wedge chop?
what is that like cutting a pizza slice out of it in the front and having it slightly slant up to the cowl?
i havent decided if ill do it or not -- should be getting the cab on the frame in the next few days i get to work on it -- then ill toss in the bench of the seat im going to use and sit inside it and look --- the hood just seems real big.
Pancaking hood and sectioning a cab is a lot easier than wedging a hood.
Determining how to wedge a hood (all the cuts, relief cuts & where to cut), will depend on what year hood you have. Wedging a hood is more challenging then pancaking a hood. A lot more cuts and reliefing to get it right.
Planning your attack before hand will be the deciding factor on whether you get it right or ruin the hood.
When you wedge slice it from front to back and you go to lay the hood down, the center of hood will pull away from cowl and the nose will curl under. To get it right, cut the top of the hood off, then cut your wedge pieces out of the bottom section, lay the top of hood down, tack weld it once you have it where you want it. Now you see how far the back edge has pulled a way from the cowl. Cut across the back edge of the top near the cowl leaving a several inches to work with. Place that piece you cut off on the cowl and use a filler piece to close the gap. To pull the nose back into place, cut vertical pie reliefs in the nose and massage it back into place. It's going to take some small pie filler pieces on the nose and massaging to get it right.
Some of the reshaping of the nose and the cowl area is going to take some dolly shrinking and stretching.
I'm no expert in metal shaping, I just look and do, sometimes I screw up other times I surprise myself. So if there's anyone that has more insight into this proceedure then by all means let us in on it. Never too old to learn.
