how come yours is all neat and workmanlike?
Where are all of the razorsharp glass and epoxy spikes that go up your fingernail like I normally have?
 
Some fibreglass inner spats that seal off the guard to door pillar could be worth making.

Cause I did it as a trade for 15yrs and know how to tame it to my advantage.
I don't wet the mat out so much and let the resin soak thru then brush a little more on the frosty bits, next is using a roller for the job, not a buntings paint roller..a small ally cerated roller to squash out bubbles and last is check and lightly brush /dab to soak out any excess resin.... Much like wallpapering.. I don't wear gloves either as they get sticky and stuff things up .

I keep forgetting that bit!

You might have a thing there about the inner spats.. I have a few sets of spats I could copy from , might have the front guard ones ( near headlight) as well . If people want them I'll do it

ok, I'll start.
Please put me down for a set of inner spats (for mk2!), whenever you get enough orders or time to put some into production. No hurry of course.
 
I don't want to have to do the guards and door pillars again in this lifetime.
 
And in future wishes, is there an equivalent for Mk1 Capri's?
 

I'll check if mk1 and mk2 are the same, if they are that'd be good, I'm suspecting the rubber seal is the only difference due to the shape of the guard.
So you want mk1 for your mk2 van, ok sir !

you might have some competition with the guards Marty!
 
While trawling through the Motomobil site getting an early list together for Santa, I found this typo on RS2000 LHS guards:

 
the rhs side was normal $400+ pricing.
 
Maybe I should add a few to the cart!

I checked those inner spats and both are the same and do is the rubber seal part, I have no idea if they fit Capri, never owned one.. my guess is they'll fit but some mods will need to take place .
Yestdy I finished off the mold fglassing for the first mk1 guard, I won't be doing anything to it until Friday at the earliest and this will just be trimming of excess overhang material.




Deano, I'm now using waxed polyester resin which is suited for boats and tanks etc as it came up cheaper than regular resin, that's prolly why my fglass looks so good. It's still fine for car parts , just makes the part more waterproof !

You are just being modest.
So by using the 'waxed' polyester mean it might be likely to release easier also dp you reckon?
 
Speaking of boats, one of the most meticulous and clever people I never met was Ian Farrier, a kiwi yacht designer and builder.
He was pretty famous for his line of fibreglass trimarans, but he died suddenly in 2017 from heart attack.
Production of his last boat was delayed by many years which annoyed many potential customers, while he was reperfecting moulds to enable quicker production. This need for absolute perfection stretched to including wheel arches for his trailers.
All of the plugs where cnc cut and immaculate.
A very smart man:
https://f-boat.com/f-22/specifications/ 

The wax is in the resin not gelcoat at a small percentage, the rules say if I stop a layer then start the next layer after its cured or in "green" mode I need to scuff up the layer with 80 grit to at a key for the next layer.
After waiting a few days and doing other stuff, the guard mold has just about cured so it was time to trim off excess glass shards, drilled holes for bolts at same time


It took a gentle 30 min to get the guard to release as didn't want to go straining anything while removing it, once it was out I did some light sanding in the edges and where the gelcoat had creeped to far into the no go zones

Slight imperfections like this worm in a couple of shots but I'm fine with how it's came out

The original guard wasn't damaged at all except some slight scratches

And now I'm starting the build a guard process, they are made with way less material and are best made in parts then the mold bolted together and filler strips glassed in to join everything together , I've chosen black for the actual guard as it'll show any bubbles between gelcoat and glass layers