JAP
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Where is everyone getting them? I'd love to find some stock parts, I just saw someone mention doors, I think someone else has a front clip? Any info would be great. Thanks!
Fiberglass Body Parts?
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They tend to be a little wavy and require alot to fit well. At least all the stuff I have worked with. Mostly offload stuff tho.
Cutting-Edge Diesel
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check out GTS fiberglass and design
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Hotrodtractor
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GTS Fiberglass is great to work with - they do a lot of the full fiberglass bodies for the mod trucks and monster trucks. Its a neat little operation right off of I-70 just west of Saint Louis.
Depending on the age of the vehicle - US Body Source is another one - but I don't think they do anything as new as Superduties just yet.
There is also a place here in Ohio that I know has custom built a couple of mod truck bodies - I can't think of the name right now....
OR - you could do it yourself if you know what parts you want/need and have some parts that you could build a mold off of. Essentially that is how Brandon Miller did it with his Cummins powered S10 hood. No one made a hood large enough to cover everything so I roughed in a mold that I built out of 2" blue insulation, and several gallons of bondo, and then the Firepunk boys laid the glass. The first attempt was just to mold the cowl piece - it turned out so-so - then they used it and the factory hood as a mold and made a complete fiberglass hood. LOOK HERE
Depending on the age of the vehicle - US Body Source is another one - but I don't think they do anything as new as Superduties just yet.
There is also a place here in Ohio that I know has custom built a couple of mod truck bodies - I can't think of the name right now....
OR - you could do it yourself if you know what parts you want/need and have some parts that you could build a mold off of. Essentially that is how Brandon Miller did it with his Cummins powered S10 hood. No one made a hood large enough to cover everything so I roughed in a mold that I built out of 2" blue insulation, and several gallons of bondo, and then the Firepunk boys laid the glass. The first attempt was just to mold the cowl piece - it turned out so-so - then they used it and the factory hood as a mold and made a complete fiberglass hood. LOOK HERE
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Not bad man. Nice work! Fiberglass is cool to work with. How do you get it to release from the mold?
Hotrodtractor
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Made the final shape of the mold with the bondo - painted it and put a thick coat of carnauba wax on it. Just lay the fiberglass and resin and when it dries it it almost just pops off. I got into doing work like this when I was in college on off road, all terrain, amphibious race cars - we needed to build a "floatation" device which was a mixture of aluminum subframe, 2 part closed cell high expansion foam, fiberglass, kevlar, and a little strategic plexiglass. It needed to float and not take on water - be hydrodynamic - and not get tore up running around the road course getting beat all to hell on rocks, trees, other cars, whatever was in the way at the time....
Powerstroked162
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I think most everybody runs the GTS clips. I know thats what MPD and Aaron are running
I wish I could remember whose front end is on the lightning. It's a nice piece as well
I wish I could remember whose front end is on the lightning. It's a nice piece as well
NotStock
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Must have pics! :rockon:
Hotrodtractor
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I'll have to see what I have at home that shows at least one of the cars going through the water - and any construction pictures that I might have - but here are a couple of pics on the net of cars that I had a part in building and racing:
Power event - I am driving and pulling that Hummer where ever I want to take it..... aparently it was suppose to be a timed trial to go 15 feet.... no one told me and the army guys were in shock when they hit the brakes to stop me and it hardly slowed me down... LOL
Driver training in a different car back on campus:
I have a few thousand pics at home - plus there should be a couple of really cool videos that I have somewhere - including one where we were doing some suspension testing by driving it up and down stairs in between the apartments on spring break.... made the same run dozens of times with no issue - but as soon as the camera comes out I hit the stairs going down too fast and flip the car end for end. LOL
Hotrodtractor
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This brings to light another question that none of us have asked - what is the purpose of the fiberglass parts? Each one of these companies specializes in building parts - and many of them build the parts in different configurations for different purposes - for DDing the parts are heavier, for drag racing the parts are really light, for say mud racing the parts are reinforced differently, etc..... They all LOOK the same on the outside, but the parts are built different for different purposes.
JAP
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I personally wanted a front clip. Mainly for ease of access. I was assuming it would be lighter as well.
