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[luca]

SWEEEEEET!!!!!!!!!!


Il be on his case daily lol cant wait for this to turn up!!!!!

[TIL13R]

What do you want for it mate?..............

Tiller

[Turboboy67]

Been busy today, I've driven right the way round the M25

On my way I collected my Yokohama a032r's



Road legal cut slicks, nice and sticky for the track.

Also collected my Carbon Fibre bonnet



Don't worry the stickers are coming off

When I got home my Aerocatch bonnet pins had arrived



Bonnet should be fitted on Sunday

[xrsi]

going to be nice and light and quick when its done!

those catches are much much better than the type that is on the bonnet at mo, are you retaining the origional bonnet catch as well? as if not i would have gone for the locking ones like i am having on mine personally. Just makes the car a little safer when not in use

[luca]

Locking catches = MORE WEIGHT

if there gonna nick it there gonna nick it..

Bonnet looks good mate is it structured underneath or single skin.

[Ram]

[xrsi]

I see your point mate, but even tho it is slightly more weight there is a balance between safety of car and minimum weight (plus they weigh bugger all difference ) yeah they can still knick it but its safer than ford std job and a deterant nether the less. But im sure it aint going to be left anywhere that it wouldnt be overly safe!

[luca]

Shaun, thankyourself lucky you dont have to fit those catches on a metal bonnet...

i decided to fit these after i saw them on Porkies 3-door, blooody hell how hard to cut the bonnet out with out scratching the paint.

i did do it in the ned and fitted perfectly with no damgae to paint!!

be so so so easy to sand out the carbon with a dremmel

[MattPym]

Cool, Yeah the stickers have to come off like m4dyeti said about the catches they're unneccesary weight

[luca]

:lol:

I see your point mate, but even tho it is slightly more weight there is a balance between safety of car and minimum weight (plus they weigh bugger all difference ) yeah they can still knick it but its safer than ford std job and a deterant nether the less. But im sure it aint going to be left anywhere that it wouldnt be overly safe!

Grammes = seconds on track

as spring is nearing time for me to diet tooo

[xrsi]

Shaun, thankyourself lucky you dont have to fit those catches on a metal bonnet...

i decided to fit these after i saw them on Porkies 3-door, blooody hell how hard to cut the bonnet out with out scratching the paint.

i did do it in the ned and fitted perfectly with no damgae to paint!!

be so so so easy to sand out the carbon with a dremmel

yeah they aint the easiest of things to fit, test fitted one on a scrap bonnet i had and all i did was make a mess of the one! saying that tho i did fit it with a only 4.5" grinder and a drill!

Going to fit them to my proper bonnet with a dremmel, lots of masking tape and a lot of free time so its done properly.

Fitting them to the carbon will be easier, might be worth fitting some foam between the lip around the edge of the pins and the bonnet so you dont over stress the carbon tho on the contoured part of the bonet where it will try to pull them tight against each other..... im sure you know that already tho!

[luca]

xrsi -

Find a suitcable hole cutter for your drill around 15-20mm in size.. drill these all around the template so as to cut inside the template this leaves a selection of jagged edges.

1 x dremmel like you mention and about 4x small grinding stones from b+q and you can whizz all those off.. lay about 9 lots of masking tape down
incase you slip.

took me about 1hour each one from start - paint - bolt on.

[Turboboy67]

What alot of replies

Bonnet is reinforced underneath with a thick Fibreglass cross (picture later)

probably buy another 2 aeros for the rear of the bonnet

Existing catches will be dumped

I must weigh it, I reckon its about 4-5 kg, may be slightly more

[luca]

2-3kg for the new ones mate

[jayrs]

nice touch mate, now paint it red

[luca]

Jay i dont think pink is shauns thing!

[jayrs]

Jay i dont think pink is shauns thing!

only be pink if he trys to mix white with it, and there no space for white in the red world

[hb69]

is that bonnet a one off, or is there a company that actually makes them?

