How to Create Wide Body Kits
Creating body kits for the current car you are driving or any other can be an experience of fun but it needs a bit of skill to successfully finish the work. Fiberglass is the best material if you are willing to create wide body kits. Mainly wide body kits are made to enhance the handling of the car and also to achieve stability in turning points. Designing the body kit by self will definitely help you to acquire the looks that you want.
Instructions
1. Magazines and websites that consists pictures of cars that are adorned with nice wide body kits can come in handy. From these you will get the fundamental idea of wide body kits and then implement your own design. Try to extract the details wide body kits dimensions from the pictures so that you won’t get in trouble in regards of measurements.
2. Even if you are not an excellent artist, try to sketch out the possible design that comes to your mind. Don’t be afraid if it’s complicated, just try to sketch out the basic design that comes to your mind and it will surely help you in gaining a clear concept.
3. Remove the parts that you want to replace with your own wide body kits. The parts can include bumper, side-skirts and rear end and many others.
4. Use high density foam to form the design of wide body kits using the car parts as your basic element for measurements. While cutting the foam to form the wide body kit shapes you will need to be careful that it doesn’t break from pressure.
5. The foam when finished to form the perfect shape should then be used as a mold for the fiberglass to form that exact shape. This should seriously be done with an expert if possible because without having precise measurements the kits will not fit later on.
6. The fiberglass final product should be covered with layers of Bondo to ensure even surface. Finishing touches should be made in order to eradicate any uneven plane.
7. The final wide body kits should be colored matching the color of the car and they should be joined with the car in a careful manner so that they do not get broken. Much pressure should not be added to the fiberglass otherwise it can bend or break.
8. Wearing gloves and mask through the whole procedure is a must to avoid any kind of health damage.
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