Introduction:
Chris Isaacs shows us how he creates the windows for his and Spencer Tramm's new Pro-Mod Duster, Chris has been building race cars for 24 years and is considered a real perfectionist with a keen eye for even the smallest of details.
Tools Your Going To Need:
- Fine tipped permanent marker pen
- A piece of hardboard slightly bigger than your window
- A rule (preferable a steel one)
- Hand Drill
- A 3.2mm diameter & 4.2mm diameter drill
- Set of cleco clips & the pliers (Cleco Pins)
- A jigsaw (fine to medium tooth blade)
- A file
Creating Your Hardboard Template:
- Chris starts by drilling 2 holes of 3.2mm dia in the car at opposing sides of his window opening
- Places his oversize hardboard blank panel on the inside of the car
- Lines it up with his window opening, making sure he lines it up properly
- Drills through the holes & fits a pair of Cleco pins to hold his template on the inside of the car
- Here, Chris is marking where the edge of the window is going to be
- Using his pen, he draws around the shape of the window opening
- He draws a series of short radial lines around the edge of the template, closer together in the corners
- Measures the distance from the window lip to his window opening and marks the size of his template
- Once he's gone round his whole template, it looks like this
- He removes his template to the workbench
- He works his way around his template, measuring outwards by the distance he's noted to get his actual window shape
- He carefully joins all his marks up
- He then gets the Jigsaw to carefully cut his template out
- Chris ends up with what he describes as his "rough" template
- He the tries his template back on the car and checks for accuracy
- Any fine adjustments are marked on the template and carefully adjusted with a file to get his template to perfection
