Well I thought this would be cool to start as a daily record of what is going on with my car. I was'nt really sure about it until I had other members start asking me about mods I had previously done and realized you can't understand the future without first learning about the past.
I work on it just about everyday and have been really altering it to the point where it is no longer a daily driver anymore and just a "money pit" as my wife calls it. If she only knew.....
My goal is a somewhat stock appearing/but you know its faster than stock look. I'm not fanatacial about this as you can tell by the 19" rims. I really don't care if there to heavy, I just like the way they look on the car.I just want a fun car that looks good and can scare the shit out of my neihbor with the Z06 vette.
I do almost all of my own fabrication work within reason just out of a sense of pride by doing it myself. So far I have tought myself how to do TIG/MIG welding on a novice scale and limit myself to parts that if they break will not cause my death or total destruction of the car. I also learned how to do Composite work on a novice scale also and plan on doing alot more. I've come to really enjoy making, and designing pieces for the car now.
So I would like to start out as to the current state of the car and go from there. I've gotten to the point were I don't like to leave anything the way it was designed to be and come up with these crazy ideas for parts while I dream at night about rainbows and teddy bears.
Crap gotta get ready for work finish this tonight.
I work on it just about everyday and have been really altering it to the point where it is no longer a daily driver anymore and just a "money pit" as my wife calls it. If she only knew.....
My goal is a somewhat stock appearing/but you know its faster than stock look. I'm not fanatacial about this as you can tell by the 19" rims. I really don't care if there to heavy, I just like the way they look on the car.I just want a fun car that looks good and can scare the shit out of my neihbor with the Z06 vette. I do almost all of my own fabrication work within reason just out of a sense of pride by doing it myself. So far I have tought myself how to do TIG/MIG welding on a novice scale and limit myself to parts that if they break will not cause my death or total destruction of the car. I also learned how to do Composite work on a novice scale also and plan on doing alot more. I've come to really enjoy making, and designing pieces for the car now.
So I would like to start out as to the current state of the car and go from there. I've gotten to the point were I don't like to leave anything the way it was designed to be and come up with these crazy ideas for parts while I dream at night about rainbows and teddy bears.
Crap gotta get ready for work finish this tonight.
Building a front splitter
Posted 12-04-2007 at 09:26 AM by gixrman
Since my last post I have been busy trying to work out some bugs on the car. I ended up replacing the battery after having it tested and it was smoked. I also picked up a battery tender after having to replace the battery each spring in my motorcycle so one for the car was next. I don't drive the car everyday and it just kills my battery. I also discovered that my laptop battery is smoked after trying to log some runs with link. I'm having no luck here, so now I'm waiting for DHL to show up with the replacement. I did take the car out for some runs and it runs good until wide open and then it runs pig rich and breaks up.
So anyway onto the splitter. I've always liked the way the 2g's looked with a front splitter so instead of going the easy route I said what the F and started making one the way i wanted it to look. Maybe it will work maybe it won't.
So I started out by picking up a few materials. The base core and ease of layout is going to be Elmers foam board followed up by 2 layeds of foam backed KEVLAR, and 2 layers of Carbon Fiber which should be here in a couple of days. The foam board (6)I picked up from Walmart and comes in 20"x30"x1/4" sheets. The Nose is 66" across and I added 2" to each side making it 70". I would have finished more to day but this cold weather sucks and its killing my motivation. Sorry no pics computer is'nt reading my SD card.
So anyway onto the splitter. I've always liked the way the 2g's looked with a front splitter so instead of going the easy route I said what the F and started making one the way i wanted it to look. Maybe it will work maybe it won't.
So I started out by picking up a few materials. The base core and ease of layout is going to be Elmers foam board followed up by 2 layeds of foam backed KEVLAR, and 2 layers of Carbon Fiber which should be here in a couple of days. The foam board (6)I picked up from Walmart and comes in 20"x30"x1/4" sheets. The Nose is 66" across and I added 2" to each side making it 70". I would have finished more to day but this cold weather sucks and its killing my motivation. Sorry no pics computer is'nt reading my SD card.
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