hey great work what other cars do you build stuff for ?

 

lots and lots of cars, but most of my work is on race cars where they need light weight, strong and durable parts (where cost is not a problem) I do a lot of air intake trumpets and air boxes for race teams, I do lots of Porsche stuff these days. I don't do much in the road car work as my work is to expensive for most private street cars. I also have had a involvement in motorcycles and boats.

~ian.

 

any thing for 350z's ?

 

no sorry

 

Is it possible to post pictures of this car with CF everything you said a customer did? If not I understand...

 

without the customers permition I would not just post pics of their cars. I have done some that have ended up very impressive, a few years back I did a Porsche that had everything that could have been made in carbon fibre was made, even the windscreen washer bottle was carbon including the screw cap for the bottle. (some people just have too much money, but he did win the championship with that car)

 

Is that $2,500 AUD or USD?

 

Australian Dollars plus freight ir required, I don't have any made up at the moment, I normaly only make to order any of our parts and lead time vary with other work load.

~ Ian.

 

wow, thats some nice work Ian. Keep up the great work on these CF parts... pretty impressive.

Max

 

I found some photos of the hoses and air pump mufler we made for the RX-7 SP. The hoses fir between the air box and the twin turbos. The hoses are smooth on the inside as well as the out side.

~ ian.

 

Hi Ian,

Probably good if you put up pics of the SP airbox + duct to go along with those pipes and charcoal canister + a price *just an idea*

 

I don't have many digital photos of the SP for a couple of reasons. I did the RX-7 SP project over 10 years ago and digital photos were not very good in those days, (I do have a few small prints but they don't scan up very well and I don't know where the negatives are.) I also had a problem with Mazda Australia wanting to keep the testing. development and the suppliers to Mazda for this project a secret. I should realy take more photos of the things I do but I get busy on newer projects and don't think about the jobs once they are completed. I didn't put prices up as I don't realy want to be making and selling them at the moment (too many new projects on the go) I just put the photos up because I thought people may be interested in seeing these.

~ ian.

 

Could you do an UIM?

 

Ian,

you need to move to the states and bring your manufacturing with you

It would be need to have CF piping on the "cold side" of the intercooler.

 

You can run CF piping on the hot side of the cooler also.. that is what I am going to do... just use the correct resin.. Ester is one that can withstand thoes temps.. But there are others also..

Looks like you have a good process carbon man.. I am purley a hobbiest now... But I have done work much like what you are doing.. Full race motorcycle bodykits myself..

Are you using epoxy to attach the layers..? or something else

 

yes, what is the highest temperature resin you can find. Something that withstands those underhood temps? I have been looking for a good one to fabricate high temperature parts. Carbon Man do you have a recommendation? I may move to vacuum infusion very soon. Vacuum bagging moldless composites is working very nice for me right now, but soon. Carbon Man can you give me a point in the right direction as far as the type of equipment and or software you employ on your projects? Just some info on what it all is. I am very interested in the set-up. Thanx. BTW, you should come to the states, I don't blame you for not wanting to leave Australlia, but I would love to work with you and see what we could do. I hope to one day be at your level, got to start somewhere.

 

Hello Carbonman do you have a website?Thanks

 

Sorry no, I wouldn't have time to maintain it and most parts I make are exclusive items to the customer (like race teams)

~ ian.

 

what is a "UIM" ?

 

when I was doing the RX-7 SP project for Mazda Australia I built 4 intercooler that had Carbon Fibre piping, tanks, venturies and surrounds with aluminium "bar & plate" cores but Mazda got nervous about puting these on production cars and paid me for the development and scraped the intercoolers and then used full aluminium units.

~ ian.

 

I use for most jobs Vinyl Ester resin, it works for me. I have used epoxys but I am not happy with the results, but you can get longer working gel time with epoxy. You MUST post cure the resin! that is both epoxy or vinyl ester. I use resins that only require a 50 degC (122degF) post cure and I get very little shrinkage. If you cure at a higher temp you get more shrinkage.
I have had the resin lab make me a Vinyl Ester Infusion Resin that will cure in thin laminate and have a very low styrene content. (A lot of my jobs are only 1.2mm thick)

~ ian.

 

The resin I use has a 140degC (284degF) limit before it softens. I have used high temp epoxy but it was expensive and I had to cure it at above 300degC (572degF) which ment I needed to have moulds that could take those temps and I had huge shrinkage. I avoid the hot side of the intercoolers as I see no need to keep that heat in and with the pressure spikes they are prone to fail.

I spent some time in the States in 2000 when I worked for a Porsche team in the American LeMans series with 2 of those cars in the photo.

 

I use for most of my bagging double sided a silicone rubber re-usable bag with a silicone "zipper" seal (this type of bag I can fit the hole mould in the bag) This silicone I get from Mosite Rubber Company in Fort Worth, Texas.
The computer equipment I use is the MoTeC ADL dash logger as used in lots of race cars. This displays and logs all the sensors I need and then the maths and times work out the time required before "green Trim"

~ ian.

 

absolutely awesome. No wonder Porsche and other race teams pay you big bucks. I have to admit, my technique is very primitive compared to this. I am very impressed and hope to soon know a lot more about the equipment and technique you use. Very, very nice work. Oh and that UIM stands for upper intake manifold.

 

Upper Intake Manifold.