Right, Im just back off holiday and then going to Hill Power, the rolling road day and the Southend meet tomorrow! But then Ive got two weeks to get the mean machine ready for the Donny South show.
Now my bumper and bonnet are covered in stone chips and I reckon I can bag a front end respray by then. But if Im gonna respray it I might as well get busy with a few custom mods. Ive already worked out the shape I need with deeper inlets at the front and prominent ramscoops on each side. I want to extend the bumper downwards though, without resorting to the old Ibiza splitter. I want it totally custom so how do I go about adding the lower valance to my existing bumper?
Im thinking of making a full width splitter I want out of wood, painting it in PVA, fibreglassing the shape over the top of the wood original. Then using the fibreglass reversed shape as a master to make my final shape that will go under the bumper. Then I assume I can fit it up and use more fibreglass or filler or something to smooth in the new bit onto the old bumper.
Anyone got any ideas about this? Ive never done any custom bodywork before and never used fibreglass or filler!
