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Old June 4th 2009, 04:16
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That came out looking very nice.
Is that 5 bar treadplate you have on the floor? I have been looking for a sorce for some 5 bar. Need to make some interior door panels and other stuff for my wifes Pinzgauer.
I don't know if its 5bar. I'll have to look again. Alex had got it.


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How did you end up choosing FX45 projectors? Are they Bi-Xenon? I'm asking as I will soon have one of the Bi-Xenons of my recently damaged 335 and I'm wondering if there is a size difference that makes the FX45 projector a better choice.

Jason
These FX's have been in the mix since 2002ish. At that time they were the only small bi-xenon out there. Not many to chose from back then.

Matt at: http://store.theretrofitsource.com/index.php has helped me out with some items.

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Pelican parts sell clear Porsche headlight cover. http://www.pelicanparts.com/cgi-bin/...vers%2C%20pair

I'm not sure how optically clean they would be.

Steve
Pretty cool. Thanks for the link.



What are your opinions of the yellow 911 lenses above?

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Old June 8th 2009, 18:59
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When mocking it up, found the fender buckets have been smoothed out. Ahh......the fenders need mounting tabs! Bent up some thick shim stock and was starting to get it radius'd and figured it would be too much time/work. So do we cut them out a set of other fenders? Couldn't find a decent early pair as donors, so ordered a pair of replacement buckets. Should be here in a couple weeks.
Got the replacement headlight buckets. I hacked out the top mounting tabs. Used some more of the other bucket to make plates that will be used to sandwich the carbon fender with the mounting tabs. Tab and inside support plate are in the middle of the pic.



Did the carbon treatment to the inside headlight bucket:



Need to install the headlight wire conduit, drains, wire the ballasts/high beam solenoid, and trim up the tabs/plates above for final install.

Here it is mocked up, ignore the reflections:





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Old June 8th 2009, 19:13
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Hi

Looking very high tech.

I have a set Hella Xenon & halogen modules that I was going to fit into my 1303, but I think that they are going to be too deep and I would have to cut into the headlight buckets.

On my old bug with 17 inch wheels the tyres used to kiss headlight bucket at times.

How much did you need to cut into the back of the headlight bucket?

So now I'm thinking just using stock 911 H4 headlights with a Xenon conversion.

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My Hella modules, they even have self leveling




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Old June 8th 2009, 19:40
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Hey Steve,

I didn't cut the headlight bucket. It still looks like this:



Those self leveling lights would be pretty cool.
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Those look killer... you are a sick man Pete! (mad fab skilz)
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Nice Work Buddy...
looks GREAT

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Those self leveling lights would be pretty cool.
Hi

I hope they do the Xenon dance on startup, like the late BMs, Porsches etc.

I have been measuring and double checking and I think I can fit them in, I will have a better look when I get to that part of the project.

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Didn't do much with the split for the month of July. Too many other things going on. Plan to hit it again in the next couple weeks. I'll update.

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That '52 is looking awesome Pete ... looking forward to seeing the progress pics.

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Did alot of modding to my daily driver TDI this summer. Took time away from the split. That's why i haven't updated in awhile.

It's getting cold out, so back into the garage.

The uniball plates got powdercoated, haven't installed them yet, but they finished up like this:

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Next up, the crotch coolers. Toying with different ideas for quite a while.

In this pic, the crotch cooler hole was filled with a piece of carbon that was glued to a fiber plate of some sort. Not functional. The flaps were not available when the car was painted, but i've always wanted to have functional flaps with the carbon.



Tried to source the cooler flaps to gut/grind the hardware apart and try to fix them to a piece of carbon. Not available. Even the guys repoping the parts in South America didn't have those parts. So a OEM set were sandblasted clean and the thinking continued........

Cut apart a Carbon Joe panel for material. It was too thick so shaved/sanded down the 2 layers of fiberglass behind the carbon fiber. Was left with the one layer of carbon fiber, that was to my surprise, pretty flexible.







Now i needed to find an adhesive to get it to stick to metal really hard so i can sand it. Tried different quickset epoxies, instant adhesives, and some Loctite gel stuff. None worked well. Some had a weird reaction with the resin in the carbon, and others dried all rubbery. Gave JB Weld a try, and it was perfect.

A little oversize, and some extra gunk, to allow shaping:


Sanded:


Time to try it out for real.

It's now drying under the weight of some A2 steel, nice and heavy


I'll give it a couple days to get hard, before touching it. We'll see how this turns out.

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Looking awesome Pete!

The carbon fiber covers on the cooler flaps is, well, too cool!
JB weld is the king of adhesives.

Your uniball suspension parts look marvelous

Keep up the great work!

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Keep at it Pete. I want to see it on the street.
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Oh! Sweet! I really like the work so far.
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nice WORK buddy...keep it Up
they are going to look SWEET MAN

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