VLZ-P-003

Project Singa

Composite bodywork · In build

Bodywork is where projects most often fail on judgement rather than on craftsmanship. A panel set can be beautifully made and still be the wrong answer for the car it is going on.

These photographs are the set as delivered, on the floor, before a single fixing went near it. That is deliberate. Composite panels are assessed on arrival — thickness, edge quality, mounting points, symmetry and how much work the fit will actually take — because the cost of finding out later is paid in paint.

A white composite front bumper and a vented bonnet laid out on a wooden floor in a storeroom.
Bodywork as delivered, before any fitting.

The set, as delivered

Everything below is in raw gelcoat. Nothing has been trimmed, drilled or prepared, which is exactly the state a panel set should be photographed in if anyone later wants to know what it was like when it arrived.

A white composite front bumper viewed head-on, with black lower sections in front of it.
Front bumper, head-on.
The same front bumper seen from an angle, showing its intake apertures.
Front bumper, three-quarter. The apertures are the argument.
A front bumper with its black lower valance and grille sections laid out beneath it.
Front bumper with its lower sections.
A front bumper and a vented bonnet laid out together on a floor.
Front bumper and bonnet, together.
A white composite rear bumper with a raised ducktail spoiler and a brake light aperture.
Rear bumper and ducktail.
Close view of the rear bumper's ducktail lip and light aperture.
Ducktail lip and aperture detail.

Documentation

This project is at the bodywork stage. The full write-up follows on completion.

Each project is written up the same way once it is complete: the brief, the constraints, the governing idea, the key decisions by system, what was deliberately retained, the trade-offs, who executed what, and how it was validated. That needs the owner’s agreement and a proper record, so it follows the work rather than leading it.