Brief Description: Making and fixing fairings to strut
This project looked impossible. We fixed together three layer of foam. We then used a hand held die grinder and carved out a notch on the back to pass the brake line through the fairing. Then using a sand block and air sand grinder we shaped the foam. The aim was to make two even synmmetrical airfoil shapes. In the end they turned out pretty good and we were very pleased. Then they were trimed for size to allow enough room to get to the brake pads. The foam was then fixed to the strut with body putty. The fairing was lined up by eye from the front and back aiming to have them both even. Laminating the fairing to the strut was all sorts of fun. I had fibre glass dripping down my elbows and surprsingly on my back and in my hair. We ensured we had 2 wraps of cloth with each fibreglass fix and then sanded it back each time. The book says to have a minimum of 4 wraps of the cloth. We did 2 wraps at a time, sanded it right back each time and did 6 cloth wraps in total. If you said at the start of this project we would be making fibre glass fairings, our comment would have been "your dreaming" However I must say it was very satisfying.
