GRP WINGS

First play at cutting rears to accommodate the new wheel / tyre combo. Wheel is a dummy with same offset / size to get approx dims.
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Dropped down again to ride height with std wheel, I will need more headroom over the tyre to avoid rubbing on full bump.
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I'm in awe, after years of seeing many claims and desires of people wanting to do this, somebody is doing it :cool:

It's quite a brutal cut isn't it to start with! Will the rear doors still be fully functional with the arches split to allow opening?
 
Thanks, but the fat Lady is no where near ready to warble yet. The door will still open and yes the arch will be split.
I have sat and stared at it for long periods and in the end I just went and cut it, seems as though sometimes you need to remove stuff in order to move forward.
I am still driving it around and as far as I know my ar$e is not any closer to rubbing on the road :)
 
Did a little bit more.
Re cut the arch and door for clearance, the line is now pretty close to following the pinch weld inside the wheel arch.
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Capped the end of the door and included a tab to aid fixing the arch section on the outside.
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Also capped off the end of the D post and stitched together the wheel arch.
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Will have to figure out how the seal will go next.
 
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Hi, Can I suggest that you have a flange coming out from the w/arch past that gap to keep the worst of the spray off the tyre away from the area between arch and door, because it's a lot to ask of any seal to keep it out of the interior.

Colin
 
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Colin
That is an idea I have been mulling over, I thought of a sheet rubber flap coming out from wheel arch, but I could easily tack on a steel flap. I carefully removed the seal channel and kept it and am either looking at ways to re position that or bulk up the gap by bonding on a square rubber section and gluing the seal to that. I think the seal will go back OK and with a flap as well any wet that does get through wont have enough impetus to get past the furry draught seal and should run out the bottom.
 
Can't wait to see them on the car - not a huge fan of minilite type wheels but the width of those tyres look awesome :)

Richard
 
Aye I am looking forward to see how it drives, they are a bit on the thick side.
Bit more progress
Rears on.
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Fronts on, no chance of any steering !
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Started forming rear arches with celotex glued on with a hot glue gun then cut with a wood saw and profiled with a farriers rasp then finished with 80 grit,
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Will start the fronts next then get messy with some resin.
 
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"Carlos Fandango wheels"! :D Classic pop-culural reference for those of us of a certain age!
The Minilites look the business!
Have you got power steering? Parking will build up your biceps if not!
Your wing widening efforts look like they're coming along a treat. Watching your progress with great interest, and no small amount of envy.
 
Are you "thumb sucking" the shape and size of the wing extensions or do you have an idea of the thickness/dimensions of the add-ons?
I'd love to have a 3D scan of the real car or a scale model to get "authentic" dimensions, as it were.

Watching with keen interest and hatching ideas to make my own GRP panels.
 
The wings are being made to fit the wheels I have. If you want to be authentic you need 10" wide wheels, I think the ones I have are plenty wide enough.
The shape is based on the original, however I dislike the amount of air around the tyres the original car has to the rear of the wheels, particularly on the rears.
I will make up the fronts and then pull up a chair and sit and look at it for a while, then if I think it needs something I will sharpen up my saw.
At work (AS Motorsport ) 3D Engineers scanned our car to produce a body buck, however to scan a car would cost way more than my entire project, plus there is no car to scan as the owner of 808D quite rightly does not want 500 clones running around.

Our car at 3D engineers. A S Motorsport DBR

Over the last couple of days I have laminated up the rears, I just have to apply a tissue coat to last side then attempt to smooth things out a little to save time in the paint shop, then on to the front end.
 
quattro said:
It's still about a foot narrower than my Audi.
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Really??
Can someone tell me in good, old fashioned feet and inches or the newfangled milli-things how wide it is, then, please? Maybe It's the pictures I have seen, because it looks much wider in front than the rear end is.
 
I may have exaggerated a bit :oops:, but the standard P6 is 5' 6" and my Audi is 6' 10" The P6 is quite a small car compared to moderns.
 
Looking at the last pic and going on quattro's 5' 6" the racer is not going to be more than 6" wider each side so that gives us 6' 6" in non European money. So as long as you have a 7' wide garage door its happy days.
I estimate from a rough measure that her Brown ness is going to be around 70" wide
 
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