37 replies to this topic

[Mincento]

For starters mate the cars amazing as ive said before and the true quality and ideas you keep producing is top notch youve really give me inspiration to get some carbon fabric soon and give it a go

Josh if im not mistaken i think overlaying fabric is what azzgranty has been doing on most bits?

wayne

[azzgranty]

Thanks guys...I try my hardest to be original...
Yeah thatd work...make sure you get some clear resin to do the carbon layers, fibreglass resin is a bit yellow, surfboard resin is the best we've found so far...
The carbon twill is quite expensive unless you can chip in with someone and buy it in bulk...
We havnt used any other fabrics other than pure unadulterated carbon fibre in all of my bits so far...
Accept the sub which is an mdf box underneath...
weve still got the moulds for allot of it...

Were making tweeter pods at the moment...
Its mad to think that we only dabbled in carbon after receiving some stripey weave
twice from a well known company, so we decided to redo it ourselves...its not as easy as we thought it'd be...


My mate has even been making parts for some hillclimb cars for Steve Harris Motorsport...
Totally transformed the look of 2 cars with some mad bits...The diffuser being the most impressive...

[miniboo]

my lord that diffuser is huge!!

i take it it has been trimmed down a bit for better ground clearance lol!!

[azzgranty]

Haha, yeah he took a smidgen off...



Its now a Mean looking Hillclimb Mini

[Pooky]

phwoooarr!

[Dave 1293]

I'm liking the carbon on ur car... its gettin well expensive now!!

I need some to do a dash... gettin some silly quotes!!

[azzgranty]

I'm liking the carbon on ur car... its gettin well expensive now!!

I need some to do a dash... gettin some silly quotes!!

Yeah the americans have bought it all to build there new composite super frigates and planes or
summint...Typical... >
Trust the americans to come along and muscle there way in...
We bought in bulk last time so were still using what we got but I dunno wether we'll be able to source
it at a decent price next time...

[mini93]

jebus your car is nice iv got a carbon bonnet from custom minis and its ace doesnt look as clear as yours tho but i still like it...carbon is deffenatly the way to go sure ill have to put more in mine eventualy
that defuser is awesome too!

mini93