Fenderflares continued
Hi all
after a pretty busy september, preparing and actualy racing my bike ( scored two times second) and supporting simon, i´m back working on the car.
Continued to further fixing the flares. I did this by sanding in a flat groove along the glue seams app 2 inches wide and 1/12" deep, covering each 50% flare and clip. Did this on the inside as well. Than i laid in 2 layers of 350g and 2 layers of 450g glassmat with vinylesther-resin. It looks a little dark ,but the accelerator of the resin has a dark purple color, giving the whole thing a dark look. I actualy build up higher quite a bit ,to be able to sand it smooth and even on the transition from one part to the other. I did a test sanding on the sill extensions and it worked out pretty good. Nice even closed surface. I even left still 1mm to sand down there. The whole sanding will happen after the car was in the oven to bake the body and all the seems and glassfiber has taken a final curement and has sunken in.
flares with seam filled
Sill extension testsanded
Inside seam
Also worked on glassing in my gurney buble. I located it very much towards the center of the car. A little more inward as i have seen on other cars, but this way the center of the buble is exactly centered over the drivers head. I used the same method to fix it as i used on the flares. I had the top of the door plus the a and b pillar of the door filled with the 2 K epoxy foam afterwards, which gave me the opportunity to sand it into a shape, which allows a nice inner look and a positive mould ,to glass it in from the inside also. With the high profiles fo the inner liner around the buble and the foam filling the top of the door is still very rigid.
bubble glued in and "glassing groove"sanded
glassed in
glassed in from the inside
Parallel i´m working on my transaxle. I had it taken apart. To prepare for an oil cooling system, i choosed to weld in two additional 18*1,5mm bungs.
I´m going to use the original breather vent opening for a 90° adapter to D8 ,which will go to the suction side of the pump. The return flow will go to the endcap of the box where i welded in a new opening. This way i hope i can establish a nice flow of cooled oil through the whole transmission. It could also be hooked up the other way around. The second bung i welded in, is for a thermostatic switch, which will switch on the cooling pump at 85°C and shut it off at 80°C in automatic mode.
return flow adapter in end cap
thermostat and suction adapter
The seat of the shortened end cap is machined and the housing will go out this weekend for completion.
TOM
AWH: 245 h