The reason I'm using it is beacause i hate the stock headlights when they're up. So that is one of the first things I decided to do with the car when i bought it

 

Agree on that, sounds very good for me

 

one of the molds for the headlights are done now, just ready to make it out in CF

 

Why don't you just use the aluminum ones you just made? Will you sell the aluminum ones if you dont use them?!?!?!?!

 

beacause the aluminium one is the one on the picture, and it has a half inch thick layer of bondo on it some places to make it have the shape it should have for fitting in to the car., but i might gonna sell them in CF later

 

So what your saying is it's too heavy? How heavy is it?

 

thats not what I says, but its nothing to have on a car, it will crack and look like **** after a short time..

 

Dude you are gonna be able to sell all the **** you make and pay for your build lol. Put me down for those headlights!

 

I see. Do you know how much the lights would cost? They're gonna be AWESOME!!!!

 

hehe. send me a pm so i have your name

 

man, i wish you would of made the style with plexi over them.!

 

I was thinking thats what he was going to do...............

 

I haven't decided how I'm going to do it yet, but i will find out very soon..

gonna post a picture here when i know how it will be

 

That buck you made here for the headlight buckets, could you shoot a picture of the thing when you are casting the final mold? I assume that part will be a multipiece mold. It is a complex piece and I'm wondering where the parting lines will fall. I am fixing to tackle an equally complex mold on a project unrelated to RX7's and choosing the parting lines is a delicate task so the part doesn't get stuck in the mold. In my case, the part is very large, so it is a big expense of time and parts if I get it wrong.

Thanks for all the wonderful stuff in this thread and keeping us updated. You guys are very skilled in what you do and can do a lot of things. The car looks very good and I hope you put some video up once you fire the thing up. I can't recall if you addressed the exhaust earlier in this thread.

Will the exhaust be open, or muffled? That thing would sound sweet with an open megaphone out the back of the car. If you have to drive it on the street, I imagine you will need a muffler, but you could make a quick disconnect after the muffler and bolt on the megaphone for midnight runs off in the sticks. The fireballs backing off in 3rd & 4th gear at night would be sweet. We used to do this many years ago with our RX2's.

Great job.

Don

 

You rarely ever use the Buck (the positive rendering and template for a mold) for the end part. There are numerous reasons.

It is usually made from a combination of materials like he described, plus you usually want to retain the original Buck in case your mold (the negative rendering) becomes damaged, or you simply wear it out from producing parts. Tooling the Buck is the most time consuming process of fabbing parts. It also requires the most thought, so that your mold doesn't stick to it. If you use a multipiece mold and have compound curves angles and sides like this piece, it become even more important to think about the design.

If you ever intended to make a one off part from a buck, you usually sculpt and carve it out of low density foam, and skin it in CF or Fiberglass and then hollow out the foam inner core with chemicals and/or elbow grease.

 

can you guys post links to sites on how to make carbon fiber parts at home. i really want to learn. ive made fiber glass parts befor but havnt delt with carbon fiber.

 

Then I have the brakes done, all working fine, a little picture of the brake master-pumps.


..i see your dual set up. what kind of cylinders do you run (size.)..i remember that you have a volvo rear end....what is the front and how did you balance/proportion it out. thanx and good luck

 

I have a tilton adjustable valve on the lines that goes to the rear, here i can adjust the pressure on the rear brakes.

I use willwood .625 on the front and .700 on the rear

 

1.warwickben:

http://www.fibreglast.com/VBulletin/archive/index.php/
carbon fiber/ fiberglass forum w/ some info..also use youtube for more visual

2. thanx for info Nor/Rot.

 

first i can post some more pictures of my brake setup.

here you have the whole unit that I have in the engine bay, this is where i can adjust the brakes between front and rear


I adjust it by turning this rod here, what i do when i turn it is that I move the center of the "pin" from the brakepedal from one or another side between the two pumps


I also have an valve inside in the car that i can use for adjusting when i'm driving and it suddenly start to rain or something.



And then some more pics of the headlights:
Here are the mold finished and taked apart, all in fiberglass this time, ready for making a new one in CF


And here can you see the mold beeing maked, haven't separated the mold from the dummy-model yet on this picture

 

got most of the fuel lines done today, some fittings missing so have to buy this week.. need coolant hoses and get on the turbo and manifold, then i'm ready for startup

 

This is so inspiring. Believe it or not I was giving up on my 82 project today(chop it up sell all parts). After seeing you get down a granny's 8.8 and respeed steering kit won't break me, back to work.

GREAT JOB!

More research and noob questions for me.

Thanks Norwegian_rotary and rx7club

 

sorry for the hijack but if ur thinking of cutting it up.. i have a friend that want to work on an fb. let me noe..

btw great progress man. keep it up. u give us hope

 

wow..insane

 

The car is alive!!!!!!!

A picture of the engine bay right before test start.


Running with stock coils in the beginning, just to get the engine run.



And a video of it running. (phone camera, sorry but bad sound and picture)