The carbon fibre time attack/superlap MX5 NB twins blog

Postby **Okibi** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 12:11 am

I'd love a pair of those!

I think I have a carbon fibre fetish! :lol:

Kikuchi · Postby **Kikuchi** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 12:54 am

Okibi wrote::mrgreen: I'd love a pair of those!

I think I have a carbon fibre fetish!

+1 for both sentences.

they look awesome

16bit · Postby **16bit** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 8:45 am

man those things must be light!!

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 8:19 pm

Well they are not that light. The whole body from front to back, and top to bottom - basically everything you see in c.f. will weigh about 20kg's. Still, a client of my wife races an old merc, and his bonnet is 40kg's. So he was amazed that the whole body on my car is half the weight of one of his panels.

BadBong · Postby **BadBong** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 9:00 am

20kg for all panels = not light???...

What are you comparing that to? Air...? :lol:

Kikuchi · Postby **Kikuchi** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 6:56 pm

Helium filled panels.....

Postby **NitroDann** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 7:20 pm

Except helium filled panels would be heavier than non helium filled panels....

Dann

Imari · Postby **Imari** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 8:04 pm

Vacuum filled panels. :mrgreen:

Apu · Postby **Apu** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 8:29 pm

Hmmm...vacuum...filled?

16bit · Postby **16bit** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 8:36 pm

unless those panels were first filled with air, in which case the helium filled panels would be lighter.

Postby **NitroDann** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 8:45 pm

Should just make em out of carbon hey?

Dann

Jace · Postby **Jace** » Mon Nov 14, 2011 9:41 pm

So saucy, and I don't even like the look of CF.

Any reason you're keeping the quarter window's at the front of either door? I assume you're going lexan/plexiglass anyway so why not one larger fixed window?

Are you going to make up a 'fastback' fixed roof with smaller (and lighter!) window seals etc.?

As always, awesome work. I'm watching.

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Tue Nov 15, 2011 8:04 am

I kept the 1/4 windows so it will act as a frame to hold the window. Last time i made an alloy tube frame - worked fine. There will be a fastback roof. But not straight away. I will just make a normal hardtop, with the only difference being a c.f rear window.

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 10:22 am

I bought a new shell for the crashed nb8b. It is an na6 that had been partially stripped to remove everything he needed to make a lotus clubman type car.

As bought-

First mod, c.f hardtop.......... No just using the shell to assemble one. I will have one (c.f top) on permanantly and no softtop after it is all put back together with everything from the nb8b, inc interior, full elecs, driveline and subframes.

Kikuchi · Postby **Kikuchi** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 6:41 pm

aww no, you're going back to the na, means less chance of me getting nb cf gear from you. =p
good to see you still have the motivation to do this after the crash though. good luck