70 Camaro - Boise, Idaho

[Goosesdad]

Built a temp booth so I could contain sanding dust, as much as possible, and so I could spray primer. Just trying to manage the mess a bit.




Sprayed a final coat of polyester on the firewall. I will block it and paint next.

[slimjim]

Great work on the booth, my garage will need a full overhaul once the car heads out to paint as the poly dust ruins everything!

[Goosesdad]

Originally Posted by slimjim

Great work on the booth, my garage will need a full overhaul once the car heads out to paint as the poly dust ruins everything!

Thanks! So true. I tried to convince myself that just doing the firewall wouldn't put dust in every possible nook and cranny within a 100' radius. Lying to myself when I know better seems to be common for me.

Bet it feels good to be so close to paint. Nice!

[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.

[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?

[glassman]

Love following this.
That garage though, killing it.
Reading nothing but nice things about Fesler...

[TAC]

Originally Posted by Goosesdad

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?

I was just wondering if you had done anything for the spider crack issue and I was saying that there is products for lamination for that issue. You have addressed it with the Kevlar so you should be covered to some degree.

[Goosesdad]

Originally Posted by glassman

Love following this.
That garage though, killing it.
Reading nothing but nice things about Fesler...

Thanks Mike!

[Goosesdad]

Originally Posted by TAC

I was just wondering if you had done anything for the spider crack issue and I was saying that there is products for lamination for that issue. You have addressed it with the Kevlar so you should be covered to some degree.

Ahhh. Got it. Would love to know about the product, appreciate any info you have.. Thanks.

[CamaroAJ]

Aw come on guys, I keep seeing the thread bumped up, but no pictures. Killin me over here.