ShopTalk Forums | Aircooled VW Tech & Restoration Help

Hi,

to finish my university, my last project was a model car, and respective aerodinamic test...

here i put all the photos of the procedures...
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/jeanmelim ... yahoo.com/

i put here in the kit car forum, because this car is a prototype for a VW unshortened pan.

i would like some opnions...

ps: my next project, will be a buggy like stealhy buggy... but after i have the model (scale 1:3) i will build the real mold

Jean Melim

Very interesting, Jean. I'm particularly interested in the side treatment.

To be a real lifesized kit, you would have to do some more work on the roof and windshield design. I can't picture how it would be feasible in safety glass. If that matters.

Hi...

this model, is a model only to make a wind tunnel test...

the car that i want to build is more simple, like this
http://shoptalkforums.com/bbs/NonCGI/Fo ... 00134.html

but for now, i have to worry about the final exams

about the side treatment, or better about all the treatment of the model...

i used floor mate (an insulation for floor and roof of the houses)

i use a plywood for the forms,
with a power supply and with a structure with a wire i cut the forms of the car

this parts are glued with white glue (wood glue) and with bolts, to secure all in place. after the glue is dry, the bolts are removed...

all the holes are tapped with plaster(the wall stucco)

after that the car are sand.

after all the surface are filled with plaster, i use epoxy resin (the only that don't detroy the floor mate, the polyester resin "eat" all the floor mate) and a thin mant of fiberglass tissue.

after all the resin is cured, i start the normal process of a body car preparation, with normal bondo to filler and primary and paint.

i don't know about my english, but i try to explain all the fases

Jean Melim

Jean

That's a lengthy set of images, Can you tell us the specific images that show the car

Thanks


------------------
1966 MANX SR2 (Karma Coachworks), 1974 VW THING

hi...

well, the "body work" of the car 28-29 and 37

the car with primary paint 42, 43 and 44

the car painting in black, (to see the smoke of tunnel of the wind) is the pic 45...

i don't know, but i have to take more pics of the car with black paint, because the others that i took, disappeared

all the other pics are make off, and fiberglass products used...
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/jeanmelim ... %26.view=l
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/jeanmelim ... %26.view=l
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/jeanmelim ... %26.view=l
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/jeanmelim ... %26.view=l
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/jeanmelim ... %26.view=l
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/jeanmelim ... %26.view=l
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/jeanmelim ... %26.view=l

with the direct links are more simple to see the car...

Jean Melim