The carbon fibre time attack/superlap MX5 NB twins blog

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 8:28 am

Thanks for that, I was finding it hard to concentrate due to everyone at home being sick - no sleep for a few days does little to help your driving. That lap should have been a 1:55.3 if I didn't muff the gear change.

Postby **beavis** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 1:52 pm

For those of you that may be wondering what's going on at the moment:

Moto · Postby **Moto** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 11:49 pm

I just saw your build on Speedhunters, nice!

Postby **beavis** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 11:53 pm

http://www.speedhunters.com/2012/07/carbon_mx/

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 8:49 am

What, am i the only one that didn't know it was on speedhunters??? It's pretty cool to get the car on there.

It's funny reading all the comments, the car wasn't built to look pretty, it was built to go as fast as possible for a limited budget and time.
Some guys must not see the difference from a car that is built to drive fast, and a car built for show.

Hjt · Postby **Hjt** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:01 am

Weight you're kar isnt sex spec wtflol?

Function first

Moto · Postby **Moto** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:56 am

lightyear wrote:What, am i the only one that didn't know it was on speedhunters??? It's pretty cool to get the car on there.

It's funny reading all the comments, the car wasn't built to look pretty, it was built to go as fast as possible for a limited budget and time.
Some guys must not see the difference from a car that is built to drive fast, and a car built for show.

There's one thing I've learnt about Speedhunters, it's that the people commenting don't have a clue what they are talking about.

Postby **beavis** » Fri Jul 13, 2012 5:09 pm

Moto wrote:
lightyear wrote:What, am i the only one that didn't know it was on speedhunters??? It's pretty cool to get the car on there.

It's funny reading all the comments, the car wasn't built to look pretty, it was built to go as fast as possible for a limited budget and time.
Some guys must not see the difference from a car that is built to drive fast, and a car built for show.

There's one thing I've learnt about Speedhunters, it's that the people commenting don't have a clue what they are talking about.

I read/view Speedhunters regularly, their content is varied and you have to ignore the bits you don't want to look at.
I have little interest in a lot of the North American stuff, but I thoroughly enjoy 'grassroots' type stuff.

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:25 am

Mould is made, now i need to make the frame.

16bit · Postby **16bit** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 10:06 am

awesome.

Postby **beavis** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 12:15 pm

Car prepped for gel coat and then fibreglass to be laid

Starting to paint on gel coat:

Gel coat done:

Gel coat with window edges filled:

Full shot of gel coat done:

Front half of fibreglass laid down and resin coated:

Fibreglass mould done and drying with the heater:

Postby **beavis** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 6:34 pm

From last Sunday at Broadford..... as you can see the fastback mould is off the Red MX5 now:

Hjt · Postby **Hjt** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:32 pm

nice driving both of you, are the events placed or timed? If so shouldn't that driver move aside?

Postby **beavis** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 8:35 pm

Hjt wrote:nice driving both of you, are the events placed or timed?

This was a time attack style sprints event only.

Hjt wrote:If so shouldn't that driver move aside?

Yes, but they ignored the blue flags for some 3 laps.

Stewards had some discussions afterwards.

Hjt · Postby **Hjt** » Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:42 am

Yes, but they ignored the blue flags for some 3 laps.

Stewards had some discussions afterwards.

I hate it when that happens, ruins the day for a few just because they are selfish, changing there line impacts them for no more than 2 seconds. I have the issue a tonne with heavy falcons/commodores.