Making me a carbon fiber valence **edit errr something. making something sometime.

[BraveUlysses]

I wet bagged all these parts. There is no doubt in my mind they were are all over saturated to some degree. What you are seeing is a combination of some chips from driving/ dust, some leftover bits of the in-mold clear coat that didn't stick. That patchy section on the right is the only spot it did stick. Plus what is possibly the start of some UV degradation at the tip due to the type of epoxy I had access to at my school. There are much better epoxies for this type of application out there. Plus if you really want to get into it, I laid this up around 4am when I had to be out by that morning. I had to take the part OFF vacuum and transfer it to my house through freezing temps while the part was still curing, hence the in-mold clear not sticking. So the curing of the scoop was pretty sketchy all around unfortunately.

no worries! looks like you're learning a ton and turning it into a useful skill

[Wergen7]

....absolutely stunning......."give it up people"
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Appreciate it! Thats some #big font man.

is rhino parametric? i want to do some stuff like this in fusion360

I think so. It's a "NURBS" based program which I believe qualifies it as parametric. There is a hell of a lot you can do with rhino and its plug-ins

[Wergen7]

Did you make this with resin infusion or hand layup? the fibers look pretty dry at the opening of the duct

interested to see the valence when its done

I wet bagged all these parts. There is no doubt in my mind they were are all over saturated to some degree. What you are seeing is a combination of some chips from driving/ dust, some leftover bits of the in-mold clear coat that didn't stick. That patchy section on the right is the only spot it did stick. Plus what is possibly the start of some UV degradation at the tip due to the type of epoxy I had access to at my school. There are much better epoxies for this type of application out there. Plus if you really want to get into it, I laid this up around 4am when I had to be out by that morning. I had to take the part OFF vacuum and transfer it to my house through freezing temps while the part was still curing, hence the in-mold clear not sticking. So the curing of the scoop was pretty sketchy all around unfortunately.

[BraveUlysses]

Did you make this with resin infusion or hand layup? the fibers look pretty dry at the opening of the duct

interested to see the valence when its done

[JeLani]

is rhino parametric? i want to do some stuff like this in fusion360

[411]

....absolutely stunning......."give it up people":coolphoto::up:
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[z28]

Really cool, I want to do something similar on mine with the stock brake ducts.

[CubbyChowder]

That valance looks really cool, I'd love to see how it fits! I'd rock one on my E30 if it fits good

[Sh3rpak!ng]

Very cool, stoked to see something get finished with the valence!

[Reubenjd]

That is some pretty sweet work!

[Wergen7]

Finally I get to update this! Well the story remains the same with the valence, molds are still in their pieces in NY. But I managed to complete and install the intake pieces on my friends car so I'll post those. Overall I'm pleased with the parts however I could list 50 things that would make it a better part. So here's some photos:

Let me recap for a second. This is what I was given which was only discussed over the phone, I never saw the car myself.

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Then I took coordinates and dimensions of the tube and box and created them in Rhino which i already posted a picture of earlier. I made a fiberglass mold from that piece of plaster and modeled the rest of the scoop in which the box mounts to in Rhino (seen in previous post). I CNC cut molds for the remainder of the scoop and grafted them onto the existing mold I took from the plaster to make one mold for the scoop seen here. Nobody will ever fully understand the miracle of this mold. Behold:

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Little more recap. i did some voodoo and ended up with all the parts in a rough form out of the mold and slightly trimmed:

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I continued to work on these pieces and clear coated them, trimmed them up more. So the next few photos are of it installed in the car. Unfortunately due to some unforeseen items the box isn't installed. I must do a little grinding down of some bits on the car and it will work. Otherwise yes, it does mate perfectly to the top of the scoop. A keen eye may notice scoop doesn't fit perfectly in the hole but for what went down in order to make it, plaster mold, grafting and all, I'd say I'm pleased.
They have been beaten up a bit too since they first went in ;D

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[Schnitzer318is]

Subbing for awesome. Nice work.

[delamaize]

Holy fuck man. I hope you plan on selling those. thats bad ass.

[barry]

If your interested in partnership LMK I would be willing to invest funds in certain products.
Barry

[Wergen7]

maybe id use it unlike the roll cage! haha

Hahaaa yeah I saw you were selling that, too bad!

As far as a production run on this valence goes I will not say anything about sales until I figure out if it even fits our cars, it may be goofy from all the tweakage I've done. And yes the business of carbon fiber stuff is well in the plans.

Step 1: Convince the government I'm going to Harvard
Step 2: Buy $250,000 CNC machine instead
Step 3: Make awesome stuff