Checking interest in carbon fiber products

by **Carbonall** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 9:20 am

One of your members Taylor asked me to see if there would be any interest in custom carbon fiber products. We have the capability to do anything. Here is a link to a cardomain site that has some pictures of the products we do now . Here are a couple pictures as examples

I am not tring to sell products from this post, just seeing what would the solara community like seen made? I have heard a trunk and a lip kit.

here is that link

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/1299891/1

Let me know possible products that could be developed

Website · by **Turbosolara** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 9:45 am

very nice....but i would say it is all depend on pricing. do you put on the clear coat or just clear gel over the CF? Would you give wrranty on no fading clear coating over the carbon fiber, which is pretty common that you can see on most of CF prodcut right now.

by **Astro** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 10:03 am

I'd definately be interested in a CF hood (non-oem style) and a trunk w/lip spoiler. Also, I would like to see some interior trim pieces. Man, that rear deck lid looked pretty cool.
What is the 2nd pic for, rear deck lid also? The 3rd pic looks like interior roof lining...

by **Carbonall** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 10:17 am

Here is a break down of what the parts are above and what we sell them for, so you can see kinda our pricing.

94-01 Integra Full carbon door panels $549 pair
95-99 Eclipse rear cargo cover $215 (red)
95-99 Eclipse Headliner $295
94-01 Integra Rear cargo cover $175

The integra is my car.

As far as surfacing, we use a gel coat the Valspar makes for us. It is 10 times more UV resistant then ViS's surface. We vacuum infuse everything we make. This means we put everything in the molds dry then inject the resin. This means very light and NO air in the laminate. Our products are garunteed to be lighter and at least 3 times stronger then companies like ViS, Fiber Images, C-wings ect... Not knocking their products but our manufacturing processes quite more advanced then many companies. Our products are closest to Pre-preg (dry carbon) without the high prices.

This is how most carbon fiber products are made

This is how our products are made

As you can see from the picture below, Here is a piece ready for infusion. Everything is put under very strong pressure, and then at the right moment resin is then injected into the laminate. Since there is no air before the resin is added, there will be no air in the part. Plus we use EPOXY!!! based resins. NO POLYESTER resins like just about everyone else. This makes them stronger and lighter.

by **Astro** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 10:31 am

Here's more info:
Carbonall CarDomain page

by **Carbonall** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 10:36 am

Thank you! Make sure to check out all our stuff and also customer comments on page 8. Just as a note, My companies name is Composites Fab. Carbonall is just my username on cardomain

by **Carbonall** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 10:40 am

On the customer comments it will be page nine in a couple of hours. We are making stuff for the Datsun 510's and I am loading that stuff today

by **trd4life** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 10:47 am

i would be very interested in 5 sets of CF fenders for the 00-01 camry. I am sure the 97-99 camry guys would be interested as well.

by **Carbonall** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 10:50 am

I will take this up with the design team about the fenders. I will PM you on Monday about it.

by **indiglosolara** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 10:58 am

I would be interested in the hood and also the trunk...

Can you give me more details on what you can do...

by **Carbonall** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 11:01 am

we can do pretty much anything. From simple interior stuff to intake manifolds

by **Mandarinsolara** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 11:05 am

dang you answered my request pretty quick dude.

guys i seriously sent him a message this morning, so i think hes serious.

Im taylor. Thanks again for coming.

I'm thinking most of the interest is going to be with carbon fiber trunks. So please hit that up with the design team too thanks man.

by **Carbonall** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 11:08 am

Yeah I will right in the morning. It has been pretty crazy here. I still consider us small but you are going to see our stuff in mulitple magazines now and also overboost is going to do a big article. Our products can be found in 30 stores nationwide and in 14 countries

by **hskrsolara** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 11:15 am

I would be interested in some carbon fiber on the console, shifter surround, wood panels in the doors, door handles (inside), gauge cluster, speaker grills, window/locks panel. Man that stuff would look sweet! I wonder how much all those little pieces would cost?

by **SleeperSolara** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 12:55 pm

Holla.
Yeah some hoods, trunks, front fenders, and some bumpers, and some interior pieces.
We'd loved to have you make us lots of stuff for us.
So when can you start?? :lol:

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