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the basalt fiber I bought from ebay. (you could also buy carbon fiber insted, but basalt is a lot cheaper to lern ) You build the parts exactly in the same way as carbon fiber. With a mold an vacuum. But for the dasboard I had not big enough bags for vacuum, so I did it with weights. f.E. http://www.ebay.ch/itm/151395472573?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT One of my next projects ist to get rid of the heavy roof. and rebuild it with basalt. I calculated the weight of the roof around 11kgs. Seams worthwile. And for your question , it is a diy job yes. but needs a lot of work and time. And for the first time better try little parts as I did before. This saves you time an d money^^ The dash tooked me around a week. but I'm still in the learning process. I think the roof could be done in one weekend.

The lightweight project is going further. In the last days I cutted out over 10kg unneeded metal and built a new basalt fiber dashboard which is now 2.134kg insted of 9kg. The three holes on the back of the dash are for the also improved ventilation (highflow computer fans) and the center console I replaced trough a slot for my big but of course light tablet. On the tablet I have a laptimer, and a console for my megasquirt, which is allready ordered

I have redone the lower part unter the radiator. Beginning from around 1.5kg to the allready optimized metal part 958g (red one on the picture) finally to the basalt fiber one: 272g. The GTV is getting faster every day

the equal lenght pipes are in. They needed a lot of change until they fitted. but unfortunately I have to rebuild a complete new 4 point strut as the one from Ultra Racing doesen't fit anymore. on the pictures you see how urgently it was to change these pipes

I didnt remove the original plenum, but the carbon wheights almost nothing. the trottle body is feeled haevier then the plenum. also the sparkplug cover weights nothing. I will mount the plenum next spring, when I also change to Mega squirt ECU.

Again new fun parts arrived. Equal lenght frontpipes from cybox, carbon plenum (allready fitted my F430 tb) and spark plug cover from ACT. More pictures will follow.

I finally recieved my stainless steel sportscat Hint: its a euro5 200cells kat, that means have much better emissions than with the original cf2 cat, even when I change to very agressive camshafts

Nice Idea. this would also fix this problem I think

I got the Ultra Racing front lower 4 point bar and a new 30cm steering wheel mounted

I'm from Zug. Nice to know I'm not the only one around with a GTV Maybe we should meet some time

Nice GTV super combination with the wheels. from where in Switzerland do you come?

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I ment the gfk hood is directly from the shop, I just modded it so it fitts my wide rims I think it was from https://www.italo-welt.de/ 11kg instead of around 29.7 or so. Have you seen, I got a Alfa logo on the hood in form of a Scudetto

The Door opener is hidden behind the roll cage. Passengers are allways searching ^^ In the attachement I add a old picture on which you can see it. (Unfortunately I made holes for these speakers :'( ) Changed a lot since then in 2012-13 I even changed the alloy pedals to carbon ones

I think racecars are a attitude towards life (google translate, I hope it makes sense^^). Thats why I got Sparcos even in my VW T4 (parts transporter for my gtv of course) You are more save in your car with the roll cage this should be enough to mount it The 330er torax brakes are working perfectly, I got also those steel flex braking pipes. In comparison with my 156er (2.5l supercharged btw.) the brakes are phenomenal better. My rollcage is bolt on and 'just' screwed right, I just welded the to plate. This is needed to hold it road legal. But this winter I will make some additional pipes under the dash to get the car even more stiff. And on the japan page Orque I saw some more bars wich I will copy. Because our Tipo 2 front axle needs some improvements for the track :). Btw. on youtube I saw a guy in a 156er 2l ts with Turbo witch (in addition to the description) 1000ps. Could be a fun project.

Very clean and shiny I like your exhaust, I think the flow is much better without the original curves.

These are flat exactly. Its some kind of flexible plastic plates (2mm thick) from the DIY market. You can form this material easily with a heat gun or cut it with a knife. In my case I've putted the original panels on this plate and marked the form to cut it later with a knife. I finished that with carbon foil and stickers. The door handles you could buy from sparco on ebay f.e. I made mine myself. I guess its like 300g per side. Around the same weight as real carbon would be. Because I dont need the stability here I choosed the more economical solution.

@Paso the thing with the scudetto is, I bought this hood from the bar (translated phrase from german, I dont know if this makes sense in englisch ^^') and they obviously thought it should be removed. I thought about making a new scudetto in the front, but never came to a good design. but maybe some day and maybe I paint it someday in red, we will see but for the moment I like the color and I focus to get the car on track next year. But what you dont see on the pictures is, the alfa snake which I putted on the trunk and the huge Alfa Romeo Logo on the top of the wing. I liked the Martini design too, it was very unique. But someday I asked myself why not ask if they want to sponsor my expensive built (of course I didnt expect anything). So I asked martini. They told me I can be happy if they dont get me in charge for using their logo without asking. Thats why Martini died for me. At this time I rented a little garage and launched my own label "Röllin Racing Garage" (www.roellin.tk) Now I'm advertising just for my label, sponsors and parts manufactuer @DesameDesam eThank you I'm glad to hear that you like it It is a phase 2 from 98'. I sould be around 1250 Kg according to my calculation since last mesurement ( starting from 1500) So 250 kilos are removed and I see still a lot of weight in there. Target is at least under 1200, but I hope to go under 1100kg. A question of the price. This winter I will make a carbon roof and dasboard. and I search for someone who car produce doors and maybe trunk. with the doors also lexan windows with a little window in it, so I can remove also the left window lift parts. After this its time for more power and finally a diff. The seats are original sparcos from daemon tweaks (england) I have tons of pictures about the roll cage if you need ( which I of course welded in by myself) what do you want to know about it? Its from OMP