everybody mad from eastwood the project behind me is my 1930 model a and some of
the previous videos you may have seen right build a chassis from scratch and
then I channeled the body down over the chassis the next part of this project is
where we're going to build for pants
I want them to look pretty factory even though it's been channeled pretty darn
hard
this floor pan is going to consist of six separate pieces and I'm finishing up
the last piece here we're going to show you the process on the last three and
i'm going to show you a cool little tip called prestretching it's going to help
keep your floor pans from warping while you're building that
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and you guys that have done a lot of be growing I'm sure you've come across this
problem like we're showing right here with a nice flat panel and lay all your
beads out
roll your beads perfectly straight you think everything is great
you pull it out and well it's just like this it's all warped and popping when
you try to weigh it into the vehicle now a lot of guys have seen a tack weld it
and they hammered into submission and make it fit
but in the end to fit and finish just isn't really that nice i have one here
that we've already done the same process and sits pretty darn flat we don't have
to force it into submission
this is done with a process called prestretching which i'm going to show
you on this other panel here
I've already laid out the beads so we're ready to go let's walk over the English
wheel will show you the process
alright so we have our panel in the English wheel here with basically no
tension on it
I can slip it between the wheels and what we're going to do is set the panel
up pretty much centered in the wheel and we're going to put I'd say moderate
tension on it we want enough tension that we're actually moving some metal
I got some moderate tension and i'm going to start growing it and we're
going to focus on basically about an inch on either side of this line this
line is our center line of our bead we want to focus on stretching the metal
right around that maybe an inch on either side so I'm going to roll this
back and forth and full of times trying to basically just go right to my start
and stop . so you don't need to do a ton of rolling just enough to stretch the
metal right around that be
now you don't want to go outside of that one or two inch range because it then
you're going to start affecting the whole entire panel
so that's one done here
and put some moderate pressure on it going to roll this one
you don't need much just a little bit
our next one so we got these first two road
I'm going to finish rolling these last three and we're going to go over the
bead roller and we'll show you what we're going to do that
so as you can see by just wheeling each of these bead lines a little bit on
either side of the bead line we have stretched the metal and giving us extra
material for the beads and then use up
we roll all these beads in the panel there's a little bit of distortion and
now i'm using it in English wheel once we throw these beads in here it'll
pretty much all flat now we won't have that crazy oil canyon that was shared
you wanna on our test piece earlier
let's throw it in the bead roller and we'll show you what it looks like
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so here's where we're at this is real life so I bent this panel up and its
really close and I could probably with a hammer
tap this thing down in there and force it in place but I still got to build the
rest of us for and more than likely i'm gonna have to take this in and out a
handful of times so it's just a hair too tight so I'm gonna take this back on the
bench and show you a little trick to move your been wine over just the hair
we're not going to move it
probably more than like a 16th or something around that but it's a pretty
quick simple way so we want to scrap this whole entire panel and we can keep
moving forward so let me show you on the bench here
start by holding a dolly at a slight angle behind the flange leaving a small
air gap at the bottom then hit on the center of the bead on the outside of the
panel
once the new edge has been formed hold the dolly tight and Hammer the old Ben
line flat
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with the been line moved over to drop the pan in and we install click owes to
hold it in place
I then scribed and cut off the excess metal that's sad above the cross braces
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all right at this point we got five and six floor pans made and the first five
were all pretty darn simple and they were all like we pre-stretch the beads
roll them in at the edges and fit everything in and we're really worried
about on the home stretch here now the most difficult one to make is the
driver's side front pan
that's because in a car that's really small like a model a we're trying to jam
a lot of stuff in one small little area
now i'm using a handler House of fab crossmember which puts the brake master
cylinder right underneath the driver's feet so we need a way that we can access
and Phil break foot in the master cylinder
I can easily just rough cut a panel out and popper that something in place but i
really wanted to look professional
so we're going to use the eastwood bead roller with the forming dice to make a
recessed panel that's also removable and looks good in the end
let's show you the process
I got the panel fit in the bead roller here and we run some tests panels to
make sure everything is adjusted just how we want
now i'm going to start the paddle or our bead on the flat area don't want to
start on the band because it's going to be difficult to connect your be at the
end that way we can make make a nice smooth connection so good is going to
give me a hand roll in the bead here and we'll show you what it looks like after
we're done
using the offset dies in the bead roller and rolling to connect the beads
we've created a recess that we can sit our access panel
we rode a bead in our access panel to match the floor pan and cut it a little
smaller than the opening and before
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we then marked out the center of the recess and cut it out weaving a small
lip for the panel to sitting
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we use the automatic center punch to mark where we drill the screw holes for
the mounting tags
with the holes drilled in the tabs we transfer them to the access panel
yeah
we then used a round punch to put an indent around the holes in the access
panel
this will allow our mounting screws to sit flush on the paddle
yeah
with all of the detail work done we've been our final mounting flanges in the
ends of the panel
after test fitting the panel we laid out and cut the pedal holes
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and
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finally we were able to fit the pan in and around the pedals and Qui coated in
place
ok
here you can see our flat head screws holding the panel in place and
everything sits nice and four
well the beginning this project we started out with a big gaping hole in
the bottom of the model a and now after a little bit of work
we got a complete for pretty much all clear coat in place of the process for
building these floors for each of the six panels was just about the same that
last one we just got done showing you is a little more involved are really happy
with how it came out in the next video we're going to show you how we make a
transmission tunnel using the eastwood English wheel and a wire form as our
pattern
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