986 Spoiler - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

derfo · 08-13-2016, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by rfuerst911sc

If anything you may need to make the radius a little more pronounced. The Boxster has a beautiful round form and the spoiler in my opinion should continue that shape .

Thanks for you comments. Yes, I am thinking more radius too.

BrokenLinkage · 08-13-2016, 08:10 PM

Derfo,
Your work is impressive. But to look "right," the line between trunk and quarter panel needs to be extended to form the edge of the spoiler. Otherwise it just doesn't flow visually, looks like it is "adapted" to fit. Your 3rd pic in the recent post illustrates this very well. My opinion is worth what it cost, so if your sense of cohesive aesthetics points in a different direction, so be it.

derfo · 08-14-2016, 11:54 PM

Since my first attempt at making molds out of fibreglass was a learning curve, and I must say a lot easier than I thought. It gave me the confidence to make a mould out of a pattern, (buck) I have been working on and off for about 8 years, between road crashes, illness and earning a living.
Thought you may be interested to see how it turned out. By the way, its a little larger than the spoiler.

This is pattern, (buck)

This is the mould and the finnished roof.

In the past I sent a pattern to a professional mould maker. The mould was exellent but it cost me a lot of £, $. With my time and doing it myself (diy) I would say its cost me a third. Hope you like. The lesson, do good research and have a go no matter what it is. Do even better research if its brain surgery your attempting.