More carbon pieces for my F40?

John at Macarbon is an easy guy to talk to. They can make almost anything out of CF. They are currently doing a shifter knob in CF for the CGT, at about one third the price that Porsche list it for. Porsche's knob is identical to Macarbon's.

I think the air boxes would look really cool in CF.

 

Why? The wood shift knob has so much "history" with porsche

 

Porsche have offered it as an option from the 2005 model year. I guess everything else you look at in that car is made of/covered by CF.

 

That is not a carbon fibre box. Look closely and you can see the spot welds in the sheet metal. Also, the flanges for the screws are clearly metal. It appears that someone has painted it to look like CF but it is not. The CF stencils are available if you like the faux look.

 

^ Yes, i agree

 

Ya know, that doesn't really look like carbon, look inside the box. But why would a Michelotto car have a carbon PAINTED air box???

 

very cool. you can't get enough CF

 

Would you ever think about selling the original wood shifter knob or keep it if you ever decide to sell the car? I would def. be interested in buying a shifter knob from a sports car.

 

I have a Carbon Fiber steering wheel made by Reverie here in the Uk, they do several different models, the one I have weighs in at 250g, they aren't that cheap but they are probably the best you can get, retail is around £500-£700

Also where did you get the shift knob from?
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thats a sweet wheel! I've seen them on Caterham-7's before


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Thanks for the link

I don't know the excact size of the F40, the one in the pic is a 315mm, reveries link to the steering wheels is below, they also do carbon fibre side brackets for carbon seats

http://reverie.ltd.uk/shop/products.php?g1=8f3ce3&PHPSESSID=1c035c82f8ec57f2c25fc38806f346c2

 

The only other car i've seen them on is the Lotus 340R

 

Be sure to swap at least part of that wheel with something (alcantara, even tennis racket grip) - last thing you'd want is slippery hands and a smooth polished wheel.

--Dan

 

Someone else said that to me, but I don't want to cover it up, it almost defeats the object of buying it, I've got a real good grip and it doesn't seem to slip but I do know where you are coming from ;-)

 

Hi All,

I don't know about you all but the F40 does need more carbon! We'd be interested in taking a look at what the group decided was their priority parts. Depending on demand and our current workload, we would be interested in taking something on. As we did with the Carrera GT, we would work out a price for the group which would be lower than the eventual list price. In addition, someone (probably Steve!) will need to supply the parts to mold.

And just since there was that photo of the CF wheel above, here's a shot of a wheel we just completed for a Murciélago. We'll be announcing our F360 wheel line soon.

John
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I'm pretty sure Roland's F40 "LM" has a CF wastegate vent... I'll see if I can dig up a pic to confirm...

 

So do other Ferraris.... Wow! nice wheel.

 

Here's mine.
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