RX-7 series 6 Carbon Fibre doors
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Originally Posted by sonix7
I am not really going to the down under, too bad. I am just very impressed and would love to work for a company that does what you do. I am by no means an expert but, perfection is a little hard to overlook for me. Carbon Fiber anything is not easy. Mold making and the complex process of fabricating something like that door is definately why the door garnishes that price and should. I for one am impressed and wish I could get the experience of working for you. Keep up the innovative and astonishing work. My hats off to you sir.
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I bet that is so lite and strong. It looks perfect. I would have a hard time painting over that. I would just claer coat it and leave it. a true carbon fiber FD. Ian, hypothetically speaking, do you think its possible to replicate an entire frame and body panels or would that just be too difficult and expensive. Seems you could do it for the orice of a Bently or an high priced Lambo or something. I am just wondering? Thanx for the pics. Those doors are simply awesome. I am super impressed by your work.
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do you wanna explain exactly why Mr. NO PISTONS, two posts? Carbon fiber is a stronger fabric than fiberglass and just as lite. Carbon Fiber has a superior strength to weight ratio than FG. There are many advantages to having carbon fiber over fiberglass, otherwise race car drivers and makers would be using fiberglass! so can you explain why? if you say price, you pay for what you get. no matter how you look at it CF is superior.
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Are these doors made from dry carbon ? I read that by curing it in the autoclave you can produce the strongest yet lightest weight carbon fiber parts. I believe some Japanese RX7 tuners offer these dry carbon parts and it's ridiculously expensive.
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Originally Posted by sonix7
I bet that is so lite and strong. It looks perfect. I would have a hard time painting over that. I would just claer coat it and leave it. a true carbon fiber FD. Ian, hypothetically speaking, do you think its possible to replicate an entire frame and body panels or would that just be too difficult and expensive. Seems you could do it for the orice of a Bently or an high priced Lambo or something. I am just wondering? Thanx for the pics. Those doors are simply awesome. I am super impressed by your work.
~ ian.
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These doors are made in a process called "Resin Infusion"
This process the dry carbon cloth is cut to paterns and layed in the mold dry (in the doors 3 layers plus core per skin), then a silk release cloth is layed on and a breather material. The loaded mold is placed in a bag (I use a silocone bag) with feed and breather lines and it is put under vacuum. Resin is then sucked through the bag wetting out the Carbon Fibre, when the resin has got right theough the part the resin feed it taped off and the job stays under vacuum till it has gelled to what we call "Green trim" (this time is worked out from a computer monitering system) then the gag is opened and the mold removed, the breather and the silk are removed and the edges are knife trimmed. The job is then placed in a over to post cure. These doors are made in 7 part molds, including overlap flanges and anti-intrusion bars. Once all ther parts are made they are joined together and de-molded.
we can then buff the out side if reqired.
In the photo is the first laryer of Carbon Fibre cut for a RX-7 SP front spoiler. There is 3 layers of carbon and a 3mm sinthetic honeycomb infusion core.
~ian.
This process the dry carbon cloth is cut to paterns and layed in the mold dry (in the doors 3 layers plus core per skin), then a silk release cloth is layed on and a breather material. The loaded mold is placed in a bag (I use a silocone bag) with feed and breather lines and it is put under vacuum. Resin is then sucked through the bag wetting out the Carbon Fibre, when the resin has got right theough the part the resin feed it taped off and the job stays under vacuum till it has gelled to what we call "Green trim" (this time is worked out from a computer monitering system) then the gag is opened and the mold removed, the breather and the silk are removed and the edges are knife trimmed. The job is then placed in a over to post cure. These doors are made in 7 part molds, including overlap flanges and anti-intrusion bars. Once all ther parts are made they are joined together and de-molded.
we can then buff the out side if reqired.
In the photo is the first laryer of Carbon Fibre cut for a RX-7 SP front spoiler. There is 3 layers of carbon and a 3mm sinthetic honeycomb infusion core.
~ian.
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Originally Posted by sonix7
do you wanna explain exactly why Mr. NO PISTONS, two posts? Carbon fiber is a stronger fabric than fiberglass and just as lite. Carbon Fiber has a superior strength to weight ratio than FG. There are many advantages to having carbon fiber over fiberglass, otherwise race car drivers and makers would be using fiberglass! so can you explain why? if you say price, you pay for what you get. no matter how you look at it CF is superior.
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Originally Posted by carbon man
Carbon Fibre is only as good as how it is bonded. A good resin at the right cloth to resin ratio which is baked corectly makes a very light strong part, but if you add to much resin it gets heavier and weaker. In most cases a hand laminated Carbon Fibre is not much lighter or stronger than hand laminated fibreglass. I have done a lot of testing on race componets and I prefer "Resin Infusion" with a "Vinyl Ester Resin" and post cured. Most Pre-preg ( I did do Pre-Preg) Carbon Fibre is expensive and requires more complex tooling and autoclave to produce a part and yes you can achive a lighter stronger part, but it is also very difficult to do repairs to or do secondary bonding to. It also is usually a lot higher tensile which makes it less impact resistant.
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Infusion
this is a re-usable double sided silicone bag that I use for most of my jobs and I use a MoTeC ADL Dash logger as the monitoring and logging.
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~ian.
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other CF stuff?
Gorgeous, but I'm working on my interior now. Have you done any interior pieces? Specifically I would like a full crash pad (full dash) made without the center speaker hole and passenger airbag for my '94. Does your work come with the tabs, slots, and holes that the stock pieces come with? Possibly interested in door panels as well although I have brand new in the box sets for my project.
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crash pad
I have had only one enquiry for the crash pad so I have not done one as yet. I have done some instrument top and the matching centre that goes down to the console, these are done with flat face to delete airconditioning, radio slot and switches. These are used in race cars for use with aftermarket instrumentation like a MoTeC ADL.
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All I can say is that is some of the best CF work I have seen for sale yet. Wish I had the money to rep some of your parts but being a poor college student doesnt help me much. Good luck with the doors.
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Originally Posted by carbon man
I have had only one enquiry for the crash pad so I have not done one as yet. I have done some instrument top and the matching centre that goes down to the console, these are done with flat face to delete airconditioning, radio slot and switches. These are used in race cars for use with aftermarket instrumentation like a MoTeC ADL.
~ian.
~ian.
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