See full version: Bullet-proofing your car; what you need to know
While retrofit armouring work involves replacing the standard glass fittings on the car with ballistic-resistant glazed shielding (transparent armour) and adding sheet protection (opaque armour) behind the metalwork of the car, there are many levels of protection, each increasing in complexity and, as you’d expect, price. more
If you’ve been toying with that idea, you best be prepared to be committed, in every possible sense. The subject is not as simple – and straightforward – as it sounds, the deeper one delves into it.
The latter is what IMS Magna Armoring’s offerings are rated to. When it first began operations two years ago, the KL-based company’s armouring work was rated to BR2 classification, but this has since been upped to BR4 levels, its managing director Howe Chin said. more
The fitting work is both labour and time-intensive. “The process of armouring a car can take from four to six weeks to complete,” Ho said, adding that a couple of weeks are needed to allow the inter-layer bonding agent in the glazed shielding to cure completely. [links]
We could then put the HD billet cap into place and secure it with the fasteners. [links]
GearFx also checks the ring gear runout , which is a great indicator of how good the quality of your gears and differential are. Ours came in at 0.002 inch, which made us happy with our choice of US Gear from Summit Racing.
GearFx managed to nail the shim stack for the pinion preload on the second try and with that our pinion/yoke assembly was done. here
Not all gears are created equal. According to GearFx's general manager Jeff "Fuzzy" Horton , they've tested a lot of gears and the most consistent and true gears they've found are the Stealth Series ring and pinion parts from US Gear. US Gear uses a new gear cutting tech on these called face hobbing, which creates a continuous and more consistent cut on all teeth of the ring and pinion at the same time. We did the math and decided that 3.70 gears would be our best bet for staying in our engine's power band, so that was the gears we picked up through Summit Racing (PN 07-890370SS). Here you can see a factory finished Stea l th ring gear on the right and one on the left that has gone through GearFx's REM ISF (Isotropic Superfinish) process. In fancy speak , the process produces a nonlinear, low Ra, finish that improves wear and reduces friction. To us laymen the gears are surface polished, but it's way more involved than that.
It ' s steps like this that separate having a third member build at a race - minded shop like GearFx compared to having one put together at your typical hot rod driveline shop. here
In the late 1990s, Ford began installing an engine known as a 6.0L Power Stroke Diesel in their trucks and vans. Commonly referred to as “diesel” or just “6.0,” this engine is the only one of its kind that has been put into production by any major car manufacturer for consumer use. here
Bulletproofing is a process that involves adding steel and aluminum to the engine block, heads, oil pan, intake manifold, valve covers, and camshafts.
The answer to the question “how much does it cost to bulletproof a 6.0 Powerstroke?” is about $1000 per cylinder, and at that point, you’re just adding insult to injury because your engine is already costing you more than what most people spend on their car each year! But before you get too discouraged by this number, I’ll show you how to BulletProof your 4.6 Powerstroke for less than half of that price.
It’s no secret that gallons of diesel is more powerful than gasoline engines, but how much horsepower can you really expect from a Bulletproofed 6.0? more
I’m sure you’ve seen the news about Ford’s 6.0 Powerstroke diesel engine and how they’re going to be replacing all of them with a new updated design. more
//edit ReN : added from a discord server here
Just open the model in ZM and change the glass material to vehicle_decal. It should remain transparent, and will now just show bullet impact damage instead of breaking.
Hey guys i have a question, does any1 know how to make bulletproof windows?
Contact me on discord: SDJ#4334, If you can do it there will be a reward.
Collision IDs:
93 - rubber (used on trophytruck's spare wheels)
100 - cloth
116 - metal
117 - plastic
118-119 - softtop, softtop_clear
120 - weak glass (side windows)
121 - med. glass (rear windshield)
122 - strong glass (windshield)
123 - bulletproof glass
124 - opaque glass
142 - void (no collision for bullets/projectiles)
172 - engine (idk what's the difference with metal, but it has its own ID) more
there's the flags in vehicles.meta
FLAG_HAS_BULLETPROOF_GLASS and FLAG_HAS_BULLET_RESISTANT_GLASS
and iirc you can set a specific collision ID value on the glass shader used in zmod 3.2.0 more