I’ve finished most of the other projects that we’ve had at the shop so now I am focusing primarily on Denk Hot Rod interior panels (pretty much done but on ‘hold’ until we figure more stuff out which will mean redesign or existing parts) and moving the new D2 body work along.

I feel like I am stepping into the past working on the D2 bodywork. It was I believe two years ago now when I helped build the D2 bodywork version 1. That was many months of dusty sanding and Bondo but at least I had some help. This time the shapes have already been defined and created in the computer so I get the task of making them smooth and shiny so fiberglass can be laid over them. I also get to do it all by myself, fun!

Admittedly I was not very enthusiastic about doing this but over the past couple of days I’ve learned a lot and have a method down that seem to work really well. By the end of Friday I had one of the door molds completed but we found out the Duracoat coating was too thin so a complete re-spray was required. A little annoying but at the same time I think I can get the molds back to being shiny in a day or two.

Also I had a chance to test the ability of my vortex generators to conform to surface curvature. I used a pretty extreme example molding a vortex generator around a tube that’s approximately two inches in diameter. Generally any aerodynamic surface is not going to have any curves that extreme but the generator conformed to the curvature perfectly and the actual geometry of the part wasn’t really changed at all. I call that a win!