jr
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 but i love cars like that to, and btw i was impressed at your floor painting antics
robins old gold corsa was amusing for a simlar reason too 
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jr
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Its nice to know not everyone details their track cars. I just wanna use mine, not arsed how it looks but with all these spanking track projects online it makes me think maybe im cutting corners. Its pointless though really. I think the internet alters peoples perspectives of what track cars should really look like. I know though! This one isnt a track car but you see my point.
i dont, but i'll agree
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AK
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my skyline is covered in dents/scrapes.... rubber marks from flying bits of tyre, oil all over it.... pain on the rear 1/4 (carabic blue i might add).... the sills/skirts are fecked with stone chips.
Its neat 
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I'm all for having a car which goes well but looks cack, Nick from Performance Ford's Escort is one example of that formula working perfectly.
However, I'm some cars are just outstanding, even if they're not all about the way they work.
I'd willingly pay quite a lot of money for Dave's car.
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jr
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at adam
[Edited on 21-07-2008 by jr]
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AK
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PS... and it was magazine featured before i got my hands on it 
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jr
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I'm all for having a car which goes well but looks cack, Nick from Performance Ford's Escort is one example of that formula working perfectly.
However, I'm some cars are just outstanding, even if they're not all about the way they work.
I'd willingly pay quite a lot of money for Dave's car.
daves is Mint
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but i love cars like that to, and btw i was impressed at your floor painting antics
robins old gold corsa was amusing for a simlar reason too
I loved that car, it was so shit kicking the bumper back on was a highlight of it's time with me 
It would have been a hell of a lot better if it was tidy though.
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jr
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PS... and it was magazine featured before i got my hands on it
with the fluffy install ?
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AK
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not sure if it had that then... it was neat, just a bit tasteless
The guy that owned it owned a valeting company too
sold the interior for a fair bit
[Edited on 21-07-2008 by AK]
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jr
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did you send him a postcard with a pic ofwhat its up to now on it, quite a change
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AK
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if i had his no i'd take him out for a beer.
I'm in shetland just now, he lives up here. Good guy, took it 13hours by boat for me to pick up
Pretty sure he'll have seen pics of it around. Sure a few folk off here know him too.
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very very nice!!
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ed
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no adam, its all arbon fibre, the roof, everything, all the under bonnet bits are either pure carbon like the heater box, or carbon matting moulded around the orginal part and cured (sp)
So, the same as covering stuff in carbon fibre film then.
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BYRON
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rear headrests are the only thing i dislike.
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no adam, its all arbon fibre, the roof, everything, all the under bonnet bits are either pure carbon like the heater box, or carbon matting moulded around the orginal part and cured (sp)
So, the same as covering stuff in carbon fibre film then.
but the posher way to do it 
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no adam, its all arbon fibre, the roof, everything, all the under bonnet bits are either pure carbon like the heater box, or carbon matting moulded around the orginal part and cured (sp)
So, the same as covering stuff in carbon fibre film then.
i would disagree ed, as there is film that looks like cf, and then proper CF matting
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ed
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The thing that annoys me is the strut brace on it. He has covered it in carbon fibre, but not the right kind - if it was made out of bi-directional carbon fibre like he has make it look, it would crack and fall to bits.
Don't get me wrong, it's a really nice car. It's just my views on carbon fibre that make me say bad things about it. I just don't think it's this pretty and magical material people get so excited about.
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RichR
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quote:
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The thing that annoys me is the strut brace on it. He has covered it in carbon fibre, but not the right kind - if it was made out of bi-directional carbon fibre like he has make it look, it would crack and fall to bits.
Don't get me wrong, it's a really nice car. It's just my views on carbon fibre that make me say bad things about it. I just don't think it's this pretty and magical material people get so excited about.
Do you want my views?
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ed
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I guess i'm wrong with the strut brace then? Just going of what limited experience I have with working with it 
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RichR
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no, you're right - I wasn't going to pipe up but people think that carbon is the be-all and end all, which in the right application it is. For that application its non-sense; it doesn't make any sense as carbon is not particularly good in impact or over compression.
You could use uni-directional tapes with a core of bi-axial weave, to hold eveything together, but it would still pull longitudinally apart which is exactly what you DONT want to happen with a strut brace.
wrong material for the application IMO and also sheathing a part in Carbon only adds in unnecessary weight
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ed
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Yey, was just about to get one of my books out for a minute there to check my knowledge out [/geek]
Carbons a bit like aluminium was a few years ago when people all got hard ons because you could buy bits that had been anodized in funky colours. Saying that, I still love to see parts that have been carefully machined out of a good bit of billet
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RichR
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look at the weave distortion on the bends of the strut brace; for a structural part such as that, there should be NO distortion and if you look at the HKS and high end carbon strut braces it only tends to be the central tube which is carbon with billeted end mountings. The best way to lay up tube to avoid weave distortion is filament winding
a la
[Edited on 22-07-2008 by LiVe LeE]
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Iain M
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Quality car and workmanship.
Cheers for the link JR as that will provide me reading for the afternoon
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