Well if been busy for a while.
Wanted to share my kevlar project:


progress so far:






















And this is what I''m working on:

just a sneak:





Keep you informed

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did you make the doors yourself? they look really good. Im trying to do my mirror deletes. do you have any tips?

 

awesome!!! street car?

 

wow thats bad ***. looks really good too.

 

jeeze good work man, you doin the quarters to?

 

i loving this. Will it be a full Kevlar civic?

 

real nice how much it cost you to make the doors?

 

This will be a semi streetcar. Just for going to meets or time-attack
The doors are bought off a friend of mine. paid $300 for them. Making the front fenders myself at the moment.
The goal is to make as much kevlar parts as possible to reduce weight.

(Mirrordeletes) I made one myself. The trick is to measure/make a exact mold of the door to make it fit perfect when you're done. You could try to make 3 parts of the delete and fiberglass them together to make it fit. (I tried this and this works)

 

Looks great man, those doors can't weigh too much i'm sure.

Hope you get some side bars for your cage You don't want to get hit from the side and be crushed

 

actually it isnt difficult at all to make such a part yourself, REDBRAINZ correct me if I am wrong but I believe the steps are:

1)wipe the original door(or any other part) clean
2)wax and gelcoat(fiberglass type)the door/part
3)lay a sheet of fiber and have it surpass the area you want to cover
4)brush it with polyester and clean the fiber/polyester of air bubbles by bursting them with your fingers.
5)lay 2nd -3rd -4th sheets and wait 4-8 hours or more to cure depending on outside temp
6)pry off the product once rock solid.

the above will get you a mould,you will now have the outside of the doors shaped within this mould,this means that if you should repeat steps 1-2-3-4-6 and only use 1 or 2 layers for step 5 you will actually get a replica of the door in the fiber of your choice(fiberglass,carbon or kevlar) by using this mould.

this task isnt rocket science but it sure does take skill,patience and hardwork to do it.
I actually made a few of my Hayabusa parts like this a longg time ago,I hope I have the steps right! can anyone clarify,confirm?

 

This Will do THE trick but vacuüm bagging wil give you a MUch lighter part without any bubbles

 

Nice work so far. I like the kevlar doors!

 

I like the kevlar doors, I would love to get my hands on some.

 

REDBRAINZ, give us alittle specs on this thing,what does it weight?

did you do a comparison from stock to kevlar? and what did you use for the install,sika sealer?

and where are you from? is this the netherlands?

 

I'm kinda busy. Got some work deadlines I need to adress first. Friday I have my long weekend so will post some detailes on the doors and the install. This is the netherlands correct. In the netherlands I'm known as whitedxi. Just google

 

few more questions,

why Kevlar? what made you choose kevlar over carbon,I believe carbon is both lighter and more easily found isnt it?

how many layers is there,how thick?
hopefully you have these doors UV protected?

 

wow what coincidence you replied as I was typing the above to ya,

Yeah It seems all cars in the Netherlands are extremely clean,especially honda's

 

DOpe and pic of the bay..

 

Very nice man, cant wait to see how the fenders turn out.

 

Due to 2 accidents involving my daily Ford Focus and my girls del sol I had no time to spend on the civic. I'm well but my daily is totaled and the del sol has a dent worth $800 repair costs.....

Nevertheless:
This stuff is used to make the mold come loose after the mold is hardend. Just wax in wax out like you would do to make the car shine:



Stuff I need:



-resis
-harderener
-latex gloves
-poly fabric
-cups
-etc

Just mix some hardener and resin en "paint" the part. Put some fabric and "paint" again
Put some plastic over it and tape it firm

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Wait for it:



2nd part




Just to show you these doors aren't plug and play:





This is the OEM door with all sorts of ledges to put the rubbers in. My doors don't have any ledges so I did this:



I used the OEM clips in the OEM doors.
Also had to cut some parts of the rubber to make it fit:




The outer doorrubbers need to be glued.

 

Hmm this project looks fermilure, great project!

 

hmmm that looks pretty cool! Interested to see the finished project.

 

Got the mold off today:



IT CRACKED!!! DAMNIT!





Back to the beginning....

 

Today I looked at the mold again and draw the parts that need redoing:





Done something new for a change:



o and got some rice in:

 

made a mold for my windows:






Polycarbonate 4mm plate



Testing:


Joke:


And just to show the shine: