new tvr 400se bonnet

[barrington]

I have bought the mould for a 400se bonnet from pistolar and have found a fibre glass company that will clean it up and do a run of bonnets if any one is interested email me

[Jack Valiant]

Dave will they be doing the bolt mounts and strut points and meshes etc? As I maybe interested...

Chris

[Campbell]

What about doing it in carbon fiber, keep the weight down and you could have the choice of paint or not or just leave the vents in carbon, that would look cool and update the wedge a little.
Just a thought...

[barrington]

Campbell said:

What about doing it in carbon fiber, keep the weight down and you could have the choice of paint or not or just leave the vents in carbon, that would look cool and update the wedge a little.
Just a thought...

Already being looked at more info soon

[bobs280i]

Hope you can make them ! Would they work on a 280i ? Just an idea not sure if it would fit ' couldn't do carbon fiber' seems to modern for me.
Good luck and let me know. Bob

[Jonah666]

As soon as you've established some prices can you let me know please?
Tim

[barrington]

at the moment bonnets will not have any holes cut or drilled as all car are different they will have to be done to match car they are being fitted to I have a price for fibre glass bonnets im waiting for a price on the carbon fibre bonnets email me

[tweety]

I'd be interested in a carbon bonnet depending on price.....

Cheers, Al.

[barrington]

I spoke to the fibre glass boys they said they could do a carbon fibre bonnet but to get the mould to a condition good enough to do the carbon bonnet it would take a day of prepping and would make them over double the price of a fire glass bonnet
fibre glass bonnets 250 beer tokens
carbon fibre bonnets 500 beer tokens (if they agree to try)

[barrington]

dropped my old damaged bonnet of to the fibre glass shop they put it back in the mould and repaired the damaged sides done a lovely job

[Matt450]

Carbon fibre still an option? Mine has a tendency to warp in the heat. Not great when you've had it up, and have to wait a while for it to cool before you can shut it.

[barrington]

they can but the mould is not really good enough for carbon fibre

[Waynester]

Shame if the carbon is a no go.. My SEAC body is part carbon fibre from the factory, the bonnet isn't though. I would have been interested.

[barrington]

if you want to talk to them ill send there number to you they can use the mould

[beacon]

Waynester said:

Shame if the carbon is a no go.. My SEAC body is part carbon fibre from the factory, the bonnet isn't though. I would have been interested.

I didn't know that, so the bonnet and boot were not afforded the same manufacturing material, kinda defeats the object a bit but I imagine the overall saving on weight was considerable.

[Waynester]

beacon said:

Waynester said:

Shame if the carbon is a no go.. My SEAC body is part carbon fibre from the factory, the bonnet isn't though. I would have been interested.

I didn't know that, so the bonnet and boot were not afforded the same manufacturing material, kinda defeats the object a bit but I imagine the overall saving on weight was considerable.

It seems much of the tub is carbon, but the bonnet, boot & SEAC spoiler 'looks' to be fibre glass. As I understand, there were 2 or 3 SEACs that TVR experimented with carbon fibre along with the early aramid cars. After which as we all know..SEACs were then mainly GRP.

I would love to swap the remaining parts to CF as my above post...but getting moulds & CF parts made wouldn't be cheap.

[Waynester]

barrington said:

if you want to talk to them ill send there number yto you they can use the mould

That would be great if ok?

[barrington]

yhm

[Waynester]

Thanks Dave

[TA14]

Waynester said:

beacon said:

Waynester said:

Shame if the carbon is a no go.. My SEAC body is part carbon fibre from the factory, the bonnet isn't though. I would have been interested.

I didn't know that, so the bonnet and boot were not afforded the same manufacturing material, kinda defeats the object a bit but I imagine the overall saving on weight was considerable.

It seems much of the tub is carbon, but the bonnet, boot & SEAC spoiler 'looks' to be fibre glass. As I understand, there were 2 or 3 SEACs that TVR experimented with carbon fibre along with the early aramid cars. After which as we all know..SEACs were then mainly GRP.

I would love to swap the remaining parts to CF as my above post...but getting moulds & CF parts made wouldn't be cheap.

Choice of materials is always difficult with so many different things to consider. In the end TVR went for Kevlar, hence the AC for aramid construction. Kevlar is strong and light compared to glass but carbon is even better. TVR didn't ever use carbon really (there was a token use as stiffeners in the T400/Typhon and the decoration in the Griff roof panel) and what you see in the SE AC is the Kevlar matting, occasionally.

Despite the strength and weight benefits is was the lack of stiffness that killed the AC. This problem caused ripples in the body/paint due to trying to make the panels thin.

http://www.christinedemerchant.com/carbon-kevlar-g...