DeTomaso Mailing List: October 99, Message #110

JACK/Others,
Bobby Byers/Pro-Formance just finished dissasembling and media blasting
"ItBeWild" (aka "LetItBurn")....What a MAJOR difference.  I'll post some
progress photo's later but to address the subject at hand - out of curosity
does anyone still have that old POCA/PI story that showed the Y-piece
reinforcement 'FIX'? If so could you forward it to me please.
MD
-----Original Message-----
From: JDeRyke@aol.com <JDeRyke@aol.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <detomaso@realbig.com>
Date: Friday, October 01, 1999 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: Need stress crack/mark help


>In a message dated 9/24/99 9:49:05 PM, ZackZ6667@aol.com writes:
>snip.....
><< Bud Green was telling me about a solution to the stress cracks that
occur
>just behind/below the "gills".......  >>
>
>Agreed; that very highly stressed area is the overlap of two big sheets of
>metal, spot-welded together. On some cars (like mine) there are gaps of
over
>1/4" in some areas, glued together with lead & "factory" bondo. Welding
>doublers in there and seam-welding the spot-weld areas will add much to the
>chassis stiffness. Big job, though, and will probably screw up the paint in
>that area unless you get an expert TIG welder to do it. Cheers- J DeRyke
>
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