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K4KEV 31st July 2013 10:40 AM

PHU...personal heater unit.:D

Stot 31st July 2013 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by K4KEV (Post 92242)
PHU...personal heater unit.:D

And with a DPDT switch it can act as demister too. :cool:

Pretty much the same thing as one of these.

Cheers
Stot

Stot 1st August 2013 08:43 PM

Got my new wheels booted up with some Toyo Proxes TR1s so I trial fitted them.




The hub caps still have to have the logo added to them properly but I think they go well with the classic look.

Cheers
Stot

jps 1st August 2013 08:53 PM

I wa snt sure about the clam wing look, but those pics make your car look MINT!

TheArf 2nd August 2013 09:15 AM

Well tidy

Arfon

Stot 3rd August 2013 03:05 PM

Cheers guys.

I made my hub caps up properly over the past couple of days. I had done a badge in the center of the hubcaps before...



...but I wasn't happy with the look so decided rather than gluing a badge into the hole, I would cast a slightly smaller badge directly into the hubcap.

Using one of my nose badge casts and some body filler I made up a master hub cap and took a silicone mold from it. By placing a hub cap with a hole in it in the mold I could cast the badge directly onto the hubcap.



This is the various stages of the casting from empty hub cap to a sanded smooth hub cap with logo.


Stot 3rd August 2013 03:08 PM

Then all I had to do was paint them, with some plastic filler primer, white primer, silver wheel paint and lacquer.





The final colour match isn't great so I may try and find a better silver, but they didn't turn out bad!



Cheers
Stot

K4KEV 3rd August 2013 05:16 PM

very nice touch Stot and still making good progress, keep it up bud

twinturbo 3rd August 2013 06:23 PM

Very trick ;)

TT

Stot 3rd August 2013 07:31 PM

Its the little things that make them 'yours'. :D

Cheers
Stot


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