Read it first: How to fabricate your own brackets with a hammerform

Colin
By Colin Wood
Mar 11, 2025 | Grassroots Motorsports, Fabrication, Project car

Photograph by Carl Heideman

Those new parts didn’t come with the correct brackets for mounting? Time to break out the hammer–and the hammerform.

In the May 2025 issue of Grassroots Motorsports, we show you how to fabricate your own brackets using a simple hammerform.

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te72
te72 HalfDork
3/12/25 12:02 a.m.

This is how I shaped my intercooler duct, using some very large c-channel pieces to act as a home brew metal brake. For smaller brackets, I'm quite fond of large sockets. Gives you a gentle radius, and you are less likely to induce stress fractures by bending the metal into a sharp shape...

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