project dreadnaught

[RobMatthews]

Nice work mate.

Loving it

Mir

thanks all imput welcome :cheers

[RobMatthews]

The doors cut down as far as i could go



Exterior door handles stripped down and painted white, rebuilt and greased.

[turbotoaster]

one or the other cant afford both or will be allowed the time off work to do both!-A logistical nighmare being so far down in the country lol
would like to get into something at coombe if not maybe some southern hill climbs or sprints and then do shows with trackdays the day befor to make it worth while

to be fair, looking at them doors ill bet there might not be 30kg, im probably 30kg heavier than you anyway so it will even out haha

You show me the back of your car!!! that will only be when im lapping you;)

Im having one of those heated screens aswell, saves running a heater setup.......that your plan aswell?

One thing i think you will have me on is the brakes, thats an area im putting on the back burner for quite a while.

Have you thought about anything aero related, ill be making a splitter, canards, massive diffuser and wing, the only thing i need to think about is weight, ie what materials to use to make them.

when you hoping to have it finished, xmas?

[RobMatthews]

Get some rz brakes, From my experiance they are more than capable with some ferrodo ds2500 pads all round.

I think aero to those porportions are a bit of wives tail until your sat in an f1 car that goes fast enough to get to the speed to make it all work, front diffuser and undertray to guide the air away from the rads and small rear wing to keep it stable at high speed(look at the standard r1 spoiler its small and works!-it does the job.

Im gonna run a feed adjustable spoiler i had on befor,i proved on many trackdays it does the job it needs to do by beating many kit cars, and elises such as the 240R cup car at silverstone.

[DJ Tommo]

Looks fantastic dude! I deffo want to see this when its done!! Keep up the good work buddy!

Cheers

Tom

[StreetracerHCI]

great job mate

[AtomicRex]

Rob have you powder coated the bells?
 
If you have you need to remove it....the paint will come off with the heat and rubbing. It can cause the wheel to come loose, or the bells to come loose from the rotors.
 
Ive seen this with someone that brought their car to me after having their front wheels powder coated and the company did the hub faces.....then the car went straight on!
 
Same goes with the callipers too.  You should really be using high temp paint or getting them anodised.
 
Looking excellent!!  Takes a long time doesnt it!!
 
Sorry

[Si Fi]

liking the scheme of the rex! :cool

[re japi]

Awesome. Good job.

Looking forward too see more project pics. And ofcourse too see her in track.

[RobMatthews]

Rob have you powder coated the bells?
 
If you have you need to remove it....the paint will come off with the heat and rubbing. It can cause the wheel to come loose, or the bells to come loose from the rotors.
 
Ive seen this with someone that brought their car to me after having their front wheels powder coated and the company did the hub faces.....then the car went straight on!
 
Same goes with the callipers too.  You should really be using high temp paint or getting them anodised.
 
Looking excellent!!  Takes a long time doesnt it!!
 
Sorry

Takes ages! its all the cleaning thats the backache, but once done its a satisfying job, i could never afford to pay someone to do it the hours it takes.

rear callipers were wet painted as i dont have all the propper tools to remove all the handbrake mechanism and was not sure if it has any parts that wouldn\'t survive the over temps that the powder coating goes to.

I was told the powdercoating would withstand the temps the brakes would get up to? you think it will melt off? Thats rather annoying,

The kad callipers (you old ones, that i had off tony rip) only ever saw the race track and are cira 6 yrs old and the annodising was all coming off so went for the powdercoating in the hope for more durability

[kiwimazda]

Hurry up, get it together. I will be finished project X before you and I have not started yet

[RobMatthews]

Rushing is for fools,:Nono!:spank

Im a little worried now that the powdercoating is not goona be up to the job

What temps do you lot think im gonna get up to on the brakes-remember this is mainly track car

100*c 200* 300*c ?

[StreetracerHCI]

Rob, your question is difficult, depends on the size of the brakes, the track where you run and how you run, from your driving style. to give you an example I have seen my friends run in Monza and in many cases their brake rotors were glowing with a beautiful red color.
so the temperatures can reach can go well beyond, especially if you use the racing pads as DS3000 or other aggressive pads

For me to much more 300c hehe

[kiwimazda]

You are doing a great job. I find with my projects, no matter how much time, care and attention I give it, and my thoughts of how it should look it never quite works out that way

[RobMatthews]

Rob, your question is difficult, depends on the size of the brakes, the track where you run and how you run, from your driving style. to give you an example I have seen my friends run in Monza and in many cases their brake rotors were glowing with a beautiful red color.
so the temperatures can reach can go well beyond, especially if you use the racing pads as DS3000 or other aggressive pads

For me to much more 300c hehe

This is what i thought,although the disk will reach 800*c plus its the transfer of heat to the calliper and bells, saying that the fluid will boil at 270*c if i used dot 5.1 racing fluid anything lower than dot 5.1 and the boiling point reduces so i\'ll have more probs than the powdercoat coming off if the brake fluid reaches that point...?