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Yeah okay i will wash off the pva release tomorrow :( Bugger! Im going to order some of the twill and bi axial glass for the next front end that i try. How will the twill and Bi Axial glass lay up in the front end? will i have issues with the front end and the glass rolling around it? Cheers for your help mate

haha nah your all good bro i appreciate it! Yeah ive ordered some from adelaide and hopefully have someone bring it up for me so hopefully soon i will be able to get onto it

no no currently its not

Yeah well my weekends been brought to a complete halt.. just opened up the white gelcoat and its fooked... so now i have the front end in pva and no gelcoat to lay down.. YAY Can i use tooling gelcoat instead of standard white gelcoat for the final part? i know it will be more of a cost but i live in the middle on nowhere and just want to get this front end done.. 20200523_152057.mp4

I was getting it locally from Adelaide moulding and casting but of late i have been going through Trojan fiberglass as they do free freight over 200 bucks lol. Yeah as you can see in the vids its too thin in alot of places so im going to lay down the white gelcoat abit thicker and then atleast i have the ability to sand out imperfections where currently i cant with the tooling gelcoat Yeah its going to be just a wet layup. I have been keeping track of the CSM weights as its been going down and keeping to a 2:1 ratio of resin to glass and alot of the time we have been at nearly 1.5:1 so hopefully i will be able to keep the weigh managable. I also have a 2mm layer of Soric Coremat so i have been thinking i will do 2 layers of the 100g a layer of the soric and then a layer of the 300g if its not stiff enough when it comes out the mould i can always add more internally afterwards. Whats your thoughts?

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Mate far from telling you to piss off thats been awesome. I have had some dramas with it frying up in some areas and it looks like the alligatoring is what ive been calling frying. Anyway i did notice that in the spots it has happened is where the gelcoat is thinner than i would have liked so im guessing that is what has caused it. I have currently filled in the shitty spots with filleting wax so hopefully that will work but im guessing i will just get some styrene and mix up some gelcoat and fix it up eventually. Cheers heaps dude gives me something to think about! i will probs mix up the gelcoat for the final part and make it abit thicker than i have been.

So been freaking hectic at work so been struggling to get much time in but have managed to get the bonnet done and the passenger quarter panel. Hopefully soon i will be able to get the rest done i just want to rip it all off and get on with getting the brakes done and actually driving.

well what a past couple of days its been.... primer sanded, buffed, polished gelcoat doen and coupling coat laid.. wow.. 20200325_160851.mp4

So my next door neighbour is an absolute legend!! Painted in Epoxy primer and now leave it for a couple of days to harden up so we can wet sand and polish it up ready for the gelcoat and laying glass for the mould.. wow this is a massive process

So ive also buttoned up a couple more jobs on the brakes and added just as many a ive realised ive kinda cocked up but anyway will explain that later... During transport the calipers were damaged and the link tube between the both sides was damaged so needed to make some new ones. This was a fun little job but pretty fiddly but in the end they look awesome. Also finally had the helicoils arrive for the caliper bolts. They were abit of a funny size being M12x1.5 pitch and in a small town everything takes a while but we got there in the end. The idea for the helicoil here was that these bolts and threads are in a tension environment and the fact that the caliper has to be removed to remove pads those bolts will be done up and undone relativley frequently and having them go directly into alloy would lead to dramas so step up the thread thats engaging into the alloy and have a steel thread for the caliper bolts to go into and hopefully that will reduce the potential for issues Anyway shoot me some feedback!!

So another weekend done and dusted! Got some more high fill primer on and sanded nice and flat then went over it with some gold/beige cans that i had... Absolute garbage cans Anyway looks the goods in the gold so sanded it once again.. damn this uses alot of sand paper.. Next update will be the brakes now there nearly all buttoned up.. YEWWWW

Ahh your a legend mate! Maybe get some different feedback here

So my neighbour is gonna be around this weekend to help as he is an ex spray painter so should get some decent progress and hopefully that last bits turn up for the brakes and i can button them up sooon. Anyway once the calipers are mounted i can get onto doing the pedal box. I have all the bits for the pedalbox so hopefully that should be nice and simple... yeah right lol. Also while doing the pedals i want to finish up the steering... I currently have an Astra pump thats sitting there ready but im just wanting to steer away from more fluids and recently i have seen more people doing an Electric steering setup using an electric motor thats incorporated into the steering column so provides assist and no fluids needed so im thinking i might go down that path. shouldnt have too many dramas moving on the astra pump. Might be something i can grab at a wreckers so will see how i go if i get some spare time to go grab one. Anyway hope you guys are enjoying it all

