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That's an impressive bit of work, even if you are in the trade. Is the 'splash' a technical term? Or am I missing something?

I may make one or two more for fun and sell on to recoup the cost (time permitting), but no intention of doing it seriously. On a side note, if anyone has a tub mould or scuttle mould I would be keen to borrow/rent/buy for my next project.

So…… When will they hit the market place,,,

Thought I'd make a little post about the carbon bonnets that I have made over the previous weeks. First of all I had to have a mould made, I didn't have the time to make the mould myself and didn't fancy stinking the neighbourhood out with the smell of styrene for a week, so had some mates that I used to work with help produce the mould. My bonnet wasn't in the best shape, and was a bit twisted so needed to be straightened up on the car. Did this by making small adjustments to the positioning, and then making a frame on the outside of the bonnet while in position. Then the bonnet was taken off, flipped over and an internal frame made, then prepared to have a splash made. Because of the scoop we decided on a 2 piece mould so if we had any issues with releasing the part we could separate the mould halves. Finished mould :- Now for the bonnet itself I wasn't sure of what layup would be best so decided I would do a resin infusion with a layer of 0/90 RC and +/-45 on either side of a layer of 2mm coremat, with some twill weave on the scoop for decoration. Mould prepped with flanges :- Laying up the layers of fabric :- Vacuumed down ready to infuse :- And the part popped out of the mould :- Infusions can be tricky, lots of variables and doesn't take much for things to go wrong. I had a couple issues, first of which was bridging along the corners. I had trouble getting the cloth to stay in place, so used spray glue to keep things where I wanted. I used too much glue in the end, which stopped the layers of cloth from moving around the corners, and even under vaccum they remained suspended, causing some bridging. The next issue I had was with my vaccum line to the pump. I used a goretex type material as a barrier, but when my part was fully saturated with resin this goretex line blocked itself off stopping the pull from th pump. Bad time to lose vac, but managed to rig up an alternative vac line. I was trying a new method, and my overall setup wasn't quite right. I know how to get around this on my next infusion. Now I wasn't very happy with this bonnet, it was a bit heavy (4.4kgs) due to the coremat core sucking up a lot of resin, and was also extremely stiff, a bit over the top for the car. And while the cosmetics could be fixed, it would always bother me, so I decided to go again. I work with composites a fair bit, usually doing wet lamination under vac, so decided on this for my next attempt. Bit dirtier, and harder to get a visually decent job, but decided to have a go. Target weight 1.5kgs. Two layers of woven, with strips of +/-45 between where I wanted some extra thickness, and decorative twill down the centreline and on the sides. Decorative twill :- RC layers :- Of course unlike infusion, for this method you wet the layers of cloth out on a table and then lay them up on the job. Not the easiest, but if you stabilise the cloth with some plastic sheet and peel it off afterwards (similar to prepreg, think of it as poor preg!) you can end up with some decent edges and not too much wandering of the weave. Finished product :- This second bonnet weighed in at 1.4kgs pre-trimming, so pretty happy with the result. Some porosity in the top layer, would need to heat the job while it's curing to allow the resin to flow better and let entrapped air out, but don't have the kit to safely do so and leave overnight at the moment, but nothing some sanding and clear coating can't fix! Next step will be to fit it to the car, going to add a foam sandwich on the rear edge where it sits on the scuttle which will make it very stiff, and some mounts for the chassis bars. Going to put a spring catch or similar on, rather than going for on of the aero catches. Fun project in the end, eventually planning on having a full caron body made by me so more to come!

Not to jump on the back of phils post and i have spoken to him and he said its fine I also have a pair of these if anybody is interested

Freshly arrived from Burton Power - a set of 4 pot callipers, bigger discs, fast-road pads and braided hoses. Hopefully this’ll make the car stop more quickly than it currently does, still running on the original Cortina callipers, discs and pads fitted by the factory 32 years ago!

Hi @JTR and Ash @Rednop1, thanks for the steer on the carpets - will reach out to both for prices and timing - bestest Phil R

Ash when I asked you said you only deal in standard width.

Well the plot thickens....! I know a man, who knows a man and the Westfield hasn't been collected from the Auction site yet. I'd guess that after this period of time that it isn't going to be either.

Reduced to £80 Plus £15 postage....

These are sold

Try calling the phone number Rod is a nice bloke and wont bite .

Thanks, thinking of getting a black header tank, before they run out, to replace the plastic header tank.

Just a bit 🤣

The cap in the photo is a non-pressurised cap. I only use this as a dip stick. I have an 1.3 bar cap on my header tank.

What pressure is this cap?

Yes, Westfield Racing Green is a lot darker than British Racing Green and a lot nicer in my opinion.

pm sent for info, 2nd dibs

Long shot, but did you sell these?

Good luck with your quest Ken, the right car is out there! Just check out the ULEZ though as I thought my V8 being without any Emissions on the V5C would have made it ULEZ compliant & it is not the case! I have to pay to go into London, Brizzle and Brum - others have checked on ULEZ with Q Plates and are free to play anywhere in the UK - happy searching 🙂

Yorkshire Breakfast meeting this Sunday, 16th November at The Darrington Hotel, Darrington, Pontefract, WF8 3BL from 10am. Could be the last chance to get out before Christmas.

Hopefully the light is the full extent of the damage. You've now got a winter project!