Making your own inner wing heat sheild
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Hi all,i'd like to make,or get made,some new pieces of the heat reflective material which is riveted to the inner wings on these cars.Getting the material and cutting to shape is no problem,but what do you use to stitch over the edges?Surely cotton or similar wont last two minutes,so what did they use originally?Has anyone managed to stitch this material on an ordinary sewing machine?
Cheers,Mike
Cheers,Mike
dnb!!!!!!Hi AJP
I did this last summer - was much easier than I thought it would be.
TVRParts can supply the correct heatsheild material very cheaply - about 15 quid for a metre - I managed to make a pair from half a metre.
I used the originals as templates - i traced the shapes onto the new material and cut them out with an extra half inch all round - then i put some spray adhesive round the outer inch on the wrong side - I then just folded around the shape I had traced onto the heatshield material - I cut out a few darts where the edge curved sharply.
I let the spray adhesive dry then positioned holes where the rivets went - I put a light coat of spray adhesive on the back of the heat shields and pop-riveted them into position.
There was no need to stitch round the edges and even though I say so myself they still look first class.
Jay
I did this last summer - was much easier than I thought it would be.
TVRParts can supply the correct heatsheild material very cheaply - about 15 quid for a metre - I managed to make a pair from half a metre.
I used the originals as templates - i traced the shapes onto the new material and cut them out with an extra half inch all round - then i put some spray adhesive round the outer inch on the wrong side - I then just folded around the shape I had traced onto the heatshield material - I cut out a few darts where the edge curved sharply.
I let the spray adhesive dry then positioned holes where the rivets went - I put a light coat of spray adhesive on the back of the heat shields and pop-riveted them into position.
There was no need to stitch round the edges and even though I say so myself they still look first class.
Jay
Jay Ayegees said:
Hi AJP
I did this last summer - was much easier than I thought it would be.
TVRParts can supply the correct heatsheild material very cheaply - about 15 quid for a metre - I managed to make a pair from half a metre.
I used the originals as templates - i traced the shapes onto the new material and cut them out with an extra half inch all round - then i put some spray adhesive round the outer inch on the wrong side - I then just folded around the shape I had traced onto the heatshield material - I cut out a few darts where the edge curved sharply.
I let the spray adhesive dry then positioned holes where the rivets went - I put a light coat of spray adhesive on the back of the heat shields and pop-riveted them into position.
There was no need to stitch round the edges and even though I say so myself they still look first class.
Jay
I did pretty much the same, but use a heavy weight cotton thread and machined the edges are per original...I did this last summer - was much easier than I thought it would be.
TVRParts can supply the correct heatsheild material very cheaply - about 15 quid for a metre - I managed to make a pair from half a metre.
I used the originals as templates - i traced the shapes onto the new material and cut them out with an extra half inch all round - then i put some spray adhesive round the outer inch on the wrong side - I then just folded around the shape I had traced onto the heatshield material - I cut out a few darts where the edge curved sharply.
I let the spray adhesive dry then positioned holes where the rivets went - I put a light coat of spray adhesive on the back of the heat shields and pop-riveted them into position.
There was no need to stitch round the edges and even though I say so myself they still look first class.
Jay
As Jay says, not that hard.
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