Carbon Fiber

[raustinss]

lol yes its pricey but is top quality ....yes you can get cheaper but it might be crap. perfect example i have a custom carbon guy doing fenders for my chevelle. now im in canada and hes in the states but when it is all said and done each fender will end up being around 16-1800 EACH ...X2 plus they still need to be fit,primed,painted,polished . so to ask 40 ish when molds need to be made and such really isnt that bad

[gabbett1]

lol yes its pricey but is top quality ....yes you can get cheaper but it might be crap. perfect example i have a custom carbon guy doing fenders for my chevelle. now im in canada and hes in the states but when it is all said and done each fender will end up being around 16-1800 EACH ...X2 plus they still need to be fit,primed,painted,polished . so to ask 40 ish when molds need to be made and such really isnt that bad

Eh... I've dealt with a bit of carbon fiber myself on the airplane side. Parts HAVE to be high quality for aircraft. I've also seen the Ring Brothers carbon fiber body up close at SEMA. It is just a shell. No inner structure or anything. It's way over priced IMO. Their construction process is a resin infusion (I'm assuming because I noticed several spots of bridging where the fabric didn't reach the corner and it's just filled with resin). I know that you can do prepreg for similar cost if you know what you are doing and have a much higher quality part.

[gabbett1]

Sorry, I should clarify. I'm not trying to say that the Ring Brothers don't have a quality product. Just that there isn't as much of the unibody that I would expect to see for the cost.