Thinking of adding rivets to the leading edge of my hood same as the comp cars & some SCs.
So need some advice from any Kirkham owners who have added hood rivets
1) Did you drill through into the steel frame and rivet through into the frame? If so, how did you stop the aluminium pulling down onto the frame and distorting the top surface of the hood? As per original cars to stop the hood skin being lifted from the steel frame at high speed.
or.....
2) Did you drill the aluminium hood skin only and then make some 'dummy' rivets by removing the Al rivet portion from the steel pin, cut the rivet to length so that it sits through the holes in the hood and just touches the steel frame, then glue into position? Fake style, just for show.
Any tips or photos would be appreciated.
