Evan

Looks like it's moving pretty fast in the photo.

I've watched a few of those vids of that CF 240z. It's a bit of a balls up how all he is doing is laying carbon over the factory panel to make the new panel, then removing the original panel to attach the new CF panel. The whole car is going to end up fractionally larger that it should be, curious to see how it affects panel gaps and things like tail light fitment. Also the nice smooth finish ends up being on the inside of the panel, which you don't see...

I've considered that, could make some additional moulds to work with what I've got and give that a go too, I just don't know if it would be runny enough to get into all the spots.

Yeah from what I've read it depends on the resin and what temp you cure it at, some are 70 C, some are 90 C some are 140 C. Don't know until you try, if it doesn't work out no harm done etc.

Has anyone here done anything with prepreg carbon fibre? I've been umming and ahhing over what to do with respect to the intake manifolds I've printed for the v12 Jag engine I have. The obvious thing to do would be lost wax casting but I'm not really interested in that. After watching those easy composites videos approx 18 months ago I've wanted to try and make something out of prepreg carbon ever since so thought I'd try and make these manifolds out of carbon. 

I sprayed the print with some high build primer and sanded it back to smooth it out. So far the biggest decision has been what to make the mould out of, have decided to give silicone a go as it's supposedly temperature stable to like 220 degrees Celsius. Will put a box of some description around the mould for support and hopefully be able to out-of-autoclave bake it in the oven to cure the carbon. Plan to import one of the easy composites starter kits with the vacummn pump etc and have a play. Hope to report back with how I get on.

I stuffed up when i poured the first half of the mould and forgot to put locating dowels in to align the 2 halves, should be able to wing it though.

I should really start with a simpler shape haha...

You didn't used to work with an Aussie guy called Julian did You?

On 10/02/2018 at 11:18, AALAWS said:

I was just going to post about this too......I need my ke25 rust cut to somehow appear in the Waikato/Otorohanga if anyone's making a trip??

You get this sorted?

A+

Bags, 1GZ and brown paint

That is all.

Yeah would do an m117

You're all wrong

OM606 or bust

Check again for rust updates. you got any photos of yours pre-paint for a comparison?

RE Lexus, those photos are taken at Neds, where it's being stored for the next couple of months while it waits for a panel beater, it's his Lexus

The not so good: mainly seems to be contained in the LHS and boot, with the boot and spare wheel wells shown here:

It turned out to be a bit holy-er than I thought it was. We will start with the Good - the roof! Apart from a small dent above the right rear door it might as well be brand new!

You can semi make out in the bottom right corner of that second photo and the top of the next photo some cut marks around the upper lip of the parcel shelf. The previous owner has cut chunks out of that entire lip all the way around, which is going to be a pain to correct

The Engine bay isn't bad either, a few pin holes around where the brake master cylinder bolts up, but no rust under the battery mount.

The big push for it to all be apart in a week was because it had a booking with Autoblast in Glenfield to get blasted and primed. after 6 months sitting and a week of bashing away on it, it left Brents.

So that was roughtly June/July last year, the car sat in Archetype shed until the new year where I spent a week commuting back and forth to his house to pull it apart over the xmas break. I don't understand how some people can live in Hamilton and commute to Auckland for work - it's the worst drive in the world.

It all came apart reasonably easy except for a bit of dicking around with the heater core and a bit of lost sweat trying to get the dash pad out.

The floors got the dry ice and hammer treatment to get the sound deadening out. This revealed what I suspected when I pick up the car originally, that the front left floor pan/sill area was junk. The front left door flexed a bit when the strop was slammed in it when it was on the trailer, which suggested the area was a bit soft. you can kind of make out a bit of daylight through the passenger floorwell in the above photo.

On 2/26/2018 at 19:10, aT_eAse said:

Called Woodhead last week and they have a 3 month waiting list. 

That's pretty normal.

I'd be cautious of anyone who doesn't have a (reasonable) waiting list, think along the lines of 'why does no one want to use/wait for their services?'

I've watched the easy composites videos myself and it looks like they will ship prepreg to your door (they're in the UK), think the stuff has about a months shelf life once thawed.

Just finished mopping up all the foam off my floor

3 hours ago, oldrx7 said:

 

Pwoaaaaaaar, got more photos of this?

20 hours ago, nacnud said:

Keen to hear some recommendations on places for getting chassis blasted and epoxy please team.!

Phoned around a few buy keen to hear who you guys have used before.

Thanks!

 

Autoblast in Glenfield

Have you sent it in for a simple-ish underbody blast and now it's going to come out looking like this?