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Re: Len's Mk3 16v ~ The Rebel Car! Pics Page 51 before changes
« Reply #610 on: 28 July 2011, 16:38 »
I think with all that wood in the bumper you need to get yourself some wooden panels for the doors and make a traveller Mk3.

And now we go back full circle to the whitewalls and windscreen cap that was suggested for most people's cars last month!
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Re: Len's Mk3 16v ~ The Rebel Car! Pics Page 51 before changes
« Reply #611 on: 28 July 2011, 18:37 »
Wondering why you are using wood?

Why not thin metal or mesh designed for the job?
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Re: Len's Mk3 16v ~ The Rebel Car! Pics Page 51 before changes
« Reply #612 on: 28 July 2011, 20:50 »
Quote from: Bellend on 28 July 2011, 18:37
Wondering why you are using wood?

Why not thin metal or mesh designed for the job?

Wood is better for ballast.
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Re: Len's Mk3 16v ~ The Rebel Car! Pics Page 51 before changes
« Reply #613 on: 29 July 2011, 08:45 »
Wood keys into the glassfibre much better!
Simple.
And its not just any wood its plywood. Which is in itself strong.
When sandwiched between a layer of glassfibre both sides it is very strong and light!

Lotus and other kit car manufacturers use that method in their glassfibre bodies.
Well they did as its mostly carbonfibre now.

I could use mesh and do in places but that is harder to hold to a flat plane whilst doing the first layer.
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« Reply #614 on: 29 July 2011, 09:35 »
Quote from: Len on 29 July 2011, 08:45
Wood keys into the glassfibre much better!
Simple.
And its not just any wood its plywood. Which is in itself strong.
When sandwiched between a layer of glassfibre both sides it is very strong and light!

Lotus and other kit car manufacturers use that method in their glassfibre bodies.
Well they did as its mostly carbonfibre now.

I could use mesh and do in places but that is harder to hold to a flat plane whilst doing the first layer.


So what you're saying is you're rebuilding pats of your car to the same specification of an early Lotus.  :cool:  :grin:
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Re: Len's Mk3 16v ~ The Rebel Car! Pics Page 51 before changes
« Reply #615 on: 29 July 2011, 11:35 »
No, just using the same technique! :wink: :grin:

Its a fibreglass bumper afterall so I cant make it any less strong!
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« Reply #616 on: 29 July 2011, 13:17 »
Quote from: Len on 29 July 2011, 11:35
No, just using the same technique! :wink: :grin:

Its a fibreglass bumper afterall so I cant make it any less strong!

Hope this isn't yours Len?

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=201466.msg1875362#msg1875362

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Re: Len's Mk3 16v ~ The Rebel Car! Pics Page 51 before changes
« Reply #617 on: 29 July 2011, 13:29 »
Thats whay I dont use mesh! :laugh:
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« Reply #618 on: 29 July 2011, 13:44 »
Quote from: Len on 29 July 2011, 13:29
Thats whay I dont use mesh! :laugh:

Using mesh was only a small part of the issue with that car!  :shocked:
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Re: Len's Mk3 16v ~ The Rebel Car! Pics Page 51 before changes
« Reply #619 on: 29 July 2011, 13:47 »
Like the idea of the Pug lights though! :grin:
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