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How did you make that air cover over the front bumper cover and radiator support? Looks like ABS plastic molded somehow?
Yeah I asked Lucas the same thing! Because I was really impressed when I saw it. The accuracy of the forming and cutting is pretty good. Anyway, the guys at ER made that cover in 2016 after putting in the engine. Lucas just said they cut it and formed it. I don't know how they did the forming, or if they used heat or not. I'm not even sure what the material is. As near as I can tell it could be HDPE or polypropylene or ABS or some PVC type of stuff. It's 1/8" thick. It’s pretty stiff – not soft like PVC sometimes is. There’s no fibers in it.
I remember asking Lucas, what happens when I take those screws out? Will there be a nut underneath that falls into a black hole? He said nah, the nuts underneath are inserts, like rivet nuts or well nuts.
The only thing I don't like about it is the socket button head screws, which look cool but those sockets are shallow and the drive size is small (3/32") so there's not much to drive on if they’re a little stuck. I think there’s enough head room for full depth heads so I’ll probably replace with that one of these days. For now I bought a bag of 20 of these screws from bolt depot. To replace ones that get mangled.
The engine project in 2016 was a “turn-key” project. So at the end, Lucas did a lot of stuff to kind of take care of things he didn’t like. He put in all 3 of the fans that are on the car now and this anti-reversion cover, and some other stuff. He was very interested in keeping the temps low. He wanted the temps to stay low even when the car isn't moving.