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California98Civic · 07-14-2020, 12:16 AM

Practicing with the jigsaw tonight after dinner, I made a quick replacement for my upper grillblock. The old one is black plastic, and the new one is white AlumaCore (3mm), which is two thin sheets of aluminium around a layer of thermoplastic. Never worked with AlumaCore before. Have never used a jigsaw before. The tight curves were too tight. Fortunately when I do the rear decklid spoiler there will be no curves as tight as this. Anyway, a hacksaw and a metal file and boxcutter cleaned it all up nicely.

Whaddaya think?

07-14-2020, 12:16 AM	#540 (permalink)
California98Civic Cyborg ECU Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Coastal Southern California Posts: 6,299 Black and Green - '98 Honda Civic DX Coupe Team Honda 90 day: 66.42 mpg (US) Black and Red - '00 Nashbar Custom built eBike 90 day: 3671.43 mpg (US) Thanks: 2,373 Thanked 2,174 Times in 1,470 Posts	Decklid spoiler progress Practicing with the jigsaw tonight after dinner, I made a quick replacement for my upper grillblock. The old one is black plastic, and the new one is white AlumaCore (3mm), which is two thin sheets of aluminium around a layer of thermoplastic. Never worked with AlumaCore before. Have never used a jigsaw before. The tight curves were too tight. Fortunately when I do the rear decklid spoiler there will be no curves as tight as this. Anyway, a hacksaw and a metal file and boxcutter cleaned it all up nicely. Whaddaya think? Attached Thumbnails __________________ See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.