blackbini

Nice work! Must sound brutal what material is it?

At the moment my parts are not shiny enough to sell. To produce view carbon with the 3d finish it needs a lot of work and also 20°C more temprature then now at 0°C :S But I will just paint it with a very thin layer, so you can see its carbon fiber, but not that haevy finish coat Btw. at saturday I started with my doors. now 17Kg (allready haevily lightend, original will be at least 30kg ) Target is below 10

Yes thats why I will drive it in summer and build it in winter, I want to enjoy and test the new mods This is why I bought the 166 to build that engine the engine in my gtv I will remap with a very aggressive map and 8000rpm and of course I will programm a IMMO OFF to save the weight of the immo box Yes I know the bimotore, this is why I know that the engine fits and also this is the reason for my 166. They also built this with a subframe from a 166 but of course I can't let both engines in there after my weightsavings. and 2 fully built engines would be a bit expensive ^^

So Trunk and roof finished, the trunk is allready mounted. Its 5kg as predicted. It's so light I needed to remove the lifters to close it^^' Later I will install some hood pins or how they're called, because I of course removed the lock. ( the trunk is of course now ruff and dusty, I will finish it when I repaint the car ) (I will paint the carbon like on the F40, not "view carbon" a glossy finish, rather a such thin paint that you see the carbon fiber structure ) Now I'm looking forward to get positive feedback of the material test, when I recieve this I will start to build carbon fiber doors and a new carbon fiber dashboard. I'm shure I can buld now a dash around 800g (instead of my actual 2.2kg; Original was 9kg) Btw. some crazy news. I bought an Alfa 166. This summer I will try to twinturbo this. And the master plan is to put this engine and Frontaxle in the trunk of my gtv (and of course remove the front engine) This will be a totally crazy build^^' If here are any sponsors please tell me

Its getting crazier every day The roof is finished. Now I build a carbon fiber trunk should this wil save at least aditional 10kg (the actual is around 15kg) After finishing the trunk I will paint them and cut the steel roof ( In same step I will weld the cage to the chassis on top). A bit later I think I will also do the doors but first I have to pass the material test to drive it legally on the road and also because I want to be save of course. One of the next steps is to build the strut under the roof also with carbon. Shall I also do the floor carbon? the rear side wall I will probably do next year when I've got done my engine plans but my plans are allmost too crazy to write it down^^ In the last months I learned how to chiptune. I also want to remap it very aggressivly this spring So long story short heres an new picture from the process btw. please if you see any weight tell me, its really difficult now on the picture I'm producing the negative of my allready modified trunk.

check this relays: http://www.squadra916.com/forums/topic/4071-starting-problem/ I had similar issues on my cf2 3l

Corresponding to my calculation the steel roof weights at least 11kg. for the carbon fiber roof i Used 1.2kg epoxy resin and 2.32kg carbon fabric. But it should weight less than this at the end, because I cut off the overlapping parts and also some of the resin will be pressed out the form. I guess it willl be around 3kg at the end + 100-200g paint, sealant, and rivets. I also think It should be harder than the original roof, and it gives me the possibillity to weld the cage from above directly to the chassis which will also increases the stability But at the moment its a very boring process, because of the low tempratures here its allready hardening for x days now

Very nice steering wheel

so then you see this exclusive picture from pressing the carbon fiber roof At this time the pressing is allready finished and dryed one day. Now I let it dry for an other day before I harden it with UV light

Pictures from building the mould for a carbon fiber roof next step getting the mould smooth and strong and after that -> build the carbon fiber roof I'm curious if it will be stronger than the steel roof, my carbon experiments had shown that it will be. But in any case it will be much lighter I've used around 5 m2 fiberglass and 2.5 kg poliester resin for this.

