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

[Ray Smoodiver]

That is straight up badass!

Q with regards to 3d mapping it, could you have it mapped and then spat out in carbon?

[TimeMachinE30]

Nice work. Keep us updated...

[Nick_S]

Man ill be honest, that looks great. Keep us posted on your progress!

[Wergen7]

Some background: I'm in school for composite technology right now and we do a personal/graduation project. I decided I'm going to make my own awesome valence for my otherwise worthless car. The catch is that it must be 3d modeled and cnc cut, making this much more tedious than it has to be but hey, I learned stuff.

My inspiration for the design comes from the early es valence, the m3 dtm valence, and a hint of e46 m3

So here's what I've done and where I'm at

First I had to measure the valence. Very very tedious exercise. I made a jig that was as square as possible with given resources (it was super duper extra square, guaranteed). I then put the jig and valence onto a cm grid and measured half the thing every 10cm going across. I only had to do all this because we don't have a 3d scanner.


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So I recorded the x,y,z of each point and imported them into Rhino and got something like this:

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Since I more or less eyeballed every measurement none of the curves were fair and it took me quite some time to smooth things out, especially without changing the overall geometry.

So here's where I'm at right now. Still some work to do so it can be cut on the cnc (which is down right now ) and I think the brake ducts need to be moved out a little bit.

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And here it's photobombed onto a car. I like it.

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Let me know what you think! More to come