I would be happy to draw these up on a CAD system if someone has the
dimensions. I have been doing design and tooling engineering for decad=
es and
these are not difficult parts to produce. However, there are at least =
2
valance designs, depending on the year of your car. I ordered a set fo=
r my
1974 from The Roadster Factory and got the wrong ones, which did not fi=
t.
Their catalog apparently is incorrect and the ones for a '74 are not
available anywhere. I plan to make some from plastic sheet some day,
probably .090 ABS. I can work plastic at home with woodworking tools a=
nd it
won't dissolve in the presence of salt water and steel like aluminum wi=
ll.
Jeff Moorse
Hurst, TX
owner-spitfires@autox.team.net on 08/11/98 05:31:32 PM
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Subject: Re: SPITFIRE Engine side plates
I need some valences too. I have the old ones in my trunk ... err boot=
but they're shot. In the machine shop where I'm working now we make a
lot of prototype sheet metal pieces for telecommunications equipment
(Nortel). I wouldn't dare to dream that anybody has ever entered these=
patternes into a cad program preferably Pro Engineer? Reason I ask, if=
I have percise (CAD) drawings I can input them into our automatic
punching machine and mill those bad boys in like 30 seconds flat. I'd
have to bend them in the press but that doesn't take long either.
Powder coat them black and I'd be set. I wonder what guage aluminum to=
use. 0.090"?
Just thinking aloud on the list.
Ryan Smith
Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech
Emerald Green, 72 Spitfire
>From: Andrew Miller <amiller@JetForm.com>
>To: "'Spitfires'" <spitfires@Autox.Team.Net>
>Subject: SPITFIRE Engine side plates
>Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 16:07:55 -0400
>Reply-To: Andrew Miller <amiller@JetForm.com>
>
>
>Rod Randle supplied me with some tracings of his engine side valances
>earlier this year. I had previously emailed measured sketches (I don'=
t
>pretend to be a draughtsman) which showed to size, cuts etc.
>
>I'll restore the GIF skecthes tonight and post them tomorrow on a web
>site with a second email to this list with the URL
>
>Andrew
>78 Spitfire with new painted valances (wild raspberry Tremclad is awfu=
l
>close to Triumph Damson)
>
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