Here we are on day 2 of the beast challenge. Today I'm going to go over some of the progress we have made on the race car in the last couple days. This is the slow tedious part of working on the car. This part is making the body and making all the new panels fit like they're supposed to. This takes a long time. First we will start out with the side panels

Each side will consist of 2 side panels the rear sale panel the front sail panel and then the top header piece they all have complex bends in them that you have to make. When you put them all together they are like a jigsaw puzzle you have to start from the top down so you start with the header piece get it fitted into its spot. Then after that you fit the sail panels and make them work sometimes you hav to use the bender or crimper to get the bow in the panel correct. After they are fixed to the bottom side of the body with rivets and then you can put the outside door panels on. They are held on with a quick release nut and bolt assembly. We still have to do the hood and the rear of the car.

Building the guage panel

This is kind of a pain in the butt.

Since we had scrap red laying around we laid it out on that. Once the bends were complete we tested it to see how we had a tweak it. It was a little off so we went ahead and made some changes reinstalled it again and then got our final dimensions. So now we will move on to the white aluminum which is what color it's going to be in the end.

While the spacing may look off it was done intentionally to clear a line of sight from the driver so he can see all the gages through the steering wheel.
Hear we are getting close to the final product but ran out of time.

If you are not amazed then at least the panel looks amazed.
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