How to Modify a New Car Trunk

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Doug. I work with 20 great guys in St. Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods and we're going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. We talked earlier about the fact that the trunk floors that you buy, will almost fit. Well, you can see that Alex has had to cut this piece in half in order to get it to fit. The angle and the length of the trunk floor, didn't quit fit the car and the other pieces of the trunk. So, he's got the first three pieces installed and he's had to modify the last piece in order to get it to line up parallel with the purchased new trunk floor and line up with the existing lines and size of the car. He had to lengthen it and widen it a little bit, in order to get it to fit. We drill out and install the clinko's in order to hold the piece in place. He is also has vice grips here and there he's used to hold things in place. You can see down here in the bottom there is vice grips he's used hold the piece in place as well. Each one of the holes from installing the clinko gets welded up when you are done. The hammering is in order to get the shape of the after-market trunk floor to fit the car exactly. In the first clip that we showed you, the trunk floor was about 4 inches short of where the curve needed to be in order for it to fit nicely."