Capri GTT... V10, 550bhp
Discussion
Got the donor capri rolling again and got it outside under a sheet so I could make better progress on the Chassis.
Finalised the driving and pedal position, bought some nice floor mount pedals as hung ones simply were not going to work. Im very happy with the driving position now, even more comfortable than the Noble (which I have always considered good and is comfortable on 14hr long road trips in Europe).... most significantly I will be able to rest my elbow on the window which as anyone who's owned a capri is an absolute much have
Started making the rear chassis, the backbone of the car is made from T45 tube. I bought a roll cage from Custom cages and have been using that for the 'extra' rigidity... No doubt its going to be heavier than it needs, but it will be very rigid and strong.... I will save the weight with the carbon bodywork
Im undecided if I'm going to have the roll cage go forward along the door... i won't need it for rigidity and it will never be raced, final decision will be when the final body is on and I can see if I can push it right into the corners of the body and effectively 'hide' it.
Finalised the driving and pedal position, bought some nice floor mount pedals as hung ones simply were not going to work. Im very happy with the driving position now, even more comfortable than the Noble (which I have always considered good and is comfortable on 14hr long road trips in Europe).... most significantly I will be able to rest my elbow on the window which as anyone who's owned a capri is an absolute much have
Started making the rear chassis, the backbone of the car is made from T45 tube. I bought a roll cage from Custom cages and have been using that for the 'extra' rigidity... No doubt its going to be heavier than it needs, but it will be very rigid and strong.... I will save the weight with the carbon bodywork
Im undecided if I'm going to have the roll cage go forward along the door... i won't need it for rigidity and it will never be raced, final decision will be when the final body is on and I can see if I can push it right into the corners of the body and effectively 'hide' it.
Edited by andygtt on Monday 26th March 10:16
andygtt said:
Im undecided if I'm going to have the roll cage go forward along the door... i won't need it for rigidity and it will never be raced, final decision will be when the final body is on and I can see if I can push it right into the corners of the body and effectively 'hide' it.
Maybe you could go along the lines of the interior from the R5 Fiesta's like this https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3677/9435046169_5152...It sort of hides the cage bars within the doors carbon, you probably don't want it to be as excessive though!
Carry on!
Im not going to have door bars like that (well not as intrusive as them)... Idea is Im building a space frame rather than trying to strengthen a monocoque... rally cars have to do this as they are only allowed to 'touch' something like 6 positions so they end up with lots of cross bracing within the roll cage itself to compensate. I don't have any rules to obey or comply with, only IVA and my own QC
as an example if you look at a sagaris road car chassis its significantly less structure to mine so I am already going pretty OTT for a road car.
BTW I'm not saying there is anything wrong with a TVR chassis just showing how I'm using a similar centre tunnel structure but beefed up with an additional roll cage structure as well
as an example if you look at a sagaris road car chassis its significantly less structure to mine so I am already going pretty OTT for a road car.
BTW I'm not saying there is anything wrong with a TVR chassis just showing how I'm using a similar centre tunnel structure but beefed up with an additional roll cage structure as well
I have been working on the Left side of the car over the last few weekends... basically I have to reproduce the shapes that I have done on the right side.
You would be amazed how much filler goes into building basic shapes, of cause most of it ends up on the floor and eventually in the hoover lol.
Ive painted, sanded it and painted it again repeatedly in my quest to get it perfect, I'm certainly close now and hopefully I will have it in a flawless coat of black paint this evening after work
Anyhow pics...usurprisingly they look very much like the ones earlier in the thread
Initially after filtering i wanted to 'see' what i had so i premiered it and them glossed it up.... wasn't as close as i had hoped so i flatted it back and added filler.
I them used a new product to me which is a polyester filler primer, effectively its like spraying a very hard filler over the car... fantastic stuff and really helped me get the roof closer to what it needs to be (remember I welded up the sunroof).
After another flat back and some more filler on the roof I used a normal high build primer and its not ready for another flat back and hopefully so black.
You would be amazed how much filler goes into building basic shapes, of cause most of it ends up on the floor and eventually in the hoover lol.
Ive painted, sanded it and painted it again repeatedly in my quest to get it perfect, I'm certainly close now and hopefully I will have it in a flawless coat of black paint this evening after work
Anyhow pics...usurprisingly they look very much like the ones earlier in the thread
Initially after filtering i wanted to 'see' what i had so i premiered it and them glossed it up.... wasn't as close as i had hoped so i flatted it back and added filler.
I them used a new product to me which is a polyester filler primer, effectively its like spraying a very hard filler over the car... fantastic stuff and really helped me get the roof closer to what it needs to be (remember I welded up the sunroof).
After another flat back and some more filler on the roof I used a normal high build primer and its not ready for another flat back and hopefully so black.
Edited by andygtt on Monday 26th March 10:27
Looking great, Andy!
Any chance you could bring the Noble to this?
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
We're not a million miles from you though I appreciate it's a good drive!
Any chance you could bring the Noble to this?
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
We're not a million miles from you though I appreciate it's a good drive!
dom9 said:
Looking great, Andy!
Any chance you could bring the Noble to this?
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
We're not a million miles from you though I appreciate it's a good drive!
Its around 2.5hrs from me... but unfortunately I'm taking the noble off the road for 6mths for an engine refresh and a few 'tweeks'.Any chance you could bring the Noble to this?
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
We're not a million miles from you though I appreciate it's a good drive!
Quick blow over with Black and a sand with 800 grit then polish to see if its finally where i want it to be, which at last it is... next step is to go through the grits and polish it hard to get it like glass, then i will start making moulds />
Been using the alloy wheels that came on the capri for painting as i don't care if they get overspray (look terrible and tyres are unusable anyhow)... this pic shows them with 50mm of spacers on the hub.
This is with the 10inch wide wheels (18s) that are being used on the car... I've made the car around 150mm wider at the rear.
/>Been using the alloy wheels that came on the capri for painting as i don't care if they get overspray (look terrible and tyres are unusable anyhow)... this pic shows them with 50mm of spacers on the hub.
This is with the 10inch wide wheels (18s) that are being used on the car... I've made the car around 150mm wider at the rear.
e21Mark said:
Automotive equivalent of 'child bearing hips'. I know it's a little way off yet but what sort of exhaust tailpipes are you going for? (twin exit like the donor or side exit etc?)
Im almost certainly going to use ones identical to the ones I made for the M5 that donated the engine 
Sooooo photo bucket changed their T&C's and decided to host pics for you to share to forums is now a £40ish per month benefit... well sod that lol.
Tried dropbox and the links don't seem to display an image, any suggestions how best to host pics online now would be welcome lol
anyhow, started making the moulds last weekend... hope to finish them within a month and then i can start to pull some final carbon panels.
also started designing the braking system, 8 pot 370mm front, 6 pot 370mm rear with my own design of logo on them.
Tried dropbox and the links don't seem to display an image, any suggestions how best to host pics online now would be welcome lol
anyhow, started making the moulds last weekend... hope to finish them within a month and then i can start to pull some final carbon panels.
also started designing the braking system, 8 pot 370mm front, 6 pot 370mm rear with my own design of logo on them.
Edited by andygtt on Friday 14th July 18:07
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