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'63 Midget Body Structure Question

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tony barnhill

tony barnhill

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The 1st photo is of the place in the body structure through which the exhaust goes...somebody - either the factory or a muffler shop - has cut it out with a cutting torch.....does anybody else have the same thing?

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The 2nd photo shows the same place on the passenger side of the body showing how it looks before cutting (though it appears to have been bent a little):

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We're gonna fabricate the body panel for the exhaust side using the piece off the passenger side as a model if this wasn't done at the factory.

Thoughts?
 
Tony,
I believe the cutouts on your car were altered after leaving the factory. Both cutouts on my car are mirror images of each other. The arcs are well formed and the sides straight (except for a small cutout). The photo below is not the best in the world, but I think you can see where the straight side is relieved where the pipe would pass through.

If you need a template let me know. I can trace one, scan it, and send you the .jpg with dimensions.

Ray

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Passenger side has been bent around a bit but appears stock (probably bent to "ease" out the oil filter!). the exhaust side is definitly not "factory" work. I have seen many such "modifications" either to install a non-factory exhaust such as a header or to alleviate the rattle of an ill-fitting stock exhaust against the frame. Both should look like the passenger side if it were to be straightened/flattened/de-kinked!
 
mccalebr said:
Tony,
I believe the cutouts on your car were altered after leaving the factory. Both cutouts on my car are mirror images of each other. The arcs are well formed and the sides straight (except for a small cutout). The photo below is not the best in the world, but I think you can see where the straight side is relieved where the pipe would pass through.

If you need a template let me know. I can trace one, scan it, and send you the .jpg with dimensions.

Ray
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Ray - would you please?

I figured somebody had "massaged" it after-the-fact....but I've seen the factory do stuff like that.
 
Mike had the answer.
 
tony barnhill said:
"...If you need a template let me know..."

Ray - would you please?
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Tony,
I sent a full size template (with dimensions) and two additional photos to your email address. Below is a smaller version.

Hope this helps; let me know if you need anything else,

Ray

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Didn't get the template in email but can use this one....

looks like I'm not the only one faced with this issue...hehehe
 
tony barnhill said:
Didn't get the template in email but can use this one...
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Tony, my emai to you bounced. PM me an address and I'll resend.

Ray
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Subject: Undeliverable Mail
From: "Postmaster" <postmaster@theautoist.com> (Add as Preferred Sender)
Date: Sat, Jan 19, 2008 10:53 am
To: <ray@raysmg.com>


undeliverable to tony@theautoist.com
 
PM sent - oh, what was the subject? My server scans subjects for words I've told it to bounce on...yours must've had one of them in it!
 
Maybe bounced because of file size?
 
Files are very small, but thanks for the suggestion.

Looks like it went through the last time, with the subject name change.

My guess is that Tony's email client is filtering a word list that includes "requested".

Either that or he's been cruising those "hot, little, Midgets" porno web sites again /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

Ray
 
hehehehe,,,I did get it...the drawing was about 2 8-1/2x11 pages when I printed it at the size you sent...put it in my photo program, brought it down to 7-1/2x11 & printed fine....

Now, where are those "hot, little, midget" sites?
 
tony barnhill said:
Didn't get the template in email but can use this one....

<span style="color: #FF0000">looks like I'm not the only one faced with this issue...</span>hehehe
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You know, I don't recall ever looking at a Spridget that wasn't damaged/butchered in this area!!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rolleyes.gif Replacing exhaust pipes and creating a rattle there must have been a VERY common problem due to tight fitting or wrongly bent pipes!!!
 
No cutouts on Miss Agatha, just need to get the pipe aligned before you tighten everything up.
 
Ray - the pattern worked perfectly...thanks...we welded in the new plates today!!
 
Excellent! Thanks for the note.

This speaks so very well of this forum. I find that folks on this list are in most cases GREAT to interract with. There's lots of information shared, not a lot of high browing, and the depth of knowledge and GOOD information here makes it so worth while. I seem to get back much more than I contribute, BUT, when I do have something to offer I can be sure that it will be received in the same vein that it was offered.

Ray
 
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