seattletom wrote:
Trochu wrote:
Made the cardboard template and then cut the scuttle out. Probably a bit more heavy duty than required (16 ga steel), but I'm going to leave it for now. Looks okay, still have to fine fit it and screw it down.
Any pics of how you approached your scuttle fab? What does the under structure look like? How did you handle the slope angle at the forward edge support? How is it going to be attached? Etc?
In case you haven't guessed, I'm looking for ideas to "borrow" as I have a scuttle fab coming up soon.
Congrats on the first start. That's real progress
Hey Tom. If I were to start over, I'd likely be making my scuttle a bit more structural in nature than I did. Oh well....
Wanting it to be easily accessible, the skin, front (dash), and back (firewall) are all removable. I constructed a basic frame, welded "L" tabs to the front/back, and then bolted the tabs to the scuttle frame. You can't see the front, but its the exact same concept.
Its pretty basic and cheap.
For the skin, I just traced out some cardboard, trimmed it to fit, and used a jig saw to cut out the metal piece. I haven't finalized the forward edge support yet but as I went with 16 gauge steel, it will likely be difficult to let it down with a brake. I'll likely proceed with something similar to what Perry did:
Either weld a strip directly below and to the skin if a lip of 16 ga is adequate or to the firewall if I want a "lip" with a bit more thickness.
For attaching the skin, I'm going to use more L tabs and weld them directly the the front/back and then use machine screws to hold the skin on. At first I didn't think I'd like the idea of using visible screws, but if it works for Caterham, it will work for me.