The Flea

[demuire]

I'm not sure if this has been posted up before, but this is pretty cool. I want to learn how to fibreglass. Then I'd probably fibreglass my entire car, just cause I could.

 

The Flea

[demuire]

It is so cool, yes?

[kangaroosa]

An extract from his bellhousing section.

"To have a custom part like this made would be well over a $1000 US. After the favorable exchange rate of the US to AUS dollar it ended up costing me only $281 US! What a steal! "

 

Shame its not the other way around.

[Super Jamie]

that so looks like my ke25, if i didn't know any better i'd say it was the same color. it's a deluxe and everything! :P

 

haha my wheel bearings looked the same :D

super interesting about the aw11 r&p

 

notice he's had the car with no paint or primer on it for 18 months and it's still not rusting. don't make em like they used to :)

[TRD ke70]

Another corolla saved, and what a fantastic job he's doing.he's even got his wife in on the act.

don't like the transmission idea but i can understand why.

[Joch666]

He does a good job. Wonder what he charges for big cars...

muahahahaha :P

Edited June 26, 2005 by luxobarge

[rjenman]

makes me want to try making a mold for a fiberglass hood and/or boot lid as my next project :P

[ancullen]

Why stop at just the bonnet & boot lid? I'd love to get good at doing fibreglass by starting with a reasonably basic project like the bonnet, then move on to all the my other body panels. You could save a fair bit of weight, but it'd obviously take quite a while to do. Another advantage is that if you were good enough you could flare your own guards and add scoops & cooling vents and the like.

[rjenman]

Mmm yeah like that insane bloody all carbon fibre WRX :P

 

And as for custom vents and flares... mm yeah carbon fibre IS a much easier option for that sort of work as opposed to metal. My first thought about making a carbon fibre hood was the possibility of custom vents. :D

 

as for intense custom fiberglass fabrication this was posted here a while back"custom fabrication lol

 

Does anyone know the legalities of replacing steel panels with carbon fibre?

 

Its dangerous in that it doesn't crumple so it ruins what progress they made in crash testing... but less important if your car is built like a submarine anyway lol.. i doubt queensland transport shares that view..

[mikeys toy[RL]]

if you guys only knew how HARD it really is.....it would take you two months to make a hood, then about two weeks for every one after

[Nitephyre]

mmm this is coool :P

[Mr Revhead[RL]]

fibre glass illegal? you poor guys

I'm looking into carbon fibre for the aw11 :D

 

helps that i knwo a guy who works with it and geton with him quite well :P

[ancullen]

As it's illegal you'd make it a track-use only car. You couldn't enter improved production (as body mods are limited to a small spoiler), but for something just for tooling around in (which would be a bit of a waste of time & effort) you could make something REALLY cool.

[Mr Revhead[RL]]

hell fibre glass is fine here! :D

 

of course anything structual has to be ok'd. hell the aw11 s/c has a glass engine lid stock!.

 

as for smash protection.... what panles offer much in the way of protection? its all in the structure behind them!

[demuire]

You couldn't enter improved production (as body mods are limited to a small spoiler),

 

I don't think that's entirely true (but I don't have my CAMS manual with me so can't check it out). Other body mods (flares, front spoilers etc) are allowed, but are restricted.