My Tesla Model S Plaid

[Leftlane22]

Congrats on your Plaid and making it yours - what a great thread to read. The only issue I have in this entire conversation is post #61 when you said you were at a car wash. From every picture you have posted of any of your cars, I really don’t think you’ve ever really seen a car wash - ever. All in good fun!

 

[Excaliber]

Congrats on your Plaid and making it yours - what a great thread to read. The only issue I have in this entire conversation is post #61 when you said you were at a car wash. From every picture you have posted of any of your cars, I really don’t think you’ve ever really seen a car wash - ever. All in good fun!

Actually there's a local hand wash and touchless swing arm powerwash automatic car wash that I take my cars to.
I handwash my Tesla with the soap brush, soap spray and rinse spray then go 1 exit on the local highway to my house to blow off the water.




What I'm mostly guilty of is not cleaning the driver footwell and carpet.
I'm 65 and have arthritis and back issues and to me a car is an appliance.
We have still been having some wintery mix like this week



so there's not much point in washing the car.
I'm not competing in a car show here just showing my extensive mods.

I still have 1 more Mod to do.
I got these shallow high efficiency speakers to replace the subs in the doors and have some baffles and insulation sheets.








Stock Tesla 8" door sub


The door panels are easy to remove in 5 minutes.
I had a chipped driver window replaced so I saw how to do it.
It's only 3 torx screws so I'll get to it soon.

 

[Excaliber]

My car had some wind noise on the highway so I filled the windshield gaps across the top and down the sides with black marine silicone.









I did it twice and it fixed the windshield noise problem

 

[Excaliber]

Although not a Mod based on a thread on the BMW Forum I bought a tube of this windshield repair on Amazon for the sunroof.
It will fill a bulls eye up to 1.25" in case it gets hit by a rock and keep it from spreading and needing to replace the sunroof.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ALJ4MY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?asc_source=01H8HFYCRM99TJ9FED7FSB1ZXC&ie=UTF8&psc=1&tag=namespacebran689-20

 

[Yelobird]

I've been busy with work.
Our latest new press is almost ready to go.



These 2 will take another month



Now that I'm almost done with the Plaid maybe I'll take it to the Deltasonic Car Wash on the weekend for a thorough interior cleaning and hand wash .
and 2 coats of wax.
Or maybe get the nephew to do it. He could use some extra money.

Ok Now I’m impressed! That’s some serious tonnage. Guess 1000 ton? And clean I might add. Bet those were some impressive pits to support that load. Well done!

 

[Excaliber]

Ok Now I’m impressed! That’s some serious tonnage. Guess 1000 ton? And clean I might add. Bet those were some impressive pits to support that load. Well done!

Actually they a 2000 tons for this one we are going to make the first SMC part from.



These other 2 are 2500 and 4000 tons



The pits are 12 feet deep



We have 20 other presses of various sizes that we bought used and rebuilt with new pumps motors and controls like this 1800 ton


These 3 presses are so clean because they are brand new.
We don't have time to refurbish presses anymore.
There's the efficiency triangle in manufacturing.

Fast, Cheap, Good
You can only have 2 of the 3.

Fast and Cheap but not Good
Fast and Good but not Cheap
Cheap and Good but not Fast

Even with new presses it's taken 9 months to get to where we are today.

 

[Yelobird]

Actually they a 2000 tons for this one we are going to make the first SMC part from.



These other 2 are 2500 and 4000 tons



The pits are 12 feet deep



We have 20 other presses of various sizes that we bought used and rebuilt with new pumps motors and controls like this 1800 ton


These 3 presses are so clean because they are brand new.
We don't have time to refurbish presses anymore.
There's the efficiency triangle in manufacturing.

Fast, Cheap, Good
You can only have 2 of the 3.

Fast and Cheap but not Good
Fast and Good but not Cheap
Cheap and Good but not Fast

Even with new presses it's taken 9 months to get to where we are today.

Impressive thanks for sharing.

 

[Excaliber]

Press Alley







Made our own first press in 1987 for wet molding


using a 200.00 arc welder and this bandsaw

 

[Excaliber]

Hey the rian washed off my car

 

[Excaliber]

Update on my latest mods.

I got these caliper covers on Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJDSNX66?asc_source=01H8HFYCRM99TJ9FED7FSB1ZXC&psc=1&ref=product_details&tag=namespacebran689-20

I'm not a fan of red so I sanded and painted them gold and cleared them with Awl Grip boat/airplane polyurethane 2 stage clearcoat.










I didn't like the aftermarket Model S front spoilers so I got this universal one that's subtle and only hangs down 1 inch and won't get knocked off on parking stones.







I also changed out my convex blindspot mirrors to these panoramic ones.

 

[Excaliber]

I added some bass reflex ports to my sub box which improved the sub response



Next up I'm going to put these 250 rms 8" Pioneer dual 2 ohm shallow 2 5/8"door subs with 3/4" spacers that will plug into the oem harnesses

 

[siamnet]

I added some bass reflex ports to my sub box which improved the sub response



Next up I'm going to put these 250 rms 8" Pioneer dual 2 ohm shallow 2 5/8"door subs with 3/4" spacers that will plug into the oem harnesses

Just out of curiosity, what are the bottom smaller hole for? I assume the top and bigger hole is for the port but don't know about the smaller bottom one.

 

[Excaliber]

Just out of curiosity, what are the bottom smaller hole for? I assume the top and bigger hole is for the port but don't know about the smaller bottom one.
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Well I had a single port from a previous project



but then decided to add a second one but couldn't find the same curved trumpet one so I added this one



they're both 3 inches
The grilles are to keep stuff from falling into the box

 

[siamnet]

Well I had a single port from a previous project



but then decided to add a second one but couldn't find the same curved trumpet one so I added this one



they're both 3 inches
The grilles are to keep stuff from falling into the box

I bet those two hit pretty hard.
I don't know where your shop is located in Buffalo, but whenever I'm back in town (typically just for a day), I'd like to get a demo of your sound system.

 

[Excaliber]

I bet those two hit pretty hard.
I don't know where your shop is located in Buffalo, but whenever I'm back in town (typically just for a day), I'd like to get a demo of your sound system.

sent you a pm