Can you say "CF TII HOODS DONE?" !!!
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Come on guys! You really think that I would make a CF hood and not make matching CF headlight covers, including a fresh air cover molded of of my KSP cover? Way ahead of you guys here LOL Of course I learned my lesson on the body kit thread long ago, and I won't release vital info on new parts until they are in process of being made, or close to being finished. We now are making quite a few things that no one else makes, and the list of upcoming things is long. With ALOT of interest from some of the larger (if not largest) RX-7 vendors on the web, I am sure that the things we are making and plan to make are things that they feel, along with us, will be of interest to FC owners.
The headlight covers are popped from their molds already, and we should have them finished this week hepofully. We won't rush anything though, as perfection takes time We won't sell something that isn't perfect, or pretty damn close to it.
The hoods have now been weighed as well. Here is a break down of what we have so far. The N/A hoods will be weighed tomorrow as we pick up our first production one. Also, the production TII hood will be less weight, as the lower part of it was a bit thicker than the production ones will be. These weights are the hood with all of the hardware and rubber pieces etc installed. Anyway, here we are:
Stock Steel N/A hood - 53 lbs
Stock TII Aluminum hood - 36.50 lbs
Carbon Fiber TII hood - 23 lbs
On a different topic, but still related... We are thinking about offering a CF skin that would be glued so to speak on top of the stock sunroof. It would use a highly adhesive 3M glue and cover the stock sunroof cover. To make a sunroof cover, there is quite a bit of work onvolved with it, and I don't think that the owners would be willing to pay what they would cost for us to make. Especially for that small of an area. Maybe I will make one (or have one made more correctly) and see what you guys think about it
Also stay tuned for things like our new SCCA front bumper (already finished, pictures on another thread tonight), CF spoiler, and CF lower airdam Things are in motion over here...
The headlight covers are popped from their molds already, and we should have them finished this week hepofully. We won't rush anything though, as perfection takes time We won't sell something that isn't perfect, or pretty damn close to it.
The hoods have now been weighed as well. Here is a break down of what we have so far. The N/A hoods will be weighed tomorrow as we pick up our first production one. Also, the production TII hood will be less weight, as the lower part of it was a bit thicker than the production ones will be. These weights are the hood with all of the hardware and rubber pieces etc installed. Anyway, here we are:
Stock Steel N/A hood - 53 lbs
Stock TII Aluminum hood - 36.50 lbs
Carbon Fiber TII hood - 23 lbs
On a different topic, but still related... We are thinking about offering a CF skin that would be glued so to speak on top of the stock sunroof. It would use a highly adhesive 3M glue and cover the stock sunroof cover. To make a sunroof cover, there is quite a bit of work onvolved with it, and I don't think that the owners would be willing to pay what they would cost for us to make. Especially for that small of an area. Maybe I will make one (or have one made more correctly) and see what you guys think about it
Also stay tuned for things like our new SCCA front bumper (already finished, pictures on another thread tonight), CF spoiler, and CF lower airdam Things are in motion over here...
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I should have expected you'd be a step ahead GVR4 motor is almost done...FMIC and 18G also. which means the rx-7 can go under the knife late in the winter for the TII swap and I can start spendin some $$ on your site.
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We would be willing to pay for a clear sunroof cover & unobtrusive sunroof frame though
Dave - would you like to borrow my mickey mouse & corner dash gauge pods (hint hint).
Dave - would you like to borrow my mickey mouse & corner dash gauge pods (hint hint).
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That was the result of us trying to have the CF molded into the scoop. That is also why the scoop part will be blacked out. It is a tug line in the CF sheet where the CF was being layed into the scoop.
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Originally posted by vaughnc
We would be willing to pay for a clear sunroof cover & unobtrusive sunroof frame though
Dave - would you like to borrow my mickey mouse & corner dash gauge pods (hint hint).
We would be willing to pay for a clear sunroof cover & unobtrusive sunroof frame though
Dave - would you like to borrow my mickey mouse & corner dash gauge pods (hint hint).
