quote:Originally posted by Oucipi:quote:Originally posted by DeTom:
Are you maybe toying with the idea of making the entire car out of carbon fiber like Lotus does with the Elise? If so, about how much would something like that cost?
Your right DeTom! I am.. How can you read mi mind?
I was thinking of, disassemble a stock steel body to every single metal sheet just like it was before they welded it together, make a copy of every panel and glue all together to a full carbon body…
Of cause there it’s a little more to do but it can be done.
Sure, it is not the optimum to just copy the stock steel body but it is much easier and more realistic than engineer the cars structure new.
Part of the idea is to keep it possible to mound all the stuff from the steel car to the carbon one.
A problem is to get a complete “body only”. (I don’t like the idea to disassemble my own car to every single sheet)
Unfortunately I miss the possibility to buy a GT5S body for 9`000.- Swiss francs that’s around $7500.. This happens just a couple days ago. Well I have to look forward.
It is complex to calculate how much a complete body would cost. Give me some time to do this assignments and I can give you an idea.
Steve, your work sounds fascinating. Too bad carbon-fibre technology wasn't around in the 90's when De Tomaso could've used it on it's late model cars. Maybe they would still be around?
Keep us posted on your progress.
Kevin