How To Chop A Car Roof

By pete sanchez aka 49flatty.

How to chop a car roof. This resulted in the top being slid forward in compensation for the 3 inch drop in elevation. Finish cutting the bottom metal from the t cut. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. Seriously if the doors don t fit right before you cut the roof off a car i can assure you that they won t fit after you weld it back on and the results could be permanent.

Any fool can do this. By chopping just the front of the a pillars and the cap of the roof on these trucks one can actually end up with a 4 inch chop without ever touching the doors side glass back glass or jambs. Cutting away the roof skin for many chopping the top is the pinnacle of coolness and proof that you ve built a real hotrod or kustom. See all 21 photos.

Finally it can take up to a year to finish the bodywork on a bad roof chop. This is where the quality of planning for the chop shows up. It takes one weekend to chop the top and tack weld it back on. The previous cuts will allow you to see where the metal needs to cut from inside the vehicle.

As much as i love a good chop it s not always what the car needs and that s the key in my opinion to a perfect build. Material was removed from the c pillars until the rear of the top dropped to the desired profile. Ben cuts along the beltline swage line. Basically here it was quite of a raw way to cut the roof do it when you are falling short on the budget but you still would want to do something new to the.

The a b and c pillars were cut most of the way through from the outside leaving just the inside to cut with the air saw when the time came to lift the roof this ensures the car stay contiguous. It took over a year to finish the roof chop on my car. It takes a month to finish weld the chop. While every type of car is different the lessons here can be used on any car from technical points things to look for and things to take into consideration.

Pay special attention to the way they handle the rear window trent chopping a 1947 ford club coupe. Next the a pillars were cut along the bottom tape mark and the roof panel was lifted onto the car and aligned at the a pillars. How to chop a top page 1 want to chop a top. Make a small t with another cut.