Thanks Ryan!
Looking at the fan shroud, the top and bottom will be stepped where it bolts behind the rear edge of the core support.
The sides will get a radius bend to bolt to the inside vertical of the core support. This still leave quite a bit of flat metal that just doesn't have much style to it. So let's try some embossing on the side panels.. To better keep things a consistent pattern from left to right, we made a pattern using MDF board..
An offset die set is made in the Southbend lathe, the rounded sides will allow it to better travel along the pattern cutout.
We did a test run on our split original shroud, I had intended for the pattern to be inset when looking at the back.. Someone had the pattern clamped on the wrong side, and it was pressed outward instead.. Hindsight, when looking in the engine compartment from the side, the inset version would be more difficult to see the embossing, and this next "mistake" would be easier to see.
Sometimes things happen for a reason. So guess what we're going with.... The pattern did not have enough real estate to make a wide sweeping turn in the corners, so when using the dies we'll stop short of the corners and will coin them afterward by hand. Time lapse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_rNdhJcrEY
We did have one slip-up, should be an easy fix...
Looks a bit less blah now....
