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[Spider77]

New Carbon Fiber Hood (not my fav design but the price made it my fav )

You should love that hood...it has a vent for you to add to your vent collection.

Ok seriously though, the car belongs to you, do whatever you want!

This post has been edited by Spider77: Aug 7, 2010 - 7:37 AM

[presure2]

back on topic, and without being a dick like the rest of these jackasses, why didnt you cut and strech the skirts so that they would reach the rear wheelwell?

[mgnt232]

lol thank you, and its just the "angles" i guess of the sides, There was no way to extend them to the point of getting them to the rear wheel well, i thought about it a abunch but it would of looked a bit funny, there may have been a way..but I couldnt envision it

And the hood for 150 was why i picked it up, was far too good of a deal and I know its not everyones taste lol, but at least give it enough time to be finished

[presure2]

lol thank you, and its just the "angles" i guess of the sides, There was no way to extend them to the point of getting them to the rear wheel well, i thought about it a abunch but it would of looked a bit funny, there may have been a way..but I couldnt envision it

And the hood for 150 was why i picked it up, was far too good of a deal and I know its not everyones taste lol, but at least give it enough time to be finished

yea, you could have cut them in the middle, or closer to the front section, and extend them there to make up the diffrence.
supershannon77 had the same hood on her car for a long time, i liked it.
props for the effort, theres only one way to really learn this stuff, and thats by doing it.
it gets easier every time after the first try.
good luck!

[HectortheRican]

For the love of anything holy dont put those fender vents on...

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Just IMO. Not hating, it's your car, you have command bro

This post has been edited by HectortheRican: Aug 7, 2010 - 9:33 AM

[hatchy_gt-s]

Looks good, keep p the work. Just a piece of advice lower your hood pins, they should be as close to the hood as you can get.

[mgnt232]

thanks
and yeah the pins were not actually installed in those pics, I just drilled out the holes for them this morning, and it closes alot better. its still not a grreeaat fitting hood, but it was well worth it, and the design is starting to grow on me alot

[thisguy18]

i love the idea
i would have tried to strech them tho like was previously stated
you could have cut them
taken a couple lengths of balsa or bass wood
over layed some thin pink sterofoam insulation stapled thet to the balsa or bass wood frame
then over that layed down fibre glass then a bit of bondo then another bit of fiberglass and bondo
then smoothed it out
Thats how several one off car makers do it
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[mgnt232]

lol i woulda never thought of that, my resources and experience is veryy minimal lol. But i can see now how I coulda dine it, but woulda been alott of work for me, and its not like my ST is much of a race car lol, done need to cool the rear drums
Thanks alot for the love helps this project go

This post has been edited by mgnt232: Aug 7, 2010 - 5:50 PM

[mgnt232]

So I started the molding process today, was a bit hard with the angles and amount that needed to be done, and I ahve only ever molded the rear bumper...so I dont know if i do it the easiest way. any how heres some unfinished pics-

(I have a couple thin layers of it on there, the last layer which you see has not been sanded, so it obv. looks pretty bad, but it is coming along, I think tomorrow it will be done

[NOVAKx17]

oh my ... did you use up half that gallon already? haha

but lookin good, starting to come into shape (:




i'm hoping this comes out as nicely as i'm thinking it will.. great progress man.

keep it up!

[mgnt232]

haha yeah like 3/4 of a gallon ... but as long as I take my time with the sanding, and go over it again, it should be good by tomorrow night, then the nextday sand the car down..then the next...paint

[NOVAKx17]

hahahah. nice nice..

i can't wait to see those updates! should be pretty pimpin ha

[Espo]

One thing though man, I noticed you're using cardboard for your resin - I would advise against doing that. Cardboard absorbs important parts of the resin and can result in a lesser adherance...learned this from a youtube video from Butler Community College. Although they were talking about body filler, I imagine the same would apply to fiberglass resin.

I used a piece of laminated bathroom tile - had cardboard backing but that wasn't the side I was using lol.

Looks good otherwise, I'm a tad iffy on those fender vents though.

[jordisonjr]

Not gunna lie, the side skirts are looking better than i was expecting, Im curious to see the end result.
Are you gunna have to get spacers on the rear to make the wheel look less sucked in? since the skirts make it look wider.

[mgnt232]

Thankk you lol its comin along
I have ideas to make the car alot lower, so I may get a "wide fender flare" and mold it in, in the near future for the rear. (aj did it, and it made it look alot better since everything was out more)

And I wasnt mixing the fiberglass on cardboard, I mixed that in a bunch of plastic containers, although I did mix the bondo on the cardboard... but for the most part the cardboard is not "porous" like it would normally be because it has a bunch of old layers of praypaint

Ill keep the updates coming, as the progress gets further and then it will be time to update the paint thread (may start painting wends)

[mgnt232]

So my car has been moved to my uncles garage, after weeks of helping him work on his camper to get it out of there! so i could move in

So using a bigger compressor helped alot with the sanding (I only have a small one that you have to sand for like a min then wait for the compressor to fill, ect) But for the most part if had to be hand sanded..and lets just say my arm is a bittt tired

But alot of it had to be hand sanded, applied like 3 skim coats of bondo, on top of what i already had, sanding in between, and the body lines are finally starting to look good!
After sanding allllllllll day it was nice to see im almost done! need to apply one more coat I think and and get another thing of glazing putty and a little more sanding, and it should be done The front fender flares are almost flush now, which is awesome.
Took some pics, but the lighting is not that bright so my phone couldnt capture what it looks like. (none of these pics are from the end of the day, looks a little better now)

[JuMPiiN]

It doesnt look bad but those fender vents throw ALL of your body lines off. If they werent there it would look alot better. Good progress tho. Cant wait to see it painted. But i think you should take those vents off.

[Ted95]

Cut for the "vent" (vent doesnt actually do anything, i covered it in the back)

if the vent doesnt actually work...then why not just cut the back of the vent on the side skirt so it fits flush to the body vs cutting a whole in ur car? jw .. maybe im wrong ... not my style but dont let anyone tell u different from wat u like my dude

[mgnt232]

with the inside of the vent cut (in order to sit even partially flush) it would look funny, I thought about it (its hard to explain how the body lines dont match up) but it woulda taken away from the the look 100%. But i do get if someone ever wanted to do this to their car and planned on ever selling or doing something different i would advise against it, but i dont ever plan on changing it

Its almost done

and for some reason I like the fender vents... lol almost everyone i talk to doesnt like them, but i do