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Re: V8 DNA 4thirty
« Reply #450 on: April 29, 2019, 09:24:04 PM »
Looking good Darren

A great attention to detail mate.

Did you not fancy making the rear bumper detachable, whilst you were doing all this work?

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Re: V8 DNA 4thirty
« Reply #451 on: April 30, 2019, 05:07:32 PM »
I did look at the possibility of making it two panels, but concentrated my work elsewhere. Brian and Roland suggested either having a signwriter paint in the panel separation lines or pinstriping the panel lines back when I purchased the kit.
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Re: V8 DNA 4thirty
« Reply #452 on: April 30, 2019, 11:41:11 PM »
I had a good sign writer around last year to do mine, as I hate the white inside the line.
He spent all day at the house trying different ways to get it right, but because the line isn’t 100% in width and depth, if you paint it, it looks shocking..
Luckily he only did it in paint that took a fair few hours to dry, so we managed to get it all off before it all dried on.
Needless to say, we decided, after nearly a full dad this wasn’t a way forward for my car....

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Re: V8 DNA 4thirty
« Reply #453 on: May 08, 2019, 06:39:50 PM »
 Now moving forward with the kit install, good to be putting things back on
 Cleaned up the already once glued rear decklid frame, reprimered the freshly painted underside of the decklid
Got out the mastic gun and glued it back in place again
Also getting on with cutting the vents out of the rear panel
Now to leave it until the weekend, thick Polyurethane adhesive takes time to go off and cure

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Re: V8 DNA 4thirty
« Reply #454 on: May 08, 2019, 08:30:49 PM »
Looking good d finally your into the body and your doing a great job mate :) soon be sending it for paint mate :)

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Re: V8 DNA 4thirty
« Reply #455 on: May 08, 2019, 09:16:54 PM »
Hey Wayne,
Great to catch up with you at Stoneleigh
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Re: V8 DNA 4thirty
« Reply #456 on: May 08, 2019, 09:41:29 PM »
Ditto buddy will stay over next year and hopefully have a car with me :)
Keep them vids coming buddy

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« Reply #457 on: August 26, 2019, 03:26:39 PM »
Done with the bodywork for a while, moving onto the next puzzle, possibly the electric roof

I've been doing a fair amount of work and head scratching, here's the limited amount of progress so far.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVQ7RIydea0&feature=youtu.be

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Enzodesign did look into the electric roof back in the early days, they gave up pretty quickly just after getting the rear decklid to lift up.
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Re: V8 DNA 4thirty
« Reply #458 on: August 26, 2019, 07:37:21 PM »
If anyone can get it done buddy it’s you.keep up the good work and the vids :)

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Re: V8 DNA 4thirty
« Reply #459 on: August 26, 2019, 11:27:31 PM »
Looking forward to seeing this done, last step to a perfect replica 8)

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Re: V8 DNA 4thirty
« Reply #460 on: August 27, 2019, 10:06:27 PM »
What’s your plan for the Z flaps??

They will need to be moved too before the roof can be popped up?

Are you automating the lifting of the latches too that sit on the middle of the deck, so the two rear roof sections can hook into the deck?

(Or did I miss that but on the video?)
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Re: V8 DNA 4thirty
« Reply #461 on: August 28, 2019, 12:18:46 PM »
What a job you’ve taken on.

With regards to position sensing I would go with an arduino and load cells. ( limits as well if you need them) so you don’t overload any part of the process and break something if you have a jamb.

I looked at something like this for my 4thirty.  I could figure out about as far as you’ve got but couldn’t figure out the roof bit.  Gave up and bought a West Coast.
Not all problems can be solved with gaffer tape.  For those there is WD40.
Not even gaffer tape can fix stupid, but it can mask the sound.

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Re: V8 DNA 4thirty
« Reply #462 on: August 28, 2019, 07:05:36 PM »
Hi Lee, there won't be any centre latches, the tail fins will act a bit like a 6 series roof mechanism
z flaps will probably be controlled by a servo, there's one in the video on the roof, I just didn't reference it because I've just done controls work with it for feasibility, I've bought a step down transformer 12- ranging from 6 to 4.0v, A mini servo should fit the job.

The Arduino will control most of the roof automation, I'll partner it with a digital I/O board to increase the number of inputs, current load sensors will be separate, I'll have them just trip the power. Most limit switches will be a diode return path set up to reduce the wiring in the system.

Please bear in mind, there's going to be a fair amount of things not working out before I get any real progress. I'm only a man in a shed  ;D
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Re: V8 DNA 4thirty
« Reply #463 on: August 28, 2019, 08:11:13 PM »
I think I would go for the Arduino Mega as this will cut down (by one) the amount of boards you have.  Should make fault finding easier.   Remember you can feed an Arduino 12v and get 5 out.
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Re: V8 DNA 4thirty
« Reply #464 on: August 28, 2019, 08:40:22 PM »
Fair play mate..!

Well done and can’t wait to see this in motion.

Your doing an amazing job and keep it up  ;D