Hey guys,

One of my latest jobs. Goes with the front end and roof, and a number of other jobs I've done for this car over the years.

Basically the car was making too much power for the 235 rear tyres and wouldnt understeer, so when the fibreglass bodywork got damaged we decided to widen the rear arches by 50mm to fit 295 tyres in. I also made a number of other modifications to make removal a 10-minute 1-person job, compared to the 4-hour, 2-person job that it was originally.

Final trimmed weight is 6kg. A 20kg saving over the original 26kg fibreglass version. 

Incredible work Martin, have you had any feedback from the customer yet? I'm assuming he's happy and wow, 20kg saving is awesome!

Thanks Rich,

I jetted off to Europe before the owner got to see it in person (only finished it the day before leaving), but he has seen photos and the feedback I got was that he loves it haha.

And yeh, everyone is happy with the 20kg weight saving. Unfortunately the fibreglass bootlid still weighs 7kg, so hopefully we can talk the owner into getting on to that as soon as I'm back. It feels like a huge waste when you can lift the whole rear clam including lights and rear wing with one hand, and then you put the boot lid back on and it's almost back to a two person job!

Fantastic work. Lotus just love there heavy grp, will see what happens with the new breed designed by williams.

Great work and great results for such a big infusion.  Certainly a beneficial weight saving.  For such a "light" car, there is a lot of weight saving to be had on the elise/exige cars.


Warren Penalver
Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant

There is indeed! With just the fibreglass panels I have replaced with carbon over a 4 year period, we have saved 122kg.

Not bad at all! bet that makes it fly when you consider they arent that heavy to start with.


Warren Penalver
Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant

Hi Hanaldo,
That is a ONE BIG WONDERFUL WORK bro!! I had doubt about using vacuum infusion method for large panels and now I got it all cleared. I have one question if you are kind enough to answer. 
What is the fabric you used, number of layers and how much resin were needed for that rear panel?

122kgs weight saving on bodywork is fantastic... amazed the stock panels even weighed that much.

I didn't save anything like that much with my noble, however I have way over-engineered my body panels withfoam cores etc.... Im currently doing the dash, purely as it is now the very last GF part left on the car

Im also loving the spread tow, looks fantastic, i did the same pattern in the seats just to be different to the V weave over the car.