Re: [DMCForum] possible concours car? (why facsias warp)
From: DMCVIN6683 <dmcvin6683@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:47:57 -0600
I am sure you have the resources to cast them in fiberglass with all of
your BTTF props you are doing. Make a prototype and see how it
works..... if it holds up maybe you will have a money maker.
Mark V
On Feb 8, 2005, at 10:44 PM, Videobob Moseley wrote:
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> I am sure you're right, because I put a brand new fascia on last
> Febuary and
> it is already
> showing signs of warping, I had to park it outside in the sun last
> summer
> and the
> Texas sun is not kind.
> Now I have it under a car port at least!
>
> I did install some metal eyebrow preventors that I made myself out of
> some
> aluminum
> bars from Home Depot, but I made them too big and now they have caused
> little dimples
> where the edges are....damn.
>
> I wish these were fiberglass.
> - VB
>
>> From: DMCVIN6683 <dmcvin6683@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Reply-To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [DMCForum] possible concours car? (why facsias warp)
>> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:27:44 -0600
>>
>> It is the sun, trust me because this happens to low mileage cars too.
>> I
>> have 59,000 miles on my car and no warpage but my car spent time in a
>> garage stored and that is why the sun hasnt warped it yet.
>>
>> Mark V
>>
>>
>> On Feb 8, 2005, at 10:13 PM, Videobob Moseley wrote:
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>>>
>>> Not true, the plastic that the fans are made of is different from the
>>> polyurothane rubber
>>> that the fascia is made of, it is a flimsy loose noodle if you have
>>> ever
>>> handled one.
>>> There is also a lack of support in the design where the warps form.
>>> The tub is made of fiberglass and repells the heat, it flows up and
>>> into the
>>> front of the
>>> fascia and builds up on the top of the inside.
>>> It is either this, or the sun but surely not the high beam
>>> headlights.
>>> - VB
>>>
>>>> From: DMCVIN6683 <dmcvin6683@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Reply-To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Subject: Re: [DMCForum] possible concours car? (why facsias warp)
>>>> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:40:09 -0600
>>>>
>>>> If it got that hot the radiator would melt the front end off the car
>>>> and melt the cooling fans plus your engine would have seized due to
>>>> the
>>>> high temp of the radiator fluid!
>>>>
>>>> Mark V
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 8, 2005, at 7:36 PM, Videobob Moseley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Here is a theory that I haven't heard mentioned.....but maybe the
>>>>> heat
>>>>> that
>>>>> is
>>>>> warping the facsia is not the headlight or the sun, but the
>>>>> RADIATOR
>>>>> directly below?
>>>>> When I leave my car running, I have actually burned by leg and
>>>>> left a
>>>>> mark
>>>>> from
>>>>> the heat that builds up on the fenders from the hot air being blown
>>>>> off the
>>>>> radiator.
>>>>> Then the car is parked after a drive on a hot day, all that head
>>>>> that
>>>>> is
>>>>> built up in the
>>>>> radiator is no longer being blown back and it simply rises up into
>>>>> the
>>>>> inside of the facsia.
>>>>> Combined with the heat of the sun this could reach up to 180-200
>>>>> degrees
>>>>> maybe?
>>>>> This could soften the plastic and then when it cools it warps.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
>>>>> - Videobob
>>>>
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