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Carbon Tub for Noble

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FLD	FLD posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 468, Visits: 2.7K	Warren (Staff) (16/12/2013) Not thinking of cutting out the space frame and making a semi-monocoque centre tub in carbon then?? Im going the whole hog with my project but it will take a while!! Care to elaborate?
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andygtt	andygtt posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 157, Visits: 1.2K	next step was to go over the 2 coats of Gel with a thin coupling coat using glass tissue... this allows the custard coat to bond to the Gel coat as they use a different chemical composition. The custard coat layer is put on very resin rich, its contains a material that expands at the same rate as the resin in it shrinks which means it has effectively zero shrinkage... all my moulds so far have been absolute exact copies of my buck's which means the final parts fit together perfectly with great shut lines. One issue I have noticed this morning that that I have managed to do a few drips on the rest of the exposed body, and when removed these have reacted slightly with the paint, so I am going to have to do a little remedial work to resolve before making the other mould sections. Here are the pics of the custard coat.
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Warren (Staff)	Warren (Staff) posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Administrators Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 8.5K	Looking good Andy!! FLD - I will do my own thread in due course once i have something to show!! Bit snowed down with other stuff and other cars breaking down at the minute! Warren Penalver Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant
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FLD	FLD posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 468, Visits: 2.7K	Warren (Staff) (18/12/2013) Looking good Andy!! FLD - I will do my own thread in due course once i have something to show!! Bit snowed down with other stuff and other cars breaking down at the minute! I'll look forward to it. I've just done a hard top for my car that weighs less than the soft top! I'll have a few pics up soon(ish)
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andygtt	andygtt posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 157, Visits: 1.2K	Been slowly working through the rest of the mould... its turned out to be an 8 part mould, just the custard to go on the rear window section then I can release it. strangely I'm pretty excited about breaking the mould off the buck. wheel arches have been a nightmare to do, these extend under the sills and I've really struggled to get the custard coat to stick under the return. Gel coat on rear window section (last part ) Coupling coat on the rear window section... custard will follow in 2014
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Warren (Staff)	Warren (Staff) posted 11 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Administrators Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 8.5K	Looking good so far!! Is that AP racing cp5200 4 pot calipers on the front end?? I'd of thought they'd have fitted bigger brakes from the factory for what is such a high powered car!! Warren Penalver Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant
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andygtt	andygtt posted 11 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 157, Visits: 1.2K	They are larger than 5200's although I have a brand new set of this on my mondeo... I upgraded the discs to 355mm recently with the stock calipers although the standard 325mm setup is more than good enough even with my power. Remmeber the car weighs very little and being mid engined the brake balance is higher to rear Han a front engined car. Moulds are finished. Will start cleaning them up ready to pull in February.
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wildcard	wildcard posted 11 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 40, Visits: 406	Molds look great. It's funny that you guys are talking about big brakes. I'm a big big brake fan. Brembo is my specialty. I have them on all my cars. I actually used to build brake kits at my shop. AP racing is in the brembo family. The brake setup that you have looks like it is good for the car especially with the weight. New rotor size will help out with head dispersion. You ever think about moving up to the six piston calipers? Edited 11 Years Ago by wildcard
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Warren (Staff)	Warren (Staff) posted 11 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Administrators Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 8.5K	From what he said earlier, he probably doesn't need the extra clamping force being mid-engined. Andy, as always, your moulds seem to have come out great and you make it look far easier than it actually is!! Warren Penalver Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant
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Matthieu Libeert	Matthieu Libeert posted 11 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 955, Visits: 3.4K	that's a very impressive mould you have there! keep up the good work! Matthieu Libeert Founder MAT2 Composites X Sports website: www.mat2composites.com
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