the arches were made for 18", the maxi ran a bigger tyre than the road cars.

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Bring on the Trumpets.

personally I think I would just Tub it now straight away seeing as youre well into the bodywork, with the longer wheelbase from the extra castor things will be quite tight if you want some wheel travel.

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Bring on the Trumpets.

Only a little update today. Was mostly a family day out and about. When we got back I managed to squeeze in a bit of prep work on the first panel I fitted.

The bonding is now fully cured, so out came all the speed pins, and self tappers;





I then did some cleaning up of the edges using a mix of the dremel and my mini rotary sander powered by my compressor. All the joins looked good and I was happy with the fit. It's already impressively solid now it's fixed in place.

I then laid on some kevlar bridging filler around the panel edges. Once that dried I then sanded it back.



The put on a bit more where a bigger layer was needed and used a bit of filler for some finer work.



I sanded this back again, and started to see some decent progress in some areas like the door shut, but still a fair bit more to do around the top of the panel, where I should have been a bit bolder and laid it on thicker. No harm though. Might get a chance to do a bit more on this tomorrow, after another day out with the family first. Had to order some more kevlar filler too, which will delay me cracking on with the other side, so will have to turn my attention elsewhere if I finish this side before.

Cheers
Iain

Dolphin glaze is a nice fine filler if your looking for something to finish with. Also what are these magical speed pins you're using?

Great build.

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Merlin motorsport do them, search for rivet clamps or 'skin pins'

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Team 'unintentional rat look'

Are you staying overnight at stoneleigh?
I'm hoping to make an appearance with my old man if the weather is nice, should be in the Caterham owners area in the evening if the weather is good enough to camp you're welcome to come and have some burgers and beers with us if you'll be around that late

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I'm lucky I relocated some skin pins from work

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Just another little update; battled wind and rain a bit today, as well as waiting around for the BT engineer to install new broadband and telly..

So yet more sanding, filling, sanding etc.. The tip on Dolphin Glaze was spot on (thanks) it's a great stopper, and sands really nicely. In between weather breaks, buying supplies and BT I managed to get to my end goal today; just a filler primer layer, but a solid colour of sorts!







Although the primer filler was very hastily applied at the end of the day (it'll be sanded of course) I'm really chuffed to how well the panel has come out. The joins are now invisible and the panel feels smooth. I've got good alignment and was able to really define the bottom skirt where it joins the OEM side skirt. Now I've got a bit of a colour on it, I can see a few more bits I need to do; but overall I'm very pleased with it.

Will make a start on the other side weather permitting tomorrow.
Cheers
Iain


(Before anyone points out - I'm aware primer is porous)

Cracking on fast there mate! What primer you used?

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looks mega mate! Glad your put 18"s on it. really helps the look.

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I'll think I'll be leaving it as it is behind there Rouben. It's so solid as it is, being a kevlar panel. It certainly doesn't need any extra support, and the thought of moisture sitting underneath some expanding foam fills me with dread.
I'll be using some arch liners though. Either Kevlar or Twintex.

Today was a fairly full day of filling and sanding. As per the last panel, I started off cleaning up the joins and removing excess PU so the kevlar bridging filler sits on bare metal or kevlar, and not a skin of PU.



Whole panel ready for kevlar bridging filler:



At this point, I'd already found a few air bubbles and ground back the loose gel coat, and filled them.
Had a very timely delivery.. I'd completely forgotten that I'd run out of filler, and I'd just prepped the panel ready to start just as Parcelforce arrived..



Wayside Adhesives must be doing a special offer as a pair of gpA shocks magically appeared at the same time.. maybe...

First layer of filler on before lunch. Had already hailed on me by this point... Sanded back some key areas, and went with the next filler.. then it hailed again... Had to put some boards on the roof and weigh them down to shelter some newly applied filler from the elements..



Job done.. 10mins later it was glorious sunshine. If nothing else the filler will have been exposed to lots of temp changes before I get to the point of painting it, so it should be a pretty stable base to work from.

So end result from the day was this.. Some parts with dolphin glaze on (un-sanded) and some parts still kevlar bridging filler and not much else. Was just a question today of getting some small wins between the weather bombs.. Still got loads to do on this panel.



Tomorrow I'll be picking up an EZ gazebo (a couple of days late I hear you cry) and hopefully dropping my beam of with Jord924 (Andy) for refurb.

That kevlar filler is bloody hard to sand! It's solid stuff when it's set. It took ages just to sand back a small area today, yet once a bit of regular filler is on, it's plain sailing, so you really notice the difference.