Dude, you are nuts. Your neighbors are probably like, "WTF is he cooking on his spoiler?"

 

hahah, yeah a couple of them came up to me and said, well you arent washing your car like always so what the hell are you doin now???....

 

Cool stuff. I like the fenders....I had a similar idea. What are you using as the base there?

 

Those are some creative stuff you are doing there! Nice job and can't wait to see the fenders finished.

 

Aves Apoxie Sculpt, best stuff Ive ever used, Ive been sculpting for years and this is the industry standard. Its used by the Smithsonian for thier animal and dinosaur displays and by hollywood, it has Zero shrinkage unlike alot of 2 part epoxies which I have found can have up to a 20% shrink during thier green state...

 

^ IS this a PITA to handle like any 2 part epoxy or easier to work with?

Great job btw.

 

So you form the Apoxie into your sshape, wait for it to setup, then you can sand it and move it into your final shape, then use that for a mold for your final material like carbon fiber or fiberglass, etc, correct?

 

Very easy to handle, more of clay material once you knead it together, has about a 2 hr working/handling time, I find myself mocking things up on average, no matter what the size of the part in about 45mins,,,,

First and second correct, actually for the molds, I will lay glass over, creating a glass mold, then use that as my mold to create replicas,,,,
But to get the perfectly mirrored part thats a lil more high-tech, the answer to that can be found in the link I posted back in post #6, that is a more comprehensive thread, because it was my first time using the equipment where I work, well car parts at least,,,

 

so what do you do after this? it seems like theres a lot of indents... will you smooth it out with another layer? this is a good idea for a lip spoiler. hmm

 

nice man. can't wait to see what happens next

 

Just start removing material, if you look at the first couple fender duct pics you can see that I shave down all the high spots then back fill the lows...
Thats pretty much how I build everything...

 

great idea seem you canceled this project? https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...il+cooler+duct

 

No not quit, its just been on the back burner for a while, itll come back very soon,,,

 

Update on the lip,,,,

Ruffin in the form....














More rasping and sanding and priming...







Simple dimensioning,,,,







End of day one of shaping,,,

 

whoa nice man.

 

thats going to look so good man... cant wait for another update

 

how'd you go from the CAD model to the real thing? Rapid prototype or what?

 

Yup, we have 8 RP machines at work, we have SLS, SLA, FDM(which the fenders are), Objet, and a craptastic Z Corp...

 

^ i'm now officially envious

 

we also have thre RE scanners,,,

 

very impressive! want to work on my track car?

 

I want.

 

so fvckin official

 

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I want that fire extinguisher set up.