german903 Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 since carbon fiber need a compresser and a giant over I am thinking parting out my fender in front use it as a negative mode and make myself one by fiber glass. but I have no exp in doing this. Would like to know if this will work? or does it reduce some weight instead of the original fender and hood ? or did anyone try to make a one piece fender and hood by fiber glass project before would love to hear from you guys thanks for any opinion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK-Z Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Search is your friend. also search fiberglass molds on youtube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCchris Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 Search is your friend. also search fiberglass molds on youtube. search for topics by gnose, z-ya, and roostmonkey. They had layup party a while back that demonstrated the whole process quite nicely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnc Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 a giant over http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15XlSbGzGTk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoNkEyT88 Posted January 7, 2009 Share Posted January 7, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCvqQruNMaU&feature=related Here's a few sources of info. There's a lot to learn with composites. http://www.amazon.com/Fiberglass-Other-Composite-MaterialsHP1498-AutomotiveRacing/dp/1557884986/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220041747&sr=1-2 http://www.vaglinks.com/Docs/Misc/CarbonFiberHowTo1.pdf http://www.vaglinks.com/Docs/Misc/CarbonFiberHowTo2.pdf http://www.vaglinks.com/Docs/Misc/Fundamentals_of_Fiberglassing.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
german903 Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 sorry I mean a giant oven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doublexl240z Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 JOHN!!!!! Why did you go and post that?? I knew he meant oven(?) Now i spent 40 minutes watching airplane clips on you tube. It would of taken less time to pull the video out and watch the whole thing. Another potentially productive day ruined. Thats it, the movie is comng out. Being hurt and stuck at home sucks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
german903 Posted January 20, 2009 Author Share Posted January 20, 2009 this is what I mean about carbon fiber everything. and how's you guys opinion about making a hood and fender in one piece by carbon fiber? if there are any shop would do the job in the san francisco bay area like the one in the link below? thanks a lot http://www.bornrich.org/entry/lotus-elise-all-decked-in-carbon-fiber/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoNkEyT88 Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Therese a place in Wisconsin that will. I don't even want to know the price. Here it is at Road America, Wisconsin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoNkEyT88 Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 Oh wait, I just remembered the company who did that Lotus HAS molds for the 240z. Check it out, if you get prices post em up here! http://www.prototypecomposites.com/mold.asp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PalmettoZ Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15XlSbGzGTk Hey John- I flew as a flight engineer on the 747 and 727 for 9 years or so, and I promise you that every pilot in commercial aviation knows that scene from the movie word for word. It's like the standard runnning joke in the cockpit to recite it. Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonycharger72 Posted January 21, 2009 Share Posted January 21, 2009 since carbon fiber need a compresser and a giant over Don't need a giant oven for Carbon Fibre, you could lay it with the same stuff u lay your fibreglass with, nice and cheap polyester resin.............just dont want to f#ck it up as it aint cheap !!! Having said that there is many, many different grades of Carbon Fibre available, For example, get some 250gram weight chop strand mat for about $2AUD/M, the cheapest CB I have found was around $35AUD/m - then if you want the stuff they use on the A380 you are looking at $125AUD/m, but it is difficult to purchase the really good stuff in quantity as those A380's appear to use a lot of it............ Or you can get your own grade made up like the F1 boys do! Wonder what the Lotus is made out off............wonder if it is all CB or just a top layer of CB - and why would u make the entire outta layer of a car out of CB, when CB crashes it smashes into a million pieces - I thought in F1 you werent allowed exposed CB anymore, had to cover it with something like FB because of the way it reacts when it hits something, it shatters............... I was recently stuffing around with Fibre-Glass front guards, very cool once ur done !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoNkEyT88 Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 You can do wet lay up with carbon fiber. And then you can add vacuum with a vacuum pump, and pull any excess resin or air bubbles out. Another easy way is vacuum infusion, where the vacuum draws the resin into the lay up. This helps with difficult layups, as you can pull vacuum before starting resin flow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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