Heavy Metal! Part Deux - The Carbon Copy

[Uwon]

Beyond impressive, Jon.
Cheers,
Johan

[Jonny042]

Originally Posted by Uwon

Beyond impressive, Jon.
Cheers,
Johan

Thanks, Johan! Really enjoying this little sojourn into the composites world! Always fun to learn new things and build fun stuff.

[Ooffenhausen]

This doesn't disappoint, glad to find some other folks that prefer carbon to be hidden and not raw. All of your parts look great, just makes the body guy's job even easier!

[TxGerman]

Woah! That's impressive!

[Garen]

Really incredible work, Jon. Even more impressive that you do all of this in your garage, including project heavy metal. Talent+mad skills+keen eye for design+attention to detail+ingenuity= a Jonny042 build!!

[Jonny042]

Originally Posted by Garen

Really incredible work, Jon. Even more impressive that you do all of this in your garage, including project heavy metal. Talent+mad skills+keen eye for design+attention to detail+ingenuity= a Jonny042 build!!

Thanks for that! It's true I have a pretty modest space (getting more modest as it fills, fuller and fuller, with ovens and molds and rolls of cloth and cans of resin!). I always maintain that I can only work on one thing at a time, and configuring the space to be whatever it needs to be for the task at hand makes it more efficient.

Lately it's been configured, more often than not, as a composites shop, and it's been hampering progress on other parts of the build... not only that but the snow is almost gone (we got 12" two days ago which set us back a bit!) and I might want to spend some time outside!

[Jonny042]

Originally Posted by TxGerman

Woah! That's impressive!

Thanks Dennis!!!

[Jonny042]

Originally Posted by Ooffenhausen

This doesn't disappoint, glad to find some other folks that prefer carbon to be hidden and not raw. All of your parts look great, just makes the body guy's job even easier!

I don't mind bare carbon in moderation, but it's best attributes to me have nothing to do with how it looks!

I'm basically making the parts to a high enough standard to be clear coated and "visible" no matter what, and you're right, if you take the time to block sand and perfect the surface of the part you're using as a pattern, the parts will be closer to perfect, too!

The decklid I used as a pattern was pretty nice but still had some low spots, they seem to get dented really easily. Lots of prep went into it:

[Glenfield]

Everyone knows that Canadian’s are made of (and make) pretty stern stuff

[Jonny042]

Originally Posted by Glenfield

Everyone knows that Canadian’s are made of (and make) pretty stern stuff

Elbows up!!!

[Jonny042]

This has been a long time coming! And I can announce it's a success! It meets my weight goal, which was 1.95kg:



It's almost excessively strong. Unlike the stock decklid, If you rap on it with your knuckles it has that same sort of carved-from-billet feel that much of the 911 body has.

[chrisbalich]

GD.
That's a real work of art.

I know a guy that would run it raw on the back of his hotrod. (He needs some time to recoup some funds, so don't send one yet.)

[Jonny042]

Originally Posted by chrisbalich

GD.
That's a real work of art.

I know a guy that would run it raw on the back of his hotrod. (He needs some time to recoup some funds, so don't send one yet.)

Wouldn't it look funny without a hood to match???



That will be ONE MILLION (Cdn) dollars! Which at the rate we're going is like $99usd.

[chrisbalich]

Originally Posted by Jonny042

Wouldn't it look funny without a hood to match???



That will be ONE MILLION (Cdn) dollars! Which at the rate we're going is like $99usd.

I reckon you're onto something.
Although the USD is also in freefall. So we may soon be trading currency 1M to 1M.

[Jonny042]

I actually did do something useful today, that didn't involve making (or, re-making, as the case has so often been) a mold, or anything out of carbon. I've been neglecting the project for too long and I guess spring fever got into me because I made up my mind to chop out the inner workings of the sunroof. An hour later and I had this to show for it.



Of course, that's not the end of the story... shortly the roof will be cut out, but I have some business with that sunroof opening to do first.

[chrisbalich]

800kg dry is going to require some more chopping.
Your methodology is as fascinating as the outcome.
This thread is what keeps me coming back to the Bird every day or two.

[Jonny042]

Originally Posted by chrisbalich

800kg dry is going to require some more chopping.
Your methodology is as fascinating as the outcome.
This thread is what keeps me coming back to the Bird every day or two.

There will be chopping, but perhaps not as much as you think. Most of what gets chopped will be replaced with cloth and resin, such as the roof and quarters.

I have revised my weight goal down to 780kg (but will still claim victory at 800 ).

This due to a completely one-sided competition with Tuthill and their 911K. They are not at all aware of our rivalry, but they did make themselves a target by being all, "Oh look at us, we made a gorgeous 911 made out of carbon and it revs to 11,000rpm and you can't have one". Plus they publish the weights of their individual parts on their website so they may as well have painted a target on them.

The word on the street (and by street, I mean youtube) is that the 911K is 846kg topped off with 90L/66kg of fuel. You do the math

These 800kg-ish weights sound pretty extreme, but are equivalent to the 1967 911R. With the benefit of modern materials and methods it SHOULD be easy to surpass. Or...underpass?

I am going to claim victory in the first head to head battle in the imaginary war against the 911K, by the way:

Theirs:





Mine. I have 34g to play with to keep under my 1.95kg weight goal so if I want to make it a tiny bit stronger, I can. I don't see that it needs it:





Maybe I'll call the car the 911J, Which stands for Jonny-revs-to-a-Jillion, plus it's alphabetically superior to the 911K.

[AG81]

Originally Posted by Jonny042

Maybe I'll call the car the 911J, Which stands for Jonny-revs-to-a-Jillion, plus it's alphabetically superior to the 911K.

^
This for the win.

[Kevin Stewart]

Nice work.

[Ooffenhausen]

Hahaha, I love it. The 911K is a proper nutty car. Definitely gives the rest of us a benchmark in the field of lightweight 911's.