BB Bonneville Bugeye

[Rex Schimmer]

Udo,
I know what you mean about fiberglass, I cannot work with it without getting it all over me and anything close. I watched one of the very best fiber glass guys that ever made a glass part, Wayne Hartman, make a fender mold once and he never got resin above the first joint on his fingers! never broke a sweat, never got anything on his shirt or pants! By shear luck I do remember some of his methods but never was able to be as "neat" as he was.

I know your mold will turn out good parts, it may take some sweat and swearing but my guess is that they will look great. As my favorite saying goes, "When you learn by experience the test comes first and the lesson comes afterward."

Rex

[Rob]

You could always join the two halves again once out of the mold, there by losing the join line completely.

Cheers,
Rob

[hotschue]

Thanks Rob, That's certainly an option.  The air intake will be located in the nose as well as the intercooler.  Two halves would give us access, although one piece would look slick.  Will consider both options once I have parts in hand.

[Rex Schimmer]

Udo,
Are you planning to run an air to air intercooler?

Rex

[hotschue]

Rex, Yes, we've run air to air with the 2 liter good results.  Air intake will be on the leading edge of the nose.  We're going to try several designs.

[jacksoni]

Hmmm, engine guy and car guy not communicating well. I think is air to water intercooler. 

[Rex Schimmer]

Udo,
Look in one of Carol Smith's books, I think it is Engineer to Win, and there are some parameters on doing inlets and ducts for coolers, if you do it right it can actually provide some additional thrust. This is because the heat exchanger adds heat (energy) to the air. I am not a big fan of air to air coolers on Bonneville cars, air to water I think is easier and more efficient but if you do the air to air you can at least cancel or greatly reduce the drag of the air going thru the cooler if you do the ducts right.

Rex

[hotschue]

Rex, I stand corrected..... air to water......what was I thinking....to much bondo dust!!!

[hotschue]

Plug finally DONE ready for gelcoat and fab mold.....more hours/material than I ever imagined.  Plan to fab mold midweek weather permitting then fab actual nose....

[hotschue]

Need to make a transition from full belly pan to rear body panel.  In my spare time.... how many days to August?....I figured I'd start to tack weld the the bottom pieces while I was waiting for the fiberglass/bondo to dry....never a dull moment!  Couple of pics then back to nose plug....

[hotschue]

Finalizing the nose cone....pic shows gelcoat.... the first coat of fiberglass mat....then reinforcement to keep mold from distorting.......yesterday attempted to remove plug from the new mold....obviously the release agent didn't quite work....had to dig it out, what a mess....mold turned out very well and thats what counts!!!!....this morning we will prepare mold to make the nose cone.....finally it was a long road!

[hotschue]

This is the actual mold....

[Peter Jack]

The mold looks great Udo. Good luck with the actual piece.

Is that an Allard in the background? I'd be interested in hearing a little about that car.

Pete

[jacksoni]

The mold looks great Udo. Good luck with the actual piece.

Is that an Allard in the background? I'd be interested in hearing a little about that car.

Pete

It is. Nice pick up.  Hemi powered.  Friend of Udo's and he might give some additional info.

[lvsalt]

looks GREAT, I know of a Z car that could use something like that