Noble M12 heavily modified
Discussion
Ironically the basement was born because of the rather mad planning authorities... my fience has 3 kids that live with us, I have 4, 2 of which used to live with me but have moved out into their own flats recently, the other 2 come stay a lot... I have a 5 bed house and live in an AOB and we are selling her 4 bed house so we can have a large enough house for the new family.
I applied for planning permission to extend the house so I have bedrooms for all the children (something I feel strongly about), the planners didn't like all the new bedrooms in the main house and wanted us to also convert my existing double + garage (thats detached and 8m from the house) and put some of the bedrooms in there and build another garage the same size elsewhere...
Im guessing the planners don't have children and thus appreciate that as parents you really want their bedroom in the same house as yours rather than another building not even joined... but ho hum!
Of cause it would have been madness not to apply for the basement under the new garage so worked out well for me... and means i have a games room when the kids leave home and the annexe is empty.... ;-)
I applied for planning permission to extend the house so I have bedrooms for all the children (something I feel strongly about), the planners didn't like all the new bedrooms in the main house and wanted us to also convert my existing double + garage (thats detached and 8m from the house) and put some of the bedrooms in there and build another garage the same size elsewhere...
Im guessing the planners don't have children and thus appreciate that as parents you really want their bedroom in the same house as yours rather than another building not even joined... but ho hum!
Of cause it would have been madness not to apply for the basement under the new garage so worked out well for me... and means i have a games room when the kids leave home and the annexe is empty.... ;-)
so I managed to finish the Tub and chuck it all back together in time for a track day last Monday at silverstone.... ironically haven't managed to take a single photo of my own so only have the official trackside ones....
I fitted brand new fuel pumps during the rebuild and unfortunately one failed on route to track so my fuel pressure was unable to cope with any throttle at all before the ecu cut everything so I never managed to properly run it... lots of jobs to do to finish off like proper paint job, interior etc etc but pretty pleased with it as its now full carbon.
I fitted brand new fuel pumps during the rebuild and unfortunately one failed on route to track so my fuel pressure was unable to cope with any throttle at all before the ecu cut everything so I never managed to properly run it... lots of jobs to do to finish off like proper paint job, interior etc etc but pretty pleased with it as its now full carbon.
Actually looking back at the thread I missed a couple of posts where you said it was stiffer. Can't believe you did all this in your garage. Very impressed with the carbon work - did you practice a lot? It is one thing to try and make some spoiler bits and stick on tat (wing mirrors etc), but this is taking it to another level. Question is - how did you do that? 
The problem with pure bare carbon cars, is, that no matter how well the carbon is done, the finish from a distance and particularly in photo's looks odd (tends to hide the details) and it really shows up any poor "surfacing" in terms of reflections etc. People like Pagani are quite clever in how they avoid that with small areas of paint to highlight the cars surfacing and form.
The Zonda F is a case in point:
With clever use of colour blocks and cross tone pinstripeing to bring out the form of the car, but keeping the carbon finish visible and still a feature ;-)
The Zonda F is a case in point:
With clever use of colour blocks and cross tone pinstripeing to bring out the form of the car, but keeping the carbon finish visible and still a feature ;-)
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