ok i want to mold the GFX and i want to get rid of every single gap in my car already got rid of the door handles also i want to mold the hatch door and make the window open like the corvettes and i want to mold in the gas door and relocate behind the tailight and also delete the licence plate and french it into the bumper i'm thinking of molding the door but i'm up in the air about it because it would be kind of unconfortible to get into it but i have t-tops

 

Too many people are under the mistaken impression that your gfx are made of fiberglass. They are not. They are made of plastic, as are most gfx kits. Your fenders are made of steel. So far the only one I've seen who's successfully eliminated all seams is Tribaldaze, and I'm not sure how he did it. Bonding plastic to metal is not easy. The top layer seems to be vulnerable to cracking.

If you have a camaro, they do make full fiberglass body shells, but you'd have to chop it I think to accomplish what you want to do. These kits are made for a tube chassis, for racing applications. If you did this, I'm not even sure it would be street legal, so your only option would be to chop the kit down, and attach the panels over your existing doghouse and rear.

Mathius

 

its only an idea it doesnt seem imposible

 

if you wand to put your plate on your bumper just get a firebird bumper, it should fit right in, and us firebirds have bumper mounted plates... oh yeah

 

na i would rather not replace it, its not that hard anyways also i wanted to make it flip out i think they are called hide away licence plates you know what i'm saying

 

their actually made of urethane....not plastic....but it would be pretty hard to keep them from cracking. I molded a set of trans am louvers in my OLD Z28, using fiberglass, bondo, duraglass, and glazing icing.....they eventually got lil hair line cracks...not real noticable..since they were down low....

 

i dont know i just want no seams on my car

 

Scauffiel tried it with his car, but it cracked I think.

 

i know there is a plastic welding kit but it isnt completly specific i think it only plastic to plastic, i'm probably going to try it with alot of bondo and just layer it on

 

Yeah, I tried it using a variety of different materials and couldn't avoid the hairline cracks. I'm going to give it another go when I get fiberglass fenders, nose, quarters and rear bumper.

When the money tree is in bloom again.

S.

 

yea haha

 

i KNOW bondo that thick would crack...

the only way i could see it working is if you laid fiberglass over both in such a way that it smoothy holds the two and adds strength to the plastic...


the plastic probly should be braced undernieth to keep it from flexing too.... and SFCs would be a must......

 

my custom skirt kit has eliminated all the seams..no lines from where the front skirt to the fender meets, as well as no lines where the rear quarter panel and the rear skirt meet.. and no cracks yet (knock on wood)

iroc2nv

ps..im gonna try and get some pics that are half decent..i have a few from my appraisal so ill try and scan them

 

...my GFX were fiberglass on my 84 Z, I should know... I backed over a big rock and broke one in half

 

you know, now that i think about it, my 82s were fiberglass too..... i uhhh.... ran too far over a rhino ramp one time and found that out...


but i know my 91s GFX are plastic.

 

Like Mathius said Tribaldaze did it you might want to ask him.

 

Yeah, when I bought my 90' GFX they were a soft bendy kinda plastic... which is really hard to do anything to. I had a crack in it and, well, I still do. Nothing will hold because it flexes too much.

 

I'm in the process of repairing my gfx. I used Perma Poxy (general purpose epoxy). Someone in another post suggested it.
Works great, it's flexable and sandable. Use a couple of thin layers. I also used (from faabric store) medium weight Fusing tape as a patch on the underside of the piece.

 

that sound like it would work

 

Its not impossible but it does require ALOT of skill. I dont have enough skill to do it myself, so when the time comes my 91 z will be going into the shop and this is one of the things I want to have done. It has already been done by this shop on a friends car and it looks great! Along with molding the GFX, I will have a few other bodymods done. But dont worry, my headlights and taillights will still be stock heheh.

 

they make plastic repair kits that can fix that, along with any tears, scrapes, or cuts in the nose.


i no longer have the link, but if you look for "plastic weld" on the board, you should be able to find a link... i would look, but im going to bed soon.