parkerracing

Link to articulated hinge http://www.makoshark2.com/dcforum/DCForumID3/360.html

seventysixvette

Not that I'm aware of.

Usually I just sketch something, see if it makes any sense at all. If it looks 'logical' at all I do a simple cheap mock up with scrap.

John

seventysixvette

Thanks! I've joined up and spent about an hour over there looking around.

There's a lot of great info in that thread about the hinges. A lot of food for thought on fixed hinges and pivot points. It'd not occoured to me to use stock hinges off a normal car hood, but there's a perfect example of hinges that move a couple different ways with one movement.

Thanks for the link!!


John

77custom

Thanks for the compliments guys. And sorry if I have not updated my thread for a while... been REAL, REAL busy working the real job... and the wether here has been terrible anyway.

I started with stock inner fenders.. cut the crap out of them, and molded them to both the underside of the clip, and fabed my own lower pieces.

The entire clip raises with two 250lbs actuators by pushing a button on a remote key fob. I also hand made the hinges so that I could move the hinge point forward. This keeps the nose out of the dirt. In doing this though, I had to change the headlight buckets for clearance.

It is a PITA to to this... and you should REALLY want to before you start.

seventysixvette

77custom thanks for the post. I've studyed this pic a lot:



your placement of hinges is interesting. They are single pivot, and the nose isn't hitting the ground. I also like the single actuator doing the work on both the headlight doors.


John

Korsis

http://i871.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/IMG_0489.jpg
http://i871.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/IMG_0484.jpg

brent319

There is one photo of the wheel wells in this listing..
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1970-BALDWIN-MOTION-MAKO-SHARK-CORVETTE-RARE-AND-COLLECTIBLE-LOW-RESERVE-/290919661739?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item43bc29c0ab

Tact

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/foru...s-or-more.html