What would be the best way to make one? Which material would be best? Carbed chevy.
What would be the best way to make one? Which material would be best? Carbed chevy.
I'd do acrylic or plexiglass. Some weldon 16 (easier to work with) or weldon 4 (cleaner seams) and you're done. You can also lay it over a mold and use heat to bend it into shape. Maybe sure you get thick stuff so that it doesn't collapse on you like the video a few months back.
Pretty sure there was something on roadkill when they were building the 55 showing how they did it. It would not be terrible to quote out and have it done by a local plastics house if you don;t have the tools.
Give this a watch, it might give you some ideas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQGoKUVfe6g
I used a green plastic "Boston Globe" mail box on my old 67 dart drag car. used a large chrome air filter base with a 10" wheel barrel inner tube partly inflated to seal to the hood it was worth 0.2 on the time slip.
stan_d wrote: What would be the best way to make one? Which material would be best? Carbed chevy.
Call J C Whitney?
Look up vacuum forming. Extremely easy to do. Mold over vacuum bed. Heat plexi, turn on vacation and drop over mold. Done.
You can also blow form it into a bubble shape of some sort. You make a form to clamp it around the edges to a flat board, then "inflate" it like a balloon through an air fitting in the center on the flat bottom.
Doesn't suck as much as vacuum; it blows. Hyuck hyuck hyuck.
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