I know that problem just too good XD If I could I woud probably drive around like it sounds with just headers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPdQ8qbHl9c

Great Sound

I've made an interesting find on the weekend. The original mirrors are 1.3Kg :S I built an carbon adapterplate fitting the GTV for the GT3 mirrors (btw. also the carbon plate is made myself ) The new mirrors are around 230g So in total 2.2kg less and of course improved aerodynamics the good news are now I am able to build strong enough carbon to build my carbon fiber roof, and later kevlar doors

you should upgrade to a alloy cooler when you are doing this work. have you read my thread about the 155 radiator which almost was a perfect fit? btw. a friend of mine has the radiator from auto delta, and mine did actually fit better

the edges on the intercooler with red piping are not very flow efficient, this could be optimized.

Looks great, looking forward to see more

I will weight it next spring again, until then I want a lot of weight to go The total weight saving with this windows (also with the rear ones) is a bit more than 20kg But my calculation still says around 1140kg Its getting more and more difficult but I still see a lot uf unneeded weight. But I have also bought a Rotrex supercharger. this weight and also that from the big and haevy intercooler needs to be compensated :S

Again new stuff lexan windows 1.95kg ; original windows 6kg the rear windows will follow the next days and will bring around additional 10kg

new additional hood quickrelease. now the light GFK hood will hold better at high speeds

Hi all, I have this part in my GTV which is unnessesary now. Is anyone interestet? If it helps someone its free, you just need to pay shippment costs. PartNr. 60663718

I didn't try to order with 5x98 the rims are standard expensive enough. in this size you just get 5x130 (Porsche). Because of the widebody I need anyway 0 offset at the wheels so I had to order adapterplates from 5x98 to 5x130.

this is because my gtv is very wide on the back (since I have widened it 12cm on the rear and around 10cm on the front. Its not just about build the the lightest gtv, it is allways a compromis between aerodynamics, price and performance. If I just wanted to build the lightest gtv I shouldn't have 330er brakes, no 24v v6, no cage, and so on. 235er tires are on the rims for now (bought them occ.) with new tires I will look again what fits best. tyi I won't let it on standard power, and I will let the option open to change to rear engine rwd (if its possible to get this road legal) this is why I install the widest possible rims on it

I have finally mounted my OZ Wheels they are looking great, but with the pirelli p-Zero are really haevy, this makes the weight difference unfortunatelly less than expected. but I will change the tires to toyo to have less weight. Weights: OZ Alleggerita: Rear 11x18 - 9.55Kg ( with tire (Pirelli P Zero 295/30) 24Kg) Front 9x18 - 8.25Kg ( with tire (Pirelli P Zero 235/40) 19.3Kg) Keskin KT1 ( rims before (they where bought when just style and size mattered )) Rear 10x18 - 16.4Kg ( with tire (Yokohama Semi 295/30) 29,4KG) Front 8.5x18 - 14Kg ( with tire (Hankook (street tire) 225/40) 24.3Kg) Weight original 7x17 Rims 11.3Kg + 10 Tire =21.3Kg Does anyone know light tires? btw. also my lexan windows from plastics4performance are arived. I will install them the next days.

I added these for styling and for "theoretical improvements" to messure it I would need to test the VMax again on the german highway, but i I need to do others first until I go to test again. I installed a Laptimer on my tablet on the dash. with this I can messure improvements in 0-100 and 100-200km/h speeds as well as vmax. But I did also some real improvements lately. I added some heat reflective foil to some important places as f.E. the MAF Then I finally mounted the blue silicon hoses and painted the original plenum black ( carbon plenum can just be mounted with getting it expensive tested to drive it on the street) but I test fitted and weighted it. the Carbon plenum with f430 TB is around 2kg lighter than the original one

Good to know that there is still an easy way to save weight but for the next time I use this battery, not that I bought it for nothing ^^' I'm doing some detail work at the moment, I bought a complete powerflex set, from which I recently fitted the easiest one on top of the engine. really good quality I also got some vortex generators on the roof, and new airflow improvements at the front (picture follow later) The startbutton is also finally placed.