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Originally Posted by ecomodded
Looking good, your getting there. Now for the frame work, which should be strong ,lite and easy to work with. makes me think of aluminum.
Or If the kamback and frame were made of fiberglass you could bond it it to the roof and rear window with silicon or the black goop auto adhisive.
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I did drill holes to the trunk lid and attached that with pop rivets, easy to attach and remove (but bit costly), which is important as it might be not quite 100% legal mod here, law is not perfectly clear from that as decoration parts should be legal without extensive testing if they don't pose risk or performance decrease, but one to judge is party that does the inspection, so it remains to be seen how it goes.
Trunk lid opening is such that there is 0.Xmm gap between body and lid top foremost 20mm when it is opening, which limits a bit amount of surface to attach this, but with pop rivets it is not an issue.
I have fiberglass, but I don't know if that would be optimal for reinforcing, aluminium as well as coroplast are out of my reach, not sold around here for sensible price, even sheetmetal was last sheet that I bought for 20€ and they are not going to order more of it.
Living at rural countryside has it's problems and perks, even without fully illegal Velomobile/EV build (something in future plans) it is very unlikely to face any consequences.
I have been thinking of cutting sheet metal and turning 90 degree angle to 'stripe' of metal, then driving that to edge of Kamm, with pop rivets, which should make it pretty strong and it should also made it very rigid, adding very little to weight too, another good thing would be that it would make edge to be less 'offending' to inspector persons.
Leading edge is something I'm planning to put some goo or plaster to make transition smooth, especially corners came out horribly and I might need to cut those a bit so they sit bit more flat against trunk lid, angles are bit of challenge to make without much experience
As you can observe from last photo, there is quite wet weather here, ice and snow is slowly melting which caused my driveway to become 4x4 mudpool, only problem is I don't have 4x4, so it will take weeks until I can actually drive the car again, maybe I get finished the build by then.