I plan on making it much smaller than the height of the plug at the moment...
How do you plan on doing that ..??
I wish you would hurry up and get the first one out of the mold so I can start sending a few things to my 'prototype guy' in the Dallas area... I amk waiting so i dont steal your spotlight!
Steveo...
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Posts: 4413 From: 75762/Texas/USA Registered: Dec 2003
widened the vents on the cad pic...looks cleaner imo
Be sure you put the mockup on the car during the shaping and walk around while looking at it, take a marker with you .....it really helps to get the final shape to blend with the body...hope this helps
Doh !... Pic aint workin for me... wassup wit dat !?
lol, Im trin to hurry... lol, I don't wanna screw everything up tho, so... yea... Its all in mother natures hands now (need some nice weather)
I think that everyone is reserving judgment until we see a finished prototype. It's hard to tell how the finished product will look from what you have done so far. I think there are a number of people who are interested to see the finished prototype.
Im hoping it will soon... this cold is for the freggin birds... Im in the process of selling my #1 fiero. Once thats sold, this mod and others will get off the ground better, hopefully.
I'll be buying a shed with the money hopefully. So I'll have an area beside my bedroom to work with this stuff...
After that 'lil accident, I covered the parts in shellac, and waxed them. Masking tape and wax worked well, also. Or you can cover it with a thin layer of "mud" and shoot it with a coating of Kilz primer. Then wax, etc...
You can get rough molds with aluminium foil and plastic wrap..dont expect too much though...the aluminium will wrinkle when you put it to the shape, the plastic wrap will wrinkle when you apply resin and fiberglass....so you will need to do some smoothing when you pull a mold this way.
But Next time I make this (within the next month hopefully) I'll be making it out of wood... Still tring to get the net working at home again, bare with me... lol
FieRo, that hood scoop is going well... Hopefully I'll have 1 done within the next week... Think the vents would sell?
You can get rough molds with aluminium foil and plastic wrap..dont expect too much though...the aluminium will wrinkle when you put it to the shape, the plastic wrap will wrinkle when you apply resin and fiberglass....so you will need to do some smoothing when you pull a mold this way.
yeah thats why i only use it to cover the foam to then make a glass plug.. then you make a mold from the fiberglass plug - never make a mold straight from foam
I just have to ask if this has died and will not happen. I have already in mind that this is the trunk lid mod I want for my Fiero. so the question is, has this stopped or has some one found one of theys mods already made. or am I going to have to pick up the ball, I don’t want to take any one thunder but I would not mind trying to make a mold for this mod. I have never fab any thing but you guys make it look easy.
I've got a full time job now (just graduated HS 4 weeks ago, something like that...
good news tho... im getting ready to buy an 86GT that has the most hideous hole in the decklid that will need covered up... I wont garentee on when it'll be done or when i'll try to finish the mold... But once i get a place to do it it'll be easy...
I was in the process of making a mold outta wood, but that was also put on hold due to finances, and too many other fiero projects going on...
Its alot harder than it looks i found that out the hard way... but i'd like to get atleast 1 made to see what it looks like... if its pleasing to you i'll make ya 1... but time is something i dont have a ton of at the moment... I'll get 1 done eventually...
wow guys check this out, I was killing my last 15 min of work on friday and disided to look on ebay on the newly listed since I all ready check all the pages earlyer that day and I could not beleave my eyes
the exact lid vent we are all talking about and it was for $100 buy now , I wander if it was from the first ebay action, I looked for a ebay name for the first action but they removed it. you can see he said that he is selling it becouse he wrecked his car and dident have a chance to install it,
I am still stoked thinking about it, I almost have all my body mods, I will have to start my oun thread soon.
jsshark1
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wow guys check this out, I was killing my last 15 min of work on friday and disided to look on ebay on the newly listed since I all ready check all the pages earlyer that day and I could not beleave my eyes
the exact lid vent we are all talking about and it was for $100 buy now , I wander if it was from the first ebay action, I looked for a ebay name for the first action but they removed it. you can see he said that he is selling it becouse he wrecked his car and dident have a chance to install it,
I am still stoked thinking about it, I almost have all my body mods, I will have to start my oun thread soon.
jsshark1
I have had one of those, bought it off Ebay (from gdjetski). I personally was not pleased with the quality (a new mold needs to be made) so I sold it. First one I received was broken and had been patched but broke again during shipping (however he did send me another one, it is the one I sold). It was shipped from overseas... China if I remember right. But hey it is a nice design ..... it would be nice if you could finish the mold 88GTFormula. They would sell !!
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I also purchased one from gdjetski and it too arrived broken. he indicated that he had never had one arrive in such a condition, obviously he's was not telling the truth. He did refund $40.00 to me but knowing that others have arrived broken points to his inability to package properly. Additionally the finish on the piece is a far cry from perfect. I will be repairing and installing mine but I think I have changed my opinion of his products and would not recommend him.
Zoom88, thanx for the encourage ment... I have more insentive now than i did at the time that i started this thread... I got an 86GT with a few things that need repaired etc... 1 is a hole in the decklid... heres 2 pix...
Before:
After:
I gotta close that hole... But before i finish or keep going much further with mods i need to get ahold of a pole building or shed, etc. to work on the thing and make mods like these... I've promised a few people a center console (i want one as well) but i gotta get a shelter for the glass to cure etc...
Anyways, im drawing up ideas, figureing up measurements, and i "MIGHT" (sometime in the relatively near future) start a new mold, but construct it alittle diffrent (basicaly learning from my mistakes...)
but basicially this post is to thank several forum members for encouraging me... Zoom, Mad-curl, Stevo... yellowstone, Fie-ro, Aus... thanx guys... i'll get this mold done 1 day
I like it allen. looks pretty sweet... how did it come about? just expierementing with shapes or something ?
I like the design. inovative... its one of those mods that get my ideas flowing... any under decklid pictures of the vent...? i see ya got a roll bar too... smart
keep the pictures any ideas coming guys... Thanx allen... more pix ?
