Another great video! It was nice to meet you at the Hagerty event (I’m the dude from Lancaster). I was talking to another guy at the event about you, and we both said the same thing…your work is meticulous, and your attention to detail is amazing. I really like how if you have a problem, you can make your own tooling to solve it. Hope to catch up to you at Empi, or when my 356 is back together, at one of the Club events. -Kev
Great work as always Tom. I'll be purchasing your welding course. I'm practicing to fix the hole in the floor of the Jag. Thanks for making this video.
Thanks, I think the floor board hole won't be too bad except the access is bad. You can see me using the foot pedal to control weld amperage in this video. That is hard to do when standing in a car!
Good job! We were thinking similar thoughts; I would have made a mold for the plate, clamped sheet metal to it and 'hammered it into shape, rather than use my press. What year/displacement is the engine? I noticed you... or someone has installed the oil pressure fed chain tensioners. That's a whole lot cheaper than a top end overhaul when the OEM tensioner collapses.
Thanks, your idea is good too if course. Just more hits, but I ended up hitting mine a bunch anyway. My engine is a 3.2 Carrera which came with the OEM oil fed tensioners.
I covered the same hole with sheet metal. don't have any welding equipment or know how. I just cut a piece of sheet metal and started hammering. I was able to plug the hole with a neat look but not professional.
A lot of work for a small piece but it is an invisible repair. What a great video.
Agree, sometimes it feels good to do something well.
Another great video! It was nice to meet you at the Hagerty event (I’m the dude from Lancaster). I was talking to another guy at the event about you, and we both said the same thing…your work is meticulous, and your attention to detail is amazing. I really like how if you have a problem, you can make your own tooling to solve it. Hope to catch up to you at Empi, or when my 356 is back together, at one of the Club events.
-Kev
Always nice to meet commenters in person! Great to catch-up and hear about your project too. See you at the next one.
Looks great. Just got a 20ton press. Cool to see how that plastic held up shaping that metal.
Enjoy squishing stuff. It's only satisfying
Great work as always Tom. I'll be purchasing your welding course. I'm practicing to fix the hole in the floor of the Jag. Thanks for making this video.
Thanks, I think the floor board hole won't be too bad except the access is bad. You can see me using the foot pedal to control weld amperage in this video. That is hard to do when standing in a car!
I may have to use the 2t or 4t method instead of the foot pedal in this case.
Beautiful work!
Thank you so much 😀
Awesome, ITBs incoming... 964 cams maybe?
No cam change on the first round. I want to get the ITBs up and running before I break in a new cams.
I like the mod!
The ITB's? They are sexy!
Cool beans, thanks for sharing
Great work.
Good job! We were thinking similar thoughts; I would have made a mold for the plate, clamped sheet metal to it and 'hammered it into shape, rather than use my press. What year/displacement is the engine? I noticed you... or someone has installed the oil pressure fed chain tensioners. That's a whole lot cheaper than a top end overhaul when the OEM tensioner collapses.
Thanks, your idea is good too if course. Just more hits, but I ended up hitting mine a bunch anyway.
My engine is a 3.2 Carrera which came with the OEM oil fed tensioners.
I covered the same hole with sheet metal. don't have any welding equipment or know how. I just cut a piece of sheet metal and started hammering. I was able to plug the hole with a neat look but not professional.
Totally valid! There are better things to spend 1/2 a day on, ha ha.
Well maybe but why when you can make it look like factory?
Nice work, does it really make a difference with the cooling ability?
It's not a huge deal. I drove this car for a year with it open, but on hot days these cars need all the help they can get.