I'm sure we could come to some agreement :bigtu:

Git-r-done ;)

Or maybe this someone that had them laying around could make a deal with Cspence....................who could blow the dust off em and put them to use..............maybe, just maybe! Damn this place, the more I am around here, the more money I want to spend...these and the hood I gotta have though, the other stuff I want can wait for now :facepalm: On a more positive note, my main squeeze just got another job to support my hobby :fawk:.................well maybe not to support my hobby, but that sounds good!

Here's some more inspiration Rharris. Anyone else that would be interested please speak up!:

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THIS COULD BE US DAMN IT, HOOD & FLARES!!
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I am going to look into this in the next month or so and probably work with spoolin2bars to make these. MAYBE. Not definate, but looks good for now

:x::x::x:

I'll try to not bug you and spoolin2bars too much for a month or so, the key word being try ;)

First hood has been popped out. I am going to start making the integrated headlight cover one with it. The hood weight is about 2-3lbs more than the stock hood. Someone came by to give me a demo on vacuum bagging and the system I would need to make a significant dent on materials use would be atleast $1700 for an industrial grade unit. I need industrial garde to be able to withstand the atmosphere it is in. Sorry it couldn't be lighter.

Another camera phone pic. I will have a better camera when I get back from the weekend and take more pictures.

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/2500/img00403.jpg

Hey i notice you have a red door there... any possibility that you could paint some hoods to match?? My car's the classic red color.. it would definitely be a nice value-add to have it ready-to-mount on delivery..

damn, nice hood. I still don't have my FM hood on.


Did you ever get my check?

I do not want to paint any of these becasue the paint could get a scratch in shipping or the color not match exactly, etc. Too much of a hassle for me to deal with. Plus, I am an OK painter, not great.

Thank you kind sir. Are you not going to get your car painted with the FM hood on? And yes I did get your check. I should hopefully be getting out of here in time to deposit it.

I love sending out "FEMA checks." lol

Yeah, I'm probably going to stick with the FM hood. I'm too tired to change stuff like that right now.

My wife came in with a puzzled look on her face asking why we were getting letters in from FEMA. I told her it was my guvment check.

do you make bumpers? I'd love the front bumper off the silver one behind the blue car in the pic from Cspence

I'm condemning and acquiring your home. You have 3 days to vacate. lol

Unless you have a bumper that i can make a mold directly off of, then I am not going to be making any bumpers. It is beyond my skills. This hood took enough out of me and look how simple this thing is.

how does the hood attach to the hinges? Are you gonna put studs in the hood like factory?

Hood looks good btw .

Looks good...can't wait to see the solid one and some pictures of it on a car!

BTW because I'm a dumbass, what the hell is this,

"Someone came by to give me a demo on vacuum bagging and the system I would need to make a significant dent on materials use would be atleast $1700 for an industrial grade unit"

The hoods will have the factory threaded bolts, M8 1.25, in the hoods with a back washer welded on the base of the bolt so that the bolt doesn't break out of the fiberglass like snowboarder's autokonxeion hood did.

Maybe if I'm good this year my Latin Mrs. Santa will bring me one of these and an RB bumper.

make sure you write a how-to on this subject, i can't get her to buy me car parts for shit.

do you still want these fenders? how soon can you come up with the money if you do? lmk, thanks, john

oops, was gonna pm you. didn't get enough sleep last night! lol

sent you a pm

PM'd

Here are a few pics of these fenders. We laid them against my car to show how nice they line up "oem fit". With my pulled fenders showed 3" more clearance with these fenders.

http://inlinethumb34.webshots.com/31...600x600Q85.jpg

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Nice! I thought spoolin2bars was the one with them...I pm'd him about when I could pick them up...

i am the one with them. i only have a phone to take pics with, so we used jakes digi.

:D...wanted these flares for a long time, must be my lucky day!

do i smell copies?

nope thats hustlers crabs.....

hustler's mom...

I'm down to make copies. I just need to get the parts in and make the molds.

