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[This message has been edited by QUIKRIDE86 (edited 01-23-2015).]

Wow! 160,002 views! Thanks everyone for your continued interest!

It's hard to believe it's been nearly a month since my last update... the East Coast has just been hammered by snowstorm after snowstorm soaking up all of the time I usually dedicate to car-building. Here's a couple quickie off-topic shots of our car storage building showing the extent of yesterday's dumping. The roof is 15 feet high.







I did manage to find enough time to carve out the RH radiator shroud out of foam, fiberglass it, and trim it up. Here are the two (almost) mirror image shrouds:



I had a heck of a time trying to get the resin to kick over and harden with the extreme cold and windy weather we've been having. I heat the shop with a wood-fired boiler system which is usually good enough to keep the shop at 15*C, but I had troubles staying above 10* C (50* F). It took two days for the resin on this second shroud to harden. Other than my patience being severely tried, the only real impact was that more resin dripped out of the fibers than I would have liked. As I carved out the foam and peeled off the tape, some of the fibers stuck to the tape from lack of resin. Good thing it's not a structural piece. Lesson learned: wait for warmer days before trying this again!

Just for fun, I mocked up the two shrouds in the rear quarters to get a sense of how much surface area the radiators will cover. It's a lot easier to visualize here than it is with the same view of the chassis:



Here's a different angle of the same thing. Once the quarters are solidly mounted to the chassis, I'll fiberglass the shrouds to the body:



And finally, here's a shot from the inside of fiberglass body showing how the door scoops flow nicely into the radiator shrouds:



Next up: some radiator plumbing.

[This message has been edited by Bloozberry (edited 02-17-2015).]

Holy crap Blooze, that snow drift is unbelievable. I was in Moncton 2 weeks ago when they had 3 storms in 1 week.
There was a good load of snow to be removed. I hope your storage place is going to be OK with all that snow.

Thanks for sharing...and nice progress on the passenger side of the car.

Cheers.

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