BERYLLIUM BMW 323ci.

[scooter99]

You my friend are a genius! I love the little things you do. You've given me so many ideas for my car build. I just wish I could carbon fiber half as good as you, scratch that a fraction of that as good as you. Truly remarkable!

[robola 46]

The frame worked out perfectly for me. Im pleased with how it looks now.

I provided the second one of its carbonmush also...so itll also be ready soon.

Then I layed this thing on my hood, at the point where it needs to come.

I immediately got a kick, just be seeing this:

When you may know, the hood of a E46 isnt particully straight.

So now its my job to provide these frames with the same roundings as the hood.

[99GPGTX]

Good lawwwwd this is ugly.

[robola 46]

So sick! I watched this over on DIYMA and it's gotten so much better. Your attention to detail is amazing. I wish I had the time and the skill for the carbon fiber parts you make, as well as the aluminum. That's more like tools added to time and skill mix as well. You're an inspiration and I love it even more every time I find this thread!

You my friend are a genius! I love the little things you do. You've given me so many ideas for my car build. I just wish I could carbon fiber half as good as you, scratch that a fraction of that as good as you. Truly remarkable!

What you’re waiting for? Buy yourself a couple of meters of carbon fibrer, and start using !

But try starting with something easy. And also keep in mind that working with carbon fiber is not that easy as it looks.

I’m working with this material for several of years now, and there ended up for many dollars in my bin here in the garage.

It is, and always stays a challenge for me to cover something with CF.

[scooter99]

Thanks! At the moment I'm working on some recovery on funds. I just got a small loan for paying off credit cards and fixing my truck. So in a couple of months, I'll have that paid off and I'll be ready to start working with this stuff. I have lots of ideas for my Civic and you've contributed to a lot of them. I'll be working with it soon!

Keep up the good, sorry that's not a good enough word, outstanding work! You're an inspiration!

[Supercharged DCs]

Pics no show :'(

[robola 46]

Ok dudes, playtime is over.

Time for the real stuff.

Before I made the 2 holes in the hood, I thought it over, again.

Buying a new hood, letting it get sprayed, …. Its an easy 800-900€.

So first I took the vent-holes and provided them with self-adhesive tape.

I took this because of the thickness. The color is red, because there wasnt any other color available.

Then I taped these under the hood, and drawed them out with a ballpoint

Then I kept myself occupied of placing kit to the hood, to measure how much space there is between the hood and the fiberglass covers I made.

Here you can see that on 1 place, I only have 25millimeters. There the cap of the window-wipers

Never mind, time will tell what Im going to do with that, maybe leave the aluminium cap or so…

On the driver-side, theres more room.

What I am going to do, is make them the same height.

I prepared my drill. You can see I placed the head of the drill on a flat rubber.

When Im drilling through the hood, and I should lose control of the drill, the rubber takes the smash.

Enough talking, lets go drillin

I drilled a couple of 2.5mm holes from the inside towards the outside.

You see Im a bit more on the inside than the line.

This is how it looks on the oudside, and now I know exactly where to place the sticker to draw out the outside.

Before I drilled the first hole, I drilled some holes in the middle of the material that needs to be deleted, makes it easier.

And believe me, you need to give it some big strength before you go through that the first time.

Id also span a bar, measured and drawed to place the bars inside the air-vents

Took off the hood, and layed it on the table.

When I planted the disc in the hood…

A friend who was with me at that moment, asked me: are you SURE ???

But even before he started the word SURE, I already went for it.

[OrionStang]

Holy shit!!! You got balls to go along with your skills.

[tdc3187]

No pics

[robola 46]

The first cut-out was a success

It wasnt very hard to make the hole, but during the cutting, milling and filing I had to be very careful to not make any dents.

On the place where the holes are, there are no reinforcements.

So if you make a hole there, the metal is very weak, so dents are easy made.

This is with the carbon frame in it.

You can also see that the hood makes a curve on both sides.

Ill have to draw this out, and give the carbon fiber the same roundings.

The second hole is ready, and it looks as good as the first one.

Here you can see I glued the frames in with hot glue.

Once I did this, I turned it all over.

The meaning is to make a sort of flange, so that the frame lays at the exact same depth, all the time.

I taped the hood with tape

Then I made a carbon fiber mush out of epoxy with carbon chips.

Greased it round the frame.

When this was dry, I turned the hood over again, and eliminated the glue on the upperside.

Now I had to give the frame the same rounding as the hood.

I managed to do this quite easily…

I taped a piece of aluminum from 1mm thick onto the outer MDF mold I used to make this all

I held this to the copy mill, and cut this plate in 2.

Then I taped this onto the hood.