One of my former classmates from high school caught up with me a few months back, and had some work he wanted done on a hood for his Tubbed V8 Plymouth Arrow. He said he wanted a more professional job over what was done back then..





A V8 in an Arrow is enough of a challenge, near impossible to fit it all under the hood. Here are some older pictures of the car just to show what we're working on...











He had bought an NOS hood for it some years back, so at least he has something solid to work with.. He said the metal flopped a bit around the opening he cut, so I thought we'd add a wire edge around the opening and make some new bracing on the underside while we were at it. Here's the phenolic dies made for the Lennox to form the new bracing..





Here's a test sample run...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCoTMs0ANC8


...and a test fit





Next, the bracing we wanted to install needed to go around the bigass hole, and some of the existing brace needed removing.








Our new brace designed to go around the hole... cut in the flat and run through our dies..











And here's about where it will sit....