That might be a cool part to do in CF if the molding would be to bad. Keep in mind that we pay about $400-$700 for tooling for EACH part we do. Like the hoods were about a $3000 investment just in the tooling (3 molds) for them. We payed that out of our pockets. We have to recover that through sales. You see where I am comming from? We can't just pay thousands of dollars for stuff, then not even sell enough to recoup the initial fees involved with doing it. It isn't smart business, and I would be broke LOL Shoot me an email with some pics of it if you would, and what the going price of them is and I will see what we can do.
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Damn, that is sweet. My mountain bike is carbon fiber Be cool if my hood was too!
I ran the gamma correction up to see the split in color better if anybody is intrested.
I ran the gamma correction up to see the split in color better if anybody is intrested.
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That isn't a split, it is a tug line. That is how tricky CF can be to lay. it just takes one pull and the weave will do that. This is a major reason that people don't do alot of large flat surface CF work with ridges somewhere in the mold. This can happen very easily.
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I'll definately buy one when you have a finished product on display, does it need any prep work or just bolt on?
I know of many CF hoods that lookd fine for months, and then turned into an ugly nightmare.
I know of many CF hoods that lookd fine for months, and then turned into an ugly nightmare.
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Originally posted by fc3s.org
That isn't a split, it is a tug line. That is how tricky CF can be to lay. it just takes one pull and the weave will do that. This is a major reason that people don't do alot of large flat surface CF work with ridges somewhere in the mold. This can happen very easily.
That isn't a split, it is a tug line. That is how tricky CF can be to lay. it just takes one pull and the weave will do that. This is a major reason that people don't do alot of large flat surface CF work with ridges somewhere in the mold. This can happen very easily.
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Are you going to be able to make and sell a lightweight race version of this hood? All I need is a lightly reinforced hood (way less that the street model) with no provisions for hood latches or hinges...
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Any chance it will fit over my 20B? Don't care about tug lines... it will painted. Cant stand unpainted CF hoods. I need a new hood anyhow... mine is pretty banged up from me being careless with it while I did the motor swap
edit: Just noticed that you are selling Mazdaspeed7's CF parts on your website... are these hoods made by him as well?
edit: Just noticed that you are selling Mazdaspeed7's CF parts on your website... are these hoods made by him as well?
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Originally posted by neofreak
I'll definately buy one when you have a finished product on display, does it need any prep work or just bolt on?
I know of many CF hoods that lookd fine for months, and then turned into an ugly nightmare.
I'll definately buy one when you have a finished product on display, does it need any prep work or just bolt on?
I know of many CF hoods that lookd fine for months, and then turned into an ugly nightmare.
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Originally posted by JDMROTARY
DOES THESE HOOD HAVE HOLES FOR THE WASHER NOZZLES
DOES THESE HOOD HAVE HOLES FOR THE WASHER NOZZLES
You can just drill out the holes if you want to install those. The holes are even marked underneath since the bottom is the stock frame, just molded in fiberglass
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Originally posted by Kurgan
Any chance it will fit over my 20B? Don't care about tug lines... it will painted. Cant stand unpainted CF hoods. I need a new hood anyhow... mine is pretty banged up from me being careless with it while I did the motor swap
edit: Just noticed that you are selling Mazdaspeed7's CF parts on your website... are these hoods made by him as well?
Any chance it will fit over my 20B? Don't care about tug lines... it will painted. Cant stand unpainted CF hoods. I need a new hood anyhow... mine is pretty banged up from me being careless with it while I did the motor swap
edit: Just noticed that you are selling Mazdaspeed7's CF parts on your website... are these hoods made by him as well?
As far as Mazdaspeed7's stuff goes, that is his page, it's just on my website. I offer a forum for those that wish to sell their parts to the RX-7 community. It is kind of like a one stop shop so to speak for things that the big stores don't carry.
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Originally posted by Gene
Wait, you said 3 molds... so there IS going to be a reverse scoop model?
Wait, you said 3 molds... so there IS going to be a reverse scoop model?
1. The top skin for the N/A
2. The top skin for the TII
3. The bottom frame for both.
I already told you guys that at this time there is no other hoods. If these do well enough to condone doing another model, then we will. But people have been saying for years "I want a CF hood" so here it is. If we did decide to do a reverse scoop hood, it would be late next year and it would be something like the Border hood, or similar but with our own design.
That is all...