Carbon Fiber Work

Atchley said:
Doors can be done. You can get them all day long for tuner(ricer) cars.



Same here.
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Doors, fenders can be done. Flat panel dashes will be a piece of cake but if you want OE replicas then we start the mold process again. The ricer guys have two styles of doors/hoods to choose from, a street version and a full race version. The street version has a carbon fiber outer layer while the rest of the layers are typically S or E glass (fiberglass). The race version is full carbon fiber and much more expensive.
 
dieselbeef said:
heres a pic of it tho

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That looks doable, let me get my site sponsor ship next month and we can discuss cost. In the mean time start putting away a couple dollars so it won't hit you so hard. All joking aside, it will be a far price for you. Do you have a spare dash you would be willing to use as a template? Keep in mind, some of the plastic parts get destroyed coming out of the mold.
 
super duty parts would be awesome too

Id rock a cf hood on my superduty...painted of course though
 
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hey Oldskoolfab, what part of FL are u in? i live near West Palm, my dash is cracking but all there, if u need a dash for the mold u could have mine. also my truck is an 03, so the dash's it covers is 03-05
 
Boostediesel said:
hey Oldskoolfab, what part of FL are u in? i live near West Palm, my dash is cracking but all there, if u need a dash for the mold u could have mine. also my truck is an 03, so the dash's it covers is 03-05
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I'm up in the panhandle...Ft Walton Bch. I talked with Ron at Suncoast today and told him we needed a test bed truck for making molds. It's all coming but will take some time. I have a couple priority projects going on right now and I have to go TDY (I work for the USAF) next month for three weeks so that is going to put me behind even more. I will try to put these dashes on the table to do as it seems this is a big problem with Dodge trucks.
 
i be first in line for a carbon fiber dash but mines so bad ill probly have it done by the time yall git one made...its fallin apart chunk by chunk and i got a feeling after this weekends campin trip its gonna be toast

definitely something ya could sell tho

as this is carbon are you curing under heat in a vacuum?

gary
 
dieselbeef said:
i be first in line for a carbon fiber dash but mines so bad ill probly have it done by the time yall git one made...its fallin apart chunk by chunk and i got a feeling after this weekends campin trip its gonna be toast

definitely something ya could sell tho

as this is carbon are you curing under heat in a vacuum?

gary
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Everything I do is under a vacuum, some small parts I do a wet lay but everything else is done by vacuum infusion process (VIP). VIP gives you a much better resin to mat ratio (70% mat 30% resin) which in turn gives you a lighter stronger part. Wet layup is more like a 50 50 ratio. The epoxy resins I use do not require heat during the cure cycle with the exception of the resin being used to make the stacks or anything else that is going to be near heat. Those parts will have to be cured under a controlled temperature process to stabilize the resin at the desired heat range. I don't want to be long winded here but I love this stuff so allow me to say, I do work on the CV-22 Osprey which is 90% carbon fiber. We rarely have to do a carbon fiber repair but when we do the process is much different than the one I do on my own. The resins I use at work are formulated to be cured under a heat range for several hours and it is a process called double debulking. This is very expensive and not cost efficient to do on let’s say your daily driver so I have done extensive research to locate company's who have epoxy resins specifically formulated for VIP and are willing to sell to me in small quantities. So far everything I have done has not failed, cracked or delaminated.

Sorry about your dash, wish the wheels could turn a bit faster here to "getr" done but it is what it is. Have a good time this weekend!
 
Can you post up more pics of what work you have done? doesn't matter to me if its import

Do you have any results on your carbon fiber stacks?

Sure hope this amounts to something...
 
yeah man thats cool..its a cool technology...osprey mechanic...more cool stuff..lookin from out here anyways...workin is workin...

yeah lets see a carbon stack..thats gotta be badass

i bought alot of carbon fiber racebike parts from eurobikes...super good stuff....if yers is good as that man its nice work
 
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