Been working on the fan shroud. It looks like it's really close to the radiator, but there's more than 3/4" of space for the air to flow. The finned cast aluminum fan motor cover is from Speedway Motors.








 

Very nice!!  Love the look of those "Boiled Bolts"

Thanks!

Made a fan motor cover today and shot a video while I was working on it, the video is full HD and can be watched full screen:



 

Thanks Josh!

Made a similar cover with some stainless screen for the valve cover breather:



 

Replaced the cover behind the steering wheel:

In IMHO I think it looks great.  Good job Dude.

Almost forgot... here's the sign I made from LED letters that I bought yesterday. The letters were supposed to be battery powered. But I modified them so I can run them from an old desktop computer power supply unit.

almcgee wrote:

Al McGee from Dallas Texas.  Amazing is an understatement!  I along with many others enjoy watching the Pheonix Project.

Many thanks!

Not really done yet, but here's the right side of the rear bumper so far.





The Texas license plate I have is of course just there as a placeholder.

Bolted to Floor wrote:

Awesome fabrication skills Hakan 👍

Many thanks!

Did the left side of the rear bumper tonight.

Glens 1965 50 wrote:

I'm glad that you picked the best State in the Union for the License plates.   Bumpers look great.  Are you going to re-chrome them or color key to the car?

Thanks Glen!

Re-chrome would most likely be very expensive so as of now I am thinking about painting them the same color as the body of the car. I am also very curious about what some kind of metal looking, shiny, brushed or even matte vinyl wrap on the bumpers would look like.

Wow!  What a great project.

josh-kebob wrote:

Hakan
Please provide details on what you did to the rear bumper......I like the look and don't like the gap on my 65.....like to do something similar...just need details on how you accomplished it.
thanks

I started by cutting the edges of the bumper off and then shaped them to follow the shape of the fender extension and body. I shaped the edge pieces by cutting small gaps into them with a cutting disc in my angle grinder, followed by tack welding, test fitting³, filling the gaps with weld and then grind it all down. 





Once satisfied with the fit of the edge I cut into the bumper itself and shaped it to fit to the edge piece. Same procedure here, cut, tack, test fit and so on. I filled the larger gaps with the same thickness leftover material from the front bumper.




To shape the bumper here on the inside I used this kind of clamp.



Finally, a lot of grinding with a flapper disc in the angle grinder.

Finally an update on the Phoenix Project, here's how I shortened the 2wd Ford Explorer aluminum drive shaft I am going to use: