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[pete-r]

What is that???

[chris_uk]

Looks like a mould for the roof.

Edited by chris_uk, 26 September 2017 - 03:48 PM.

[CHILL Gone DUTCH]

Carbon lightness coming soon

 

 

What is that???

 

its a outter skin roof mould, 

[chris_uk]

Where you getting your inner skin from?

[CHILL Gone DUTCH]

Where you getting your inner skin from?

 

i already have a inner skin 

[pete-r]

Nice! Plans to make more?

[CHILL Gone DUTCH]

Nice! Plans to make more?

 

no just for myself, 

also got 10 metres x 1.25 metres of 200 gram carbon cloth, bit more stuff to buy over the next few weeks hopefully will have a nice light carbon hardtop soon 

 

also have plans to have more carbon stuff 

[pete-r]

Excellent. I would focus on the rear of the car, that's where the weight savings can be had. The front is light anyway but some rigid brake vents would be useful. I tried making complex shapes before and they never looked as good as I hoped. I found skinning was really good though and easy, but that's fine for cosmetics but makes everything heavier!

[CHILL Gone DUTCH]

Excellent. I would focus on the rear of the car, that's where the weight savings can be had. The front is light anyway but some rigid brake vents would be useful. I tried making complex shapes before and they never looked as good as I hoped. I found skinning was really good though and easy, but that's fine for cosmetics but makes everything heavier!

 

might seem daft but at the moment i am struggling with the rear of the car (getting traction down ) so yes theres a lot of weight at the rear but weight in effect is downward force so i am going to start at the front end after the hardtop, but its not going to be a fast project there is quite a lot of work to do with mouldings etc. 

[pete-r]

Tying to think what's at the front you could remake or even remove? I'm assuming a full clam is a bit ambitious for DIY but a bonnet could be doable. Certainly remove the bonnet hinge and fit an aerocatch. Then start drilling holes in everything

[CHILL Gone DUTCH]

clam could be a possibility but will be teaming up with a partner 

might start off with the lower clam and take it from there 

Edited by CHILL Gone DUTCH, 26 September 2017 - 08:05 PM.

[SteveA]

but weight in effect is downward force

 

 

Only if you ignore inertia. 

[pete-r]

Open question to anyone who has broken up a vx for parts, what are the heavy items which would make for great CF replacement?

[siztenboots]

roll bar cover

[Acidpopstar]

The bootlid/engine cover surely could be done much lighter Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[SteveA]

Header tank bracket

[pete-r]

The bracket could probably be bought at the sheet/tube places. A diffuser from sheet would be easy and light (the tat is pretty heavy) and the attaching bar also. Nothing is going to save 10's of kg unless you can make a carbon gearbox case!!! Perhaps a new thread is needed rather than clogging up chills

[pete-r]

The lay technique is really important on weight though, not just the thickness. My reverie wheel is only 236g on my salter scale, but I've seen 3 ply sheet carbon weigh more at only A5 sizes.

[Nev]

I have a massive spreadsheet of all parts that make up a VX, literally all of them down to each nut, bolt and washer, each with their weight in grams. It was emailed to me by a previous owner who wanted me to have it. I used it to get Nipper down to 890 Kg before I then went the other way by making him more powerful as well.

 

The spreadsheet is highly organised with every part split in function/location/type etc, so you can sort it and dice it as required. It's particularily thorough about the fixings for some reason. Can email it to you if you like.

 

Edited by Nev, 27 September 2017 - 04:01 PM.

[Exmantaa]

Can you put that sheet somewhere where it's downloadable?