Carbon Fiber Sunroof

[Jand3rson]

Carbon fiber E30 did you say? How about a carbon fiber Lancer?





Yes, the whole god damn body is carbon fiber.

[riverdale21]

You got yourself a deal Drifty30. When its complete I will post pictures. I hope to tackle this within the next month or so. The frontend of my car looks lame without the IS spoiler.

[drifty30]

not related..... and terribly old. yawn

:roll:

[riverdale21]

Dear Christ thats a pretty Evo. I can't remember where I saw a 911 GT3 RS with a carbon body that only weighed like 80 pounds or something. That was freaking hot.

[Jand3rson]

not related..... and terribly old. yawn

:roll:

Are you talking about the pics of the Lancer?

[trent]

Just wait for Shahe's panel guys. They are professionally built -- seem one first hand and they will be functional. They are built very strong.

I had thought by now that he wasn't doing them. I will get one of his for sure, depending on how they look. I'm not interested in a functional one, so it doesn't matter to me if they are or not.

Well, nope they are still being made, just been a long time. And they will be tits.

[shahe]

yea, mine are still being made, but i ahve been lagging. Ive been beyond swamped. but the final R&D is done, they are now laying CF panels.

big props to dirtye30. thats a great peice for being made at home. and yes, it is expensive, i dont think people understand how much work it takes to make it.

[e30evolution]

at about $65 a yard and resin isnt cheap either... materials add up...

nice work, i would be interested in CF, but i would want to do it all at once so i can paint it too

[bimmerphile]

not to mention cutting c/f is a bitch and a half

[drifty30]

CF isn't 65$ a yard. and cutting it isn't all that bad......

[AndrewBird]

Cutting it is only hard if it is in sheet form. CF fabric is easy to cut compared to sheet.

Andrew

[golde30]

im interested in a finished product. i took off my sunroof panel the other day, and it weights more than 10lbs....i also think that epoxy would hold the brackets on for mounting b/c the panel weight so little that there wont be as much stress on them. keep us updated on some pics of the finish product.
-cary

[golde30]

what happened to these???

[BS87]

Shahe hasn't been around.

[nickmp0wer]

I'd buy a fucked up one for cheap, I scratched my stock one the other day.
The whole sunroof assembly weighs about 65lbs if you really want to drop some weight up there

is that manual or electric?