Automotive
President’s Letter: Issue 70 Connection Magazine
It is a pleasure to introduce this edition of Connection, which turns to composites
in Australian automotive, motorsport in particular.
Category: Automotive
CATEGORIES
Automotive
Built In-House: Garry Rogers Motorsport’s Manufacturing Edge
Australia’s oldest motorsport team, Garry Rogers Motorsport designs, builds and maintains its own cars across four categories, and has long been an early adopter of advanced materials and manufacturing methods. Auto Action from GRM gallery
Automotive
Beneath an icon: engineering the Beacham CFE in carbon fibre
Gurit engineered a carbon-fibre chassis for Beacham’s CFE, reimagining the Jaguar E-Type with a tub weighing about 100 kg against 260 kg for steel and 77 percent stiffer in torsion.
Automotive
Composites in Australian Motorsport – Built in Australia, Raced at 300 km/h
On Mount Panorama’s Conrod Straight, Supercars push beyond 300 km/h, loading splitters, underbody panels and aero components, while the Esses, heavy braking, kerb strikes and contact add their punishment. At Bathurst, composite design, manufacturing quality and repairability come together, and a failure can cost far more than a grid position.
Automotive
Grounded in Carbon Fibre: Sydney Composites
At the World Time Attack Challenge (WTAC), drivers race alone against the clock chasing the fastest lap, and every component has to earn its place. Sydney Composites engineers and fabricates front and rear aero for these cars, from wings to undertrays and diffusers, generating downforce and grip while keeping weight in check.
Automotive
Forty Years, Three Continents: Borland Racing Developments
Forty years after Mike Borland built his first Formula Ford, his Braeside workshop is still designing, fabricating and assembling complete race cars in-house. Spectrum chassis now race in the UK, the US, Canada and New Zealand, making Borland Racing Developments a rare example of Australian motorsport manufacturing that competes on the world stage.
Automotive
Rebuilding the Past with Today’s Engineering: Renner Auto
Jason Ferraro and the Renner Auto team
recreate the character and unmistakable shape of the classic Porsche while replacing much of the technology beneath it with contemporary engineering, materials and manufacturing processes
Automotive
Fibreglass classics – Our Australian industrial heritage
Fibreglass was a material to chase dreams with and gave birth to a number of auto start-ups which manufactured a range of performance muscle cars through to jolly cheap run-abouts from the early ‘60s to late ‘70s.
Automotive
The Purvis Eureka – (1974 – 1991)
The Purvis Eureka is a sports car that was produced by Purvis Cars at Dandenong in Victoria from 1974 until 1991 after Allan Purvis had negotiated the rights to license building the Volkswagen Beetle-based sports kit car from its UK designer.
Automotive
The Perentti – (1978 – 1988)
Marketed as ‘A little American influence with a lot of Australian ingenuity’, the ‘Perentti’ sportscar was designed and built by Revolution Fibreglass in the outer Melbourne suburb of Bayswater.