Not a easy job fair play for tackling it, will be worth it 👍

Big thank you Mike and yours is looking fantastic also ....can’t wait to see it out in Action

Well it’s gone well so far

Sadly I’m busy working 10hr shift today so I’ll try and do some OTT body filling in the week / next Sat

Small update nothing exciting

The bonnet now closes as I wanted

Remember this is being made to have a mould taken from it and to have a Prepeg full Carbon Fibre Bonnet

Now I’ve temp fixed the centre section to where I need it

I had to remove some of the underside front fibreglass section still until the bonnet closes over The new Maxi air box....

I need the front underside Support flex bar to still do it’s job or at high speed it will lift as I had before ....would love a thick Carbon single skin but with just two front side Aerocatches it would just fold and lift at 120plus

This was a bonnet on and off 6-7 times until I had a 10mm gap ...

Just to point out all this messing about and modifying is because I run a one off oval tube Straight -Sandy Brown inlet manifold that was made for the engine by Satchell Enginering which makes the Airfilter loads higher as the normal inlet curves and mine doesn’t , I’ve also dropped the complete engine by 25mm to the point where it just gives a gap between the subframe and that helps out loads now and gets the centre of gravity lower ...hopefully win win

After I cut and removed what needed to be done to close the bonnet I went about strengthening the underside with Fibreglass and Epoxy resin strips ....
Then I used P40 to fill in some gaps (great Stuff ) that P40 ...

The plan is to finish smoothing the underside out then start on the top again as I need the underside to support the top when I’m sanding and with the vibrations.

Lots still to do

I don't think Peugeot put as much effort into the Maxi as you are doing, fair play will be some job if you ever decide it's finished 👍

My twin skin fibreglass bonnet was originally Red as you can see

My Fibreglass skill are not up-to scratch yet but after a little rub down and (Upol easy 1)filler it should be good enough to take a decent mould from outside and inside ...
....he says hopefully

Goodluck and yes get your build thread updated

It’s surprising what you have to do to make a extra (11 Bhp) to a N/A engine but it will be worth it

I’m pleased with how it blended in

After a couple of grey Upol etching primer Coats and a bit very light sanding I’m very pleased with how it came out considering how I cut it about ...

The most difficult thing was to get it looking the same all around the filled area

Now it’s ready to go to the guy that’s going to take a mould and make the Carbon / twin skinned one ...he always wants to finish it / sand it etc -himself ....so I won’t spend much more time on it now ...maybe a he or two ...

Looks good mate

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Goldie the track car.

Big thank you Steve ....any updates news on yours mucker ?

Ohh
So sorry to read that Steve ....good luck

Top view of the splitter as it’s difficult to tell from picks I’ve posted