GTR air side scoops
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Hello srreck - That is my car. I made the side scoop myself from fiberglass.
It is nothing fancy like the Reverie but it was very effective.
It doesn’t funnel the air to the carb like some but I just wanted to get as much air as possible into the engine bay and through the oil cooler.
I stuck sheets of expanded polystyrene over the grill until I got the right depth then shaped it. I then used modellers plaster to make a mould around it. Once that was done I layed the mould with fiberglass. It wasn't the most high tech solution but with a bit of body filler and spray with matt black it doesn’t look too bad.
Modellers plaster wasn’t the best stuff to use as it fell apart when I separated it from the fibreglass (so I have no mould unfortunately).
It is nothing fancy like the Reverie but it was very effective.
It doesn’t funnel the air to the carb like some but I just wanted to get as much air as possible into the engine bay and through the oil cooler.
I stuck sheets of expanded polystyrene over the grill until I got the right depth then shaped it. I then used modellers plaster to make a mould around it. Once that was done I layed the mould with fiberglass. It wasn't the most high tech solution but with a bit of body filler and spray with matt black it doesn’t look too bad.
Modellers plaster wasn’t the best stuff to use as it fell apart when I separated it from the fibreglass (so I have no mould unfortunately).
Chewy said:
Hello srreck - That is my car. I made the side scoop myself from fiberglass.
It is nothing fancy like the Reverie but it was very effective.
It doesn’t funnel the air to the carb like some but I just wanted to get as much air as possible into the engine bay and through the oil cooler.
I stuck sheets of expanded polystyrene over the grill until I got the right depth then shaped it. I then used modellers plaster to make a mould around it. Once that was done I layed the mould with fiberglass. It wasn't the most high tech solution but with a bit of body filler and spray with matt black it doesn’t look too bad.
Modellers plaster wasn’t the best stuff to use as it fell apart when I separated it from the fibreglass (so I have no mould unfortunately).
It is nothing fancy like the Reverie but it was very effective.
It doesn’t funnel the air to the carb like some but I just wanted to get as much air as possible into the engine bay and through the oil cooler.
I stuck sheets of expanded polystyrene over the grill until I got the right depth then shaped it. I then used modellers plaster to make a mould around it. Once that was done I layed the mould with fiberglass. It wasn't the most high tech solution but with a bit of body filler and spray with matt black it doesn’t look too bad.
Modellers plaster wasn’t the best stuff to use as it fell apart when I separated it from the fibreglass (so I have no mould unfortunately).
Hi Glyn:
Thanks for your reply. Your work looks fantastic. What I need is to put an air stream under the bonnet (trackdays in Spain are usually warm) but not at any price (Reverie). If you still have the moulds I could pay you for a set (if you want to do the job of course). If not ....well.....I would need to get modellers plaster and a free saturday afternoon at the garage.
Thank you so much and best wishes.
Javier
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