The ClayTonto Fiero Build (Page 5/36)
TiredGXP FEB 22, 02:40 PM
The decklid looks good.

I'm curious about how effective the vents will be in venting heat from the engine compartment. Since they face forward, I'd expect a fair amount of cool air to be forced in when up to speed, but what about extended periods of low speed or idling such as you'd encounter during rush hour?

Cheers

**edit** there you go, page two - time to load up on pictures again

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madcurl FEB 22, 03:25 PM

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Originally posted by Archie:



Archie




You might as-well get a nice MOMO sterring wheel to go along with the interior.
Archie FEB 22, 03:26 PM

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Originally posted by TiredGXP:

The decklid looks good.

I'm curious about how effective the vents will be in venting heat from the engine compartment. Since they face forward, I'd expect a fair amount of cool air to be forced in when up to speed, but what about extended periods of low speed or idling such as you'd encounter during rush hour?

Cheers

**edit** there you go, page two - time to load up on pictures again




That question leads directly into the next item we're going to cover in this thread.

As you will see coming up, the qtr. window scoops will not be dicting any outside air into the engine compartment. They will be a part of the CAI only.

Let me show you as we get back into building the CAI......

We wanted to mock it up & didn’t want to scratch up the Polished tubes we had, so we used 4” Dia cardboard tube.



We needed to mock it up so that we could figure out where the 4” fiberglass tubes we made were going to have to be located in the qtr. Window scoops.

Here Kris made a triangular shaped flat fiberglass pc. That’ll fit inside the qtr. Window scoops. Then we positioned the scoops on the car & determined where the 4” Dia. Fiberglass tubes, that we had made, were going to have to be located. Here he is glassing those tubes onto the scoops.









Then it was time to fiberglass them onto the back sides of the scoops.







Next, we finish up with the tail light covers.

Archie
Archie FEB 22, 03:47 PM
Finally we got back to working on the tail lights. We had to wait for the hatch “Buck” to be removed from the car we were fitting it to so we could use the MadArch WideBody rear clip to fit the tail lights into.

As we fitted them to the rear clip, the 2 lights didn’t come together in the middle tight enough & as a result the total width of the tail light parts were too wide for the tail light opening in the rear clip.





We couldn’t cut the CF layered outside surface to modify them so we had to modify the inboard ends slightly.





Kris made some brackets for mounting them & glassed those into place.







They look pretty good when we fit them into the car....









Archie
madcurl FEB 22, 04:06 PM

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Originally posted by Archie:


Archie



Nice "save."
Archie FEB 22, 04:11 PM
Now, finally, I'll be caught up with this thread......

The last couple of days have been all about making the mold off of the “Buck”.

After a couple of thick coats of tooling jelcoat, we laid up about 6 heavy layers of fiberglass.





Then some material to stiffen up the mold & a couple of more layers of fiberglass





After it sits for a couple of days, we take the mold off of the buck.....

This is the mold....



This is the "Buck". The "Buck" is pretty much dumpster material now.

In a few days, after we get a part out of the mold, it'll be in the dumpster.





Wet sand, polish then wax the mold about 8 to 10 times.



Next the plan is to take a part out of the mold to use as we build a "Buck" for the underside of the hatch.

We also plan to take a 2nd part out of the mold to use in designing the vents.

That's it, I'm caught up.

Archie

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madcurl FEB 22, 10:18 PM

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Originally posted by Archie:






Have you decided upon which type of side markers your going to use?

For the front flipper and rear 350Z glass it might be best to use actuators.

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ClayTonto FEB 23, 01:38 AM

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Originally posted by madcurl:

You might as-well get a nice MOMO sterring wheel to go along with the interior.



I'll be using a Grant wheel with integrated Pontiac horn

Edit: to put right wheel up

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Originally posted by madcurl:

Have you decided upon which type of side markers your going to use?

For the front flipper and rear 350Z glass it might be best to use actuators.



I may use actuators on the rear because of the weight, I'm probably not going to mess with the flipper to much

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ClayTonto FEB 23, 01:43 AM
I wanted to see what the taillights were going to look like, so here's a quick job:

Not too shabby for a noob at photoshop.
BTW, Archie and crew, great job on this.

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madcurl FEB 23, 12:03 PM

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Originally posted by ClayTonto:


I may use actuators on the rear because of the weight, I'm probably not going to mess with the flipper to much



My rear Dakata Digital (D.D) actuator comes in handy since it's hooked-up using the key fob. Press the button when it's raining to open, dump your stuff inside the trunk, hop back into the car, and press the button to close- beautiful.

I also have the key fob hooked-up to the front actuators, but I must admit- the rears is far more important than the fronts. Either way, it's cool if your parked at a gas station and you want to show-off. In your case, showing off the chrome-custom intake system is tight! I like new ideas.

(side note); if you decide to purchase D.D's system- place your order ahead of time prior to picking-up your car from Archie's. Apparently, D.D's actuator switches are on back order and it would be best to have Archie and the Crew hook-up the system.