Looking for fiberglass engine lid louvers

Al,  Pulled your part this morning and will box it up shortly.

Carl, yours will be ready tomorrow.

 

Still have the one set of just louvers that can be roughed in if anyone wants to tackle that job.

thanks Carey.....

 

Carey, ill take the two peices to be roughed in .let me know how u wanna get paid .

sylvio

PM sent Sylvio

 

No problem, Al

thank you ,ill post pics when its done .

sylvio

Use the right adhesive and rough them up with 80 grid. I used a router to inlay them . My vents are flipped to allow air out since there are forced air ducts on the side. The original way will draw air in . Air current eddys .

 

 

Carey have u sent the louvers out yet.im going to be out of town wed thru saturday. Let me know so i can have someone expect them

Joe Soltis

I'm having trouble with these in-progress photos.

If by "flipped" do you mean up side down...or inside out ?

 

Stumpp mentioned that he thought you spliced louved metal panels into the lid and that they haven't cracked at the joints...

 

If they are metal, did you use a two part epoxy or a urethane adhesive with the backing glass cloth ?

And, what brand body filler on the surface seams for finishing ? 

I flip the aluminum louvres and rotated them 180 degrees to get the flat profile. I used Mar-glass adhesive to bond them in the router recess area. Look at the right side of the one photo and youll see the outline.  Made sure you made up the tolerance for the adhesive. After the adhesive dries I laid a layer of 10 oz E-glass over the louvres and used vinyl- ester resin . Vinyl ester  has the least shinkage over orthaphalic and isophallic resins.  Basic composite knowledge - you can applied epoxy  over poli resins , you can't apply poli resins over epoxies. 

 

"My vents are flipped to allow air out since there are forced air ducts on the side. The original way will draw air in . Air current eddys" 

 

Joe- When conventional hot-rod style louvers are used with the raised portion on the outside of the engine lid (and the opening to the rear) I was under the impression that their curved surface acted like an airplane wing at speed and created a low pressure area that would suck air out of the engine compartment; how will this draw air in?

 

He's not trying to draw air in through the louvers. It's being pushed out from the side vent/ducts I think.

 

My set up is for air out. You are sort of correct . Think why planes don't have Louvers on the wings. It would cause air flow disturbance slowing it as it pass over the louver edge. The eddy current of air spins slowly around the the opening allowing it to get sucked in. Yes there is some positive pressure in the engine compartment  that may push air out if it not properly sealed. The key thing to remember is the original design is place over the carbs on each side for cool air access. Cool air for fashter schpeed das German engineering.

It sure looks cool like shark gills.  How's the Volks-Rod comming along?

Joe - Are your side vents (by wheels) ducted to engine compartment or wheel wells? 

 

Thinking I'd be different, I bought extra CMC cast Hibachi engine grill with idea of a late C style dual grill engine lid (out of fiberglass).  Not high on my priority list though. 

 

Sylvio, yes they left here last week (Wednesday or Thursday I believe).  When my parts guy gets back in I'll have him pull a tracking number.

Wolfgang , I made custom carbon fiber naca ducts that attached to the quarter mount openings and is ducted to the engine compartment  directly at the carbs. I have molds to create air boxes for each weber. Just haven't been motivated to move on with it.
Marty the V rod is slow going . Heater was out in the garage and the work load been very busy. Sunday had been the day of play for me as long as no one knows I'm in the garage. I'll post some photos soon.

"no one knows I'm in the garage."

 

I play that card now, a lot.......

Gordon;

 

That's great.