Cheeksyboy

Put me down for one mate, as mine got trashed at Spa! d'oh!

BLACK-BETTY

Interest
Drop a line with your interest and material preferences.

LWT Plastic
01. BLK BTY
02. Fuch
03. Ghally
04. Andy Roe
05. PAOLOP
06. StanUK
07. cptnzero
08. velocitylover
09. sturm
10. StuartQ
11. buck_31
12. 993PET
13. sschultze09
14. Ken D
15. HalV
16. Music mad Mike
17. G60Pops
18. crg53
19. GeogreK
20. Paul284pt
21. tm.cz
22. 911URGE
23. bench
24. fizzledorf
25. mike9186
26. Oracle
27. N24
28. turbotwoshoes
29. Babalouie
30. bobaines
31. AFKC
32. Defiant
33. merrick
34. seeq
35. ClaytoVR
36. Twood
37. ScottR
38. SuperUser
38. TokyoJ
39. K9doog
40. Freedman
41. Nalukane
42. swaini
43. MortenKoch
44. Banzai
45. Cheeksyboy
46. Rally Guy
47. m_a_saunders
28. DanielRS

Carbon Fibre
01. MFRSR
02. browse964
03. warmfuzzies


How's The Hornet doing? Any updates????

Rally Guy

Interested for sure, waiting for pricing and shipping to Toronto Canada.

Thx

RK

Ps. Any sense of timing? I'm actually in London next week! Happy to pack it home and save shipping.

m_a_saunders

Hi Frank,

Please put my name down for a set in plastic going to Switzerland. For technical inspection and insurance purposes, it would be ideal if the original part numbers were built into the mould.

On a related note, many thanks for taking the initiative to follow up on this. Last year I tried ordering a new set from TechArt and managed to buy the middle and one of the side sections. Unfortunately TechArt were not prepared to produce any further parts and were selling out their remaining stock...

Cheers,

Mark

Cheeksyboy

The car's back on it's wheels and ready to/being painted.....so should be ready for collection soon......it'll be at Donington in Aug for Boxsey's day!

DanielRS

Put me down for a set in LWT plastic! After looking at all the different options this is the nicest one imho!

BLACK-BETTY

Update

Afternoon gents,

Thank you for your kind patience.

Just off the phone from LWS.

Copyright - The splitter will be an exact replica except that there will not be any TechArt part number etc, and there will be one less air hole on either side.

Construction - They will be made of high quality infused fibreglass not plastic as perviously suggested.

"We would be making it much tougher than the lotus one we make, we did some playing about in the workshop yesterday and the product will basically be made from the same material and thickness as the moulds themselves, these are almost indestructible!" - Andy LWS Design

Their Lotus Elise S2 splitter is made of the same stuff but lower strength and gets great reviews.

Fibre glass - These will be £ 250 each for our GB. These will retail at £ 300 on their web site.
Carbon Fibre - These will be £ 350 each for our GB. These will retail at £ 425 on their web site.
VAT? - I'll find out short if these prices include VAT.

TechArt - ones were originally £ 380!!!

Timescale - First product ready to be moulded in 5 weeks.

NB: Please do nothing at this stage - I will update as and when you will need to do something.

Andy Roe

Thanks for the update Frank. Will these come pre-painted in black or will they be the "raw" fibreglass?

fuch

infused fibreglass.....cheeky!!

Ta,frank.

warmfuzzies

Thanks for the update, perhaps these will arrive before mine leaves the over wintering....

:-((

Still on SORN in the garage......just too busy..




K

mf_rsr

Nice...although if that doesnt include include VAT and there's potentially 40+ customers they can do one...

StanUK951

Very eloquently put Mark!

I must admit, I'm less keen that it's in fibreglass rather than plastic. I already have a fibreglass lip and have to repaint it every so often because it gets stone chipped. Maybe I could use a more resilient paint, but part of the attraction was the OEM feel to it...

GeorgeK

Stan is right. Fiberglass is much less attractive.

g60pops

Agree on the fibreglass part, shame they cannot/ will not do it in plastic.

STUARTQ

PLASTIC WOULD PROBABLY ENTAIL A TOOLING COST, WHICH WOULD MAKE THE PRICE MUCH HIGHER. WITH FIBRE GLASS, I'M GUESSING THEY TAKE A MOULD FROM THE ORIGINAL, THEN WORK FROM THERE, SO NO TOOLING COSTS KEEPS THE PRICE DOWN.

A QUESTION, CAN THEY GEL COAT THEM TO THE COLOUR WE WANT.

I WANT RED FOR INSTANCE, STAN AND MARK MAY WANT RED TOO, HOW MANY OTHERS WANT RED?
BLACK ETC ETC.

OF COURSE, THOSE WITH UNUSUAL COLOURS WILL HAVE TO HAVE THEM PAINTED.


THE GEL COAT CAN STILL GET CHIPPED, BUT THE COLOUR WILL ALWAYS BE THE THAT OF THE GEL COAT.

PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG.