Finished the drivers side of the Blade today! - Part 35

[NLDommelsch]

he's wearing a shirt with beer on it! just for that ya get credit!

[Lukanater7777]

This car is very sexy and gorgeous. But the Civic looks crappy and it is corny looking so why did you dis such a hot car. The Civic is a piece of crap.

[poopdoo1]

@cromat30 i will respect it if they drive it into a lake and go buy a real car like a civic or a 69 charger

[BaileyBlade]

@poopdoo1 ummm... did you say civic?

[poopdoo1]

@BaileyBlade yes civic thats the kind of car i have a 2000 civic now thats a real car

[poopdoo1]

looks like a gay version of a dodge viper

[CROMAT30]

@poopdoo1 it is custom and it is like a miata whit a awesome tuning...but the car is custom and awesom... I dont like the rear lights but I respect the guy they did a AWESOME work and you should respect the too....

[smallstufffilms]

hey, what kind of filler are use using? just plain bondo?

[BaileyBlade]

@smallstufffilms Well kind of, i have used many versions... but mostly generic 3M brands like bondo. For what I am doing I do not need to use the good expensive stuff as I am only using the Body Filler as a sculpting medium.

[TacticalFinder]

dude its called a side skirt not a holder thingy

[vincelee2424]

i love the videos makes me wanna make me a car i always thought about it and now im all about learning to make fiber boxs for speakers for my honda delsol im in south carolina you guys any close there i would love to help and learn from you guy s my face book icevcookiev@yahoo.com hit me up im vince 24 yr old. i have art under my belt to so i might be able to help

[mobsterbillyjoe]

what kinda engine you thinking of dropping in it?

looks like a good platform for an RB or an LS1. possibly even a 4G63

[BaileyBlade]

@mobsterbillyjoe We are looking at s few selections of engines. So far it's the new Ford 5.0 or LS9... Also looking at some alternative fuel engines as well.

[mobsterbillyjoe]

@BaileyBlade iut of those two, the 5.0 sounds better and has a sixk rep. still think an LS1 or and RB woud be like sex though :) hahaha

[schweizergoth]

@BaileyBlade Go all electric! check out the Tesla, Good stuff there! :D Keep up the good work! :D

[ZAPAF1]

i wont thoose ferraris :)

[ukk2]

hey sorry you might think this is a dumb question but did you put the engine in yet or are you doing that once you finish all the interior and exterior?

[BaileyBlade]

@ukk2 We will put the engine in later down the road once we finish up the Test chassis's. We already test fitted it with a few engine and trans setups to make sure we have enough room for everything. And there is more than enough... it was designed that way. So that turbos and superchargers would be an easy fit.

[crazy7hotrodder]

I really like what you are doing, thanks for documenting it. A few sugestions from my last 9 years in auto body. Get rid of that electric DA asap. You are making x100 more work for yourself in the long run. Even though you are still roughing out your lines, I still can see a lot of waves. Go get a good quality pnumatic medium action 6" sander. I have used both and turst me it will make a really big dif. Make sure you are getting good paper for it too. You also need to make sure you have some...

[crazy7hotrodder]

really large hand sanding blocks. This stage you are in is going to be the most important when it comes to getting it truely strait in the end. The block always has to be bigger than the imperfection if you are going to make it completely strait. I even have a 5' custom long block for truck bed sides if that gives you an idea, and you always sand across the short side of the block like your pushing wings. You should also do some research on the following, Guide coating primer, use rattle cans...

[crazy7hotrodder]

...the rattle cans you use to spray a consistant mist over your surface, just for contrast, then sand with a block and file paper (sticky backed rolles usually 50' you tear to length, I like 3m and usc brands, more you spend here the longer the grit lasts) When you sand with the block over a fresh primed guide coat your highs and lows show up night and day literally. Next look up sprayable gel coats, it can give you a thick enough surface to seal and straighten a lot of imperfactions...

[crazy7hotrodder]

... glass tends to delaminate and create tiny pin holes and pockets that trap air, when it goes under a heat lamp at the body shop or even worse in the sun after final paint, the air expands and contracts or can trap venting solvents and will ruin a good spray job. It will look just like rust bubbles under the paint. next trash that primer you are using. rattle cans are junk it's laquer primer old old tech and low quality. you need to start with epoxy because it seals very well. just know it...

[crazy7hotrodder]

(Stupid short post length, this starts 5 down and reads in reverse)...is much more sensitive to mixing ratios than glass. I buy quarts because the tube that comes with it is just enough for a batch. It will cover 3/4 of a compact car with one light coat, with a high efficiancy hplv sata primer gun. Harbor Freight sells a good cheap gun for primer, it's purple.and $10-20. You need a whole lot more filler and block work b4 priming tho. and then 2-3 epoxy coats and 3-4 of a 2k primer. good luck.

[theseanster7]

@crazy7hotrodder Don't you mean hvlp gun? I don't think a high pressure low volume gun would be very efficient for spraying.

