Our customer requested several parts to be designed and manufactured to add to the bespoke nature of his build. Firstly he wanted a non-standard centre heart to be made in the style of a Kammtail centre heart but without the horizontal bars and with a fine woven stainless steel mesh incorporated to add a little influence of GTA to his build. It was clear from the outset that to fulfill his request to match the quality of the rest of his build, we were going to need to manufacture the heart from scratch rather than modify an original item. We had an original heart 3-D laser scanned to capture the shape detail of the heart. We used this data to create a CAD model which we modified to incorporate fixtures on the back for the woven mesh to fix to and removed the slats for fixing the horizontal bars which were were not using.

Once the CAD model was finalised, we machined a resin model from billet so we could test the mesh fixture system and of course ensure the original scanned data resulted in a perfect fit of the heart on the car. Happy with the fit of the resin heart, we machined the final heart from billet aerospace aluminium and finally polished it to a mirror shine.

The second bespoke part to manufacture were the inner door grab handles; the customer requested we use GTA inner door openers and GTA window winders and he did not like the original design of un-matched inner door pulls. He therefore requested we manufacture a pair of inner door grab handles to match his GTA openers and winders. We used the GTA inner door openers as inspiration and CAD drew from scratch a pair of inner door grab handles to match. These were again CNC machined from billet aerospace grade aluminium on a 5-axis mill and polished to a mirror finish.

SLA model of centre heart, lightening pockets milled into the back surface to keep weight to a minimum

Final centre heart ready for fitment

Inner door grab handles