This will be a place where I will share some of my custom builds...
Just finished today,,,,

Fire extinguisher mount/cubby whole....

First we must choose an area and reverse engineer it in Solidworks,,,





Anyone guess where this spot is yet????
Now the new part,,,
About 2 hours getting all the surfaces to play together...





Now mating the two parts to check tolerances of the surfaces...
Fits right up...



Sorry for the dark images, it was dark and I needed the flash for install pics...







Still to come....

Custom Gurney flap/lip for GTO wing...
Finishing of the OE oil cooler ducts...
Complete Rear Diffuser for OE rear bumper...
Custom fender build...

 

wow i really like that lol. when i first say it put together in solidworks i thought "hmm thats a nice spot for a small extinguisher" then i saw your last pic lol. great job.

 

Yeah, I want that, where do I buy it. Awesome.

 

Rotr8 you amaze me!!!

 

I'm interested in what fender and rear diffuser ideas you come up with.....looks good

 

heres the oil cooler ducts from a long time ago...
https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-exterior-appearance-body-kits-27/project-intake-duct-insert-148077/
soon to be complete... a few mods were needed to fit

Truely from scratch, nothing more than 2 part epoxie ,some hand rasp, some bondo and a sanding block and sand paper...
To finish these they will be glassed into the fender, the current outlet where the oe vent is will be welded over and a new outlet will be cut further towards the wheel well arch...

well since you asked I guess I can give up the goods on the fender project,,,
This one was truely from scratch, Inspiration from the Z06....

 

 

ohhhhhhh sittt

 

wowzers!!!!

 

damn... so much time and effort

 

wow - i would never have the patience to do that ...

 

wow Greg... this is gonna turn out awesome... cant wait to see the end result

 

wow! its amazing! you have talent.

 

actually when you have several projects going on at one time you can jump around when you hit hurdles or need things to dry...

 

now that is some high quality work there greg. Epitome of professional.

 

one word. sick.

 

nice work

 

wow i cant wait to see these! there gonna look sick!

 

looking forward to seeing the finished product

 

great work

 

looking good, have u ever worked with converting maya files into solidworks? if so i have a ton of ideas for you haha

 

Its pretty difficult to do, You have to bring it in as a static surface. This means you have no way of build a feature history(the left column on the Solidworks screendumps) this feature tree is how youve built the part ie lofts, sweeps, boss, cuts.... Machines dont recognize surfaces in the sense of a mesh, you can build surfaces for tooling but you have to run it through several more software packages that make it a water tight solid, of which I do not possess

 

rotr8 is god

 

hahaha Told ya I was workin on some stuff Alfy, and the best is yet to come...
Go check out my bumper planning thread in the Exterior Mods forum, alwya looking for input...

 

Custom Gurney Flap for GTO wing....

This stemed from observing the morning due and which parts were wiped away after high speed runs. After observing this many times, Idecided to do several reuns with spraying Meguires quick detailer on the wing and then going for differnt speed runs on the highway,,, What I found was that the most affected areas were the end planes of the wing. The air was wrapping around the c pillar but the air from top roof indentation wasnt reaching the wing enough to have a noticeable effect. The MS wing is the correct and tested hieght, so instead of raising the wing I am creating a Gurney flap. This will help to create a larger seperation layer above the trailing edge of the wing, allowing for an extension of the turbulent airflow at a further distance of the rear of the car...
Essentially Im creating a lip for the wing,,,,

Orange area was the area that was working very well...



Then I started to draw the area that was lacking starting from the center working outward.











Now wrapping the wing with serane wrap so not to pull the paint, the lip will be molded to the trailing edge of the wing...





Now for the build, again using Aves 2 part Epoxie....











Creating a defined edge so I can come back and know the exact width later.









After curing for 3 hrs in the sun, still green, complete cure time is 24 hrs no shrinkage.







am now on the second layer of fill and rasping right now pics later.....