How to make your own kit?

[Goosse]

Originally posted by bluecoma
[b]Custom Body Kit
Here is the site.

Thanks for the link. This was what I was looking for. Since I worked a lot with styrofoam before I could give it a try. I was also considering using Balsa would as the center and cover this with the fiberglass resin. Would this also work?

[Paucey]

I feel bad bumping such an old post, but this is one of the only sites I've found on the net that mentions any techniques on making custom body kits.

I want to make my own custom body kit, but I've run into some problems. First of all, I'm debating what material I should try to make it out of. My first choice was fibreglass, but I'm afraid now that it might be too brittle. My second choice was then Ployurethane. I thought that if I could carve a model from polystyrene, I could then create a mold from that, and then cast a polyurethane finished product. This all seemed well and good, but I thought of a new problem. If I were to design a skirt for the left side of my car, how could I mirror it to have an identical skirt on the right side of the car? Also, how could I mirror the left half of my bumper's design to be symmetrical with the right side of it? A haphazard array of molding and inverting molds, and then molding again and again would hopefully end up with such desired products, but the chances of such things succeeding are quite slim.

So I figure there must be some better way to design and produce a body kit. Other people obviously do, but I cannot for the life of me think of any viable process to produce mirrored symmetrical products. I was thinking of perhaps using a Rapid-Prototyping Machine... but then I'd need to get the right dimensions on the computer to create a finished design, and I don't have the money to spend on blind trial-and-error for that.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

[tibby01]

hey atleast your using the search feature...good job.

1st. fiberglass is not brittle...at all. 7 layers, and you could easily use it to prop up a car.

head over to ebay.
http://search.ebay.com/search/search...fiberglass+mat

then to a local marina or something for resin and hardener.

[kjj]

that sounds really cool i to a little read at the web site that was posted and i am interested in tring it out but im still having a hard time in undertanding what they mean by putting it and the wet sand papper part and how do you atacht it to the bummper ....can some one plz help me out here....thanks

[lkailburn]

go to www.termpro.com or www.carsound.com and go to the fabrication section of both. there are a few threads floating around in there. currently i'm working on custom front and rear lips for my 97 civic.

[rc420]

you can try cutting your kit in half and welding an extension then covering it in fiber glass like here...http://www.cardomain.com/member_page...78_21_full.jpg
it works and is the easiest way.