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Old 09-01-2012, 02:06 AM
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Congrats on the win, I voted for you also.
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Congrats sir!!!!!
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Congratulations, I was your 34th voter... Wondering if you would sell that passenger side fender when you do your next project. Yours is Sunlight Silver, correct?
Its TiGray, but I might if everything works out
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Back from SEMA craziness, too many pics to upload but a quick Stillen FRS highlight







and a great pic with Kato san of Liberty Walk




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Thats outstanding man and it translated amazing from the design!
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That's pretty cool man congrats .
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That's awesome man congrats! I love that last pic lol..
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Congrats whoever you are!
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Congrats! FRS looks great!!
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The kit looks awesome! Congrats!
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Congrats man!
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LMAO, you look like a hibachi chef llolololol
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preview of next project,,, will post more tomorrow

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concept...



taking some measurements...









Modeling the vents...
The pink object is the block of apoxie that was scanned into the computer so I could capture the correct surface contours of the hood.






Experimenting with different mesh patterns...



Final design(left)...

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laying out the templates(measure 5 times cut once )...







Looks about right!







Forgot to take some pics of the cutting, have to jump to test fitting, Was very patient with the dremel and rasps and files...


First vent in,







Second vent went about twice as fast...





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That looks so sick man
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Design for the vent cap, haven't printed it yet though...







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Ohhh yeah this project too,,,

trunk scan...






Early design...



Later more refined...







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3DS Max?

did you 3d print that bitch and drop it right in? noice.

How do you go from the epoxy stage to the digital stage? As in, how do you get the contours of the epoxy translated into the computer? Do you have a 3D scanner??? :D Orrr..... did you take perfect 2D views and stitch them together? Dont tell me you used 123Dcatch, its impossible to use.

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^^^ yup. ABS plastic. now to go back and sand down the vents and prep for paint

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Originally Posted by EricB
How do you go from the epoxy stage to the digital stage? As in, how do you get the contours of the epoxy translated into the computer? Do you have a 3D scanner??? :D Orrr..... did you take perfect 2D views and stitch them together? Dont tell me you used 123Dcatch, its impossible to use.
We have 3 different 3d sanners. different scaners for different uses. you can see how much higher res the vent apoxie scan is than the trunk,,,
For the trunk I only really needed a rough idea of the surface data. The ducktail will be machined in foam then test fitted, then glassed over. Will mount with original spoiler hardware
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ohhh yeah then there is this,,,

My FD conversion project....

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dang Greg I want some of those vents!!


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