CAV GT40
Design.
The CAV GT40 replica uses a stainless steel monocoque chassis. The owner of this car wanted to be able to drive to the race track, then spend a day on the track and drive home afterwards. In standard form the CAV can benefit from a lot of development.
We increased the strength of the chassis by introducing a revised rear cross member and additional diagonal supports for the rear bulkhead. These provide vital support to the rear bulkhead structure – preventing it folding backwards in an accident.
Development.
With our development work on various vehicles, we often cannot simply buy parts off the shelf to solve the problems we are presented with. So on a regular basis we have to design and manufacture specialist parts to fulfil our customers’ requirements.
Depending on the nature of the problem, either we will produce cardboard mock ups of parts – particularly sheet metal assemblies or we will use CAD to design and prove the concept before we have the parts manufactured.
Increasingly we are using the new technology of 3D printing to produce prototypes in plastic before committing to the final design.
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