[luca]

At the moment its a one off as i have to pay the £800 mould cost.
once made it will be available for all.

price/details to be confirmed shortly

[hb69]

At the moment its a one off as i have to pay the £800 mould cost.
once made it will be available for all.

price/details to be confirmed shortly

excellent

[jayrs]

£800 to make a mould
jesus, its not even hard to make a mould

[luca]

£800 to make a mould
jesus, its not even hard to make a mould

get making them then mate

[Turboboy67]

I'm sure if you made a mould up Jay we would give you £20 or so for it

Well I weighed the bonnet, its 5kg with the pins on, so not bad,

started picking those stickers off tonight

Its not perfect, its got one or two hairline cracks,

but it will do me until we get some new ones made up

[luca]

new name for you sir -

carbonboy67

[Turboboy67]

new name for you sir -

carbonboy67

P M S L

I'm such a lightweight

Can't wait to get the car weighed when the roof goes on and poly windows are in

[~S1~]

new name for you sir -

carbonboy67

P M S L

I'm such a lightweight

Can't wait to get the car weighed when the roof goes on and poly windows are in

Someone else getting rather anal over weightsaving!! You gonna be stripping off underseal and sound deadening as well?

[frostie]

love the stickers suit the car hehe
i do really like what you are doing with this track car

[jayrs]

£800 to make a mould
jesus, its not even hard to make a mould

get making them then mate

i thought about it few years back mate, when i was doing laminatiing i could of got all the stuff for nothing , well i prob still could as i got mates there etc but if im honest i couldnt be focked

howevere, there is a guy on the isle of wight that has a mould for the mk3 fiesta bonnet, as i put a guy on here in touch with him and he got a fiberglass bonnet from matey, cant see any reason why he wouldnt make carbon ones.

if interested ill try and find the guy again whole has the mould

[Brammer]

Shaun loving where this is going mate, track bufty

howevere, there is a guy on the isle of wight that has a mould for the mk3 fiesta bonnet, as i put a guy on here in touch with him and he got a fiberglass bonnet from matey, cant see any reason why he wouldnt make carbon ones.

if interested ill try and find the guy again whole has the mould

Why not Jay it's worth finding out, even if a few people are intersted

[jayrs]

yeah that is true.

ill see what i can find out, was a while ago now

[luca]

new name for you sir -

carbonboy67

P M S L

I'm such a lightweight

Can't wait to get the car weighed when the roof goes on and poly windows are in

Someone else getting rather anal over weightsaving!! You gonna be stripping off underseal and sound deadening as well?

I retained all my sound deading to try and keep a little bit of noise out....
i know it weighs a lot though due to stripping my mates cossie out of it.. 2x full bags of it like a big bag of potatoes in weight.

However ive retained mine fully stripped out poly windows and lightweight components on the car.= 790kg
with carbon roof and bonnet, it should match that weight again, but its now has a full weld in cage opposed to the bolt in one i had before.

Seriously though weight is the biggest key to making a good handling/accelrating car for track....
lowers the centre of granity and makes the handiling feel spot on

[Excursion]

Ahh nice, I was going to comission a carbon roof for mine. With sunroof though

[PMK3]

awesome stuff going to be a right beast i reckon,you've caught the highly contagious weight saving fever,going to have to get my fibreglass bonnet on and go for a weight in.any engine mods planned yet,throttle bodies,turbo?.keep the updates coming

[Turboboy67]

Someone else getting rather anal over weightsaving!! You gonna be stripping off underseal and sound deadening as well?

All sound deadening is coming out fella
underseal, no , got to rust proof it, as it sleeps outside atm.

Managed to pick all those stickers off the bonnet tonight, just over an hour

[Turboboy67]

any engine mods planned yet,throttle bodies,turbo?.keep the updates coming

Not this year fella, I'm just concentrating on lightening her first

But next year I wanna go 2.0 with throttle bodies