Project “Ghost Duster”, 1970 Duster Corner Carver
Onto the j-bar project. I started by removing part of the seam between the cowl and firewall in order to make a nice flat spot to incorporate a rigid landing pad. I seam welded everything behind the plate for rigidity and to keep the water out. I wanted to tie in the three different planes where the cowl and inner fender meet to maximize the strength.
Here is the cut back seam and the beginning of the seam welding.
I roughly cut out the shock tower area of the inner fender. It turned out to be way too much and had to patch it back in the end, but I needed to expose the tower to measure for the the j-bar brackets and come up with a plan.
The landing pad is heavily radiused to reduce stresses that occur at the corners of square anchors. Looks a little funky, not as wild as the ugly American, hotchkis duster’s though. They remind me of a four leaf clover so hopefully they are lucky.
Here is the j-bar laying on there for perspective. I purchased them from jegs, pre bent.
Onto the j-bar project. I started by removing part of the seam between the cowl and firewall in order to make a nice flat spot to incorporate a rigid landing pad. I seam welded everything behind the plate for rigidity and to keep the water out. I wanted to tie in the three different planes where the cowl and inner fender meet to maximize the strength.
Here is the cut back seam and the beginning of the seam welding.
The landing pad is heavily radiused to reduce stresses that occur at the corners of square anchors. Looks a little funky, not as wild as the ugly American, hotchkis duster’s though. They remind me of a four leaf clover so hopefully they are lucky.
Here is the j-bar laying on there for perspective. I purchased them from jegs, pre bent.