not until they're made, and we're still sculpting the buck.

 

Manntis I know its off topic, but how long until the mk.2 stereo plates are out
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The vents are sculpted in. This thing is going to look badass Pics as soon as I can either get my camera to talk to my computer or drag Matt down with his digital cam.

 

MATT!!! GET OVER THERE.....please...lol....can't wait to see this hood finished...lol......cheers

 

Manntis... how much for Kevlar? Half of my car is recovered in Kevlar anyway...

 

You must live in a rough neighborhood

 

You have NO idea.


6th Ward in New Orleans. THE WORST NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE WHOLE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.

IN December, a 7 year old girl was shot in the face with a shotgun at point blank range... in my front yard.

In February, there was a gang fight shootout, and 23 people were killed.... all right in front of my house.

In May, the police shot a guy 13 times because he stole a 12pack of beer from the corner store. Where was he shot and killed? in my driveway.



Every night... I have to keep the window a/c unit on, just to drown out the gunshots and shouting matches.

 

ummm, i think i would MOOOOVE OUT!!!! hahaha, that is some insane ****!

 

Have you considered a fence?

 

or maybe homelnd security lol. for real man you need to move out.

 

all I have to say is damn

 

How are you going to do the mounting (hinge) points ?
and the latch ? May i suggest a 'drop-in ' box for the latch . i have made one and it's not to difficult to produce
out of sheet aluminum and then a 2 piece 'pin'. it's strong and theres not tons of stress to crack the underside.. i'll share with you,if you like. think about it.
I have also found that 2 layers of cloth is enough, just make sure the direction of the second layer goes the other direction to the first layer, for strength.

 

This was covered in the 2 previous threads about these hoods. The hinges, prop rod, and latch points all have metal integrated into the fibreglass to take the stress.

 

any word on the pics yet? reinstall drivers or something..

 

****, if i knew how to put some pictures up, i would.
you guys might be surprized with what i came up with.
the hood has turned out really good and has 4 vents.
the shapes of the vents fit the cars line, IMO
Next i'm going to do a front fender (1st gen ) and see how that goes, i'm also considering a wider type of fender. not as wide as a mariah , like the pacifica adrenalife has. along with the rear graph-on type "flare"
1 inch wide with a duct or scoop that looks just like the way the NXS's side duct is, same shape. screwing around i may have found something here. the composite
thing is expensive, labor intensive, time consumeing, and not forgiving in any way, you screw up, your fucked.
the key is to buy the material in bulk, 55 gal. drums, 5 gal. and roll(s) of the cloth(s), build the moulds so that they last then price the pieces affordable to move them
to make it worthwhile. making a profit, a good profit would mean mass producing, really. i totally understand where you coming from manntis and not every piece that has carbon cloth in it HAS to be baked (cured), it's better if it was, pridictable tolernces. but it's not everything. And me, doing all the work can see, and i've learned by doing the composite 'thing' starting from the ground floor fibre glassing (so far ) a nice touch to do is
during the gel coating(s) is place a makers mark. on a piece of 1 inch by 3/4 inch paper i wrote " fibre glass by mark " and can be seen through the finish, pretty cool. IMO

 

email the photos to me and I'll host them on my site...Then post them here...
HPISavageAddict@hotmail.com

 

It's actually a conflict between my video software, video card, and the camera itself. Piece of crap Vaio!!!

 

These were sent to me by MarkPerez:

 

looks alright.But I thought it was gonna be drop vent style and 4 small ones

 

this is the hood that mark did...not the one manntis is doing...I think manntis has the drop vents.....

 

thanks chad. manntis is doing the drop style, i believe. ????? one of these days i'm going to get a REAL camera. keep in mind i've never played with composits untill now. hey chad, if i send more pics. would you post them ?.

 

yup, mine's a twin vent drop style.

 

I thought thats what style you were going with.

 

hey, if your camera is pissin you off....you can buy "disposable digital cameras" from kodak for the same price as a normal throw away...only they give you a photo CD with your pics in JPEG form...

just a thought mantis...a self serving thought, but a thought all the same

 

you know you can go to walmart and buy a cheap $20 digi camera and it will work just as fine as any other camera!!!!!! i bought that $20 dollar camera and i used it once and had it paid for. try it and snap some stupid pics of the hood that we want to see and plug in your usb cable and download them and put them on here. sorry to get a little hot but how many weeks have to go by with out some pictures? im sorry im just overly tired.....