Adjustable Carbon Fibre Wing

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I can now supply these (allow 28 days for delivery) for [color:“red”]�650 [/color] plus p&p (approx. �30 in UK). Uprights & brackets not included, but available from Eliseparts. Please note that it is necessary to cut the clam to enable the wing to fix to the brackets, which themselves attach to the ali uprights bolted onto the longerons.

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Looks good Mr P!

It’s such a fine line between the geniune track look and chav, but I think �650 worth of CF goes a long way to ensure it’s the former!

If it was MDF on the other hand…!!

Do you think it will cause MOT issues? I remember one of the things Lotus toned down for the Exige Type Approval was the original MS Elise pedestrian slicer! (rear spoiler)

Good work though.

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Do you think it will cause MOT issues?

Cheers Alex, but it is definately chav - RussT told me so tonight, even though it is a pukka “motorsport” jobbie

I don’t envisage any MOT probs, but it wouldn’t get through the SVA test!

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Hey Pesky,

you beat me to it, is it Pre-preg or wet lay?

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Hey Pesky,

you beat me to it, is it Pre-preg or wet lay?

eh? Pregnant or a wet lay ??? Sounds quite wooooood !!!

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Pre-preg is baked in an oven wet lay uses the same process as fibreglassing

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Don’t you just hate a show off

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so does that mean cakes are pre-preg

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Thats going to really slow you down at anglesey on saturday Russ is right its chav,

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so does that mean cakes are pre-preg

Haven’t you heard of a bun in the oven?

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so does that mean cakes are pre-preg

Concentrate! Cakes aren’t made from Carbon Fibre, Well I never eaten a carbon one

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It will make an excellent beer shelf at Le Mans though.

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Maddog

They are vacuum formed wet laid (enabling ribs/spar)epoxy/carbon, then low baked, & they have UV resistance.

Do you want one in Burberry finish, like EvoSal’s?

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It really looks very nice on your Exige Rob! Well done mate. And definitely isn�t chav. I guess most of us would like to have one.
Any idea about the weight and dimensions?
AFAIK, Pre-preg C/F is a C/F fabric which is already mixed with the epoxy in the right ratio. The wet lay up C/F is when the laminator wets the fabric with the epoxy. Nowadays, both Pre-preg and wet lay up C/F can be cured in and oven (high temps), or not (just room temp).

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I wouldn’t say it’s chav just because chavs don’t have Exiges, but…

don’t like it, the original looks better IMO

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I wouldn’t say it’s chav just because chavs don’t have Exiges, but…

Unfortunately I’m really not sure that’s true anymore Uldis!

I think I prefer the looks of the standard wing too but at the same time I’m torn by the fact that If you’re going to have something stuck up in the airflow why not have something that works more efficiently.

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I think I prefer the looks of the standard wing too but at the same time I’m torn by the fact that If you’re going to have something stuck up in the airflow why not have something that works more efficiently.

Seconded!

Contemplated painting it body colour Pesky?

Ian

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Bit like this beer shelf at Mallory a few years ago, Your mota’s changed a bit since then Russ.

http://bookatrack.com/-pg?3022&24976

Steve

Dont know how to post on this site so linked it to bookatrack. If anyone wants to nick the pic and post it here then please feel free

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Contemplated painting it body colour Pesky?

Nope, cos it’s a beautiful polished carbon fibre finish. It will match my motorsport engine cover when that’s fitted, as that has a carbon fibre centre section.

If I get chance this evening, I post a “close up” piccie of the wing.

PS Should have mentioned earlier that it’s exactly the same as was manufactured previously for Lotus, so it’s not a “cheapo” lookalike jobbie I think George Mckintosh’s Elise has one too, if you can recall what that is like

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FYI!

http://forums.seloc.org/viewthread.php?tid=76845