WANTED : mouldable thingies

widowmaker · Post by **widowmaker** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:51 am

well thats not a nice reply...

thanks for breaking my stride here piesang!
but it does look good... FOR R12 000 !!!
give me some time chinas - gonna bake some niiice cookies

veecee · Post by **veecee** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:28 am

widowmaker wrote:well thats not a nice reply...
thanks for breaking my stride here piesang!
but it does look good... FOR R12 000 !!!
give me some time chinas - gonna bake some niiice cookies

i dont think he would have paid 12 grand. he paid 4, but they kokked up, so they redit it a few times!!!!

widowmaker · Post by **widowmaker** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:35 am

i was talking about the car

widowmaker · Post by **widowmaker** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:37 am

ayayaiii not often that i laff at my own jokes, but that one... eish

i suppose the big bucks is for making the mould the first time...

widowmaker · Post by **widowmaker** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:42 am

ok ok i'm off to go and play
seeing that CF is super duper light, maybe i will start out by making some dumbells for freddie

Vlade · Post by **Vlade** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 11:10 am

Widow what you gonna cook up? Give us some insight what you busy with

I'm rather interested and excited to see what you get going here

widowmaker · Post by **widowmaker** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 10:06 am

sorry, first had to un-depress my garage - ive been stuffing around with wood (real wood, not just my own woodie) so there was some real cleaning to do - well that was the last two days for ya.

and i forgot to go and buy rollers demmit - so i hope i get lucky today (dont we all) - might find some at makro...

then playing starts!

widowmaker · Post by **widowmaker** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 10:11 am

oh and some sort of buffing wheel thingie

i had a look at my center console - it might be on my playing list - doesnt look so impossible

the trick with this is to make it worthwhile in that more than one person must want what i'm gonna bake - to offset the costs and mould making time. maybe i should make a poll to see where i should start...

what scares me about the bonnet is not the size or shape (should be easy) but the reinforcements underneath the bonnet - have a look - i dont want the thing flapping like DarkWing Duck - you know "I am the terror that flaps in the night, i am the bubblegum that sticks in your hair, i am DARKWING DUCK!!!!!!!!!"

anyway
"LETS GET DANGEROUS"

veecee · Post by **veecee** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 11:30 am

you have two options for hte bonnet reinforcements:

1. cut the original metal ones off, and attach them to the new CF bonnet.

this defeats thr purpose of weight saving really, but adds a lot of strength!

2. take a mould of the reinforcements and make some out of CF. then "glue" the two pieces together before finishing.

probably just as strong, but a whole lot lighter. way more effort though!!!

Vlade · Post by **Vlade** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 11:45 am

yeah I see the CF bonnets you buy overseas has the same underside as our current ones... So I think its two molds that they bond together in the end. We must maybe ask that guy from the Zoopedup forom to post a pic of his underside...

Damn that just sounded weird

veecee · Post by **veecee** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 6:44 pm

Vlade wrote:We must maybe ask that guy from the Zoopedup forom to post a pic of his underside...

i get the feeling that he wont want to take pics of his underside, but if you want pictures of the reinforcement that he has on the engine side of his CF bonnet, then i reckon its no problem!!!

and i remember this:

Vlade wrote:we shouldn't let people under the influence of alcohol read this forum"

who's drunk now, mister "two events in a row on easter weekend"!!!!

Gary57 · Post by **Gary57** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 8:52 pm

Spoke to a guy yesterday who does CF and he says that he will cover our center consol or whatever we want it real CF. I saw he had covered his MOMO GT2 mags and they look real good. He just covers them in 1 layer of CF to give it the look. He wants R1500 to cover the center consol, not sure if thats good or not.

veecee · Post by **veecee** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 10:12 pm

here what about this:

here's the link to the ebay site!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Fiber-Re ... dZViewItem

looks quite nice actually - but then what do i know about aerodynamics!!!

widowmaker · Post by **widowmaker** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:14 am

sure, the covering of the console is easy (and he is a bit steep), but it kinda defeats the whole point - you just add weight to your car (the console is light, but you're not going to stop there - after you do bits here and there you'll want the outside to reflect the inside of the car), so you end up with 1.5 times the weight of the original car

plus, if you just cover stuff then you don't have moulds to redo it for selling.
Covering also adds to the size - i imagine about 1.5mm, so there will come a time where you can't fit two covered covers together (like the center console (multiple parts)...

anyhoo people want the parts so that they can modify them but dont wanna chop their original parts

it is easier, but not the way i wanna go for now
my only bother now is the undersides of whatever im making - the clips etc... how to get the stuff fitted afterwards. The little black plastic B pillar things i've started on have little slide-in things to kep them against the car... and i doubt that double sided tape will survive 240kmh, so for that kinda thing covering might be an idea. Do we still have an SX sitting somewhere in a scarp yard that anybody knows of?

aah well, boermakaplan

Gary57 · Post by **Gary57** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:44 am

ja he is a bit steep. working with cf cant be much different to working with fibre glass. i hear there are special primers u need to use. but come on i can work with fibre glass very well so then surely i can give cf a bash. where can i buy the stuff needed to try it??