For ages I have been talking about making some rear guards to match my aero fronts that do not have the big, elephant foot tail lights. Fat smoothies......
A few moulds and alot of filler and sanding till 4am on several weeknights has finally paid off. I am about to do the final 2 piece mould which will be the master mould. From this I will be able to make copies for anyone who wants a set....
I will post lots of pics when finally done however here is a sneak peek!!
bond ·
nice!
68AutoBug ·
Looks great...
You can't get the Aero rear guards without any tail lamp
holes etc??
Lee
matara ·
Count me in for a pair
reub ·
ditto...
boof2332 ·
I will spend today finishing off the little details...i am then going to paint them gloss black to see how they look for shape...then mould them. Hopefully be ready to bust out copies in a week or two.
Matt
bond ·
i take it they will only be 2" wider?
063bug ·
...what is the overall width increase and any chance of a photo from the back and side?..... nice work and am interested in a good set of widened rears.... any chance of doing the same for the fronts???
.... sooo demanding I know 🙂
Sides ·
Lookin good boof - reckon I could be interested in a set as well...
👍
boof2332 ·
They are more like 3 inches wider... My borbets are 9inc and they just touched the aeros... these have been made to clear them nicely.
will get those pics up soon.
matt
waltermitty ·
Matt im glad you decided to keep those borbets i remember you toying withj selling them a couple of years ago they are the hottest beetle wheel there is. And now you have designed guards around them looks like your set on them.?
BTW do you have any pics of the bug anywhere
mitchell
Craig Torrens ·
looking great Matt !
silverbullet ·
nearly there then matt. Looking forward to seeing a set arrive.
The Stump ·
Top work!
More pictures (and bigger?) would be great.
I'm interested as well.
Cheers.
The Stump ·
..............@..
That is a tumble weed rolling by isn't it? :-P
boof2332 ·
Hey guys
Progress has slowed temporarily as i was taken out by a stolen car on my sv1000 coming home from work at high speed. Broken hand now with pins and fractured opposite elbow. Good news is my mate who fibreglasses million dollar boats has been helping me do the moulds. Thank god for that, as i now know i knew nothing about glassing.
We should have moulds complete next week and then will do the first set. I will post pics of them complete asap.
matt
boof2332 ·
Here are a couple of progress pics while we make the 2 piece moulds..
boof2332 ·
the other still needs 3 layers before we tackle the other side...
boof2332 ·
another angle
eraser ·
looking awesome and get better soon, hopefully they got the bastard in the stolen car.
reub ·
i get itchy just lookin at those pics....
good job matt.
The Stump ·
Hey Boof - sorry to hear about the accident mate, and apologies for being cheeky before.
I am looking forward to checking out the end results and sizes!
Cheers mate. Hope you heal up soon.
The Stump ·
Boof,
Any news or progress on these babies mate?
Cheers.
BiX ·
Boof sorry to hear about the accident..... and on a SV thou to!!!! N or S? are you on svdownunder?
The guards look sweet!
The Stump ·
Still keen to get a pair of these!
Anyone know how Boof is going/healing up?
Cheers.
The Stump ·
Bump...
Still keen for any updates. PM sent to Matt.
Calcool ·
Boof, is there nothing you are not willing to succeed at.
I reakon those guards could be really trick if you slipped a set of Torana talights in them!
Great work.
Cheers,
David
matara ·
I'm hanging out for a pair of rears. Going to need them by October if possible
Thanks
Steve
The Stump ·
!BOUNCE!
Man this thread has been bumped more times than a latino lowrider.
Has Matt/Boof taken a vow of silence? Or just got sick of the Dub scene?
Still keen for these puppies.
STIDUB ·
almost a year since he's udated guys... id be giving up & having a crack at your own by this point, or just put up with the elephant foot lights, plently of different lenses around, clear smoked standard & flat, even some that you could make to look alot smaller.... flat lense with 3 small circles of colour... cant rember where i saw them though sorry
The Stump ·
STIDUB wrote:almost a year since he's udated guys... id be giving up & having a crack at your own by this point, or just put up with the elephant foot lights, plently of different lenses around, clear smoked standard & flat, even some that you could make to look alot smaller.... flat lense with 3 small circles of colour... cant rember where i saw them though sorry
Yeah... I am just about resigned to having a crack at making some widened steelies for myself. CSP have what I want - but they would not sort out freight for me. Told me to find a freight company for myself... Which is a bit pants. I might have to track down some decent early guards as "prototypes" before I start cutting my current ones up.🥲
Turbo54 ·
There is someone in Adelaide making moulds for 2" wider early rears 2" wider oval fronts and standard oval fronts at the moment.
I have leant him my mint set of 54 fronts to make the mould from. Should be around 150 per guard. U2U me if interested and I will send you his number. They should be really good and the 2" rear will have the perfect shape as I am being really fussy with the prototype as we are trial fitting them on my oval.
T54
boof2332 ·
Sorry kids,
They were put on the back burner when one of the mould halves did not release properly, and I had to get my car back on the road so I just put the ugly aeros back on.
One mould is ready although the other will need the bad half hand ground and then filled and re gelcoated.
Ill pull it down this week and re inspect the damage....it really put me off after all the initial time spent.
Matt
The Stump ·
boof2332 wrote:Sorry kids,
They were put on the back burner when one of the mould halves did not release properly, and I had to get my car back on the road so I just put the ugly aeros back on.
One mould is ready although the other will need the bad half hand ground and then filled and re gelcoated.
Ill pull it down this week and re inspect the damage....it really put me off after all the initial time spent.
Matt
Matt,
Good to hear from you again mate. Hope you healed up well.
I'll wait for your results - no huge rush. I know what you mean about the moulds. I have done a little playing around moulding stuff and yeah it can be a real put-off when things don't work out, considering how fecking messy it is to work with this sort of stuff.