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02-20-2006, 11:51 AM

Tik_Tok

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Body material

Anyone know what grade of aluminum the body is made of?

02-20-2006, 02:21 PM

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RE: Body material

What aluminum? I just saw a thread that mentioned the hood but after welding I can tell you that the fenders and decklid are steel.

02-20-2006, 02:44 PM

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What aluminum? I just saw a thread that mentioned the hood but after welding I can tell you that the fenders and decklid are steel.

Ok.... then what grade is the steel?

02-20-2006, 04:04 PM

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RE: Body material

It can only be 22ga at the most, it's thin! Some good places under the decklid to measure it if you have a guage.

02-20-2006, 06:14 PM

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RE: Body material

I don't know about the fenders and decklid, but I can tell ya that the roof sheetmetal is super thin. I had a pecan fall out of a tree and put a nice ding in my roof! I'm not too happy about that, I had a tree branch fall onto the roof of my 98 once and it didn't even scratch it.[:'(]