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so next project in between doing a billion other things, carbon foglight duct for charger intake
so this is the vision. these can be bought as a pair for a cool $599us, i only need the passenger side and they arent even the same shape as the foglight hole.
so i have a bunch of carbon fibre cloth and epoxy lying around from the airbox project. ill be trying to use scrap bits before cutting any of the good stuff off.
lets build one shall we.
take a mould of spare foglight to get shape
not bad. couple bits of tape got embedded under resin, but cut out easily enough. bog will fix any problems, but theyre on the edge and wont be seen.
shape the inlet with foam
couple layers of fibreglass over that(should have taped it more, as it ate through and left the glass wrinked)
bam, thats the basic shape. bog and sand this to get it smooth and curvy
cut a hole in the base piece, and once the inlet is shaped how i want, i'll cover it in release wax and glass into the base piece to create the plug mould for carbon fibre to get laid into
its probably a long winded process, but so far its working how id planned(mostly )
so this is the vision. these can be bought as a pair for a cool $599us, i only need the passenger side and they arent even the same shape as the foglight hole.
so i have a bunch of carbon fibre cloth and epoxy lying around from the airbox project. ill be trying to use scrap bits before cutting any of the good stuff off.
lets build one shall we.
take a mould of spare foglight to get shape
not bad. couple bits of tape got embedded under resin, but cut out easily enough. bog will fix any problems, but theyre on the edge and wont be seen.
shape the inlet with foam
couple layers of fibreglass over that(should have taped it more, as it ate through and left the glass wrinked)
bam, thats the basic shape. bog and sand this to get it smooth and curvy
cut a hole in the base piece, and once the inlet is shaped how i want, i'll cover it in release wax and glass into the base piece to create the plug mould for carbon fibre to get laid into
its probably a long winded process, but so far its working how id planned(mostly )