FTO Drivers Club, Western Australia

wildfaye29 · Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 69

Hi, I have some questions regarding carbon fibre.

I would like to have some light weight body parts(bonnet n bootlid).

Carbon fibre as we all know is polished and shiny.

I would like the weight savings but do not want the weave printed patterns to show, but painting on top of this shiny surface would leave the paintwork undesirable.

Q: Is the carbon fibre pressed into the mould to make the shape before the shiny finish is processed?

If this is the case, after the shaping is done, can i choose not to have the polish process, than proceed to paint it with all the primer n stuff, will the paint look gd?

Any advice apprecitated!

Cheers!

BASSULA · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 196 Location: perf

get a fibreglass bonnet... they are light as all **** and should do the job nicely....

with all these mods faye are you comming to the drag night??

cheers

wildfaye29 · Joined: 13 Jun 2003 Posts: 69

i would luv 2!
but i am in singapore... Embarassed

BASSULA · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 196 Location: perf

oh ok then.. hahahah

but as said your best bet for what you want there is fibreglass tho.. it is extremely light aswell... I know that VLAD has a fibreglass bonnet on his maybe he knows how much lighter they are..

cheers

pevans · Joined: 09 Oct 2003 Posts: 23 Location: Perth

I had my car in for repairs a few weeks back and got talking to a guy there who had just got a yellow sticker for a Carbon fibre bonnet on his supra Crying or Very sad

Are they a no no !! Seems like theres plenty of them going around

RichardH · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Posts: 804

Just a wild guess, but maybe it had a rear-facing vent in it... Vlad wasn't able to get his FTO across the pits with one of those. Something about the fact that any engine fluid leak at speed would come straight out and land on the windscreen! Razz

- Rich

vlad · Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 182

unfortunateley ye it is illegal but light as a feather!!!

i'll tell you a story, i got pulled over by cops (breather-liser test) then the cops inspected me, to cut the story short, i got a yellow sticker for the spoiler and wait for it............tv Shocked

going tommorow to rectify it.

ps ive taken the gt wing off and have the black bonnet on. Looks.......different now Confused

vlad · Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 182

ps im putting the bonnet bak on but will leave the gt wing off 4 the drags Wink

evo · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Posts: 22

cf is not always shiny.. i'm guessing its a coat or a buff or something
either that or a slightly different method of curing the cf

fg could be the alternative as others said, but strengthwise cf is better. I can't imagine if a pebble or something hit the fg bonnet at fwy speed (100). would it crack or anything?

another alt is an alu bonnet :p
not as light as fg or cf but stronger than fg

im not sure if cf bonnets are _entirely_ illegal. isn't one of the hyped up HSV's or FPV's using them? could be that new DJR falcon

RichardH · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Posts: 804

I've heard that DJR, HSV and FPV use alu instead of cf, but an fg on the fwy is bad! Wink

What the hell did I just say?

- Rich

evo · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Posts: 22

u just said:

MIC?
KEY?
MOU?
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hmm anyway.. u sure all of them use the alu bonnet? i was pretty certain one of them had a cf bonnet.. maybe it was that 427 which never came out (hence IMO its bathurst results nullified). i'll try and find the article again (maybe).