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First off, I realize you guys aren't really the group that wants to spend any money whatsoever. I don't blame you, but I was wondering if anyone would be intersted in carbon fiber parts for 2nd gen crx's. The reason we are only doing them for crx's is because that is our project car at the moment and is really our only honda here.

We are currently in the product design stage at the momement. We have been working on a few different designs for interior pieces, but we would be enthusiastic on working on parts under the hood.

How much would you be willing to pay for something like a center gauge console? What would you like carbon fiber parts for? Any ideas that will help us help you in the future?

Here is a picture to give you some ideas of what we can do. Yeah, I know talk about flaming gay with all the gauges, but the guy paid a hefty pocket to have us do this.

http://www.the12volt.com/installbay/...ash_Center.jpg
http://www.the12volt.com/installbay/...Interior_1.jpg

Feel free to flame away and criticize all you like and I apoligize if this is in the wrong forum. Thanks for your time.

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we are ready for take off. where's the emergency eject button? looks like you guys to pretty good work, any pictures of anything else you've done? I don't have any money to spend, and if I did it probably wouldn't be on cf interior pieces, I don't think cf is much lighter than plastic, but I'd like to see more pictures anyways.

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The finish is very good. You may not have any luck here though. We would rather spend money on POWA!

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Those parts look real nice, is it 2x2 or 4x4 weave? Too bad most people on this forum don't really care about appreance parts so you probably won't have too much luck selling them.

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I don't really have any other pictures right now (on my laptop). But I'm sure I can get some more up tomarrow.

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Sorry, our interior pieces are 2x2 weave, they are done using the overlay method.

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http://www.draglab.com/hmt/Steve/savedinterior.jpg


Bling Bling :D

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what else do you do? I've been interested in cf ---- for a while, I've just never really tried to make anything with it before. I've found www.shopmaninc.com to have the best epoxy resin prices and www.carbcom.com to have the best cf prices, other than kevlar/carbon hybrid where the first site takes the cake again.

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Well right starting out as a business we are just going to do carbon fiber stuff. I have tried http://www.fiberlay.com/ and http://www.fibreglast.com/ both places are pretty cheap with quick shipping.

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I've checked out fiberglast.com, they have higher prices than shopmaninc, I'll check out fiberlay.com, thanks for the link.

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I just realized, that fiberlay doesnt carry carbon fiber stuff if im wrong. Sorry for the misinformation.

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i liked the CF toilet seat!! ;D

if prices were right i'd consider it....i always like the look of CF...but only for some stuff and in small doses

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I always got my stuff from www.uscomposites.com

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that is hot. i'd be interested in a cf hood for my crx. one to match the cf hood that is made by www.fiberimages.com the sir hood that fits the usdm crx. or something that has a hump across the middle and a scoop or something. i need the clearance for my engine.

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they carry it.


that's the same website as www.shopmaninc.com, they just have 2 web addresses.

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If you are interested in practicing working with carbon fiber i suggest you start with fiberglass. It is cheaper and basically the same idea.

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go to the rx7 forum and makes stuff for the 2nd gen rx7. if you make it cheap enough, it will sell like hot cakes.

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cool, thanks for the advice. I have a bondo fiberglass kit sitting in my garage. I used it to hold my stock center console upper half to an integra lower half and put in a little 3 gauge holder where my heater controls were. I'll probably try some more ---- later. I read that whole mold making thing on fiberlay.com and it seems expensive and difficult, that's shitty.

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Are you talking about http://www.rx7club.com/? I will keep that in mind, I think a friend of a friend of mine has one.

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hey stevemode is that winnie the pooh i see? :-*

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I know its a wierd ?, but if thats your HF can you check the clutch pedal and see if there are 2 sensors or just 1 on there. TIA

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I demand a picture of stealths seats, $5 says he has matching Winnie the Pooh seat covers.

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car is sold.

pay up sucka, you just lost $5, I can't remember if he had seat covers, but they were definetely not winnie the pooh.

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hell yea where are you located?
not even a month ago i was asking about this to start up a business-very profitable if you can get the right crowd
i'm waiting for my car to get out of the body shop to start experimenting with this stuff though....no sense in wasting it on stupid test pieces might as well man up and start ripping my car apart ;)

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i just bought a 89 crx, and it has no dash.. and chance you can make an entire CF dash? i would definately be interested.

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Yeah what do you make for Crx's

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damn you do nice work, but what I would like to know is how much you charged for that cf console, not that I'm interested in the console specifically, but to have an idea of your prices.

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bump for a cf dash lol

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Make some cf sunroofs to replace rotten ones on crx's. You could get some scratch for those, and send me a free one for the idea. Nice work :)

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well, the first thing is, isn't that a fisrt gen DSM?

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steve did have seat covers, they were autozone special "x-racing" or something like that.

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honda-tech you could make some money over there

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http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...MXk1NDE%3D.jpg
This was my JDM y0! center console(I had'nt put the top cover on yet :P)