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Old 06-02-2010, 10:43 PM   #88 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by AgStacker View Post
Wow Kevin you've out done yourself with the badges. I really like your Z It looks a lot closer to the OEM than I could have done. I had to look over your posts and designs several times, hell I even took notes.

I want to start off by addressing your first and last posts concerning future projects such as brake ducts, under body bracing and the shifter surround; The brake ducts sound to me like a job which is out of my area of expertise. What I am picturing in my head is basically a funnel with a tube that channels air from the front of the car to the brakes. Parts like these are not cost efficent to make via machining. I am not a fabricator, I can not weld or bend sheet metal/ metal tube in a precise manor, although I do know people who can. I would be happy to provide any machined parts necessary, and participate in the project in any way that I can be helpful.

I'm not exactly clear on what is meant by under body bracing but again if it requires welding or bending, we'll have to talk to West Coast Fab about that.

The shifter surround will be a tricky bastard. The compound radii/angle of the two tabs that house the S-mode and hazard light buttons will require me to use a technique known as ball nose milling. This is not a problem, in fact it is the style of machining I will use to make the badges, how ever it is quite time consuming on a larger part such as this. ( basically I will trace the entire surface of the part in linear passes with a .125 diameter ball nose endmill, moving the tool up and down to follow the contours of the part, stepping over .005 inches each time. ) Work holding while machining the back side will also be complicated/problematic. BUT do not think that I am backing down from this challenge, it can and will be done. I just want to take this one project at a time, no need to get ahead of our selves.

That said I must step away from the computer for a short while and will return later this evening to comment on your wonderful badge designs... I took notes remember?
Thanks for the update. As for the brake ducts, which i'm aware is a very popular mod that everyone's waiting for. I'm thinking even if we don't have anything weld together such as bent sheet metal (scoop) to duct air into the brakes/ rotor, I was thinking about taking a look at some of the existing attachment bolt holes I could use to bolt something (bracket which i'll design) that can hold those off the shelf flexible hose (used for brake ducts) and all we'd have to do is have it plug right into the bracket and we'd just have to use a hose collar clamp to wrap over the hose to the bracket. And similarly, any attachment points that need a bracket to hold the hose or route the hose, I could look into also creating something. Similarly, the front bumper...where the shark fins located...I've taken my bumper apart to take a good look at it awhile back and maybe I can also create something that attaches to where the cover lids located next to the shark fins.....just a thought.
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