mini wide body (Page 8/20) bjc 350 DEC 21, 07:44 PM Thanks for the replies people. I took everything apart and fiberglassed the bottom of the nose. Will let it dry and try to do the inside of the bottom tomorrow. Then I can reassemble and do the final forming. That Fiat's lights under the windshield would work well. Looks like they are more driving lights than park/turn lights, though. That sure is an ugly Fiat- and I like Fiats! Stubby79 DEC 23, 03:23 AM The upper half of the front bumper looks like a C4 Corvette bumper.... bjc 350 JAN 26, 10:32 PM A quick update. Progress is being made, though a lot of it can't be seen in the pictures. I have assembled the 4 pieces of facia together into one piece. The wiring has been rerouted to hook up to the front park /turn lights. The mounts for the park lights have been glassed in. The backside of the nose has been fiberglassed. Yes, I know that the outside still looks pretty rough, but it is moving slowly toward a final shape to be glassed over. I will add about a half inch of foam to the sides in order to get rid of the slab sided look and then shape the grooves in the sides as well. I pulled the car outside for the pictures since it was sunny and 60 in Northwestern Oregon today. Sorry -all you North Easterners! Thanks for looking. And, an outdoor peek at the controversial tail lights! fieroboy_gt JAN 27, 12:30 AM I really lke your Tail lights . cool build . bjc 350 JAN 30, 09:26 PM I added foam to the sides and believe I succesfully got rid of the slab sides. Then I roughed in the grooves that wrap around from the front and along the side. Next I will do some final sanding and then use thickened epoxy resin to do any filling necessary and then-finally- fiberglassing. Thanks for looking. bjc 350 FEB 09, 11:21 PM Well, I tried using epoxy thickened with micro balloons as the sandable filler to get the final sanded shape before fiberglassing. It turns out that the epoxy was just too hard to sand when applied to the urethane foam being used as the base for the nose. I had used the same thickened epoxy on my first nose project and it worked fine. That nose was made with Foamular 250 which has a higher density and is more uniform in overall makeup. When I tried to sand the epoxy on this project it required too much pressure and caused the foam under to degrade and cause gouging of the overall project. So, I decided to skim coat the foam with lightweight body filler and then sand to final shape. I have about 90% of the filler applied, but very little is to final shape. I've posted a few pictures of the snail paced process. A lot of man hours, but not a lot of change. pontiackid86 FEB 10, 05:27 AM love everything but the taillights... they have to go.. bjc 350 MAY 08, 12:27 AM It's been a while, again. Fiero nose is final shape and ready to be fiberglassed. Then the yellow thing in the foreground came into the garage and has sucked up a lot of time. Nearly on the road, so will soon be back at the main topic. Paint by midsummer is the goal. bjc 350 JUL 12, 12:57 AM Been a looong time since I posted anything about the mini wide body. But this evening I had to pull it out of the garage to be able to access the attic area of the shop. So, while out I snapped a couple photos of the nose concept minus the fiberglass. Almost ready for glass but I probably said that a year ago. It will be finished, once the rental house gets its facelift and the lawn edge stones get placed here at home, and on and on. Sage JUL 12, 07:39 AM Fantabulous! HAGO!