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RX7Club.com - Mazda RX7 Forum (https://www.rx7club.com/)

- ShineAutoProject (https://www.rx7club.com/shineautoproject-161/)

- - FD3S: DRY Carbon Fiber OEM Rear Hatch (https://www.rx7club.com/shineautoproject-161/fd3s-dry-carbon-fiber-oem-rear-hatch-801888/)

Seventh Heaven

05-03-09 09:42 PM

raffer

05-04-09 09:21 AM

if its for the fc 90 gxl !

ptrhahn

05-04-09 10:00 AM

^^

This is for an FD hatch.

Coolant_Leak

05-05-09 04:27 AM

Rotary_Rocket!

05-08-09 03:43 PM

Happy Friday to everyone.

How about we get a group buy going to get a lexan rear window while we wait on the rear deck to be made?

Any interest in this group buy?

zonblitz

05-19-09 01:48 PM

Ken, you KNOW I love your stuff, man I'm drooling over this piece. Please make! dry carbon, plain weave... OOOHHHHHHH!

xplosive

05-20-09 04:11 PM

Seventh Heaven

05-31-09 06:40 PM

Any word on what's happening with this?

sil80drifter

06-24-09 05:38 PM

Whoever keeps asking about one for the FC should stop. Most of the FC Hatch's weight is in the rear glass itself, replacing that alone with lexan would be enough.

It's a huge waste of money just to say "you have CF hatch"

The FD hatch is actually much bigger in proportion tot he glass, compared to the FC hatch, so it makes more sense to have it replaced and save 24lbs.

sil80

PDViper77

06-25-09 11:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Seventh Heaven (Post 9253571)

Any word on what's happening with this?

I talked to Ken about 2 weeks ago and he said he was too busy with other projects right now to make ths happen. He said he would eventually do this. I am sure if some other people kept calling and asking him to staarrt making this, that it would get the ball rolling much faster.

sp_amend

06-25-09 01:39 PM

I know I'm eventually gonna get this as well, but can't promise when.

sp_amend

06-25-09 01:40 PM

subscribed

Sandrock

06-30-09 07:43 AM

Rx-7Addict

07-12-09 08:39 PM

I really want one, in for one, make this Ken!

thewird

07-12-09 08:53 PM

R-R-Rx7

07-12-09 08:53 PM

how much does the oem weight(without the glass etc on) VS the cf one (JUST THE SHELL...) i doubt they have 11kg difference.

thewird

07-12-09 08:59 PM

Carbonman on the forums (Maker of all the carbon fiber for the RX-7 SP in Australia) told me this...

Quote:

The bare steel hatch weighs almost 31½Lb and the replica in Carbon Fibre weighs 7Lb.

thewird

R-R-Rx7

07-12-09 09:10 PM

sp_amend

07-13-09 03:00 AM

1. PDViper77
2. CarbonFD3Assault / AKA DriFD3S
3. KaoticFDR1
4. calculon
5. Mr. Stock
6. onefast3gen
7. Matt Hey
8. FDokinawa
9. FDokinawa
10. KaiFD3S
11. Perfect 7
12. thewird (depends on fitment)
13. Ptrhahn (depends on fitment)
14. blizzaga
15. alaskan7
16. Vest_racing
17. 7racer (depends on fitment)
18. Rotary_Rocket!
19. Seventh Heaven
20. Raffer
21. Coolant_Leak (depends on fitment)
22. Xplosive (depends on fitment and shipping to canada)
23. Sandrock (depends on fitment/final price)
24. Rx-7Addict
25. R-R-Rx7(depends on fitment,final price and the issue with the hydrolics)
26. sp_amend (depends on fitment and final price)

R-R-Rx7

07-23-09 03:37 PM

any updates?

calculon

07-23-09 04:52 PM

It seems like the demand is there. . . :dunno:

PDViper77

07-23-09 07:48 PM

Well, I will call Ken again tomorrow. I think it would honestly help if some of you other guys did the same. Ken told me a number of times he would make it. He said he just had to get caught back up. I will call him again tomorrow because the last time I talked to him was at the end of May.

Beast From The East

07-23-09 08:38 PM

I'm in

thewird

07-23-09 08:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beast From The East (Post 9378317)

I'd really like to take delivery of the wing GB first, then jump on the rear diffuser GB, then do this one last. Might as well get on the band wagon now.

Funny - we lighten the back, but then we add downforce.....

Weight has nothing to do with downforce. Lightening a car gives it better handing, acceleration, and stoping ability. Downforce gives you grip.

thewird

Beast From The East

07-24-09 09:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thewird (Post 9378324)

Weight has nothing to do with downforce. Lightening a car gives it better handing, acceleration, and stoping ability. Downforce gives you grip.

thewird

Not true in the purest sense- try running your FD with the gas tank nearly empty at Thunderhill and see how it behaves...(loop, loop, loop). You lose around 160 lbs of gas that provided 'downforce' due to gravity.

Adding weight to the back adds grip - it's just an inefficient way to add grip:) Agree that it is better to lighten car (goes faster due to less mass, easier on brakes due to less mass to stop, better handling due to less mass lateral transfer up to a point), but then we do need to turn around and counter the effects of the the weight loss by adding downforce via aero - the added downforce similutes adding weight without adding mass. I find the juxtiposition funny (I lighten it to nothing, then add areo to simulate that it grips like it weighs 8,000 pounds).

Hopefully that makes more sense - I like irony.

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