(Project) Boat tail-4 Door Sedan VW Mk2 (1990 Jetta GL)

[redyaris]

Originally Posted by deathtrain

you know as much as i am on here i just now seen this.... so this is your trick to stay ahead. you evil B@#%!$D!!!! your cheating

LOL j/k man looks good. your going way more than i am willing to go.

Don't tell jethro, but you can keep him in line by instaling a belly pan and a rear wheel well covers and rear wheel mini boat tails and no one while see what you have done...

[JethroBodine]

Keep Jethro in line, THAT'S been tried before.

Got a little work done tonight. I scored half of a Handi-foam polyester spray foam kit, and nearly giggled myself to death waiting for quitting time. This was just what I was hoping for, and I wound up getting it before the rally this weekend. If I could have planned it, this would have been my first choice for build materials. When I wind up doing another, I will DEFINITELY use it by making a frame of stiffer and tighter wire mesh than chicken wire, and shooting foam over it. MUCH easier that glassing, in my opinion. I ran out before I could fill in all the low spots, but I can fill them in with body filler as I have time.



First coat of the spray foam. I trimmed off the high spots with an air saw that had a standard hack saw blade in it.



End view.



I was having so much fun that I forgot to take many pics of the second coat and trimmings, but here is a step in the sanding/shaping phase.



You can see where I ran out of one of the two chemicals on this view. I got those areas cleaned out as best I could.



As it is now. It is quieter than last night. There seems to be less air noise as well as deadening sound from the outside. I'll get a template overlay as soon as I get a good side shot. Long day.

[blownb310]

Nice! Looks like you raised the level of the the top surface as per where the template overlay showed it was low. Very good.

[Sven7]

Looks like it's coming along very well. Don't post this on VWVortex! :P

[JethroBodine]

Love their site. I wouldn't post it on there until it was SHINY anyway, or had over 300 hp( this one never will). Although, if I took it to Boneville and ran it, that might make it OK.

Mike- Definitely raised it a bunch. Over 3 inches in some places. Probably not enough, but it is a lot more rigid and will be more likely to survive the winter better.

I didn't get to use my "calibrated hill" on the way home, but the wind noise was a lot less. I'll be filling up today or tomorrow to check how Version 1.0 did.

Edit: Tank for v1.0= 607.6 miles, 10.6 US gallons, 57.3mpg

[JethroBodine]

Quick update before I take advantage of the sunshine( all miles v1.1);

MPGuino = .99 gallons
Odometer= 80.2 miles

[Weather Spotter]

Good for you!

I need to get a better base car to mod.

[MetroMPG]

Holy cow that's a lot of work.

Nice MPG numbers though.

[Sven7]

Whoa wait a second. You're getting that mileage with an 8V gasser? Holy shhhhhoot.

[JethroBodine]

To get from how the tail looked previously to how it does now was about 4 hours, including sanding the old tail, wiping/ blowing the dust off, reading the directions, spraying 3 coats, shaping and sanding. This was quicker and easier (and funner) than building the frame( and I LIKE welding).

Also, hypothetically, I think that down my calibrated hill, tail 1.1 might get up to 83mph from a 45mph start. Probably be rock steady, too.

Sven7- I only checked the MPGuino as a lark. The odo said 80 miles, and I thought,"Wouldn't it be cool if I were still under a gallon."