Wow! I just looked at your video list. There are a ton of videos on this project. I was thinking it would be a few parts and voila! I'm pleasantly surprised it's not! This build deserves a well documented video! I know what I'm watching for a while! This is awesome!
You clearly do not have a clue: Jay is brilliant but his techniques are all self designed: that does not make them correct and for the most part, they are not. An accident would be catastrophic.....
I was thinking of you and the Arete today in the context of how "delicate" aerodynamics can be at very high speeds. I don't want to be morbid, but I pray your good judgement will prevail when this beauty is ready to rumble. I don't want any of your fans to goad you into taking too many chances. Blessings and best wishes for continuing success.
Hi mate, Do yourself a favour and STOP giving air time to people calling you out for not going down the digital 3D model and manufacture route. I am a toolmaker by trade, I went into design and finally production management.... I understand manufacturing lol If you were planning from the beginning to produce these things in volume you’d be stupid not to go the hard tooling route from the start... but you’re obviously not and hats off to you, what you’ve accomplished on the budget you have in the time you have, is nothing short of outstanding. Regardless of what anyone says you should be proud of it and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed watching your progress! Ignore the haters, you’re doing this for you and I hope you keep enjoying the project!
Yeah, I try to look right past those who are spouting to spout, but there are also a few who seriously want to do something similar, but see 3D and CNC all over the internet and wonder why not go that route. I figure, by telling my reasons, they can decide if they have similar goals or grander aspirations and use my example accordingly. Have a great day Alex!
If you're wondering why he pulls the faces while he's working on the car, it's because his emotions are attached to his vision and the shape of the vehicle. And that's the expression of his emotions as he's manifesting that vision in the real world.
Awesome videos, I’m currently building a 71 bronco with a tilt nose with some fiberglass components, restored a 61 Volvo 544 and currently building a tiny home. I grew up drawing a lot and remember telling my dad I want a sports car and he said “build your own” so now I have taught myself to do everything myself but I am absolutely amazed at your skill set, I’m trying to become a better welder and love fiberglassing l, restored a 58 Sabrecraft.Catalina. Again you have really inspired me to learn more and I enjoy watching you build a dream car, that’s my dream too. I have a self balancing delta trike idea in my head that I need to make a scale model of. Maybe you’ll see it on RU-vid someday. Thanks
I do on occasion lay up some samples to see if I'm hitting target stiffness (There was one of these pieces in last weeks video). Mostly experience (and guessing Ha!) on joints and such. I will be testing the whole tub after it gets much farther along.
When designing the seal areas you need to remember to have the seal material pressure against a backing surface so that the air pressure increases the seal. A V or cup shape is best as it supports the seal from multiple directions. I have been in vehicles that just seal against a flat surface with no support for the seal and they whistle and let water in especially when the seals get old
Hmmm more complicated than I imagined. Now I am wondering...if I understand you correctly, you intend to install the rubber, and then use that to figure out the backside of the doors. If you use the rubber to go off of, won't it be uncompressed when you do the back side of the doors, resulting in too much of a gap when all the parts are complete? Or am I understanding it wrong?
@307Driftwood I completely understand what he is building. The rear part of the door must mate to this rubber seal. Right now the doors are only the outer shell. He has not made the part of the door that will mate to the rubber yet.
Your on the right track David, I will be pouring foam around the seals and surface area of the door jamb. Although the seals wont be compressed at that time of the foam pour the fiberglass layup will be built up away from the foam and against the seal. Thus compressing the seal the amount of the layup- say 3/16"
I assume that the absolute limit of travel in the closed position is determined by the door latch mechanism rather that the seal. Unless it's way too thick of course.
@@ekim000 I didn't mean that the seal would limit travel or determine the door's location. You have to consider multiple surfaces are involved, and none of them exist at the beginning of the video. At the end, one exists (where the placed the seal). That seal has to mate against another surface, which is the back side of the door. That surface does not exist yet and he will have to build it later. He will need to factor in the door latch location when he is building the back side of the door, but that will only affect the compression of the seal slightly or not at all, depending on the alignment of the door once assembled.
Can confirm: spent nearly a year trying to learn how to 3D model and I'm still not good at it. Admittedly, I was foolish enough to try to learn on one of the most complicated pieces of software out there for that purpose (Autodesk 3D Studio Max), but still. It's not exactly a trivial skill that you can easily develop in your spare time.
Yeah, love this guy and this channel, but he's clearly missing some CAD knowledge based on some of his comments. It's cool though, I truly appreciate everything about this channel!
This is a GREAT comment! A check on my ego bracketed by some nice compliments. I would love to know were you think my CAD knowledge is lacking. I always need to learn more . . . or correct my comments. Ha!
@@BuilderCreator You're welcome, and I can assure you my comments are genuine. You stated something along the lines of taking years to develop the skills to model something like this or would require a team and that the parts would still have to be fit together....something like that. I generally don't agree with that statement. Someone of your level of intelligence could have a mastery of the skills needed to build a 3D CAD model of the critical/important portions of this car and it's systems in less than a year. Building the car or anything else for that matter virtually is faster and cheaper than physical trial and error - it avoids so many surprises like too little room for your feet. Sure, sometimes you just need to build something to try it, but it could be done on a smaller scale or section to validate your ideas. I say this, because I do this sort of work for a living. :-) ...and regarding the comments others have made about modeling the car and having molds CNC'd, etc. Sure - you can do it that way, but you can also use the CAD models to provide 2D sections for building tools/buck/mold and so on. Anyway, I truly mean it when I say I love and appreciate what you're doing. You're obviously an amazingly accomplished artist and craftsman.
@@mikemolt9770 I don't believe that statement either, or why would I have just spent a very large chunk of change on a new PC, Solidworks and the materials to build a 5 axis CNC machine? I guess the truthful reality is that up until this point I have not been able to afford to bring myself into the future. (or willing to devote the resources to move into modern CAM) I should also state that up until now this has just been a hobby rather than a legitimate side hustle. We shall see if I have "the level of intelligence" to master 3D fast enough to build a usable model in a year, as I am gearing up for the new 'Leviathan' project, I will need models for in much quicker than a year. That said, I full heartedly believe that 3D modeling can be faster and find problems for mechanical components, but for styling- nothing will beat building the full size model. (clay in the auto design world) The big car manufacturers are finding that, even with their million dollar VR setups they rely on a clay mock up for final approval. In the ideal world I would have designed most of the mechanical, roughed the body out in Rhino 3D, sliced it for rib templates, built my model in plaster, scanned it and then put it back into a 3D environment to refine the door jambs and other such things as discussed in the video. Right now, I just happen to know how much that process would cost- $1500 PC, $2000/year Solidworks, $3000 CNC and $8000 for a capable scanner. About half my budget for the Arete . . . hence the "old school" methods. Ha! After that, welcome Jay to the marvelous modern age we live in. Count my statement "Years to learn 3d modeling" as EFDE (Exaggeration for dramatic emphasis!) Thanks for the chat.
Here is a video showing how threaded inserts can be mounted to fiberglass panels. Once you get the threaded insert installed you can weld a tab to your steel chassis to accept the insert.- studio.ru-vid.comd6LVlq7tTXI/edit
