Reverse Cowl Hood Finally Painted
11-04-2003, 12:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Cheers!' date='Nov 3 2003, 02:49 AM
carbon fibre is fireglass... they just use a clear epoxy resisn on the last layer and use carbon fibre texture fibreglass weave.
wtf are you smoking? Yeah, some people make cheap CF parts with a outer CF skin over a FG structure, but those are cheap pieces of junk
carbon fiber is not the same as glass fiber, they are different materials, why don't you do some research on the subject before you propagate stupidity.
11-04-2003, 09:05 PM
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Originally Posted by pengaru' date='Nov 4 2003, 01:44 PM
hahahah
wtf are you smoking? Yeah, some people make cheap CF parts with a outer CF skin over a FG structure, but those are cheap pieces of junk
carbon fiber is not the same as glass fiber, they are different materials, why don't you do some research on the subject before you propagate stupidity.
wtf are you smoking? Yeah, some people make cheap CF parts with a outer CF skin over a FG structure, but those are cheap pieces of junk
carbon fiber is not the same as glass fiber, they are different materials, why don't you do some research on the subject before you propagate stupidity.
The hood is nice and subtle, the picture of that race car was gross, especially for the street. I would buy that hood in wet carbon in a minute
11-05-2003, 12:48 PM
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i want to make a different hood design then ill go with carbon and play with that...but i want to do that front end or something similar....i dont really like the rest of that car or that hood but im really digging something similar to knightsports for the fc....i wanted to be subtle in my first design but now i want to stretch a lil bit but i dont want to go overboard
11-05-2003, 05:08 PM
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you the guy who was making the hood on the other forum that
I gave some mold and hood making advice to?
I commend you on taking on such a project and normally
I dont trash people for trying to do something themselves, I offer
this as constructive critisizm in the hopes you arent
going to offer that hood for sale.
Maybe its the pics or whatever, but one could achieve the same results as you did by bondo'ing a old capri hood scoop to a original hood.
Your mold got damaged, but why did the painter even bother to
paint that hood? A blind man could at least feel the waves in it.
What did you make a new mold from? I hope you didnt use
that hood as a plug, if you did I hope you put the time into the
mold to correct it.
While its not rocket science, mold making and fiberglass
work has cerain procedures that must be followed to achieve
good results, any short cuts will show up.
Give that hood a few months out in the summer sun and
see what its going to look like. A good job is one that looks
good YEARS down the road.
I gave some mold and hood making advice to?
I commend you on taking on such a project and normally
I dont trash people for trying to do something themselves, I offer
this as constructive critisizm in the hopes you arent
going to offer that hood for sale.
Maybe its the pics or whatever, but one could achieve the same results as you did by bondo'ing a old capri hood scoop to a original hood.
Your mold got damaged, but why did the painter even bother to
paint that hood? A blind man could at least feel the waves in it.
What did you make a new mold from? I hope you didnt use
that hood as a plug, if you did I hope you put the time into the
mold to correct it.
While its not rocket science, mold making and fiberglass
work has cerain procedures that must be followed to achieve
good results, any short cuts will show up.
Give that hood a few months out in the summer sun and
see what its going to look like. A good job is one that looks
good YEARS down the road.
11-06-2003, 11:56 AM
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yup thats me and the guy i sold the thing to knows he was getting an experiment and i have a hell of alot more knowledge on my head than when i started. And yes that mold got screwed..at which point i trashed it and just copied the scoop.....so now i have fresh mold made from a clean NA hood.....used that as a plug...glass in the scoop...then from that i have a new plug and new mold......and the waves in the hood have nothing to do with the layup involved......it was more to do with flatspots that had to be filled and smoothed and curved and sanded due to the fact that it was screwed from the mold itself.....and yes you are right.....fiberglass work isnt rocket science, but you have to burn your hands once or twice to get it right and by looking at the hood for my first try with fiberglass im pretty damned impressed with how good what i thought was going to be a disaster turned out. And now looking at my pics i can see where my first visualization got me....so for those out there that have an idea in mind dont let anything hold you back from trying to do it yourself.......so yes now i know what im doing and whats involved and im sure to have much much more to learn but i have fun doing it!!
11-07-2003, 12:10 AM
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no rob ur completely right and i didnt take it that way at all.....I just got an idea in my mind and was a complete novice with fiberglass...but people told me i couldnt do it and i did the best way i could and suprised most people......and let me tell you just what went wrong with that hood.......when i pulled the mold it ripped from the underside because i didnt use PVA.....novice......and then tried to fix it once i got a dent in my plug......so the best thing i could do was to make one from the "fixed" mold.....and then fix it from there........and i had like at least 20 or so lil spots where it was somewhat flat from the mold...then to top it off I made the mistake of mixing the remainer of one resin that was completely different than another....complete mistake and bubbles started appearing......my fun and experiment turned into a huge headache and i started learning lessons the hard and fast way...but the guy that bought it realised he was going to be the ginuea pig......so i had sanded the hell out of the thing....and clear past the gel coat in some spots......copied the scoop and grafted it onto a clean copy of an NA hood and started fresh.....the one in the pic was the fuct hood that got painted and in my opinion looks pretty damned good considering.....but im hooking him up soon with some free goodies as i go along.....and ill post pics of my progress as i go along....