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Old 08-09-2012, 04:12 PM   #16 (permalink)
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euromodder-It won't be as long as the metal pictured. The aluminum bar came in 8 ft lengths so I'm going to be trimming quite a bit off. I believe the tail will end up being about 3.5 feet from the end of the bumper.

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Are you just eyeballing the angles or are you using math ?
Once you lay the template over the line drawing ( and have it at the correct spot ), you can simply print it onto a grid and use a yard-stick to scale up and measure the heights you need to be at at a given length.
This is of course with a perfectly level car on a flat surface.

I'm sure you were already using this method, but wasn't sure.
I was just using the string hold method so I could make a rough cut of the aluminum bars. I'm currently using the clamp method the get all the bars to the exact same length so that the back of the tail is perfectly flat.
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