[bloodyrare]

@theseanster7 hvlp= high volume low pressure

[theseanster7]

@bloodyrare i've never heard of a hplv gun

[BaileyBlade]

@crazy7hotrodder Hey I just wanted to say thanks for your long informative post. Check our latest video we are moving shop that will give us the tools to finish the body.

[seeeeergiu]

WTF . the guy in green at 6:47 was wearing some freakish shoes

[jongala]

Great to see your attention to detail, and also really interesting to see how the design evolves over time, as a result of looking at it and working with it for a while. I was just thinking the same thing about some of Dennis Palatov's stuff. Anyway great work on the car, and thanks for taking the time to share these videos.

[BaileyBlade]

@jongala Thanks man... Yeah i have been following Dennis for a long time. Sent him a few emails a long time ago when i was first getting started.

[CCruzr22]

What a great end on that model!... 6:08

[rallyboy88]

holy moly that looks super!

[PiezPiedPy]

fanny tastic :)

[HITURA69]

knowed every car that was shown

[DanFrederiksen]

the car is not exactly the style I would choose but it is a nice design and you are a good sculptor. as it stands now it has nice clean lines but I fear that you will drag it through the low brow mud with all kinds of large vents and too vin too diesel things.

I'm not a complete fan of the Gilette front :) and don't care for the air flow through the hood and I have rather substantial aversion to the hood block blocking the window. but it's well done. big automaker worthy quality.

[windreaver6]

I'm thinking a two tone black and blue paintjob =P stay away from matte paint the car has a sleek and sexy personality that only dark colors fit.

how do you expect the car to handle because i know one man built a car based on a merecedes frame and the weight balance was thrown out the window

[crazy7hotrodder]

Dark colors show body work 10x, when I estimate shop time, I double my labor hours on black dark blue dark green and burgandy over white silver or bright colors. Magazines hate dark colors because they do not show up well in pics and rarely put them on the cover.

And not to jack someone elses sect, but fiber glass is only light when it is in a controled mold, eg. vaccume bag or 2 part mold. The glass will still be light, filler is pretty bad, fiber reinforced filler is like lead weights.

[BaileyBlade]

@crazy7hotrodder Hey thanks for all the great information... Our plans are to get the body as close as we can and then hand it off to a real body shop to finish our mess... lol We are not body work people by any means but we are learning the ropes. Are you local?.. DFW Texas. Just a quick note, The final body will all be vacuum molded in an autoclave. We are just working on the Buck now so that we can pull good molds.

[BaileyBlade]

@crazy7hotrodder Also we will pull molds off of wet-sanded primer rather than painting and sending through an oven to cure. This way the heat will not distort the body buck and jack with the tons of body filler and fiberglass we have on the car. If have time shoot me some links to those products you mentioned. The only reason we are using electric sanders is because the building does not support 220volts for my air compressors and it trips breakers on normal 110 stuff. we really need a new shop.

[itachi12789]

Can a 5 axis cnc machine make a full scale car?

[isonmanuel]

will the xtr be on production?

[jcadlols]

Whoa, superman! those time lapse videos are awesome. looks great with the one solid colour, great stuff :)

[streincorp]

3:33 so smooooth! amazing lines have been revealed!

[SpankyTheHouseRat]

Looking very nice.

I am using some of the tops you have given us for motorbike projects I have on at the moment.

Thank you for sharing.

[TVRFan11]

what was going on that drew those kinda of cars out?

[BaileyBlade]

@TVRFan11 Honestly not real sure... LOL some kind of club day event i think. Most seem like members at the track. There were two events going on though... i only showed the 1.7 mile course the other 1.3 mile track had something else going on it. I just did not want to walk all the way over.

[whitetbolt]

that sharp fender line will be great for some two tone race car paint jobs. Looking good. Keep the faith.

[BaileyBlade]

@whitetbolt Thanks man... yeah i am starting to think that a two tone color may work with this design as well...

[firefox225]

@BaileyBlade How about a matte black finish? lol

[Pader6789]

wow cool cars there!!

[BaileyBlade]

@Pader6789 Yeah it was nice seeing them in action too. some of those cars were worth $500K plus and driven like they were worth 2 bucks.. lol

[Pader6789]

@BaileyBlade wow you must be a busy man, with less timelapse videos and more on questions and updates on the bailey blade. When we will see another time lapse video, i hope it is long.

[BaileyBlade]

@Pader6789 Yeah, busy is an understatement... I am trying to add more to the videos than just the time-lapse stuff. I have been getting email more and more wanting me to talk about the car and what we are doing. so i am doing my best to mix it all together. But its a lot of work... the editing alone can take several days to put together. Eric is not real crazy about being on camera so i elected myself to be the spokes person for this project, it's challenging thats for sure. .

[RoboTekno]

lookin good :-)

[thetwistofcain]

YEA lol "XTR for EXTREME!!!" Nerds. good vid....

[BaileyBlade]

@thetwistofcain Yeah definitely XTR Nerds here...

[MrMindfucker]

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