My car is going for paint the first week in Feb fella’s. That quick satin black temp jobby will be no more…well actually 50% no more. I was genuinely surprised how many people actually liked it, maybe 99% of people were either being polite or really did like it. I couldn’t make my mind up either way. Anyway what I did like was the actual satin finish but it was too black. So after months of changing my mind, I’ve finally settled on a paint scheme …The Exige Sprint. A quick Google search and a render popped up amongst the blue and yellow’s and I kind of liked it, actually I liked it a lot! So here it is, a bit of a rip off of somebody else’s idea but I figure if the satin black and white are keepers the vinyl orange can be changed from time to time to freshen things up! Here are the renders…what do you think?
reminds me of some 70s racecar livery, just needs a white circle with a black number on the door, you planning on pulling anymore weight out of the car or are you all done know, remember paint adds weight haha
John, juxt out of interest, try taking a thin black pencil line and running it around the concave section of the rear clam where the lights are housed (the bit ive cut out the elise basically)
Side view looks stunning because you see all the panel gaps on the upper white section of the car which gives definition to it all.
The 4 rear lights and shape of the backend look a little lost in a sea of white somehow with it being just one big expanse with no break to it. Thinking a black line same thickness as the panels gaps may just the pull detail out nice. That or stick a black ‘exige’ badge on it or possibly black out inside the holes where the lights sit, its deffo missing something on the back end mate. Damn i wish i could do potoshop, may get myself on a evening course this year!
(or…) have them Carbon Kevlar as my OCD about weight is getting out OCD’d by my OCD to have more BLING! So the inside of the rear clam is being neatly finished with a single layer! Yes yes the weight on my shoulder is eventually going to install a CF splitter as my full length Ali/Ply is very heavy. I’m also going to ask Chris to make me a front clam. It’ll be thin as BUT I plan to spend time again wet layering it up (along with a splitter) in carbon. Ali uprights, rear floating discs and it seems that a 4 point T45 roll cage will save a Kilo here or there. It’s not meant to be a race car, just a really well finished track day car in the spirit of Lotus. Undertray too.
The red dividing line needs to be a tad lower Jonny - as is it’s too close the the bodywork line (Joint) on the clam? Maybe replicate the split of colours closer to the sprint Exige scheme??
yep, only another 100kg to go and you will be down to my weight haha, I would look at carbon clams myself but since my front and rear clam only weigh 25kg combined at best I would possible save 10kg but that would be some pre-preg million pound monster.
Either that or I could go back to NA, no area and stock sized rotas, that would get me back to 650kg probably.
Since I hear that the toyota rear subframe is really heavy is it worth looking at having a t45 tubular one, should save a bit…ive been thinking about will it be possible to design an ali one, i know the ali one failed when they were desiging it because it was bashed about over bumps but i wonder with track use it would survive better as you wont constantly live on the kerbs, its more likely to try and make a t45 one, does anyone know what the subframes weigh for s1 and s2?
edit… just seen the s2 toyo weighs 28kg if you were remaking it you could also move the wishbone pickup points up to help with roll centres
Another thumbs up for the side view but like Gav I’m not sure about the rear. Needs something to put some definition back into it as it seems to have lost its shape. For the front I’d be tempted to bring the orange round in an arc down to the splitter and have the white in the center. Looks a little nose heavy just now. All IMHO of course, because it looks great.
A lack of shadows from being a render doesn’t help around the rear Will and I’d like to keep it as close to a Sprint as possible.
The line is pretty much spot on though Tim, it looks a tad straight in the render but it very much isn’t in real life. I have mocked it up with masking tape and it sits perfect.
on my shoulder is eventually going to install a CF splitter as my full length Ali/Ply is very heavy. I’m also going to ask Chris to make me a front clam. It’ll be thin as BUT I plan to spend time again wet layering it up (along with a splitter) in carbon. Ali uprights, rear floating discs and it seems that a 4 point T45 roll cage will save a Kilo here or there. It’s not meant to be a race car, just a really well finished track day car in the spirit of Lotus. Undertray too.
