While being laid up most of the winter on medication that would leave me only 20-30 minutes of clear vision and relatively steady hands - I set out to design and fabricate my own muffler Mounting bracket (covered on another thread) and a shield..
I'll post more thorough information on my website soon (I hope) but here's the culmination of roughly 4 months worth of effort in my shop and wife's kitchen table..
I knew I wanted a shield - and while I liked a number of them that I have seen on this forum - none of them really fit the bill for me. I set out to design something special. Yet I was having a heck of a time figuring out what sort of venting holes I wanted..
Salute to Abby - the DNA Muffler shield
When not clear enough to focus on work in my shop or much of anything else. My wife and I sat side by side catching up on 6 seasons worth of NCIS Television episodes.. We have both become enamored with the Character Abby Sciuto (played by the very talented actress Pauley Perrette).
On one episode - I marveled at the screens where Abby was working up a match between DNA samples. Then it hit me.. The round-cornered rectangular (don't know the geometrical name if there is one) "slots" that represented the DNA code were it! How they worked in patterns.
Short of watching races or other educational programming or films I don't watch much TV but this is one case when it paid off (in my mind anyway).
I designed these patterns in my mind and laid them out on a piece of paper.
There was to be symmetry between the two sides.
I intentionally made it with the spacings the way you see..
Enough yack... On with it already....
Nope - Not 2024-T3 (I learned my lesson)
What to use for a pattern... Hmmm....
Now to lay out the DNA Pattern...
132 Center punches
132 holes - 1mm
132 holes - ~3/16"
132 Holes - 3/8"
Connect the dots?
Oh boy this is gonna be fun...
I ended up hand filing and de-burring all 66 slots... No pictures but it took me a couple of weeks.. My wife is a saint for allowing me to do a lot of this on a newspaper covered kitchen table..
Now we need to figure out how to mount this thing...
Need rear supports (2)
Front mounts (2)
Once I had the mounts done, I did a quick polish job on the shield and bolted it up for some quick pics for you guys...
There it is... It's got some flaws but I'm fine with them and how it turned out. I'll give it a good polishing before I mount it for good.. The brackets will be ceramic coated.
I'll post more thorough information on my website soon (I hope) but here's the culmination of roughly 4 months worth of effort in my shop and wife's kitchen table..
I knew I wanted a shield - and while I liked a number of them that I have seen on this forum - none of them really fit the bill for me. I set out to design something special. Yet I was having a heck of a time figuring out what sort of venting holes I wanted..
Salute to Abby - the DNA Muffler shield
When not clear enough to focus on work in my shop or much of anything else. My wife and I sat side by side catching up on 6 seasons worth of NCIS Television episodes.. We have both become enamored with the Character Abby Sciuto (played by the very talented actress Pauley Perrette).
On one episode - I marveled at the screens where Abby was working up a match between DNA samples. Then it hit me.. The round-cornered rectangular (don't know the geometrical name if there is one) "slots" that represented the DNA code were it! How they worked in patterns.
Short of watching races or other educational programming or films I don't watch much TV but this is one case when it paid off (in my mind anyway).
I designed these patterns in my mind and laid them out on a piece of paper.
There was to be symmetry between the two sides.
I intentionally made it with the spacings the way you see..
Enough yack... On with it already....
Nope - Not 2024-T3 (I learned my lesson)
What to use for a pattern... Hmmm....
Now to lay out the DNA Pattern...
132 Center punches
132 holes - 1mm
132 holes - ~3/16"
132 Holes - 3/8"
Connect the dots?
Oh boy this is gonna be fun...
I ended up hand filing and de-burring all 66 slots... No pictures but it took me a couple of weeks.. My wife is a saint for allowing me to do a lot of this on a newspaper covered kitchen table..
Now we need to figure out how to mount this thing...
Need rear supports (2)
Front mounts (2)
Once I had the mounts done, I did a quick polish job on the shield and bolted it up for some quick pics for you guys...
There it is... It's got some flaws but I'm fine with them and how it turned out. I'll give it a good polishing before I mount it for good.. The brackets will be ceramic coated.
