The Miura project begins (Page 54/84)
Archie FEB 26, 04:45 PM
After letting the glue cure completely, the pc. is a laminated part in which the glue has allowed the fiberglass sheets to become a structural part of the louver.



The metal sticking out at the ends gets bent over at a 90* angle as the louver is fitted to it's position on the car.



Then the ends are glassed up...





After some sanding & shaping, it looks pretty good.





With all the stuff to do & only one tool to do it on. With cure time & everything we could only get 2 of them done per day.









Once we have them all done, we will secure them in place while we open the rear clip & build an aluminium frame to tie them all together & make it so they they can be removed for painting etc.

Archie
katatak FEB 26, 08:05 PM
Just when we think it can't get any better......... I love this thread!

I know I've said this before but I'll say it again.

Thanks for sharing all this Archie - so much great info and little tricks. You guys are amazing!

Pat
Archie FEB 26, 09:51 PM
Thanks for the kind words.

We got the last 2 louvers setting in the car just before we left tonight.

The bottom 2 still need a little tweeking but I took some pics anyway.







Archie
FieroDev FEB 26, 10:08 PM
Thats awesome! cant wait to see them painted!
exoticse FEB 27, 12:50 AM


Archie that is phenominal !

It really is amazing watching how you guys come up with ideas to fabricate and create things from scratch !
Amida FEB 27, 09:19 AM

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Originally posted by Archie:



Archie



Beautiful!
RCR FEB 27, 01:37 PM
The build is fantastic, and Archie...Your team is simply amazing.

WOW!!

Bob
diabloscott FEB 28, 10:08 PM
This really is impressive. What type of wheel is the owner going to run?

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Sofa King MAR 01, 10:09 AM

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Originally posted by katatak:

Just when we think it can't get any better......... I love this thread!

I know I've said this before but I'll say it again.

Thanks for sharing all this Archie - so much great info and little tricks. You guys are amazing!

Pat



UH-GREED!
Archie MAR 04, 09:48 PM
Work continues

While Rob worked on the louvers, Kris was working on placing some inside door handles into the doors.

The front top corner is where it's supposed to be...Here we're test fitting it



Really limited on where we can put it because we have to clear all the window operating hardware on the inside.





We ended up mounting it deeper into the door panel than what you see above. Mostly because we wanted to make a finger pocket around the handle & we didn't want to make the door panel any thicker than it is.

Here's what the pockets look like now...









Then, since a bunch of the parts have been finalized, we decided to dry fit some of the parts to make sure they fit correctly before final fitting.

Tail lights, rear bumper & insert (the insert was powdercoated semi-gloss black)...







The headlights.....



Also fitted were the finished battery tray parts that I showed you before & a few other things.

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