Who saw Rides on last tuesday? (title change)

$14,000 for a carbon bumper on the murcielago! I think I picked the wrong market. :lol: That is one hec of a composites operation they have going there.

That sounds about right… well I don’t know since I don’t know how it’s made

They showed it. It was all prepreg. Vacuumed and autoclaved of course. The way they do it doesn’t involve much skill since the parts are painted anyways, no need to be accurate with the weave. I would estimate the actual cost being much much lower.

the weave would be very tight anyway because pre-preg is very easy to keep it’s form weave wise, I think it is hard to screw up the weave :slight_smile:

What I mean are the overlapping pieces, you don’t really have to hide the lines. like the same when you use a color gelcoat, you can just throw your glass anywhere because you wont see it anyway.

Well the tooling cost for a mold that size is not cheap. High temp surface coat and tooling resin is expensive. But it’s worth it.

360 modena fender was ~15000, my friends dad was restoring a totalled one…the prices of such simple prices are mind blowing…

yeah they are hella pricey, qworks ferrari they did was pretty sweet http://www.qworkzmc.com/ferrai.htm

Hey Dustin you’ve exceeded your bandwidth limit again :smiley:

yeah, it is nsjr.org’s band width :slight_smile: He had so many members and it is a free service so he sometimes goes over. I just donated $50 to help his cause

last tuesday they made a new car for ford. Anyone know what the mold material and release agent was? Did they make the mold entirely out of fiberglass filler?

I was wondering the same thing… What was that release film they used…

Something tells me it’s expensive :smiley: