Robola 46's BERYLLIUM BMW 323ci.

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The plate where the vents will get into, I brushed this also, with this as result !

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All the carbon parts that will get around the amplifier, are varnished.

Here the result.

About the parts from the sides, I was a bit afraid that I won’t match the amplifier. This is the result, and I’m very pleased wit hit.

Here you see the lath that comes on the front. I don’t think you’ll be able to see anything ot it, but the finishing touch is there!

The polished aluminum plate blends in 10 times better on the black carbon.

This is the upper part of the cover. I painted it black, so probably you can guess what I’m planning of doing…

So the inside of the amplifierbox is completely finished.

In spite of all the work I’ve done, I’m superhappy with the result

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This will be the front of the amplifierbox. First I made a model in 5mm thick MDF.

Drawed it out on the aluminum of 10mm, and saw into it.

Taped the MDF plat onto it, and tomorrow, it’s mill-time

In the meanwhile I’m baking some carbon cookies in the oven.

The alu piece that will come onto the front of the box, is finished!

Cut out the wholes with the uppermill.

This time I tried GT7 as lubricant, and I must say I’m very satisfied about this product!

Here I grabbed out some more mm’s between the wholes

This is the back side. You can see I grabbed out some more mm’s over the entire surface.

Here in will come a carbon piece, with my logo on it.

Once finished, I spent a big amount of time rubbing it all down.

Afterwards, held the piece under the polish-brush so it shines a bit

The small piece of carbon fibre, that’ll come on the back, is baking as we speak.

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The cover of the amplifier got a total of 6 layers of varnish. I also used new epoxy, wich I find not so good.

There came a lot of little holes in the carbon fiber.

Cause there is so much varnish, I had to rubb it all flat and equal with the

block.

Here you can see how much is really on there.

After some firmly rubbing with a 2000, I started on the aluminum.

Cause of the rubbing, it got mat here and there.

Had to do this by hand, and used some UNIPOL for this.

Offcourse, the result here is not what it was before.

Using a machine would made this 10 times better.

After this I polished the carbon fibre.

Finally, the final result of this piece.

The hard part of this piece is that the transition needed to be descent, and it came out well.

Mounted the rings again.

For those who think this is done… you can forget it.

Before I began covering the alu plate with carbon fibre, I mesured it.

The alu plate was 8.2mm thick. Now with the carbon layer on it’s 9.7mm thick.

That means that everything came up 1.5mm…So the plexi won’t fit that nice anymore.So I have to shorten the rings/toggles about 1.5mm

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I got the chance to finish the aluminum sides of the amplifier-box.

You’ll see that I made the same wholes into the upperside, like there are in the toggles where the plexi is on.

It’ll look like this on the outerside.

Here it’s mounted on to the box. You can see I put some fine gauze on the top. Later I’ll explane why I did this.

Behind the 5 wholes in the bottom there’s a piece of carbonkevlar.

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Here some pics of the aluminum toggles I made.

These come on the Left en Right of the amplifier, and serve to tighten the plexi pieces on the sides.

Remember this?

These two won’t be visible.

Of these, you’ll only see the upperside. You can also see I screwed a little piece of MDF on the inside.

That’s were the plexi will lay on to.

This will get into the back. Again, you will only see the upperside.

Also you can see I knocked in an aluminum nail.

This will come between the plexi, a little hard to explain really.

But you’ll see what I’m trying to say.

In total, I had a lot of work making this, specially trying to fit and finish it in a descent way.

Getting into the trunk 20x a day, for messuring and trying. I’m going to be so happy when the amplifierbox is finished.

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This part will get underneath the amplifier.

On the bottom there’s a mirror of 4mm thick. The meaning is that you can look into the amplifier through the mirror, when the amplifier gets up.

Don’t forget I’m going to open the amplifier so you can see all of it’s components. Here a picture of how I pictured it before….

This is the plate, finished.

The sides will get on the same level/height as those from the amplifier.

The upperside I polished, and the sides are brushed aluminum.

Here you can see I planned a little grill in there. This is the inside, where you won’t see anything.

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Ok guys, the amplifierbox is finished. Did some modifications here and there.

Here and older picture of the side.

It’s especially about the front of the the little L-slat.

On this picture, it’s stops on the side. Didn’t look that good to me, and I had a join on the front.

Here you see it like I made it now. I made 2 new slats on the front and back, each 3mm langer .

I have some more join on the side, but it’s better then before. It’s much tighter on the front now.

Pictures of the side.

The grille on top, is the same I used in the front bumper.

Now it’s looks like I wanted it to look.

You won’t see much of the sides directly, but you know there will come a lot of glass on the side….

Here the sides of the box will reflect into, and I think that will give a nice effect.

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This is the final result of many many many hours work.

On the front I managed to work in some carbon fibre. The middle part won’t stay this way though. I want a logo in there, but since I’m not sure how I’m going to make this…it’ll have to wait some more. It has to something “WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW” , made in plexi and carbon fibre.

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Here you see how I mounted the plexi. I did this in a really simple way.

In the back slat I hammered in 2 inox nails, knocked it down till the plexi came in between.So the backside couldn’t budge any more.

On the front I screwed the plexi tight with 2 little screws M3.

This plexi must be able to be removed for cleaning or to adjust the amplifier.

I also foresaw the illumination of this thing. I only could do this on the front. So i used a LEDSTRIP.

This doesn’t needs much space, so I managed to build it in quite nicely under the cover.