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Can't have a GT3 type car without a decent wing .
I was going to just buy one , but then i would have to modify it to fit the car anyway ,there aren't many wing over 72 inches that I can afford , so I had this old wing hanging around the shop I think it's from a Mustang .
The shape is close except for it's 2 feet too narrow . so I am going to take a mold of the middle and copy that twice and add a foot to each side , I know it sounds easy right .

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I will probably cut the ends off and make Aluminum plates or Carbon ones 

 

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6 hours ago, LRF4N said:

The front has an alfa giulia vibe about it. What are the tail lights from? I thought corvette when I first saw them

the tail lights are from a 2017 Camaro , the ones on the car right now are the stock ones ,they were brand new take off's which I picked up to build the car with .these are the lights that will go on the car when it gets assembled .

They are sequential ,they also come blacked out .

I am a dealer for them now and they are a little expensive so I didn't want to use them for building the car. 

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2 hours ago, ShortPaul said:

Just wondering what rims do you have in mind to fill those arches with:snack:

I have picked Savini wheels , I went to SEMA in 2018 and saw these there .

(I have never seen so many wheels in my life in one place)

The rears are 22 X 13 and the fronts are 21 X 9 1/2 with tires they cost  $6800.00 Canadian .

So that's why I built wooden ones to work on the car , the wooden ones are 24 inch ( but no tire the blue foam represents the full size )

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 Back to the rear deck lid or trunk , I needed to make a copy of the deck lid trunk area so I can build the trunk lid top and bottom off the car , it's so wide that it's just too awkward to build on the car .
So I prepped the area with wax and PVA as usual , but something went wrong , still not sure what happened , as I was laying up the fiberglass on the third layer, I was half way down the lid and it started kicking off and I wasn't going to be able to steel roll out the air !!!
So I was freaking out thinking it's going to be a big mess with air pockets and voids !!!

I would have to grind it all off so I pulled all the layers off and tossed them away , leaving a bunch of little glass hairs everywhere to deal with .

I got it cleaned up as best I could and re glassed it.

 

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Here you see popping it off the car

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Here you can see the blue foam melted from the heat and some resin got past the plastic and tape , and the part was not great and needed a ton of body work to rescue it

 

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I built a base for it , makes life so much easier to work on it .

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so now this will get glassed and become the the simulator for the rear trunk area , so I can work on building the lower and upper halves of the trunk lid with out hanging over the car for hours .   

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the trunk area copy , now this will be easier to walk around and work on .

Here is glassing the part

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Yes another base this one is important because it will also hold the part at the proper angle so it will look right on the car .

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Here are the two pieces being separated from one another .

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8 hours ago, P15UL T said:

Your wooden Jigs are as impressive as the fibreglass :teeth:

So are you making molds of all parts so you can make extra parts should you damage anything while driving it? 

 

 

Hi I am planning on making really good tough durable molds , I have a buddy who wants one , plus you are right about being able to make more parts in case of a crash or something .

Thanks for your interest .

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Started using the new foam , its going to help a lot , I can cut the foam with the new saw I built and then run it through the thickness planer to what ever thickness I need .
Here you can see how malleable it is when thinner .

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So this is how I make patters sometimes with thin door skin wood , rip it into strips about an inch to one and a half and glue gun the pieces where you need the shape .

Then trace it out on paper then transfer that onto the material your using . 

This is to make the pattern for over the tail lights , and you use the same one for both side ( of coarse )

 

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So All the parts I made with the blue foam has to be replaced with the new foam , lucky for me I saved all the patterns and jigs for the router table .

Here I am remaking new foam parts that go on the roof , I call them the batman humps , there purpose is to make the roof stronger and provide some more height around the trunk area .

 

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Running the foam through the thickness planner

 

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Should have a look at the hood .

I mocked this up with the blue foam , was a long time ago now , this was the original plan for the hood , Vintage Maserati kind of style .

The two outside petals were going to cold air intake slots underneath were the air box's are .

but as time goes zooming by and the amount of work to build molds for all these parts is just unrealistic  , it's been over 2 years now working every day .

The other thing is it doesn't make any extra room underneath for extra goodies .

But I really liked it !!!

 

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This is the bottom half of the hood , makes lots of room for goodies , I plan to buy another Zed later and build a beast with a supercharged LS3 6 or 7 hundred horsepower , full cage  , bare minimum , so I want some room for stuff , this new hood design will allow room for twin turbos or LS style air intake .

So I had to build this with the blue foam , so happy to done with the blue foam , it's truly a pain in the butt ,having to seal it up with foil and tape  .

 

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now remember is is the bottom half .....so the top will be a lot different 

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1 hour ago, pintopete58 said:

Being a fellow bench joiner/ carpenter&joiner I can really appreciate how long these jigs  can take to make.  Being old and decrepit the best I can do is a Mason's mytre on a kitchen worktop .will watch this with upmost respect. Keep it coming 

Can you do a mason mitre out of square? 

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