It is the old type of welding aluminum. Tough to do and you used to have to find a certified aircraft welder to do aluminum. No small feat in the day. That's why the welds are so rough by todays standards.
I recently got critiqued on the pictures of my welds posted on the Net. Mine are strictly functional. Form follows function. If they work, they are beautiful?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If they are ugly to you, maybe you have ugly eyes?
Now apparently there is a group of judges like in the Olymics that view them on the internet and rates them cosmetically? I don't know what their qualifications are? I personally think that they are self ordained.
Captain. The pick-up spacing should be somewhere in the 1/4 to 1/8 " off of the bottom of the pan? Simplest thing is just to make one up to fit.
It is entirely possible these are out of Dennis' shop at Pantera Performance in Colorado? 28 years is a long time ago to remember such an obscure part for me?
Call them and inquire. They do have electricity there I am told anyway, and you probably could email some pictures to them.
Someone in the neighborhood probably has an internet connection they could borrow to get the pictures?
