The Miura project begins (Page 44/84)
Archie NOV 20, 05:02 PM

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Originally posted by Mr.PBody:

Thats the Miura Concept from a couple years ago, it may have influence the new parallel body. SVA put restrictions on things like lighting which is where part of the re-design came from.




That's correct, I pulled up the wrong set of pics in my previous post.

I've removed them.

There is actually some pics from another member who has a Prova ZL earlier in this thread.

Archie
Archie DEC 04, 03:50 PM
We've kept up the build for the last few weeks.....

We began setting up the window operating hardware on the Left side door....







Here we're fiberglassing up the flange to the door for mounting up the outside dew wipe.



Also we're working on the door vents on the R. side door. This stuff wasn't supplied with the kit, so we have to make it up here.....







While doing that, we also are starting to fab up the floor area of the front compartment. The stock Fiero spare tire well is not going to fit into this tubular chassis. The floor we're going to have to make is not going to fit in if it's all one pc., so it will be 2 pieces.

The back part of it will have to fit up to the cowl bulkhead under the A/C componets & heaterbox. So we took a stock Fiero spare tire well & modified it as needed & use that as a mold to make the part we needed.



Here we're laying up fiberglass on it........





We're still working on the door vents....



While we make the next area of fiberglass mounting flanges for the outside dew wipe on the drivers side door....





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Archie DEC 04, 04:27 PM
Back to the door scoops. We put in flat fiberglass pcs. for the strakes. We will have to fiberglass each one of the pockets formed by these strakes. So we hot glue these pcs. in on the bottoms & once we've fiberglassed them from the top we remove the hot glue & glass them from the bottom too.









Fabbing up the metal metal tray that will be the front compartment floor & battery box.







This is the fiberglass tray Rob made to close out the front compartment floor area.





The front compartment floor wouldn't fit in if it was all 1 piece, so it's 2 pcs., Fiberglass just in front of the bulkhead & then steel going forward from there.



Once the battery box is built, this is the front part of the front compartment floor. Since the Chassis is all powdercoated gloss Black, I think I'll send this out for Powdercoating too.





Back to the door vents, Kris has fiberglassed all 4 sides of each of the pockets formed by the strakes in the door vent to make them more ridgid & thicker.





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ClayTonto DEC 04, 04:51 PM

This detail is great!
Are these going to be functional?
Archie DEC 04, 05:57 PM
The strakes on the door vent on the real car are metal. We had to make them out of fiberglass because there are no provisions to attach metal parts to the door or to the outside part of the scoop. Considering that the fiberglass "sail panel" part of the door is a lot thicker than the original cars metal door skin, there's just not enough room to the inside of the strakes to accomidate fastenersfor the strakes.

To make them look as close to the original as we can, it will take a some filling, filing & sanding inside of each pocket to get the corners square with a minimal radius inside the pockets.











A little loop to form the door handle.......



And some shaping of the leading edges of the strakes & it's looking pretty good.....





The door scoops lead into the engine compartment, so we had to make a duct scoop for that.







Then we had to make that duct look right on the inside. So we used our Flat Fiberglass stock to make the inside walls for the scoop.





Some sanding, finishing & primer & it looks pretty good.









Archie
RCR DEC 04, 07:11 PM


Awesome job guys. I know that that is a major PITA to do. Looks great.

Bob

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madcurl DEC 04, 08:23 PM

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Originally posted by Archie:


Archie



Sweet!
exoticse DEC 04, 10:10 PM

Sick ! Great work Archie and crew.

btw,...i spy choptop #13 ? Any new work going on with it ??
Archie DEC 05, 10:18 AM
We've done the upgrades to it that Dave wanted to do. Thay are documanted in the What's up at Archie's thread.

25 Chop Tops have been done since the GBCT was completed. The GBCT now has all the upgrades that have evolved in the last 25 chops. So now it's up to date & ready for paint.

Next, Dave is going to take it to his local painter to make it all one color again.

Archie


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Originally posted by exoticse:


Sick ! Great work Archie and crew.

btw,...i spy choptop #13 ? Any new work going on with it ??
Archie DEC 05, 10:21 AM
We have almost all of the bodywork done on the Right side of the Miura now.

You can begin to see the shape of the car when it's all one color.......





Archie