Rear Wheel Skirt Cad Drawing for Civic VX
I don't want to reinvent the wheel, but I am going to add wheel skirts to my 1995 Civic VX Hatchback.
I'd like to form them out of sheet metal, and I would like a cad drawing or a PDF if it exists. Please let me know if you have drawings or if you know where I can buy aftermarket VX wheel skirts. If this is something that is already on a post, please forgive me, this is my first post here. Thanks for your time. |
Welcome to the forum.
I'll be surprised if someone's done their skirts in CAD... but you never know. I designed my Firefly (Metro) skirts pretty easily like this: http://ecomodder.com/forum/attachmen...1&d=1325541394 And then trace the wheel arch outline. From: http://ecomodder.com/forum/showthrea...metro-103.html |
sheet metal
Are you going to hammer-form annealed sheet into a complex shape,or rivet structures to pliable sheet and settle for what you get?
NASCAR old-timers have essentially created body mockups on a car,then attached the car to a rotisserie such that they could rotate the car enough to cast concrete molds over the mockups. After a 30-day cure,sheet steel was hammered into the concrete tooling.With cutting,spot-welding,re-annealing,and additional hammer work,sheet metal body parts were created. |
I pretty much held a piece of cardboard up to Black Widow's wheel well, and traced the inside with a sharpie.
I cut that out, and there was my template for the wheel wells! |
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I really appreciate the suggestions. This is a great forum, and I enjoy checking out all of the modifications. |
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Templating the wheelwell is the easy part; to get into the third dimension would require a wooden buck and an English wheel. Then there's the clamping mechanism. |
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I'm sure there are a lot of "CAD" graduates here . . . myself included |
have them made
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That would be used for computer aided manufacturing on a 5-axis milling machine using a billet of material. A tin knocker would just need some time with you car.They'd do a heavy wire space frame,then hammer, wheel,and planish panels to fit the frame,spot-welding,then welding/brazing, fitting,grinding,fitting,prime,seal,paint. They'd also have to design and fabricate an attachment interface which would involve the VX. A full-scale mockup of the skirts would be the most useful thing a fabricator would see. You're looking at an enormous expense for something that will never pay for itself. |
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