[Goosesdad]

Originally Posted by TAC

Just scanned through your build thread... looks awesome.
Nice work on the fiberglass parts. I cheat the mold process like you do, sometimes using the thin aluminum house flashing material or tin foil to do lay ups on.
On your inner front fiberglass liners there is a thin liner material similar to the foam board that will prevent the rocks coming off the tires from star cracking your gelcoat on the good side. It gets put under the last layer of glass.

Thank Gary. Agreed...was a cheater mold for sure. I would have built a proper mold if I thought someone here could benefit from it but I think my fenders are such a one-off that the gains for others would be small.

I think you are asking what the material is? It's a single layer of Kevlar but it's just in the area in front of the dry sump tank and really just to help with any larger object going through to the tank/lines/fittings. I would do 2 layers if I had to do it over, one is good...two solves it 100%. Just capitalizing on the better ballistic properties of the Kevlar in this area, I'm not really doing it to help with any spider cracks, though it would probably help there too. I'm going to gamble a bit with protecting the inners by doing a semi heavy coat of Raptor, maybe 4 layers on the part of the inners that can be seen from the engine bay. I built the inners so they could be removed without removing the fenders, sort of expect some repairs at some point. Hope that helps?