Thread: Streetwerkz 30 sedan build

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now that everything is together on the cowl I can move on to the doors.
First order of business is the lower inner corners.
After trying to make this piece by hand with 10 different small pieces of metal, a few hammers, and 10 lbs of filler wire I decided to try and make a punch and die to press form the parts.

I traced out the shape on paper, then cad, and cnc plasma cut out the rough shapes. welded everything together, did some finish sanding, hillbilly sighted the punch and die locations, and pressed out a few test parts.

I found that I need only have minimal waste material as the excess causes problems. I also found that I need to mill these parts out to 2-3 times the material thickness, and radius all the edges so the part doesn't get shear cut.

I have to wait for a friend to have time so I can use his mill to finish the die set.
However the test parts came out very well I think, especially considering I have never done anything like this befor.

I also made the die set reversible so making a right and left will be easy