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body parts

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2016 2:00 am
by 72sat
thinking about producing body parts for this car. wanted opinions about some aspecs of production. front bumper has some flaws of metal forming process. should these flaws be produced into the part?. or should they be corrected. these are production flaws of the metal forming process, not blems.

Re: body parts

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2016 11:58 pm
by sdweatherman
The front bumpers are already being reproduced by someone and I think the reviews on them are fairly favorable. Did you want to try and reproduce a more authentic/more original looking bumper? Trying to form the very thick guage steel that these bumpers are made of would cause some variation from bumper to bumper I would think. You have to remember - these cars weren't produced to be show cars - they were produced to be transportation. Good original cars and parts had flaws a lot of times. Good luck! Scott.

Re: body parts

Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2016 9:56 pm
by 72sat
thinking of making carbon fiber or glass parts. those things weigh a ton

Re: body parts

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 3:49 am
by redline337
A carbon fiber hood with a built in air graber bubble would be cool, imo!

Re: body parts

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 5:40 pm
by 72sat
redline337 wrote:A carbon fiber hood with a built in air graber bubble would be cool, imo!
we think alike. but I think hood and bubble

Re: body parts

Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2016 9:42 am
by sdweatherman
Yes, an affordable but accurate reproduction air grabber bubble would be awesome. Scott.