'cosmic' Wheel Arches
#1
Posted 15 January 2013 - 10:46 PM
does anyone know where i can buy reproductions or anyone have a set in good condition that i'm there willing to part with?
some pics stolen from 'The Beans' thread
#2
Posted 15 January 2013 - 10:56 PM
#3
Posted 15 January 2013 - 11:03 PM
As far as I know no one has ever made FG ones although you could modify a set of Group 2 narrows for the same look.
#4
Posted 15 January 2013 - 11:07 PM
#5
Posted 16 January 2013 - 09:41 AM
It took me 18 months to find my comics ally arches. Was a rite pain but im trying to get someone to make me a spare set off my brand new ones.
summs116 if you manage to get another set would you enquire about possibly more? i'd love to have a set! lol
Abs is a good call though, if i was to give them a message what would they need?
#6
Posted 16 January 2013 - 11:00 AM
Would there be any interest if I was to offer them for sale?
#7
Posted 16 January 2013 - 11:31 AM
I've done a bit of fibreglass work and I don't think these would really lend themselves to being re-made in GRP because they sit flat against the body and so need to be a consistent thickness which isn't so easy (it's perfectly do-able but means far more care and attention needs to be taken which means time and skill levels are higher which puts costs higher). Carbon would likely be similar being a laminate too but tends to be easier to control in a consistent manner - this is more down to the manufacturing techniques being developed for it's common uses where consistency is an absolute requirement IMO.
What I reckon would lend itself to reproducing these fairly quickly and therefore cheaply is vacuum forming. They aren't a hugely deep shape, there are no returns and if I'm right about them all being the same then one form could be repeated 4 times for a car set (although nesting two in one form would probably give the optimal efficiency for the size of the form versus the number of operations to give you a product). You could also choose your plastic to be less brittle than GRP or CF which tend to suffer from cracks propagating at exposed edges.
Let me do some digging and I might look at making some or just sell the ones I've got.
Iain
#8
Posted 16 January 2013 - 12:26 PM
Just read this thread, maybe this is he answer, get some fabricated in Aluminium...
http://www.theminifo...arage-classics/
#9
Posted 16 January 2013 - 04:52 PM
#10
Posted 16 January 2013 - 05:05 PM
#11
Posted 16 January 2013 - 05:56 PM
#12
Posted 16 January 2013 - 06:36 PM
Well mine are brand new still in the box,I don't mind letting use them as a mould aslong asI keep looking for some to take moulds to make carbon copies
Would there be any interest if I was to offer them for sale?
1 I get them back
2 I get a set of free carbon ones once you've done a few set
#13
Posted 16 January 2013 - 07:54 PM
I have a set on my mini currently ( the set pictured above ) I also took a mold from one and made a fibreglass set....
I have often thought of reproducing them...
#14
Posted 17 January 2013 - 09:49 AM
cheers for the help guys!
#15
Posted 17 January 2013 - 12:59 PM
well who has the front 2 and who has the back 2 if theres 2 fronts and 2 backs i'd be interested
I'm fairly sure that they are all the same - if you see the set in the photo there's 4 stacked on top of each other.
Can those who have a full set confirm?
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