Carbon fiber parts for your E30

[TurboJake]

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Touche

[Spyke]

Saturn also has a ton of models with fiberglass doors. I know from experience, people try to put vehicle magnets on their doors and they fall immediately to the ground lol.

[fporro]

as long as they are internally reinforced for safety as per Fed's requirements. I had a Fiero for the summer, that was all fiberglass., vette style.

[Eric]

There is a small difference between parts made by some guy in a shed and a multimillion dollar corporation making production parts.

[R3Z3N]

^only a small difference ;-0

[kamotors]

so I've been getting my subie ready for winter so sorry for the lack of updates.
I'm still perfecting the ways of carbon fiber but I'm doing more 3d shapes now and getting a lot stronger pieces.
designing small light pods to enclose my hella 500's.

first concept

second design

foam mold

1 layer of CF released from the mold


got some new wheels:)

and doing some rough reinforcement of the inside still need to sand and shape. it already fits decent and I've haven't done much work. Its a very sold piece.

[VinniE30]

Has anyone said a dashboard yet? Not sure if this would be possible since it's big and needs to fit very well and the shape is complicated.. but it would be a good solution to the OE ones that are known to crack.

[Hooffenstein HD]

Chances are extremely slim to none but; Carbon fibre #885 intake manifold?

[SubDad]

No, I didn't read the whole thread.

I would like to have a useful cupholder. Not to hold a slurpy or a gigantisimo double frappe non-fat top-heavy whatever, just a thing that can hold a can or a normal-human sized coffee. Ideally it could clip on/hang from the centre console without screws, but even dangling from the door pockets would be fine.

There are products out there, but they all either look tacky or are '80's BMW stuff for 5 series. I just want a nice, non-damaging place to put my coffee or juice when the road turns twisty or its an up-hill left turn in heavy traffic in the raining dark and I'd rather concentrate on all the F150s in the world rather the risk of scalding my privates.

Clearly the OP can do compound curves and structure... and nice idea, nice offer, my thanks to him.

[ryan.ororke]

Like others, I did not read the entire thread. But I think carbon fiber door handles on a delphin metallic 4 door would look pretty damn good. Even just a cf wrap, to allow daily driver abuse. Now this may be already out there, but just a thought regardless.

[superboosted]

I think carbon fiber door handles on a delphin metallic 4 door would look pretty damn good. Even just a cf wrap.

Yep.

[mrcheezle19]

tweeter pods

[Loupoz]

Has anyone said a dashboard yet? Not sure if this would be possible since it's big and needs to fit very well and the shape is complicated.. but it would be a good solution to the OE ones that are known to crack.

Its possible in Sweden

[AlphaE]

my question is where are you getting CF and what resin are you using? I think ive been inspired..:)

[kamotors]

so i got a spare rear speaker shelf that already doesnt have a 3rd brake light so I'm making a carbon fiber rear speaker shelf soon