Company Services

Design

With a full understanding of prototyping and low volume manufacturing methods, RacePrep offers innovative product design in plastics and metal, taking a product from a concept, through detail design and CAD drawing to tooling, prototyping and production. A large number of projects, relying heavily on our design capabilities, have been successfully completed and released for manufacture.

Pattern Shop

Our pattern shop provides the skills necessary for shaping patterns and models for both composite components and cast metal parts. Both traditional hand skills and computer generated modelling can be utilised depending upon the application. High quality patterns from a few millimetres across up to 6 metres in length can be rapidly produced.

Tooling & Prototyping

Our metal fabrication department offers expertise and many accumulated man years of experience of sheet metal and tube fabrication in Aluminium and Steel, plus TIG Welding . We have the capacity to cut, fold, roll, drill, punch, mill, turn, sandblast and finish metal parts to fine limits.

Conventional Composites

Vacuum formed un-reinforced thermoplastic mouldings can be produced up to 6mm thick. Manufacturing facilities are also available for reinforced laminated Neoprene rubber mouldings up to 3 metres in length. Our composite facility encompasses all forms of low to medium volume manufacturing systems for thermoset plastic components, from conventional wet lay up GRP through Resin Injection and Casting systems to advanced wet lay up techniques using Carbon, Aramid and Glass fibres in Epoxy and Vinyl Ester resins.

Advanced Composites

Our advanced composite facility allows manufacture of safety critical components to the very high standards required for the motorsport and aerospace industries. High temperature curing under vacuum is available for less critical components in our 1metre and 2.1metre cube ovens. High pressure/ high temperature curing is provided by our autoclave for more demanding applications (4.5 M x 1.7 M diameter, 8Bar, 250°C).

Production

Once prototyped and fully developed, our manufacturing capacity can cover long or short runs for any composite or metal parts, with a complete finishing service for all of the components we produce. We can supply fully painted and assembled units, sub assemblies or bare mouldings. Batch sizes from single units to continuous quantity manufacture can be accommodated.