fiber glass or carbon fibre custom bonnets

Hey guys can any one in durban do it
where can i get one

You know they cost about +- R6500-00 and that is a fiberglass one with Carbon over lay.

and would you buy another one if you had the chance???

A fiberglass hood weighs about the same as a carbon fiber hood. Unless you can source out a hood made out of "Dry" carbon fiber as opposed to the typical "Wet" carbon fiber. If you can't find either hood cut the removing most of the webbing from underneath the hood will make things much lighter.

errm, im not saying that i dont agree, but i dont agree.

sure, in theory it should weigh around the same, BUT for CF you need three layers max, while with fibreglass you would need 5 or more layers and probably more support webbing to get the same rigidity - fibreglass flexes a lot more

so im guessing that there is know one who can do it local for about R2000

hell no!

i've calculated that (CF, that is) its gonna COST me R3500 to make one!

(that is IF you get it perfect in the first go (which is very improbable)

so, if you throw the first two away, you are over R10k already

COST

What about FB though?
That should be a lot cheaper. Right?
Mould = R500 - R1000.
Fibreglass and resin about R1000 (Bulk)
Patience and experience = Priceless...

hehehe but i dont even have space in my garage at the moment!

my wife keeps hinting on when the cars will be allowed back into their sleeping place...

You mean to say that you haven't made a fibreglass copy of your garage yet???

Ok that's next on your list...

hahaha. 😂 😂 😂

next thing can be a carbon fibre copy of his wife. CF wives tend to whine a lot less!!!

😂

veecee wrote:

and would you buy another one if you had the chance???

NO!!!!!!!
piece of SH1t and it was not even a cheep one (SEIBON)

see what i mean?! i am not strong enough to handle that type of rejection!

Widow, when you going to try make a CF door handle (grab handle)?? I have tried 3 times now and all have failed.

perseverance young padiwan!!!

you'll get there, but i'm not sure there are enough spare grab handles in SA for you to finally get it right. hehe!!!! 😂 😂 😂

HAHA VC!!! I will try again when I find another grab handle. What happened to all the scrap sx's in JHB/PTA??

we're driving them 😀

HAHA, but seriously there were a few at scrap yards up there?? So not one person here knows of a sx at a scrap yard??

i think theres a conspiracy going on - i once asked people that were covering a smashed porsche when they loaded it onto a truck what they were doing and they sed that porsche stipulates that a pranged porsche must be hidden away from public as soon as possible - maybe nissan does that as well!