MadaboutKitcars

Beautiful, well executed!

Looks wicked now.

The bonnet has an air of e-type about it also. Which can only be good.

Dave

Gary & Glan

The business you know what I am going to say can I have one to fit an SE5 chassis.

I have just listed a set of wheels in parts for sale on this forum .

They are the ones I would recommend for use with this body.

If the buyer of the wheels , places an order for a Formosa at some time in the future , I will do £100 cashback on the package for them.

So, after a week of sanding and polishing and several coats of wax , Glan has forearms like Popeye and the car is back to a shine comparable to the wet pictures above .....The car looks fantastic ...

We made a start on the mould today .

Bonnet and bootlid outer skin being done first ...







Blow hole detail shown here , this helps to release moulds that have tight spots ...usually achieved by just drilling a hole , but as I want these moulds to last a very long time with minimal damage and wear , if possible , I had some little aluminium inlets turned up and Glan has bonded them in ..





And , before anyone says it ......We know !!

Looking good Gary,

So is the bonnet going to be a one piece mould then ?

No flash lines to contend with ?

Well executed plan on the blow holes. Saves the mould flanges!

Glan is doing returns on all edges , so minimal flash lines on edges , but nothing too serious ..

Thank you ...Glan's idea ...

We are doing wedge pockets on the sides as well ..

Perfect!
First class mould!

This would make an interesting Formosa 120 GR donor vehicle ....

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Bonnet mould made , flanged arches and bracing box added , this strengthens the mould but also creates its own stand to support it when upside down too ..

Well done!

If you could fit seats in the box you may be able to export it to India or Thailand! If they can get a whole family on a Honda 90, just think how many you could cram in the bonnet box, optional rear box for an extended family?

Looking good

Well the bonnet mould released nice and easy and is currently having its return flanges made top and bottom . I have started to dismantle the front as we needed to get to the bulkhead detail ...



Glan is now flanging both sides to lay them up and the gel is on , first coat today , second in the morning and a skin coat of matt to follow , with full layup taking place this weekends.

Whilst all that was going on ,Glan also cut out the boot aperture following our scribed line , and I dropped this section into the cavity and created some edges with filler to give us a boot shut.




These will be moulded pretty much as shown , giving us the opportunity to fit another blowhole on this panel and allowing the builder to trim the hole back to their desired shape , depending upon their hinging and latching method ..

We moulded a quick outer skin panel from the bootlid mould to use as a template to gap up the boot nicely ..these bootlid panels will eventually have a 10-15mm return edge moulded to them to retain their shape and give them some body ...we only used an outerskin as its template only ..

Coming along nicely Gary, looking forward to seeing the first shell out of the mold.

And me mate !! First body out is mine as it will be used to develop the hardware and frame , gaining a few scars on the way , so I will put something together for myself using that one ...

second one is spoken for and fill be Official Production Number 1 .
I have a few ''expressed an interest'' customers that I consider to be serious ..so hopefully I will sell a few units ...

I really admire the forward thinking and execution, good job!

Riley RMA Reg POG 128

Repeated post - stuff already posted elsewhere

Looking better all the time Gary!

I've stated this in the past and will repeat, the forum is not a medium for the public pursuit of personal grievances. Resolve it in the real world.

John

Thank you hugo ...

Any updates Gary ?

Not a lot to show in pics Jeff ...Glan has moulded the bonnet and both sides ...today he was flanging the front bulkhead / dash area and tidying up the boot aperture , waxing and polishing it etc.
Hoping to get these areas gel'd and laid up in the next few days ..
The plan is mould to be finished by the end of the week ..but its a fiddly process with the extra detail this body has throwing up some challenges ...

First prototype body out by end of next week hopefully ...