~made me a BILLET ALUMINUM top plate!
 

made this at lunch took me about an hour.

i like it :D

crappy pic 2

crappy pic 3

retry

pics of the car......

sure wish i could attach more than one at a time:(

pic 2

Looks nice. How much less does it weigh than the stock? I'm gonna make one if it's a big difference....


BTW- you can attach more than one, but you have to upload them to a free site, like photobucket.com, and then just click on the insert image button when posting!

thanks, honestly it probly weighs more, i dont think your gonna find many materials out there that are gonna weight less than than thin ass plastic. :(
i just like to be different, plus it looks cool.

o ok , i wasnt sure if outside hosting/ [IMG] tags worked here...
thanks

N.P.

BTW- Where'd you get your decal? Did you make it, or did someone put it on for you? I would love to have some like that! If you made them on your computer, could you send it to me? Email to mikes_bikes1964@hotmail.com

thanks! i made the rear deck on friday, that was allittle harder, came out awesome though, and i repolished the front deck and got all the dings out.

yeah i have a vinyl cutter here at the house. make stuff for full size cars on the side, (for my camaro/trans am car club, and for the local vette club as well)

kewl....so you didn't do it on your computer....dang. I was hoping to get that decal! I have a vette too, and I'm gonna paint it red, and I thought that would look awesome on my hood!

Nice work.
It looks good.

I tried to make a few parts out of aluminum for my Xmods a while back, here is a picture.

http://users.ameritech.net/mlcollins/alchassis400.JPG

I dont even mess with them anymore but I'm still interested in what people are doing with them.

im curently making an aluminum frame, but im doing it with a dremel and a file.. no fanct equipment for me!

me too! i made the front and rear decks that way!

I've made many parts with just a sabre saw, hacksaw, drill press/hand drill and files and they can come out just fine but it takes more elbow grease that way thats all.

I used to use 8-1/2" x 11" label paper and print my drawings out on that then just stick it to the aluminum and drill/cut and file the parts out.This worked very well and is very accurate.

Of course that chassis of mine was done on a mini hobby mill.About the only thing it can do that I couldnt do by hand easily/well was make accurate slots for adjustable motor mounts.