Soooooo this thing feels like its gonna kill me lol. Got all the layers of glass on and started sanding till i could no longer stand the itch lol. Now its in primer and ive been rubbing it back with bog and i reckon im half way through my second 4kg tub of bog but its getting there and im loving it! Ive also FINALLY finished the wing mount... i reckon its about revision 25 but im actually happy with it. No side to side movement and seems pretty stiff! Simplest ideas are sometimes the best! Next will be the brakes there nearly done im just waiting on some bolts and bits to arrive and then should be able to button them up.

Hey mate how did you go trying to move it across?

So works been hectic latley trying to get a couple of jobs done before xmas but thats all turned to crap unfortunatley so now will be working over xmas. Anyway im thibking ill have a month ish off in january so hopefully som progress then but till then ive been on the hunt for some goodies and hopefully the brake system will get buttoned up, dry sump setup will be complete and the front end done.. YAYYY Till then i hope everyone have a good xmas. Stay safe and enjoy some time with the family!

he gets plenty of treats and lets me know when im not patting him enough.. i was laying down some glass the other day and mid laying on the resin he walks up and bumps my arm for a pat... awesome timing!

cheers buddy, when i started the build it was meant to be a street car.. oh how that has evolved... the idea is going to be that i drop the rims on the mill and i machine a taper on the outer edge of the rim opposite the disk face so that you can slide a tapered coller onto the centre lock spindle and pickup the rim and then wind a nut ontop to lock it down so i will effectively butcher the wheels i have now to fin but im okay with that because i like them lol

Hey is anyone able to move this thread into the motorsport builds? Also looking at getting some 160mm round bar at 100mm long and machine that to accept some SKF 30213 bearings, Then will get an 80mm diameter round bar at around 300mm long and machine that to accept the ID of the bearings and hopefully endup with some centre lock hubs for the old girl. Looking to cost around $500 a side for bearings and materials so see how it goes but it should be good and possibly endup a whole lot lighter than the factory setup

soooo i could be biased but this things F**KING AWESOME its no topstage xtreme gtr but its also built in a verandah.. And my trusty helper by my side

So back home for a couple of days and finished off the fiberglassing today so hopefully tomorrow will be able to knock off the spiky bits and start doing some bog and possibly get into the highfill primer stage... woohoooo only taken me a couple of years lol

would love to but there like 4k.. thats alotta billet and trial and error time on my mill lol

So the stock knuckles are annoying me.. they weigh an absolute tonne and its crazy thats its all unsprung weight.. so im wanting to design up my own knuckles and build something abit more universal with built in R/C correction, more offset so i can ditch the spacers and some bigger wheel bearings to avoid pad knockoff that i have heard people with skylines having once pushing the limits (not that mine ever will if it doesnt touch the track....). Planning on a front RC about 60mm high, KPI of 12*, Camber around 6*, Caster of 10* but im not too sure about scrub radius or caster trail. If anyone has any input let me know! im keen to measure up the stock knuckles to see what scrub radius they run stock and maybe make it close to that but with room for adjustment

Cheers Dale, yeah 12,000rpm is quite a unique sound *drool* haha Yeah the ztune was always the dream car so the front guards being kinda z tune inspired kinda fulfills a dream of a ztune that i will never afford lol. Plan for the rear quarters is pretty similar. maybe a little more subtle but who knows till i run some corflute down them and see how it looks. As for the oil system ive had the dry sump pump for ages and have only just made up the bracket to hold the pump in the stock AC location and the new ATI balancer is on the way and then ill have to buy a mandrel for the pulley. Im kinda stuck with the sump at the moment as i have a couple of RB25 and RB30's laying around but the new motor is a 26 block so a different bolt pattern but im thinking about making it multi fit and then what ever block im running i can grub screw the other holes to seal it up but im undecided on that at the moment. If anyone has a RB26 template for the sump that would be killer as i cant find one anyway im about to board so will update you later woth me new thoughts lol