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Few carbon parts for Noble M12

Few carbon parts for Noble M12

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andygtt	andygtt posted 13 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 157, Visits: 1.2K	My noble has well over 600bhp... soon to be over 700bhp... it weights 1110kgs full of fuel (hoping to reduce that 50kgs) and is pretty nippy. The GTT is my name for the car i have designed and built from scratch... its not finished and the work on the noble is kind of R&D for me on that
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SebRS	SebRS posted 13 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 29, Visits: 558	Fantastic! what amazing cars you have! you may be a bit crazy to drive this rocket on road, but i really like this! have you got some video anywhere of your nobel on road or track? Regards, Seb.
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andygtt	andygtt posted 13 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 157, Visits: 1.2K	this is one of the few videos I have... not very good I admit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_ltQiy8nII After some remedial work on the mould at the weekend I started laying up the carbon last night, going to build it up in payers, first layer is going down with the mould in parts so that I can ensure a good weave and that I get precisily into the hard to access areas. Of cause I will be overlapping on all the remaining areas so that there are no weak points. 1 layer 200g pro finish carbon... in areas I will have exposed carbon (mostly it will be painted) 1 layer 200g carbon 1 layer Nomex 1 layer 200g-650g carbon I will be backing this up with extra carbon in areas were the rear spoiler mounts and mounting points along with Dionen (?) in the wheel arches to give some impact protection.
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Joe	Joe posted 13 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 310, Visits: 1.5K	Haha, nice to see things going forward A $1000 electronic device will always protect a 10 cents fuse
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Warren	Warren posted 13 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Administrators Posts: 214, Visits: 782	Looking good! Diolen will add some impact resistance. The team at EC experimented with using a foam core on car cycle wings and reckoned it would prevent any "star crazing" on the visible surface from stone strikes. You could also fabricate wheel arch liners from a kevlar weave using the flexible resin so it curves to arches and absorbs impact. Have you thought about using a closed cell foam or soric core in places to add rigidity?
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andygtt	andygtt posted 13 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 157, Visits: 1.2K	thought about foam core, but Im not sure how you apply it with the resin infusion... can I just lay some between 2 layers of carbon?
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Daz	Daz posted 13 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 93, Visits: 651	Looking good
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JohnH	JohnH posted 13 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 20, Visits: 151	Hi Andy Fabulous job you have done on this so far, makes my small stint in this type of work look very small stuff. One tip I had from Paul at Carbon Mods was, if you want to lay up your carbon and tack it too the mould, mix up a small batch of resin and mix this with methelated spirit, just enough so that you can spray onto the mould at the places you want to tack the cloth to, this does work but takes some time to become tacky, this then is incorporated into the infused resin and does not leave any residue. All the best John
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Warren	Warren posted 13 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Administrators Posts: 214, Visits: 782	andygtt (02/05/2012) thought about foam core, but Im not sure how you apply it with the resin infusion... can I just lay some between 2 layers of carbon? If you use something like the Lantor Soric that EC stock then preparation is dead easy as you can see on the link. Also it is a flow media and helps the resin flow, although as youd probably only be using it in some places then youd still need infusion mesh.
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andygtt	andygtt posted 13 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 157, Visits: 1.2K	Warren (02/05/2012) andygtt (02/05/2012) thought about foam core, but Im not sure how you apply it with the resin infusion... can I just lay some between 2 layers of carbon? If you use something like the Lantor Soric that EC stock then preparation is dead easy as you can see on the link. Also it is a flow media and helps the resin flow, although as youd probably only be using it in some places then youd still need infusion mesh. aha... my mistake, Im using that already I should amend my layup to read: 1 layer 200g pro carbon 1 layer 200g carbon 1 layer Lantor soric 1 layer 200-650g carbon must admit I didnt realise soric helps the flow of the resin in the infusion, Im only doing this layup under advice from Matt The layup of the clip is taking longer than I expected, I am ironically half way through laying up the soric and then I will do the final layer.... currently Im finding it hard to resist adding in extra layers cause it seems so thin and I want it very rigid. Im also spending a lot of time mulling over how the hell i'm gona bag this thing... getting me hand into the very rear of it is proving hard, hw am i going to ensure the bag gets in there...
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