Hey guys,
I was wondering if this is usual approach to making bodykits like this ?
wouldnt be hard to get symmetry without using templates ?
http://www.fibreglast.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2548&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=2d605ff6d01c9398a1ba14302973753d
That is the same basic approach, materials may differ by preference.
There is “artistry” involved in obtaining symmetry. some times if things are exact mirrors they still don’t look right, It takes a good eye to get it right
I would agree with that! I did a front end and will never do it again 
Just not what I am good at!
An advance student of mine took over a job (for awhile at lest) of doing a body kit that someone else started and what he did was to section it off and used plum bobs to mark off a grids on both sides to be able to measure and correct them as they went along.
I wish now I had my digital camera along that on day…
I’ll call him (got to anyways as I loaned the other guys doing this project a pressure pot set up for VIP and never got it back and they may be going under…?) maybe today or so to try & talk him into coming on here and better discribe how ne did it.
But the wife and myself are going to Santa Barbara this weekend for a little get away and I have to pick a race car from there to finish fabbing for a customer in the coming months…:eek: along with an Austin Healy with a Chevy V8 stuff in it and a pro “Hondog” drag car for PC windows too!
Thanks guys
Yeh that be good if he could come on and explain somethings in detail.
I was wondering also what else used apart from foam, what fillers ?
Heard there is plaster and bog ? any else ?
Also heard people use clay ?
For example what would he be using here ?
If you want to do it right, the way the big industry does it, you model it on a computer and machine either the plug or the mold on a 5 axis mill. That will get you around plus or minus 0.005" or about the thickness of a hair.
Bondo to smooth the finish after he has layed down some fiberglass
“Bondo” is MarHyde’s version on automotoive body filler: Polyester resin & fillers to make it a paste. You use it to fill the low spots (valleys) up the high spots (mountians), as that is how I discribe it in the classroom. Just like sanding the mountains down to the valleys…
The secret when using BONDO type materials is to let it cure to a “B” stage and then use a Shurform (cheese grater looking tool) to shape it and it then cuts like cheese. If you wait until it fulls cures (I see it on cars that are driving around too many times and cringe at the sight…), then break out the HD grinders and watch the dust fly!