI







    We have some more relieving to do on the tooling to eliminate some marking, then we'll do one more practice piece before breaking into the good stuff..
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    very nice as always

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