Case Mod - In Progress Project: Cosmos SLR

He said that in his post......

 

yes....correct ... it's an SLK not SLR .... but still,the headlights of the car shown here stay ugly [IMHO]

Alan

 

Thanks again for all the feedback

Time to start playing with the side vents/windows.

Basically just drew the vent onto cardboard freehand – cut it out and transferred it onto the side panel then cut both sides out with a jigsaw.

I ran a mouse sander over the panels to get rid of the brushed anodised finish as the panels will be painted at some point the same colour as the front door.

I cheated a bit and had the 4 aluminium bars that would end up being the backbone of each vent (2 each side) CNC’d at a local machine shop as it would have been a nightmare trying to get the angles correct especially as it 10mm thick alu and much harder to work on with small hand tools.

Anyway I could only get the CNC cut so much as they were done before actually cutting the vents in the side panel and I wasn’t sure how big the vents would end up being so there was always going to be a bit of work to do on the alu bars but ended up getting them to fit perfect.

Once they were all fitting nice, I drilled holes in both the panel and bars then tapped the bars to accept 6/32” button head hex bolts and basically did test fit on the whole panel.

All looking pretty good though the bars still need the ends rounding off and polishing but that’s for another day along with cutting the plexi for the actual vent bits

Got a bit carried away with the pictures me thinks………









































Yeah its an SLK in the previous pictures

 

Very nice indeed paul! I'm really feeling the SLR theme!

Also, you've just gotta love spending an afternoon tapping holes..

 

Really nice work I can see where this is going. I don't like it on the car, but I might like it on the Cosmos. Will the side be closed like the photo, or will you somehow make it a window?
Was it hard to remove the foam padding on the inside of the sidepanel?

 

looking great mate,them vents are gonna be awsome

 

my best guess would be that it will be vented like on the car because of the shape of the used alu bars:

Alan

 

nice work & nice design

 

Spot on Alien - though they won't be as angled as the car vent as the left hand side panel of the case has practically no clearance at all for anything to protrude in-over and i want both to be symmetrical so that side dictates the angle of both sides...........if that makes sense

I'm using clear plexi with mirror tint so it will act as a window also.

 

Damn, didnt know you guys stock this as well. I ended up ordering some ACRyan Mirror2 from the states as no one had it in stock over here.

Im sure it will look amazing when the panel is polished/painted silver.

Cyp.

 

Damn that's nice, i know this is going to be awsome

 

Very nice, Looks very strong so far.

 

Love Mercedes cars; I will be following this mod closely.

Looks good so far!

 

is that your car???

 

Got the paint back today which looks fabulous so I carried on with the side vent/windows in an upbeat mood but while I was waiting for the paint to turn up I had a little go at polishing one of the bars and I’m glad to say they aren’t going to take to much work to get them nice and shiny………….still need to round the ends off but paint arrived and couldn’t wait any longer to get the vents in.

Had to tap both bars then cut the plexi to fit and fixed the slats into place with button head hex bolts and measuring twice cutting ones worked well this time as they couldn’t have fit any better.

Its still hard to get an idea what they look like by photo but I must admit I’m more than happy………….just got to make sure to get the other one just as good





















@ The_Beast - yes

 

Arrgghhhh, I'm way too busy...how do I know...well I've missed this thread

Great theme going on there again Paul, your execution is always par to none.

Can't wait to see more of this.

Darkened

 

Love the idea, Paul. Tinted, you said, right? Black? Smoked? Look-through with light(s) turned on I guess.

One thing though:
In this and this pic the edges don't seem to be straight. Might be the down-sizing, angle or my eyes. Just felt I should ask.

 

that is awesome very nicely done SLR style window

 

Just got a bit of mirror tint on earlier today which makes the vent look a bit easier to make out



@ Darkened - just you take it easy dude & thanks

@ aon`aTv.gsus666 - there straight........just randomly placed for the picture

 

Brilliant!