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General Sales and Wanted / DNA WEST COAST for sale
« on: May 08, 2021, 09:15:42 PM »
Sadly Mick Coomer’s car will be looking for a new home after the 19 May 2021 Micks funeral where she will be following the hearse.
She is a DNA Westcoast based on an SL 500.
Factory converted with so many extras! Nappa leather bespoke trim and seats, steering wheel.  Lots of carbon fibre trim fitted and some new panels yet to be taken out if the wrappers. Specialist exhaust fabricated specifically for her.
Specialist wheels to Micks specification. Many of you will have seen her at shows as Mick loved to take her out.
She is a Class winner at shows and is a very impressive car.
Jillcoomer2@gmail.com
Jill Coomer, if you are interested.
Mot 5th May 2021 passed with flying colours.

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Red hot.  Not a problem, we just ask them to join us.  If they do they do, if they don’t they don’t.

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 I think we should have a minutes silence (both days) standing by our cars in memory of those who died.  It is only by their loss that we have the freedom to pursue our hobby.

Who's with me?

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It’s much more expensive this year because we will be staying Sat night not Sunday as in the past.  Either that or they looked in the car park last year.  Saw all the “Ferrari’s” and thought we could pay a bit more.

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4thirty Chat / Re: V8 DNA 4thirty
« on: August 30, 2019, 06:58:39 PM »
If you use a Mega you could also drive an LCD screen showing the status of the roof, just like the one in the Furrari.

Why?  Because you can.

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4thirty Chat / Re: V8 DNA 4thirty
« 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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4thirty Chat / Re: V8 DNA 4thirty
« 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.

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A Funny Thing Happened When ... / Knebworth.
« on: August 27, 2019, 11:43:07 AM »
Well I was using my DNA.  Spent the weekend at a very hot Knebworth.  JJ and I sank a few pints, mostly iced water.

When I got home I found we have a new kitten moved in.  A mitted, seal ragdoll, her name is Bianca.

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West Coast chat / Re: From the composit shop.
« on: June 27, 2019, 10:54:15 PM »
We're not doing well with the replacement grill.  The sheet of ABS has got lost in transit and the supplier has no more big sheets in stock and won’t have for over a week.  I think I’ll start phoning round tomorrow.  I’m not a happy bunny.

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West Coast chat / Re: From the composit shop.
« on: June 27, 2019, 08:03:21 PM »
Cal.  A few chips around the grill aperture but the main damage is that the front has been dislodged but there doesn’t seen to be any other damage other than a few chips.  Chase paints are fixing it at the end of the month but I won’t be driving it in the meantime as I scared of doing some real damage.

I ordered some ABS the day following.  The suppliers have just told me that it’s lost in transit and they’ve no stock and the size I need is a bit hard to get.

Not to worry, I can fix it.

Thanks for asking.

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West Coast chat / Re: From the composit shop.
« on: June 18, 2019, 04:57:56 PM »
You may have seen my post “Bad News” about a small mishap the Furrari has had.  This is what’s left of the grill.  There is one long horizontal rib left and one vertical,  these should be enough to give me the correct curves to make a new grill.  The Horsey is OK but I’ll look for a better one and I have another Novitec badge and can print another mounting.

All this means that I can soon bore you all with the process of making a new grill.

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West Coast chat / Re: From the composit shop.
« on: June 13, 2019, 06:51:15 PM »
The only time I get any work done is when the cricket is rained off, and it was rained off today.   Over the last two days I’ve welded a 40mm x .5mm strip on the cut down fingers that will go down the back of the roll bar. 

Next job is to make a support frame using the original wooden shape and some 25mm x 40mm battens left over from when we renovated the roof.  This will allow the CF to go on the new 'shelf inside the vacuum bag without crushing the wooden former out of shape.

This job is taking a lot longer than I thought it would, but I suppose if you are bonding 25mm - 35mm sections with 20 minutes between steps to allow the slurry to dry it will.  And this is only the first of three sections, although it is by far the biggest.

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West Coast chat / Re: From the composit shop.
« on: June 11, 2019, 06:01:10 PM »
Actually spent a bit of time on the Furrari today 'cos the cricket was rained off.
When I started the parcel shelf panel I made the fingers that went between the original parcel shelf and the roll bar 50mm long, knowing they were too long but would be easy to shorten later.  Today I shortened them all to 30mm and rebent them to 90 degrees using the V block I made when I was an apprentice ( so it’s over 50 years old). I’ve checked they all follow on to the curve and tomorrow I can start to glue/weld them together to give a better, smoother curve, assuming there’s no cricket.  ( ABS slurry mixed ready).

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West Coast chat / Re: From the composit shop.
« on: June 04, 2019, 12:39:24 PM »
After many discussions and design meetings my plans for the new parcel shelf have changed.  It will still be the same shape and made from CF.  Ferrari wouldn’t have a CF parcel shelf so the Furrari shouldn’t.  I’m still hoping to use the ABS shape as a pattern/buck to make the panel.  If I can’t get it off then it will stay as it is.  The plan now is to produce the panel and have them covered in the same finish as the existing shelf ( automotive vinyl).

Edit.   The other thing is that if the visible part is CF it that it has to be 100% perfect or it will show every flaw in the surface.

Finished filling and sanding and I’ve sealed the surface with packing tape.  Sealing the surface stops the epoxy from soaking into the texture of the filler and keying it all together mechanically.

The next bit is to figure out how to do the front edge.

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Meets and Events / Ragley Hall 2019
« on: May 27, 2019, 07:04:12 PM »
Well I went to Ragley Hall today.  Where where the rest of you.?

The Furrari won it's class, and amazingly for a kit car, was nominated for Best In Show.

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