Be careful with them! They're mine after your done with the molds...;)

On another note, I think your going to be making money hand over fist once you start rolling out the copies...these flares seem like they have a cult like following :laugh:

MAD cult followers that cant afford to hand over 800 friggin bucks for them!

+1 on makin that money with copies!

man If there not to unreasonable I'd be in for a set!

When do I get to pay you for my hood with molded lids?

I would be in for buying the flares first. This is an item that's always been way down my list due to price...but would be way up there if it was affordable.

+1 I don't need a hood, but affordable N2 flares would be awesome!

I'm with Savington on this. When do I get to pay you for my hood?

I have a small interest in the flares and think it would be great if you can offer a more cost effective alternative, but want to see the hoods finished and functioning first.

I buy lidless hood first then I want flares.rharris for president of miatas.
-G-

Pushing the hood as hard as I can. We have had a fair amount of work come in that we had to go outside of the shop for a week, so things are busy. I am not putting you guys off, and I am getting back to the hood mid next week. Just wanted to give an update. Should have the headlight one done by next Friday or the following Monday, IF nothing else comes in.

I do have the regular one done and I will be testing it next week on my car. I don't see any problems, but I want to make sure.

Congratulations on the influx of work,I know how hard these lean times can be.
-G-

It has been pretty slow and we have to jump on work whenever it comes in immediately. Luckily, we have stuff that seems to come in at convenient times right when another project ends. good for my bottom line, but bad for you guys. I am sorry for the delay in getting these to you guys , I truly am. I know some of ya'll are looking forward to this and I hate to make you wait. Especially after all the help this community has given me over the years with getting my car going.

Is all this side work for you...or is this your business?

This is side work at my business. I have a shop that does fiberglass work on various things, but took this on on the side to help the guys get more work and get desired parts to you guys cheaper.

Ahh, this makes sense now! I wish I had the capabilities to do fiberglass work at my company...but I can't complain, its nice having all the sheet metal resources ;) We also do injection molding, but no matter how much I tell upper management to get into making car parts, they never listen :vash:

shit, i wish i had the resorces to do half the stuff that some people do on here!

ha all i have to work with is wrenches, a hammer, a hacksaw and a mig welder! im in the stone age compared to most others!:laugh:

dude you can build an indian supercar with those tools! you obviously haven't watched "bangla bangers" "italy has enzo, india has leepu" :laugh:

wow that thing is ugly as all hell
Leepu = fail \/
http://pictures.topspeed.com/IMG/jpg...u-awila-2w.jpg

just watched it! WOW! thats insane, i dont have the will power for that shit....:laugh:

holy fugly vehicle batman!

i can't believe some of the shit they did. it was crazy. in one episode they are using the wall socket to weld! in another there a whole crew of slaves scraping the paint off the roof with old hacksaw blades! did you see the 8" wheel spacers? death traps is what they're building. but even though they are making fugly cars, the fact that they did even that with the tools they had was kinda amazing.

they are using 26 gauge steel, you can bend that with your fingers easily. This car is a death trap.

I watched one, the rest kept saying file fucked up or somthing..................i really didnt know so much can be done with so little!

are they really using 8 inch spacers?????????

for the first episode they used 6" truck spacers.
The spacers look like these but the mounting plates are much wider apart since this is a 3" suspension spacer :laugh:

http://power.glissons.com/cart/image...lift-40004.jpg


if it says that click refresh, it did that for me too but refreshed it and it started. Fukin utube...

DAMN!

hey doesnt google own utube now or somting like that!(not tryin to fill this tread with bullshit)

time for me to go to the garage and grab my hammers, hack saw, and welder, my car will be sick in about 10 years! :laugh:

go to india, get some slaves and you should be done much faster :facepalm:


holy shit they are using flex pipe to make the entire exhaust.

i was just thinking bout that! :facepalm: :D


WTF on the flex pipe!

holy crap they are using m3 2 sided tape to glue the windows.

BMW makes tape?! :giggle: What happened to this thread being about hoods?