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Toffee
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Hi everyone, I have been on with this project for quite a while, but I am only now just getting to the stage were I will be mould making and then hopefully making parts from composite materials. I have a heavily modified 2006 Subaru Impreza which I am taking to the next level!! I am making the car 2 meters wide, very low to the ground and plan on making a host of body aero parts for the car including a full flat floor too. In October I attended the 3 day training course at Easy Composites HQ, after a few months working on the chassis of the car making it lighter and more balanced the car has now gone away to have some fairly special suspension modifications carried out. So a friend has given me another Subaru chassis so I can start making panels to suit the new design. Here are a couple of pictures of the car in last years colours and finally some very recent pictures where I am getting close to finishing the hardest and most complicated body part…. the front bumper. We have already made the rear doors and window in one piece, have front doors ready and boot lid too, once we have the front wings, arches and front bumper finished we are doing a similar design on the rear arches too so it should look fairly spectacular?? The plan is to make all the panels in carbon, some stronger than others, some with an aramid inside layer. I plan on using foam core materials as well as lantor soric in other ares too. When I start making the moulds (within the next week or two hopefully) I will start posting up pictures, I have never done this stuff before so its all first time stuff!!  Obviously once the mould making is complete we will be pressing straight on with making the composite parts |
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FLD
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Man, thats a big project! There was a feature on 'gobstopper 2' in last months Racecar Engineering. Looks like you're on a slightly less extreme path so should make an interesting read for you.
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Yes! Yes! YES!!!!! I'm working on a similar project in the states--building a widebody car. It takes awhile. My exitement comes from the fact that my buddy races his 2013 STI. The bumper looks great. Can't wait to see the progress.
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Toffee
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Cheers guys, I am hoping to compete in UK Time Attack against Gob Stopper 2 so we wil find out how far I am away from the top guys for sure. We are preparing the car for a trip to Australia in October for World Time Attack, so plan is to enter a few UK and Dutch rounds for testing and as a yard stick for pace, and then take the very best on in Australia. The World Time Attack cars tend to have the most extreme aero, this is the avenue I am hoping to go down, so once we have the body finished that I have mentioned we will be moving straight on to a full flat floor, a boot mounter spoiler and canards front and rear. Once the aero is finished I will move on to making other parts to get the car lighter….. it will be a long road for sure, but hopefully well worth while.
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Hanaldo
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Avid fan of WTAC here, so I'll be following this one with interest. What class would you be looking at entering? Do you have the build specs for the car somewhere?
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Toffee
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Hanaldo (20/02/2014)
Avid fan of WTAC here, so I'll be following this one with interest. What class would you be looking at entering? Do you have the build specs for the car somewhere?We are entering the top class against Nemo, Tilton and the likes!! I am on Facebook mate > "Lee Bullen" We got the bumper almost finished using filler this weekend, we then painted it primer grey and will be adding a thin coat of black this weekend, the surface imperfections are a lot easier to see now, so hoping to rub the top black coat down back to the grey and then i guess all the surface dents will show up, we hope to to get it pretty damn good this weekend coming. I should add >> after working with the fibre glass and filler, I was on the Easy Composites on line shop and noticed different products which would have been a lot bloody easier than the way we have done this job, rubbing this down has virtually left me with no skin on my hands!! Ah well its as much about the learning as it is the end product
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Hanaldo
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Very nice, I'll be sure to keep an eye out for you!
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wildcard
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Looks great! I think everyone can relate about doing it the hard way once or twice. It builds character! It also teaches you a good lesson through pain to find the correct way, so that in the future you can avoid said pain. I was at a Time Attack event this past weekend at Buttonwillow for the opening of the Redline series. I'll be excited to see this car (pictures/vids) once it is running the series that you mentioned above.
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Matthieu Libeert
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you'r doing a great job! Just as a small reminder that can prevent you a lot of problems: I hope this isn't cheap rattlecan 1 component spraypaint you are using? It is better to have it done in a 2K spraypaint. Otherwise your mould might get stuck to the part that you were working on and put a lot of time into 
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