Hi I haven't seen the Porsche 350Z until now , thanks for mentioning it me , it's alright !!

 

Back to the front fenders .

 

Someone said earlier about the aggressiveness of the car/added weight. Any plans for forced induction or any type of power adders? Or is this for show only?

 

Hi the car will likely be lighter , what you see in these pics are the plugs being made , there will be molds taken from these fenders , doors , hoods , etc. all the parts will be made of fiberglass and vacuumed bagged to make the lightest strongest parts possible , all the stuff you see now on the car is just being used to make the shape , unfortunately all of this goes in the garbage after .......a ton of money and so far two years of full time work .
Just deleting the rear hatch alone will save a ton of weight !!!
This first car will be a daily driver , all stock and reliable , I will build another one that will be ***** to the wall track street car , no interior full cage , LS3 with a blower .
It will be called Falcata Beast
Thanks for your interest .

 

ummm, DON'T THROW THAT AWAY

 

Or rather, nvm. I understand. You are going to make molds and the foam and stuff will be thrown away

 

My CF hood weights about 1-2lbs heavier than my stock hood. The hatch is pretty heavy. This is great stuff and I never though about some of the tactics you are using (Your leveling on the front) I'm more of a "wing it".
Get a 12lb battery and just go for weight savings! I like it

 

incredibly impressive. Keep up the good work

 

Thanks for all the great feedback it helps to keep motivated , especially when thing don't go according to plan .
Had a big problem with the trunk , I had it all prepped to make a copy of the trunk bottom and the surrounding area so I could build it off the car .
The car is so wide it's back breaking to work hanging over the side .

Waxed and prepping for the mold release PVA


Spraying the pva



I was on my third layer of fiberglass and for some unknown reason the top layer started kicking off before the bottom and I had no time to steel roll the air out and had to tear it all off and toss it out ................not happy So this is what I had to deal with little glass hairs left on the surface.



So I cleaned up the mess and re-fiber glassed it . This is getting it off the car .

 

More on the trunk lid

As you can see here it tore off all the slats


Melted the foam


broke the back part where the trunk ends


it was a big mess , the slats were embedded in the part by resin getting underneath them


Man the part was pretty rough , very disappointing , nothing a weeks worth of body working won't Fix

 

Setbacks are inevitable but I'm glad you're staying with it! That rear section should turn out nice.

 

Working with fiberglass doing custom work you are bound to have some sort of issue. I copied a whole hood once, it got rained on and never hardened

 

WOW... Havent even seen the final product but amazing job and the craftmanship. Anyone who will you a hard time they don't know how much you've put in. Keep up the great work and looking forward to more posts.

 

Hi
A little more on the trunk area . after tons of bodywork to rescue the part , it's now been primed and painted , it's not perfect but it's really just a copy of the back of the trunk area so I can work on the trunk off the car . so now i will mold release this and make a fiberglass part to represent the back of the car at the proper angle so I can start building the top louvered part of the trunk .


here it is in primer


a couple of coats of white paint



trunk area copy .

 

I ended up building a base to hole the part , because it was flexing while I was sanding and I was having trouble keeping the surface flat

 

Hi
Been busy with life etc, and building a saw to cut foam , this should help speed things up , the foam is polyurethane and i can fiberglass right over it .
Here is a link

So stay tuned !!!! for more Falcata build !!!

 

Pretty sure I said it early in the thread but if not....

THIS is a BUILD. So great to see craftsmanship that easily outdoes most of the crap stuff on the Motor Trend channel! Can’t wait to see final product but.... enjoying watching it take shape!

One of just a few threads here that keep me coming back! 👍

 

Hi sorry for the delay in the posts , life get's in the way sometimes , and by the end of the day there's no steam left to post stuff .
Started using the new foam , its going to help a lot , I can cut the foam with the new saw I built and then run it through the thickness planer to what ever thickness I need .
Here you can see how malleable it is when thinner .

Here you see the foam cut down to a flexible thickness

This is the thickness planner , I built a dust collector attachment for it

This is how flexible the foam can be !!!

started to build the tail light tray , in the new foam , I had the one made in the blue foam to bust up and trace out.

 

First of all thanks for the super kind words MicVelo it really helps to keep the inspiration going , it's been two years in now , my wife is an angel putting up with me being gone 7 days a week to the shop, and she's been picking up the slack doing my chores at home .
Previous to the new foam , I was working on the replica of the trunk area of the car to be able to work on it off the car .
So lets jump back to that .
If you remember I had a hassle with the glass going off way too soon and had a bunch of bodywork to do before making the copy.


So this is the piece I had trouble with

this is it now fiberglassed to replicate the trunk area in actual size , so I can build the trunk lid off the car

this is abase to hold the part so I can work on it at the right angle so the lid louvers are right .

here are the two parts still together

separating the two

here is the replica , needs to be trimmed

here you can get the idea of why i did this , the car is just too wide to be working on the middle .

the trunk area ready for trimming

Trimmed and ready to start making patterns for the trunk lid

 

And here I go again..... this blows my mind!

I'm not a super custom kinda driver/owner myself but, to see the work that goes into building the Falcata, well, as I said, this is a labor of love and talent.

I mean c'mon, even that wooden base to hold up the rear decklid, heck, I have trouble building an incline ramp for my mother in law! And your piece has those cutouts to sit over the "bumps"! Who thinks of these things?




Back in the day (70s, 80s) the most "famous" custom street Z was this one, called the PrimaDonna Z...


Pretty radical stuff. But, I'm very glad to see that the custom work lives on and is exceeded!! The Kindig crew is probably the most "custom" of all the builders on TV. Wanna do a series on the build of Falcata MeanMosheen (or whatever the "race version" is called.) Haha.