Front spoiler

Hopefully you have allready visited the back spoiler link and saw what we did on the last stage of our project. Here you will be able to see some pictures, and get some information about how we built the front spoiler.

What we built this time was something that could be compared to corner splitters that we integrated with the front spoiler. We also built DTM wings that were also integrated with the car. Below you can see a picture of what the corner splitter looked like while it was being puttied with glassfiber. The pink areas are still not pluttied. Unlike the backspoiler, the front was built completly from cell-plastic that we had formed.

Another thing that differed from the back-spoiler was the fact that we decided to putty all the pieces before they were fitted on the car. For those of you who have read about the backspoiler, you will remember that we fitted the pieces on the car before we puttied them. This tactic showed to be much better. The reason we decided to build in this manner was the fact that I wanted to use the car while we were building the corner splitters. Below you can see what tools I used during the project. The fine-plutting did however require sand paper of different roughness. To quickly describe what you are looking at, the tool to the left is a file, the other two are puttying tools. Later when we started fine-puttying, we used a soft tool as well.

I did most of the hard work, but dad had to help me with the fine stuff. As you can see on the picture below, dad is standing and working the glasfiber over a bit. I had done a bad job, so dad helped a little, you can't succeed every time...

The puttying with glass fiber took a couple of days, then we continued with the fine putty. I used two different types of putty. The first ran out quite quick, since it was just some putty we had left from the back spoiler, then we continued with a putty called Micro from Hagmans Kemi AB. It was a much better putty with a decent drying time, plus that it was really easy to work with once it had hardend. Below you can see a picture of what the pieces looked like when they were partially fine puttied. The one closest is puttied with Micro, and even tho it's hard to tell from the picture, it's a lot better then the other one.

The fine puttying of the two pieces took quite some time, since we wanted as good form as possible on them before they were puttied onto the car. When the pieces were done, they were sprayed with fluid putty from Hagmans, then we puttied them to the front spoiler. We used Hagmans glass fiber putty for this, and found that this was a lot better then two component glue. We used glue on the back-spoiler without knowing that it had a curosive effect on the cell-plastic. In the middle of the project dad went away for a week, taking the camera with him, so there was not possible for me to document what happened to the car. I know I promised to take more pictures this time around, but instead I took less. The picture below shows what the front-spoiler looked like after we had painted, polished and cleaned it. It wasn't as dusty this time since it had only been in the garage for 3 weeks, but it was still quite dusty.

We really succeeded with the paint this time around, so it was a shame that we didn't paint the whole front spoiler. We also added som venyls to the car, among them our loggo, but we wanted something more. Our plan is to put a huge pegasus on the side of the car, but since the car is getting a paint job this winter we thought it would be a bit to unnecissary. So we sat down and thought about what we could add in the meantime. At last we remembered that a pegasus has wings, so why not feathers? A lot of people have complimented me regarding the feathers, what do you think about them?

Dad made the feathers that were then printed on tranceparent venyl, that's why the red metallic paint shines through them adding a cool effect. Also the feathers are not just black, they contain a couple of blue colors that glimmer at certain angles.

If you want to see some more pictures, you can find them under the pictures link.

Partly glassfiber puttied corner splitter

Tools of the trade

Dad helping out

Partially fine puttied corner splitter

Front done

Front with venyls