Please put the standard bonnet back on!!!!!!!!
F.A.O. Matt Wills....
not a fan of that carbon bonnet, that answers a question in my mind of what would a c/f bonnet look like on a trophy.
new wheels aswell are they? look fairly black to me!
new wheels aswell are they? look fairly black to me!
i like it !
carbon wings next !
carbon wings next !
they're his track wheels I think - he had some 15"'s but had to get rid as they didn't fit over the brembo calipers he's had fitted, personally i'd paint the cf bonnet with a thinnish paint solution - red but with see through wieve, I think that'd be ok.
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oliie said:
I believe those wheels are Team Dynamics Pro Race 1.2's which are a very light wheel and iirc they are actually lighter than the standard Turinis.
182 bonnet is ridiculously heavy, but I don't think I'd go for the unpainted CF one. Too many wankstains out there with carbon skinds on their mum's corsa's. Makes the Trophy look like a bit crass. He did it for the right reasons so fair play to him, probably looks better in reality too.
I have actually seen A Trophy with a Carbon Bonnet that had been painted, the only way you could see it was carbon was because the guy a left a small edge around the outside unpainted and also had the Trophy logo masked into the bottom corner before the bonet had been painted.
Looked really nice wish I had got a picture of it. Never got to speak to the guy but left him a flyer.
Looked really nice wish I had got a picture of it. Never got to speak to the guy but left him a flyer.
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SteveC said:I have actually seen A Trophy with a Carbon Bonnet that had been painted, the only way you could see it was carbon was because the guy a left a small edge around the outside unpainted and also had the Trophy logo masked into the bottom corner before the bonet had been painted.
Looked really nice wish I had got a picture of it. Never got to speak to the guy but left him a flyer.
that seems quite good.... i might be able to get my hands on a carbon bonnet so might see whether someone can do some good photoshops of that
i agree with the whole idea of the carbon bonnet, just not leavng it unpainted. (hypocritical i know when my GF has an unpainted one fitted to her car :wink: )
SteveC said:
Strangely enough, I was thinking when I saw this thread, a carbon bonnet would be a nice upgrade - painted obviously! But I thought it would be nice to have a hint of the weave showing and I had exactly the same idea, just a very small Trophy logo at the leading edge perhaps.. I'd be interested to see what it looks like.. even if I can't afford it anyway!!!
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To be honest - who cares what others think of the car? A carbon bonnet is there for a functional reason vs a steel one. I really could not care if someone thought my car was 'chavved up' - after all, it is on a Trophy, not a 1.2 Corsa!
That said, what is the weight saving on a CF bonnet? Is it better to go aluminium? Does the Cup have an aluminium bonnet?
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That said, what is the weight saving on a CF bonnet? Is it better to go aluminium? Does the Cup have an aluminium bonnet?
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going by KTR's site, their vented cf bonnet is 4-5 kg lighter than a normal bonnet, so would be around that weight without the vent.
The only car to haev a Aluminium bonnet was the Clio Mk1 172 Ph1