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“Porsche-destroying ****”
Needs to be on a T-Shirt and worn or hung up behind the car during filming👍🤣
Keep on keeping on WCA ,you are a one of a kind*.
* in a really good way
Good idea. I will get 'my team' to work on some merchandise.
"I support the Porsche destroying W@@@ker" t-shirts available to order 😉soon
Actually, now it's been shrunk it doesn't look too bad .
The Porsche is quite a small car to start with so I suppose it's easy to get the panels oversized, then cut them back.
The clown insulting you, tbh sounds like he's a bit jealous of your work
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Adds: when sanding, maybe take a leaf out of 'fairing' in boat building. Which is to use a long board of about 6mm ply or mdf with the sandpaper stuck to it. It prevents low spots from forming if you sand one area more than another and the length of the board(say 12"-18") as it bridges any low spots taking off the high spots only.
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Much like a No7 or No8 handplane. Same principle.
[I]when sanding, maybe take a leaf out of ‘fairing’ in boat building. Which is to use a long board of about 6mm ply or mdf with the sandpaper stuck to it.[/]
You might be (the only one) excited by the next episode where i do a lot of sanding. I bought a long board sanding block which i stick my sand paper to when trying to get the wing straight. I use epoxy and glad baubles to form a fairing paste, and the whole process is called 'fairing'. Taken from the boat building world to describe making a smooth straight and flat surface when it really is a complex compound curved surface, just without ripples it sharp edges.
I'd rather watch you shuffle around the dusty garage than most other 'car channels' on YT.
I put the video out on Friday evening as I was spending Saturday hosting a birthday BBQ for MrsWCA and then Sunday I had an all day British Cycling Coaching assessment course. I did manage to get a couple of hours to sand the left wing and slap some gloop onto the bonnet so hopefully will get them ready for primer during the mornings and evenings this week.
How do I link to google photos? https://photos.app.goo.gl/JVJJms47iRyniRWT7
I'm loving this. Thanks for sharing 🙂
EDIT: the forum turned my thumbs up emoji into a question mark, which altered the meaning of my post. Fixed with an old school smiley face
I still haven't got to primer yet, but I have got close enough to order some for delivery next week. My plan is to complete the filling and sanding today - just finished an hour down the garage before posting this - but I have planned to do that for the last 4 weeks. Sanding is tedious and getting the perfect finish is harder than I thought.
I decide to share /pontificate about my learnings so far about filling and sanding a car. Probably not advice or how to, but might help if you are thinking of wrecking a Porsche, I mean trying a bit of bodywork.
Comments welcome
One more tip that didn't make the edit (because I have only just done it) is to watch out for sharp edges on the filler when hand sanding with the long block. The skin of your knuckle might only just glance against the filler but it can be as sharp as a knife and by the end of the sanding stroke, blood will be everywhere.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/snUkZuixaQrmp1wF8
Temporary dressed applied to stem the bleeding. I will give it 30 minutes to calm down and then check if it just sliced the skin, or went deeper in.
Well that didn't go quite as planned, the "Watch me spray primer" might be delayed.
Are you sure you're not just being too much of a perfectionist ?
No, have a look at the shot of the front wing viewed from behind. It was about 4 inches out from the wheel. This wasn't as apparent with the wheels hanging down when it was on the ramp. Shortening the nose is just a bonus as I had to cut up the wing anyway.
The trouble is that once you cut one part to make it narrower it knocks all the proportions out on the rest of it. The other thing I didn't like with the car on the ground was how big the headlights were in proportion to the rest of the front so I am doing these at the same time. At least now I can make the frame to hold the headlights first as I know where the front wing will be.
Total pain in the arse I grant you, but should give a better end result. I know if I left the length or lights I would never be able to look at the car without them annoying me.
Have you got cad or anything ?
If you consider starting over, a template from a series of flat boards, each a section if you know what i mean. Glued them together and then filed to remove the edges to create a rounded curved shape.
Yes I know, but sometimes you have to just chuck effort 1 into a corner, shout **** and start over.
One step forward, two steps back, but you’re keeping it positive WCA, well done.
Always build a prototype, it is easier to explain to the boss why that is in the bin.
The curves are all in multiple directions which makes creating them from flat pieces really difficult. The YT experts often make a shape from loss of slices of plywood but i don't have a big saw and i need to fit them over the actual carn which is an awkward shape.
No real benefit to doing it in CAD as i have no way of transferring that into the physical world. The quick sketch i did with approximate dimensions looked fine.
I think i am doing it the right way, slowly but the right way. The only mistake i made was one of stylistic judgement regarding the width of the wheel arch. Pretty much the rest of the rework is being done because i might as well do it while the wing is being cut up.
Feeling a bit better and have been down the garage since 7am working on the headlight support frame. Just back for more coffee
The first bit of the headlight frame is sitting waiting for the carbon fibre to harden and I hope to get it finished tomorrow, then I can get the bloody front wing proportions sorts, followed by more filler and sanding...
Also, seems that YT prefers disaster movies.
For anyone a bit late to the party, I am adding some Catch Up Compilation videos which just slam about 5 episodes into a single 30 minute clip.
