This idea was pinched from another GT-R, I have changed it slightly as I have my handbrake just below the gear lever. It consists of 12mm stainless bar bent in three places and 1/2 inch alloy plate. Luckily I have found a really good chap to do the engineering. He milled a curve to the [...]
Entries from April 2008
April 19, 2008
Air scoop
The air scoop, I’ve been looking forward to sorting this, I’ve even bought myself a metal bender to get the crisp clean bends. not like the old days where I would thrash a peace of metal over half a brick to get it something like???? Picture on the left shows the card template, [...]
April 19, 2008
Front panel
Once the front panel is set and aligned I went about hinging it, my solution is two L shaped brackets mounted into each corner and secured into the front chassis member. The brackets look a bit excessive but better to be safe than sorry!
The picture on the right shows the shut lines between the front [...]
April 19, 2008
power bulge
The picture on the left shows the rear section married up to the middle, you can make out the spoiler at the rear and on the right picture you can see were the brackets for the spoiler follow through to the rear hinges. This is one of those times when you measure literally 10 times [...]
April 19, 2008
A bit more bodywork
You are looking from the rear to the front at the middle section of bodywork , this is the first panel I put on. The black squiggled lines are to be cut out, these are just rough cuts for now.
