Hey everybody here is my latest project.
Yeah sorry, shoud have titled thread 'oil cooler' duct anyway, This is something I have been contemplating for a long time now, going back and forth between several designs. This insert will be made for the OEM bumper and allow clearance for the fog light as well.
The design is inspired both by the bumper of the Ings+1 kit and the concepts of the accent pieces of the new-gen Mazdaspeed series. first it will be sculpted from modeling clay, after drying I will lighltly sand then make a silicon mold of it. Then I will poor a more durable material for furhter smoothing and modification. After the master is complete I will make another mold off of that. The final pieces being made from ABS. I will also experiment with Carbon Fiber, hopefully the radius' wont be a problem thanks to the vacuum molding machine we have at work.
This is an ongoing project that will most likely take several weeks to complete with various expected design iterations.... Of course onces the final product is realized I will see if there is any interest in producing larger numbers.... here is the first stage,,, clay sculpt,,,,

 

sorry couldnt afford to get my camera dirty or stop working the clay until it the rough was complete,,, sculpting time 1.25 hrs

 

That's interesting. I hope to see the results of your product.

Also, I want to see the temp comparison between running the car with the oil cooler duct and without.

 

well be waiting for the final picture, it would be very sexy if you can make one CF, I would buy...

 

Attached are pics on wat is already on my ride ! its from Monster Garage (Singapore)
Made of Cf n flush fit ! Hope the pics are clear !

 

^very interested, in both, zavhan how much did you get that for?

 

Paid about US$185 for a pair !

 

i like it

 

damn that cf one is sick! good luck on your project.

 

That looks pretty good.

 

zavhan, its hard to tell in those pics, but is that real CF or CF "look"?
looks like you got the Re-Amemiya CF front lip too. looks nice.

i'd be interested in something like this made in CF.

 

Would have been a lot better if you got fans like the ones they use in D1 and stuff to cool your oil going through the oil coolers

 

zahvan, have any pics from a better distance? zooming too close to an object tends to abstract it.

nice project rotr, i think it'll look good.

 

Its real cf not the carbon look laminates. Yup, ur spot on, those r amemiya CF front lips !

 

Will try n post some pic from far soon.

 

OK I need to know where I can buy them at... I know, I know, I dont even own an 8 any more but I plan on getting another one very soon and I need them now.

 

Here r more taken with my mobile

 

that looks pretty baller. any from head on? direct frontal shot?

 

ok now one for the mazdaspeed

 

I'm interested... if priced fairly
I'm a carbon freak.

 

Zavhan:

Can you provide the link to where you got those???

What fog's are those? They are slick....

 

Will PM u the link soon.

Those fog are custom on the orig housing, its a lens type i got off ebay !

 

further out dude. further.. out... take a pic from 10 and 15 feet.

what front lip is that?

 

after three attempts with craptastic clay, finally got some grat material with no shrinkage,
Aves Epoxie Sculpt- great material, easy to use and no shrinkage whatsoever...

Heres some pics of progression, I after these I took the final prototype into work and took pics of it being digitally scanned in 3D(those pics will be added monday)
The digital model is being worked on now and will be mirrored and RPed soon,,, enjoy...
took about 40 mins to ruff in and then about 7hrs to file down by hand...

 

not bad, not bad