JuStBlAzIN
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dose anyone know how to make your own side claddings? or where i could buy them, ifi could still get them?
ty cladding
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JSM
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1- Purchase a flat mockup plate
2- Place truck on plate
3- Buy a lot of clay
4- Form clay into desired shape
5- Digitize shape using lazer
6- Input digitized shape into computer
7- Open a CAM software package
8- Program a CNC mill to cut desired shape out of 55 Min HRC metal, taking into consideration things such as risers, etc. for proper injection molding.
9- Cut metal mold on CNC Mill
10- Install guides, etc in mold, and prepare for injection.
11- Install mold on Injection Molding machine
12- Inject plastic into mold
13- Take part out, digitize with lazer and compare to original.
14- Realize you forgot to take into account shrinkage of plastic.
15Open a CAM software package
16Program a CNC mill to cut desired shape out of 55 Min HRC metal, taking into consideration things such as risers, etc. for proper injection molding.
17Cut metal mold on CNC Mill
18 Install guides, etc in mold, and prepare for injection.
19 Install mold on Injection Molding machine
20- Inject plastic into mold
21- Verify new mold is correct
22- Sit back and enjoy a new piece of cladding every few seconds.
23- Repeat steps above for each piece of desired cladding you want to make.
JuStBlAzIN
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i dunno but to me that is WTF........ i got lost like after the first line. lol......do u know of any easier way to do it?
Syclone#1992
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JuStBlAzIN said:
If there was an easy way to do it, we would all be making it. Go to www.sportmachines.com ---fiberglass cladding is forsale there. Good luck getting stock cladding at resonable prices or even finding it.
JuStBlAzIN
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well i found a couple of oem kits for 4500........ minuse just put that down as a down payment in a sick ass new ride. lol. well i posted wanted add in a lot of places so i gues si will have to just chill and wait to see what i can get. i mihgt just buy it little by little.
How about a Ferrari Testarossa look? This kit retailed for $2500 according to seller...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2405101862
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2405101862
This may help http://www.syty.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=24008
JuStBlAzIN
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i had seen that laready but that is for a cylcone. this guy called me up today and said he has OEM parts. 250 for each front fender, 250 for the doors, and 900 for the front bumper..... what do u guyz say?
midnightbluS10
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TyMeUp said:
There's a Blazer runnin around here with that crap on it
midnightbluS10 said:TyMeUp said:
There's a Blazer runnin around here with that crap on it
Well, I didn't want to say so at the time, but how does that go...?
"Your truck is so ugly that you'd have to tie a steak to it just to get my dog to chase it".
Maybe it would be a hit in Italy tho ?????