quote:Originally posted by mike the snake:
I see some offerings of aluminum hood and door skins. How would one go about installing aluminum parts onto the steel underframes?
Are they riveted in place and then bodyworked over? Glued in place?
Wouldn't here be some heat/expansion/contraction issues?
They are like a door skin. They come with a 90 degree bend on the edges and you have to roll them over onto the spider.
A door skin is one thing to do but something like the size of a decklid is not childs play. You need to build a table large enough to support it while you do the work.
Everything is so thin, you could TRY to spot weld it but you will likely distort the skin cosmetically by that.
If you use nothing but the crimp to hold them they will stay for awhile but the aluminum is soft enough to stretch eventually and they will move around on you.
Probably some type of an epoxy is the way to go. Don't know which one though.