///Mock3 "Luxury" Edition

[hakhawk]

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 )

 

[Sabbath']

Lookin' good. Should have gotten Para to print you one

 

[Jecs]

fair fkn awesome work right there

 

[hakhawk]

inlet hasnt progressed, been busy ordering parts

one of which turned up today. OEM side door mouldings.

i bought ebay copies not long after i first got the car, and they never fit correctly. eventually they started to bow with heat, many times did they pop off when i opened the door.

i finally decided to bite the bullet and go genuine. the difference in quality is amazing, theyre much heavier than the ebay jobs, everything feels more solid.

before: you can see the bow, drivers side the rear section bowed out aswell.

and after: theyre textured instead of smooth, i also swapped over my ///M Clubsport badges

random pic

going to repaint my alpinas, and throw some fresh tyres on, the bbs are almost due for tyres, so ill take them off and repolish.

 

[hakhawk]

tyres monday, still need to fix center caps and get locks

 

[VS 5.0]

How is the work on the inlet going ?

 

[hakhawk]

bit by bit, still sanding.

woop woop!! wheels are on, theyre no rf's but i like!! gotta love a meaty tyre

of course after a super sunny day, the skies had to open up on me, so went back to work and fitted them

will get the caps sorted out for them next year i think

i'll get this bumper aligned properly oneday!!

will organise some decent pics in the near future

 

[Dirbatua]

need center caps.

 

[yZoH]

Just a couple of photos from last night of Hakhawks E36

 

[hi_ryder]