carbon fibre anyone?
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hello was just wondering if anyone would be interested in buying carbon fibre stuff for their cars, i was thinking of getting intercooler pipes etc made up cos i'm at uni and we have a cf machine, any thoughts on anything easy and relatively small just let me know and i'll see if i can do anything. gav

See if you can get some rocker covers made up, bet they'll go well.

cheers i thought of that one i think they would sell to, does someone else also make them have seen one on a miglia before.

playmini used to make them

noticed the one on marks car, they do look the business!

I'd be interested in rocker cover. would like intercooler pipes too, but they would be a nighmare to make as everyones installation is unique.

Team Racing

What you want to do is knock out the rocker covers for as little as possible, so mark will be annoyed he didn't sell his when given the opportunity!

Seriously, if you could make a run of say 50 rocker covers, at £75 each, you'd sell the lot on 'buy it now' on ebay as soon as you listed them...

That's nearly £4k...

Edited by turbodave16v on 22nd Oct, 2004.

for sale 1 carbon fibre "play mini" rocker cover

Everyone knows that instructions only have to be read if the thing doesn't work....

LOL!!!!!!!


alex

AlexF

now i'm definately gonna try get something sorted! don't think the intercooler pipes would work as the heat transfer would be shit as apposed to a metal would look cool though!

need to get a mould of the original rocker cover any ideas, also which rocker cover is best the original or an aftermarket one, can you run hi lift rockers on a standard cover?

original definatley! they look the dogs.
i have an alloy one but i wish i still had my pressed one on there.
dunno if high lift rockers will go under though, i think they will.
DAN :)

aftermarket one from Mini spares, i prefure this sort to clear the 1.5 rollers. (even then it still needed a little bit of work)

do these need modifying to clear 1.5's?

You can't run 1.5 rockers in a std pressed cover from memory.
I think you can get away with them on the slanted MG version, even then sometimes they are close.
If I were modelling a cover I would also choose the 'square' minispares type to mould off.

i couldnt get away with the mg one, however the carbon fibre would be thinnner so prehaps it will clear it?

i couldt get my 1.5s to clear my mg one, i had to go back to a preseed steel one!

And on the 7th day........... God created turbochargers!

LOL at mark. I remember we talked about this a while ago.

For Mark's sake, DO NOT make any rocker covers... :)

Heat dissapation will be crap!

Mark how much you want for your common rocker cover?

Team Racing

1.5 Titans do clear the stock pressed steel rocker cover...