A taste of making custom parts - for custom parts
04-30-2012, 04:48 AM
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I was thinking same about the water jet question too Bruce. Can't you use similar weight material to water jet cut anyway?
Regardless, love your obsessiveness!! I think serious downforce is going to be needed on this car otherwise it just might fly away with how light it is going to be....or not to be....that is the question....
Regardless, love your obsessiveness!! I think serious downforce is going to be needed on this car otherwise it just might fly away with how light it is going to be....or not to be....that is the question....
04-30-2012, 09:38 PM
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Here are some more pics of the dash install. Super lightweight dash cover. Plastic blow mold, can hardly hold itself together kinda stuff. I also finished up the aluminum dash plate that will bolt to those things I just detailed. I will be finishing it off with end caps and some more Plastic button mounting tabs. It will actually feel very relatively strong. The beauty of this set up is two fold. Retarded light, and the dash will be a quick release to any wires or problems behind the aluminum, or underneath. Here are the pics.
05-01-2012, 12:42 AM
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that's the bomb Bruce.
the friendly dash makes me think of a car for screwing with people on the street too after....
after...
the friendly dash makes me think of a car for screwing with people on the street too after....
after...
05-01-2012, 01:30 AM
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Thank you but.. WTH are you talking about! I don't know why, but this is hilarious! After 420? lol
05-01-2012, 09:49 AM
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Can't tell from the pics but is your actual dash a custom piece made from the stock dash? I can't see how you could've done it with good enough quality w/o using a female mold. Or did you just leave that part out?
Regardless, looks awesome. Really glad you're keeping the stock dash look.
Regardless, looks awesome. Really glad you're keeping the stock dash look.
05-01-2012, 10:15 AM
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That piece is actually one of any dash protectors / covers you can buy for your car. Ebay or other. Quite pricey for what it is actually. $90.00 It feels like it should be about $10.00.
05-01-2012, 12:28 PM
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Exactly! Thank you. So many other variables on top of just making the above. Should I have made 4 of them or maybe just 2 were good enough? Was my spacing correct, or should they be further apart or closer together. When I install the dash, how many screws should I use? Stuff like that drives me crazy. Don't even get me started on how I spent 2 days customizing a TOOL to make a custom part for my custom part. lol.
Not to mention the sometimes 2, 3, 5 or more prototypes made for more complex parts before a final unit is decided.
By the way, in the pictures of when you've just gotten out the steel - are those some French curves cut in it?
Take care!
05-01-2012, 12:32 PM
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Yes, french curves from the Plasma table. They were plates for some project that isn't car related. These were extra plates that were useless. (and paid for)
05-01-2012, 07:13 PM
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it is indeed.... if you built something like this for the street, inevitably, you'd be challenged by mild to severe douchebags in their bloated, post-modernistic bull**** rides.... to which your response might fall somewhere in between reserved (polite) chuckles all the way up to insurgent childish giggling or uncontrollable laughter.....
05-01-2012, 07:35 PM
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I don't think your going overboard till an English Wheel enters the picture, then the 'Art' aspect causes you to scratch-off an Ear. Have fun, somebody WILL make more metal.
