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Nine8Six · 07-13-2016, 03:05 AM

So if I understand clearly, what you are doing now is just sculpting the shape you want. Once that's done you remove evrything and mold one piece?

For the sculting process, can't you use some sort of clay for this instead of chemicals fibers and all that trouble? Any clay that solidify after let's say 48hrs or something? Can't believe we don't have this stuff already?

Possibly called bondo I don;t know man, inexperienced here apologies

Can you please invent any of that Super Car Clay? I want shark shaped front fenders on my roadsta

compinsating · 07-13-2016, 03:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Nine8Six

So if I understand clearly, what you are doing now is just sculpting the shape you want. Once that's done you remove evrything and mold one piece?

For the sculting process, can't you use some sort of clay for this instead of chemicals fibers and all that trouble? Any clay that solidify after let's say 48hrs or something? Can't believe we don't have this stuff already?

Possibly called bondo I don;t know man, inexperienced here apologies

Can you please invent any of that Super Car Clay? I want shark shaped front fenders on my roadsta

ya pretty much... I mean the bumper is done as far as shaping it. now I have a rear bumper I'm going to use. like mentioned above.. it will have a short life but the remake will not be complicated since i already have the bumper made to mold from.

the quarters are in the state you mentioned. still sculpting and shaping to make my buck. i'm not sold on the look of the quarters yet. i feel there needs to be a little more detail around the vents. I'm kicking around some more idea in my head.

I've used clay(have a lot of it just sitting in a wet bag) before and I'm just not a fan of it. the pros use it over my method but I just don't like it. to be honest ... I'm loving the drywall mud the most so far. I've tried quite a few different things over the years and the dry wall mud is sooooo easy to work with. it sands like no other and super easy to apply. some might say I'm crazy but this is just for the buck phase and i don't see any reason to not go the path of least resistance

bondo... i live in Michigan and getting bondo to not gum up sand paper is rare, just to much humidity up here in the summer.

Meir · 07-13-2016, 08:41 AM

i think the drywall mud is brilliant idea.
easy to use and also cheap.

Bfan · 10-09-2016, 02:26 PM

Amazing work. Need some of these for my car. By far the best flares I have seen on 986 Sent you a PM

compinsating · 10-10-2016, 04:27 AM

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Amazing work. Need some of these for my car. By far the best flares I have seen on 986 Sent you a PM

no pm in my in box.

dijinn · 10-09-2016, 04:04 PM

Any plans to sell this as a kit?

compinsating · 10-10-2016, 04:26 AM

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Originally Posted by dijinn

Any plans to sell this as a kit?

yes, but not anytime soon. I'm just to busy right now to do them.

Bfan · 10-10-2016, 12:35 PM

Sorry I probably messed it up somehow. Will try again right away

compinsating · 10-11-2016, 09:31 AM

been working on getting this duraflex bumper put on

just an fyi to anyone considering buying one.... test fit.. test fit... test fit. this thing is not a great product. I knew it would be a challenge using an after market fiberglass part as it usually is but this bumper is extremely frustrating.

really need to build me a paint boot as well. looks great from 5ft away, get close and i should have took a light to it after primer to see more of the defects. hopefully by the end of the week i will have it permanently on there.

Bfan · 10-15-2016, 03:18 PM

Cant wait to see what you do with the front wings/front flares

compinsating · 10-18-2016, 03:42 AM

when i do the motor swap i plan on tearing the car down to nothing and redoing it all. the front wings/fenders are going to get widened along with the doors. check out the first few pics i posted in this thread and you can see my original thoughts with it. I'll be going back to that(and then some) look when i get back into it. I'm kind of anxious to get to the motor phase of this. once i see what the 3.8sc can do in this little car its going to motivate me to go big on everything else

its a fun quick little car but its not enough. it needs to be able to smoke my vette and keep up with the the car I'm building. to me nothing looks as exotic and fast as a porsche and this one needs to be able to live up to that