..... let's start from the beginning.
Our brother Rat the honorable
@The Renaissance Man , doesn't have a build in BO 15 (yet?) but his influence is still there. A couple weeks ago, he suggested to me that maybe I put some 'headers' on my RG to really give off that gasser vibe, and fill some of that space between the fender and the front wheel!
After a couple of conversations, he suggested that using the grey plastic conduit as a material would work, and using a wooden dowel system to attach the various pieces. These only come in a couple of bends, and a semi-straight piece, so I had to do some slicing and dicing to get the look I wanted.
I used a 3- way junction box, and one 90 degree angle connector as the 'block' from which the headers protrude.
The 5/8" dowel was just a bit to big in diameter, so I ran the piece on my belt sander to take down the circumference so I got a nice tight fit for joining the pvc pieces.
Remember that Park Tool metal cup we were trying to guess how it was going to be used way back when? Well, my original plan was to cut it down the long way, and make a hood scoop out of it. If you look back on the thread, Jim (TRM) guessed it right away. Then y' all came out with your guesses and gave me more ideas than I could shake a pedal wrench at! After some thought, I knew how I wanted to use it.
It would become the header dump! What sealed the deal was when I put the rim of the cup between the fender brace indentation, and it was a perfect snug fit! Now this isn't a real engine guys, so don't get your undies in a bundle if they aren't the prototypical headers of a gasser car. Remember, this is not a REAL engine!
It's just an old guy trying to muster 3/4 hp, on a good day.
We thought about a matte white as a color, to offset with all the chrome, so I painted them white at first. Looked just like white pvc pipe!
So, I went back to my original plan, paint them with the Duplicolor Chrome paint I had purchased to at one time do the panel in the middle of the frame. This chrome paint shows off best against a gloss black, so that went on first. I almost sprayed on a little mascot. The bees and other critters live in the paint stump out back.
This morning TRM sent me a link to how to create 'fake welds'. Me , being all about faux-tina on my builds, jumped on it. I used a hot glue gun and dropped droplets of glue in a pattern (sort of , my faux welding is about as good as my real welding! ) to create the look, after the black paint was dry. Then I went over it with the chrome paint.
What a fun project!