The Miura project begins (Page 34/84)
Archie JUN 22, 04:25 PM
To keep from slopping fiberglass all over ourselves, we tilted the chassis up on the side to do the fiberglassing on the underside of the roof section. This way the glassing materials don't drip in your face while working.....







We have a glue we mix to bond parts together. Everyplace where the steel will be glassed to the body, we have this glue taking up any gaps.





The 1st side has 3 layers of glass on it.....



Tip it up to do the other side the same way....



This is what it looks like before trimming....







Archie
Archie JUN 22, 04:55 PM
The interior shop that's going to upholster all the interior parts is located in San Antonio, TX.

The 1st group of parts they will upholster are the complete dash & the full console.

We had to test fit all the interior parts again.

We had to make sure that there was a proper gap between the surfaces where the panels came together to allow for the thickness of the material they are going to use.

We also had toplan to make sure that the interior re-assembly could be done with all the panels upholstered.

So, gapping of the panels & planning how it would all go together was on us.













We didn't like how the center console mated up to the center section of the dash so we put a large radius where the walls met.



The interior shop doesn't have Internet at the shop, so I had to write up instructions & print off about 30 pictures to show them how the interior all went together.

........
Archie JUN 22, 05:12 PM
While we were at this, we held up sending the interior parts out for a couple of days so we could start making the inter panels that would adjoin the parts we were sending out.

Here we made a back panel by making a fiberglass upper half round off of a pc. of 3" exhaust pipe. then we glassed that to some flat fiberglass panels we had made.









We also made some fiberglass panels for the insides & tops of the rockers.





Archie
Archie JUN 22, 05:37 PM
Last but not least, we had to make some mounting brackets for the seats.

The seats had already been upholstered some time ago. But the mounting brackets that came with them were not going to work because they mounted the seats too high in the car.





We needed to move the rails up as close as we could to the bottom of the seat & reangle the seats to lean back a little more.

So we made new brackets for them.











Now that the 1st set of interior panels are out to get upholstered, we'll try to get most of the bodywork done before they return.

Archie

------------------

Sig by Custom2M4

Gokart Mozart JUN 22, 06:13 PM
gonna make molds?
Archie JUN 22, 08:39 PM

quote
Originally posted by Gokart Mozart:

gonna make molds?



Nope
madcurl JUN 24, 09:50 PM

quote
Originally posted by Archie:



........



Pardon me, but what are the two opening for?
Will-Martin JUN 24, 10:08 PM

quote
Originally posted by madcurl:


Pardon me, but what are the two opening for?



Looks like speakers, pretty cool.
Archie JUN 24, 10:54 PM
On the real car they have vents in those locations.

We put little speakers in that location to replicate the vents.

Archie
gt40racer AUG 20, 06:37 PM
any updates?