"the next one" - Scratchbuilt Mid-Engine Sports Car

Sure! I can do something like that. As a matter of fact, if you give me about a week or so I can show you the whole process when welding the rear panels up on the iNVision roadster we're building. I have a few photos of the rear quarters being welded ... and almost finished posted in the roadster album on my facebook page. However, I didn't include the grinding process. You know how it is when you get into something that requires your full attention. Some more finishing work is still required, but they're close.

Here's a brief run down of what I usually do. I start by tacking the panels, then slightly grinding those tacks with the edge of the wheel(easier to see the place your grinding), planish, and repeat till the panel is welded up from end to end. Once cooled, I take the grinder and knock down the weld proud, again with the edge, until it's just above the surrounding metal. At this point I'll switch over to a new disk and run the abrasive disk on the flat until the weld proud is level with the parent metal on either side. You may touch that parent metal here and there... just don't gouge into it. It's a SLOW process. finally, I'll grab a course file, remove the handle(can be quite dangerous as the sharp handle end can jab into your wrist/arm) and lightly pass it over the joint. This will show all the highs and lows... more planishing... followed by more filing till the joint is invisible... ALWAYS attentive to keeping the file on the welded area.

Hope this helps for now.

The disk before filing is a grinding disk and when planishing.. you don't need to move mountains... just stretch the HAZ a bit to bring the panels into alignment so a slapper is just fine.
No lumps on the rear... my inside seam is just as nice as the outside seam when it's all said and done.

By the way, your Anglia is turning out great! Love what you've done. Have you had an opportunity to see the not so stock Anglia sketch I did for a friend before he got into his build.


Cheers!

Moving onto the rear tubs. My bother-in-law, Steve, jumps right in and creates the inner panels for the rear tubs. This was his first "time at the wheel" of the bead roller and tipping machine.


Tipping the offset around the panel's perimeter after running in the centre beads.




Inner wheel tub panels installed.


Inner wheel tub panels installed. Now time to re-radius and clean up the outer return lip.



Thanks for taking the time to check out these updates.

Creating the pieces that will form the hood's sub-structure...that is, the framework that supports the hood skin and hinges.




Holding the initial prototype profile created from a scrap strip of sheet metal to get a sense of surface heights. This is a quick way to wrap your head around how to form the required parts.


After a template for one side of the hood structure was created the overall shape was transposed onto sheet metal for both sides.


One side cut out and ready for shaping....


Surprise surprise!! Something as simple as a cereal box...in this case two of them were used to create the 'formed' template.


One side of the hood's structure completed...now onto the other side.


Once the second side and rear area of the structure have been completed, assembly can begin.



To ensure the structure correctly fits the body it's located and clamped for final welding.


Dressing up the welds...

A pleasure to see more amazing progress.

amazing

sorry if this has being asked before, but how would you go abut getting this road legal?
would you have to go dwn the SVA like a kit car?

cheers , where did yu find that?
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It's Single Vehicle Approval, so to register a one off, like your project.

Good to see it's not only us amateurs that use CornFlake Packets for making templates!!!