The flange on the bottomside worked out pretty well. Grinded it, and worked it out some more with filler. You can see I also worked in an aluminium plate to tighten it all.

Then I taped a red sticker on the top. The lines which are on there, I also drawn on the carbon frame.
By that, I could check the angle of the slats, and I was sure that L and R will be exactly the same.

Then I drew some lines who are contrary to a big piece of mdf. On that piece I put the frame, and put some little blocks round it, so it kept his place.

The carbon fiber I used to make the slats, was finished in the meantime.
A flat piece of CF you can make very simple.
You take a piece of glass, and rub it in with wax, a layer of 4 should be enough.
Once you've done this, you take a clean piece of cloth, and clean it up.
There will always be a little layer of wax still on the glass.
Then you put on your epoxy, and lay a piece of carbon fiber on it.
Again some epoxy and, carbon fibre cloth. In my case here I used 6 layers...
Then you leave it for a day or two...and then I rubbed the topside with the machine (with a 400 dry)


Once I had this, I could remove the glass easily.
This goes very simple. You go with a cutter at the corner, and you see the plate comes loose from the glass immediately.
You can see this obviously at the air bubble here.

Once I have this, I take my air-gun, and shoot it loose. simple

This is what you'll get

Don't say it doesn't shine


The thing I also alwats do, is to NOT clean my glass afterwards.
I only do this when I have to make another piece.
Cause of the epoxy that stays on afterwards, I always know which side is the side with the wax.

 

Great job. Very bold stuff

 

I did some measurements, and cut out some cardboard, to see what I liked.
The carbon plate got cut out in pieces of 7cm.


Then a very time-consuming job started.
The slats had to bind perfectly on the sides.
First I made a cardboard mold, and yeah, there were more then one...
Then I layed this on the carbon fibre, and cut it out, and rubbed it by hand till I liked it.

After many hours of trying, this was my result.


You can see how I glued it all together.


Offcourse I had to tighten these slats to the frame, but I wanted it to be invisible from the outside.
I also wanted it to be firmly tightened, so I didn't have to be afraid when I cleaned the car and I could go between the slats with a sponge.
On the bottomside you see I abraded a little slanting side.





Then I did my magician trick again.
I made some epoxy and added some carbon fiber powder to it, and stirred it up till I had a nice fat mush.


I put this into a little bottle, with a fine end, which I cut a bit diagonal.



I filled it up with the CF mush, and used it on the bottomside. It went easy and looked pretty good.




The tape was critical so it connected the corners 100%, so the epoxy wasn't able to run to the other side.
That this was going to be very strong, I knew in advance...I tested it first on a frame I threw in the bin a couple of days ago.

 

Teaser........

 

Wow tremendous amount of work. You could have taken up a part time job and paid for the hood in that much time. But I can't wait to see the final product!

 

Man, that is SPECTACULAR work. Just beautiful!!!

 

Amazing! Absolutely incredible job!

 

When I first started reading this thread I was like WTF is this. But this is actually some really impressive work. The amount of time, effort and dedication to this is incredible. Looking forward to the final product. Very good work sir!! I enjoyed reading this.

 

Yes sir, I've had a lot of work to do this....

I certainly will

THX dude's ...

 

Incredible work! The teaser pictures are killer. I'm sure we're all in to see the final product. Props for doing it yourself. I'm sure it will be worth it in the end.