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Post by MiniGT5 on Jan 2, 2006 16:32:26 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2006 16:40:02 GMT
sweet! you doing it all yaself then?
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Post by MiniGT5 on Jan 2, 2006 16:55:10 GMT
as always... dident think it would be this hard as it dident take this long 1st time round but getting all the panel gaps correct is very hard. Cant decide whether to have a front bumber or not either? N  |
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Post by monkeyjim on Jan 2, 2006 19:28:01 GMT
Neil , stick with it, getting the panel gaps spot on is time well spent . My doors are a bad fit on the mk 1 cos the welder did a few hours here and a few there with days off in between . If he stayed on the a panels long enough to align the doors in the apertures correctly I would not have the gaps. Will you be back on the road before Brooklands at the end of March? Dave ps : like the boots in pic 1, you got to take them off before getting in the car |
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Post by MiniGT5 on Jan 2, 2006 20:14:34 GMT
I'm hoping to have the car back on the road before the end of the month  proably wont be painted by then but I will be happy to drive round in a gel coat for a bit. On a different not how do you paint the bare carbon fiber on the inside or do you leave it unpainted Oh and the boots are mine and dads work boots  N :-) |
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Post by vtec steve on Jan 16, 2006 9:15:58 GMT
Looking good mate. Looks like the bonnet fits well 2. My bonnet dont. Im going to run a bit of thin metal bar under it to hold it in the right place.
Leave the inside unpainted. Iv hurd that painting it can cause moisture or something to get traped indide. Think there is a wax that can be put on it but not sure.
Steve
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Post by MiniGT5 on Jan 16, 2006 12:46:34 GMT
Hi Steve, I have heard about the wax too but I'm not keen on it... but then again I dont want to leave it bear as the road dirt will get ingrained into the fiber. Not sure what to do as yet. I assume you have just left yours bare? I cant see how the lacure you get contaiminated by moisture as once its sealed then no moistre would be able to get in? Any thoughts? N |
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Post by monkeyjim on Jan 16, 2006 13:38:09 GMT
Phone Curley Mouldings who made it and ask there advice.
Not had dealings with carbon fibre only fibreglass, when I was making fibreglass products and then went on to putting up fibreglass swimming pool slides (anyone been down the Butlins slides?) the bare fibreglass areas were always coated to avoid water damage . There is a word for the water damage cannot remember it though.
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Post by paul1275s on Jan 16, 2006 16:53:04 GMT
osmosis!!!
maybe you could get someone to gel coat the inside? would add weight though. looks the bizz, make sure you wear a dust mask when drilling the stuff, the dust is lethal.... also what about some of those bumpers you can get in carbon with the weave showing on the outside?? i'm not sure where you get them but have seen a few about at shows.
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Post by MiniGT5 on Jan 16, 2006 17:52:47 GMT
Currleys sell the bumpers www.curleyuk.com/£90 ea I think I will probably give curleys a ring and see what they recomend Cheers for the advice everyone N |
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Post by monkeyjim on Jan 16, 2006 20:26:30 GMT
Cheers Paul ,
Osmosis was the word i was looking for.
We coated the non gel coat sections of glass with a mix of what was basically resin and a pigment for the colour mixed with a catalyst to make the mix go off.
I was just starting to make a mould to make fibreglass bonnets when the factory closed and i was made redundant. Shame that.
As Paul says be careful when drilling , it gives a distinctive in my opinion orrible smell off as well as the dust.
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Post by MiniGT5 on Jan 16, 2006 21:31:57 GMT
All the cutting is now done few  just need to drill the wholes for my headlight bowls and side indicators but they havent turned up yet  N |
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