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Old December 6th 2009, 04:45
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And now for something completely different...



No, I'm not trying to get into a remake of Mad Max! These are the high tech forms I used (4" ABS pipe LOL) to create the sleeves that will be holders for the fog lights. I've purchased some 4" HID lights that will be finished with fender contour yellow lexan.



These holes are drilled for high output white LEDs a la Audi, Merc, and Porsche. The output of each LED is 250,000 MCD! I hope they are bright enough, I've checked out the Porsches LED DLRs and they are actually each in their own reflector and the LED actually shines down and then is reflected forward.



I moved the exhaust cutouts to straddle the seam between the fenders and the apron. The exhaust diameter will be 2 x 2.5" but I will be sleeving with tips made out of 2.75" to add a heat shield and that will fill in the 3" cutouts quite well I hope. I fiberglassed the fenders and added sheetmetal to the apron.

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Old December 6th 2009, 14:59
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hahahahah at first look i thought you were putting in some grenade launchers, you know for those crappy drivers
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Old December 6th 2009, 20:45
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wow, looks like you've been busy! I can't wait to see how the leds come out
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Would be cool if its turn signals and they are sequential! (like the old tailights on the Cougars)
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Old December 7th 2009, 00:06
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I'm thinking I might make a row of maybe 6 or 7 yellow LEDs inside the headlight bucket to act as the turnsignals, maybe I can put a couple of cougar modules together to make 6 work in sequence!
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Window Scoops

I finally got the set of rough bucks made up for the quarter window scoops. I've used 5 layers of .5" MDF glued together. Once they set I'll carve it all down and smooth it out. They'll become the forms I use to vacuum mold the scoops. This set is for scoops in new quarter pop-outs, so if anyone wants a set for early standard windows I think they will need to be larger than this, but I don't have standard windows to compare to.



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Sweet, what kind of fogs are you going to use?
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I've gutted them and they'll be attached to the ends of the tubes. Then I've got some yellow Lexan covers I've made that will give this sort of effect with the HID behind them:



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More work on the bucks today, I bondo'd them together so they'll be symetrical at least at the opening. I'll let my body guy fine tune these and paint them for the vacuum molding in Lexan.

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I know you've already created the bucks for scoops, but a NACA duct will actually pull more airflow then the scoops will.

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That might be the case, but I'm not really sure. If you look at any current supercar, they are using ducts that are similar, so it can't be that bad. I had originally thought it would be very simple to go NACA, but it would also look messy, and part of this is to maintain the subtle looks too. I've seen plenty with NACAs, never seen one with a scoop. This will keep the one off feel I've been ending up going for. If it doesn't work it will be easy to do NACA, this is a experiment all the way. Thanks for the suggestions though, alway appreciated.

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The buck looks great so far...but I'm interested in how many cans of raid one person needs
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Love the LED's and exhaust positioning Jason. The LED idea is right up there with today's modern thinking, I'm surprised no-one has tried that before. Keep up the good work!
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Looks GOOD jason. Keep the pics comming !!

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That might be the case, but I'm not really sure. If you look at any current supercar, they are using ducts that are similar, so it can't be that bad. I had originally thought it would be very simple to go NACA, but it would also look messy, and part of this is to maintain the subtle looks too. I've seen plenty with NACAs, never seen one with a scoop. This will keep the one off feel I've been ending up going for. If it doesn't work it will be easy to do NACA, this is a experiment all the way. Thanks for the suggestions though, alway appreciated.

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My rally car has what we call "dumbo's ears" for cooling off driver/co-driver in hot weather and on track days.





Below 45km/h you don't feel any airflow through them, 45-70kph shows some light flow and above 80kph they're fairly effective. Some tests with NACA ducts on the actual window show much better flow, but for packaging reasons I have to do the scoops so we can open and close the rear doors.

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