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hi I'm Tim and just giving an update
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quickly on the Trans-Am project and what
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we've been up to a lot of it's been
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pulling the car apart and getting
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flexible shape patterns marked onto the
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different areas of the car lot the
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fenders the doors the hood lid and the
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inner fenders we've decided to do as
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well so a lot of the work's been prep
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work the front end of the car we've got
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pretty stripped down discovered a few
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things along the way that needed to be
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fixed up and basically I'll just take
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you for a bit of a look so we've got the
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rear boot area the rear boots come off
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pull off the rebar and got the Rio of
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course we've come across a lot of rust
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along the way which was to be expected
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so we've had a few Shear offs and bolts
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and things that have held us up a bit
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but I managed to get through it and if I
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take you around this way of the car made
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the flexible shape patterns for the door
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and dial all that in ready to go making
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sure that we're trying to keep the swage
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and then obviously we've been pulling
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apart the front inner fenders are out
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and we've molded those up in a flexible
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shape pattern and also taken the guards
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off in a few other areas of the front
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end to sort of get it a bit more
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workable so the car's been stripped down
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so that's taken a lot of time
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particularly because of the rust so some
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of the shapes are quite complicated and
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that's taken quite a bit of time but
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this particular shape here this is the
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inner Fender that we're going to do an
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aluminum so that should be quite an
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interesting challenge
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it's all taped up ready to go and then
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reference points after the tape's gone
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down and then do our flexible shape
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pattern over the top of that to capture
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all the detail in it and there is quite
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a bit of detail the left and the right
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look quite different so there's it's
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literally one shape pattern for each
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side each of our front guards have been
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captured on our left and right side a
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lot of the work's been forming up these
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particular sides so we've got 10 pieces
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in total that form up the front guards
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these are the that's the nose section
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for the right hand side and what I've
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found along the way is that there's a
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lot of really subtle little reverses and
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compound curves going on in a lot of
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different directions half panel full
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panel all sorts of different things and
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because it's a stamped process to make
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these panels the designers get a bit
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more fluidity with what they could do
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and design into the actual panels
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themselves so while it looks fairly
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simple a lot of the little small details
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and subtle points have been really hard
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to capture and that's taken a fair bit
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of time the front two guards are
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captured in eight individual panel
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sections so sorry 10 individual panel
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sections to make up those front guards
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so basically there are 10 pieces this is
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with an underlay section about to be
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so that's it's coming along so a lot of
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the uh the com the curves and things
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have been quite difficult these piece
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has been particularly difficult which is
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where the flaring goes um to capture
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that it's quite subtle but there's a lot
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of area built into it
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this is in its raw form so we haven't
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finished this up it's still
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being processed at the moment
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but that gives you an idea of the amount
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of shape and work that has to go into a
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panel section like this and how good the
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flexible shape patterns are for covering
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this sort of work we've also got the
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left hand side lower section ready to go
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and I'm just about to form up
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some Hammer forming for the vents that
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actually have to house the indicators
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inside that actual section there so
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we're about to form these up from that
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and then Hammer form those into that
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panel that's already been formed up
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a lot of the other work has been
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nose sections of the left hand side
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we've obviously got the
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the very distinctive sort of Center
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where the the grill goes in that that's
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been formed up as well
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ready to go and a lot of the process has
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been about taking a lot of measurements
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and getting like a lot of the detail
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built into the actual design so while
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they may seem like it's a
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straightforward and it's a firebird and
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a Trans Am at that the the complexity
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and the shaping a lot of the European
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designs and the Maseratis and everything
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else they're long and flowing they're
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quite clean lines and they were designed
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to be hand built whereas when you go
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onto something like the Trans Am it
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wasn't a hand-built car it was stamped
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in the panel press and it's a lot more
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complexity in forming up those shapes
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they're not as fluid there's a lot of
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things where they design it in clay and
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they take bits and pieces out that make
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it a bit more complex and I'm realizing
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that and forming these up now so
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something that may seem fairly simple on
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its face actually turned into being
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quite complex but hopefully within the
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next couple of days I'll be able to weld
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up these panel sections and get the two
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gardens together so just to give you an
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idea of how the panels form up you've
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obviously got your flexible shape
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pattern that comes off all that
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information is translated onto your
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sheet metal you then have your gauges
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which work they're contoured so they're
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matching the panel forms and as you can
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see it actually changes quite a bit in a
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lot of these shapes in the bottom of
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and by the time you're going sort of
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down you go into a different shape at
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the front so there's different things
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going along in the different Stations of
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the panel and then you end up with a
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section that looks like that so that's
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the bottom back piece
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and that's got the curve and everything
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built into it so this has to have a
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little bit of finishing work and then be
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welded up but that essentially makes up
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the other thing that we did was the boot
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so we formed up the stations on the boot
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and the flexible shape patterns made for
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that's another process where we're
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getting developing up the
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the stations for it now to get the
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Contours built in and then that'll be
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put into aluminum as well and that wraps
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up the Trans Am for now
