Here's the progress so far.

I have spare headlight buckets from a parts car, I was feeling creative. Cut out the design with a Dremel. Using glass to fill in the gap.

Once the resin is hard I will sand it, bondo the crap outa it, get it to the desired shape, prime and paint it. We'll see how it turns out.


Looks like a hacked POS now...but we'll see.





Why waste your money buying it from a company if you can make it yourself?

 

looks descent, i think i know when you decided to do this

 

Shhhhh

Seriously thou, I seen these headlight scoops way before I seen it on that guys FB at the show. They've been around a while.

Example.



He just inspired me to do it myself.

 

o ya i know you already knew about it. I'm sure yours will also be better then the one we seen at the show.

 

but seriously whats the point to this dose this hook up to your carb?
or just for looks

 

Cant wait to see how it turns out

 

I suppose you could hook it up to the carb. But the carb is on the pass side and mine is the drivers headlight.

More less just for looks. It does draw cool air into the engine bay, but prob not enough to make a difference.

 

Hmm... That looks very interesting. T.T I wish I knew how to work with FG/CF and had access to it...

But I agree with you mate! Why pay thousands of bucks for parts when you can fabricate them your self!

In my case, why spend money on a hood, when you can just get a cheap junkyard one and make your own custom vented hood?

I'd love to see how this turns out!

And let that be a lesson for you all! Start getting creative! Power tools were made to be played with!

 

looks pretty cool btw
allways great to see people at it.

 

Here she is today. Got home from school, sanded the glass and added a layer of Bondo.

 

1st layer sanded.

 

DOesn't look half bad.

 

I would hit it with some primer before any more bondo.

 

Bondo over primer!?!? I realized the primer will show the highs and lows and the dimples, but I like bondo on bare metal, or bondo on bondo, not bondo on paint.

 

"A" for effort, especially for doing it yourself.



Hopefully it will look like this when completed.

 

^^^ That would be nice, but isn't gonna happen.

Primed after 2nd coat of bondo and more sanding. You can see a little pin hole on the left side of the scoop that I fixed. I cant get the 4 screws that hole it to the rest of the headlight bucket out. I even slotted them with my dremel. They're stuck in there good, so im gonna have to swap the whole bucket.

 

yay for drawing in cool air into the wrong side of the engine bay! haha, Just kidding.
Nice work.

 

I made one too last year:

 

Wow your's turned out awesome.

I'm guessing you made it and got the car painted after you made it, cause the paint matches perfectly.

Did you use the same method as me?

 

Yeah... I got the paint matched.

I cut, firberglassed then sanded and sanded and sanded.

Then I used spot glazing putty for the small bits.

After that I followed with filler primer and sanded some more

then final few coats of primer, base and clear.

 

oo **** nice i want one how much

 

I had the same problems with the screws last week. Stripped 5 of 8 with the phillips, hacksawed to flat head and got out 3 more, and had to drill the last two. Its like they used threadlocker or welded those ******* in. Think of it as reason to buy a tap and die set.

 

Yeah, I swapped the whole bucket. Major pain in the *** to get the 2 bolts that hold it in, in. My white doesn't match the rest of the car at all. I'm currently making one for the passenger side. Pic's soon.

 

Hmm, too dark out, the pic's are crap.

Do you guys think 2 scoops (one in each light) will look stupid? Also what if I paint the light covers black. Cause the 2 different whites don't look good.

 

they look really nice. i hope you dont mine if i copy it? or make it look likt it?