Protege5: Harder, not Smarter!
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That's what she said...
Almost finished polishing the Holset. I've started using this rubber backed 3M sandpaper for metalwork, works decently well for hand sanding.
Roof after lexan riveted for 2 years. Never did leak a single drop, and I only found one or two bits of surface rust...and this is the PNW. Nice.
Crap, of course the second one.
First sealer coat
Second coat, just kind of leaned it up on the car for a picture.
Floor mounted box setup, I've been eyeballing this for years, finally decide to get it. 6.7 pounds with both master cylinders...(omg)
Three Tial 44mm V-bands...
I hate claying the flanges "smooth" takes an easy 6-8 hours per mold for something this large.
Lets cook!
Nearly finished on this. Will finish Cylinder Head porting after.
The gel coat I use is painted orange, its an easy color to see through the glass so I can spot air bubbles when laying over it.
I'm still making them, it takes over a week per mold to make. Yes entire doors.
Just started following this thread recently and I'm still working my way through it, but a while back you mentioned staying away from CF because of its cost-prohibitive-ness. Don't know if you have a need for it anymore, but with the number of aerospace companies up there, you might have some luck asking for their expired CF. They can't use it on aircraft anymore, but it should still be perfectly good and plenty fine for your purposes (and free, if you ask nicely)! We do the same thing on our SAE team.
Awesome build, subbed!
Awesome build, subbed!
I was actually going to see about asking an aerospace interior company about letting me take a look at their scrap bins, I know they use a lot of honeycomb nomex sheetings.
I love SAE, is your team working on formula SAE or BAJA? The baja event was hosted up here several months ago which I had a blast looking around at.
I'm with the UCLA Baja team. We likely crossed paths at some point during the Bellingham event!
Awesome yea I definitely saw you then, I checked out every car at that event and talked too several teams. Great event haha that corner on the obstacle course was awesome to watch.
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My roommates dad is a Materials engineer at Boeing. I was talking with him last weekend and apparently they dont do much with CF anymore. I guess Carbon is "so 10 years ago". They have lots of scrap that they sell off at Boeing auctions a few times a year. Have to be a Boeing employee, but the you can get anything. 3'x3'x3' cube of titanium? they probably have it.
