roof skin P2

Over the last few weeks the project had a little struggle mostly being with the roof skin, the part I was most concerned about, while cutting with the angle grinder the skin warped due to the heat, this has made me decide that I will tack the roof skin together and smooth it out. Once smooth the plan is to have a full carbon fibre roof skin made which will be as strong but will be lighter weight than the steel part.

Knowing the plan is now not to use a steel roof I am a little relieved but there is still lots of work needed.

The front section of one roof was cut and mated with the two sides, this helped to give me the shape and strength in the front of the roof

With the front section in I then looked at the side, as it stood there was 2 joins in the side, well 4 in total so I decided to remove the middle part and add a full length piece taken from a spare roof, this went in quite easily and helped with the shape.

Next I just tacked in some pieces to bridge the gap, this will be sorted later, as the roof skin will be smoothed, filled and a mould will be taken from it so strength is not important though the form will be

Well I hope to be able to get the other gaps filled quickly so I can start to filler and shape the roof.