There will be more today as fast as my poor computer can cope, taking you up to the latest episode.
The main reason I am doing this is that I am playing with carbon fibre construction for the headlight frame right now and I wanted to look back at what I did before. It takes ages with all the little episodes to find what I wanted.
I have been waiting for 2 weeks for some wheel spacers to push the front wheels out a bit. Until I get those I cannot get the wing shape right. Until I do those I cannot get the replacement air dam. Until I get that I cannot finish the bonnet.....
While I have been waiting I made the proper headlight mounting brackets out of carbon fibre. I believe these are the pieces that will remain on the final car so they had to be right, which is a challenge when you don't know what right looks like.
I wasn't going to release the video until later this week when I had carefully shaped the headlight brackets but the man finally delivered the wheel spacers while I was doing a sneaky hours work during my lunchtime so I just when with what I had recorded.
Enjoy. Please add comments etc as all feedback is always welcome.
I have been waiting for 2 weeks for some wheel spacers to push the front wheels out a bit. Until I get those I cannot get the wing shape right.
Is that due to the law stating(I think) that the wheels cant stick out beyond the arches ?
[i]Is that due to the law stating(I think) that the wheels cant stick out beyond the arches ?[/i]
No, theses are TUV approved for safety and the Porsche wheels are inset by about 15mm to allow snow chains to be fitted without extending out too far. As long as I don't use snow chains then I am fine.
The delay was caused by the 1st supplier not stocking the items on their website and not being able to get them from the manufacturer. Then the 2nd supplier had the wrong colour shown on the website so paused my order and sent me an email confirming I wanted to continue. Unfortunately that went into the 'promotions' email bin and I didn't see it for a few days. They responded quickly when I confirmed the colour was fine.
It is frustrating because I have now lost the light evenings so everything takes longer because I have a shorter working window. I was planning on doing the CF work in the garage when it was too dark to work on the bodywork.
Guess what I was doing over the Bank Holiday weekend?
This video is a landmark episode as I both listen to feedback on the video style and also make* that last of the bodywork components. The release is a bit close to the last one but most of this was filmed during my weeks leave as well and I know you simply can't wait for the latest dose of video boredom.
The listen to feedback bit is true, I was told to make the videos with more clips showing me hands on with the tasks rather than jumping to the end result. Please let me know if this is an improvement, worse, or no different. Do you like the videos a bit longer, like this one, or were the 5-6 minute clips better?
I think this is only about 11 minutes so tell me what you think the right duration is.
*Please note that I said 'make' and not 'complete'
Something to cheer/bore you on a Monday morning. I had a busy weekend.
Please add comment and advice if you have any
Another good episode...ta.
Here is a compilation that brings any slackers almost up to date :
I make these to remind myself that I am actually making progress rather than justy endlessly sanding and breaking things.
This just popped up on my YT feed!
BLimey, I thought I was indecisive. that car went through more changes in that one clip than I could keep track of.
Here are just some I managed to screen grab.
PS I hope to get the next episode out at after the weekend if I can just finish the bumper bits and the airdam dryingh in the kitchen at the moment
Bump for the Sunday night viewers
Not certain that 11:30pm on a tuesday is prime time to get views but I am finished for the night in the garage and just uploaded the latest episode "Disaster Recovery"
If you haven't already, please subscribe to get an update next time I wdo one as I am not sure how long it will take to recover from the operation I am having on Friday.
Enjoy!
Exciting times - The Pre-Christmas Reveal!!!
Well, it is ready for primer anyway.
has the design changed from Citroen to Chevette?
Looks good!
[i]has the design changed from Citroen to Chevette?[/i]
No, and I think it is much more like a Mk1 Cavalier Coupe than a bloody Chevette!
https://www.aronline.co.uk/cars/vauxhall/cavalier/mk1/
Some more DS fun - thought you might 'enjoy' 😉
I like the first red one, not so keen on the yellow one as the front wings don't flow and the back end looks like a melted AM Vantage from the 70's and the white one looks a bit too bulky.
In other news, I have just come back from the garage having put the (hopefully) last coat of filler on the first part I am going to make a mold from. A bit of sanding to take it down to 1000 grit and then I am going to try gelcoat and a mold without using a primer, just lots of mold release.
This is the small part under the front of the bonnet that rests on the bumper. If it all goes horribly wrong, I have only ruined the smallest panel. If it works then I don't need to learn how to spray primer. With luck and good weather, there will be another episode out within a week.
Coming along nicely WCA.
I managed to get the mould polished up nicely last night so the wait for the next episode shouldn't be so long. First 'production' carbon piece coming soon!
And the latest episode where I have finally made something!!!
I start working on the Left Wing but it doesn't go to plan.
Do not start working 14 hours into a mentally strenuous day after a week of much work and little sleep.
The statement "extreme tiredness is like being drunk" is largely accurate, as research shows that severe sleep deprivation can significantly impair cognitive function in a similar way to alcohol intoxication, affecting reaction time, concentration, and decision-making abilities, making it dangerous to drive or perform complex tasks when extremely tired; essentially, being very sleep deprived can have a similar effect on your brain as being drunk
In this episode you see me succeed!
Well I get a split mould created which I am pretty cuffed with.