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Carbon Fibre Supra

That Supra is supposedly Carbon Fibre and 1287 kg which is a HUGE weight loss, that's with the roll cage. Apparely they did this "CUSTOM" carbon job themselves, say I could find a fabricator, would the cost go down and/or would the quality of the carbon parts become low? I'm generally talking about carbon by the way so whatever the car.

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If you found a really good fabricator.. And he was gay.. And you blew him 4 times a day.. And gargled just to show off.. Maybe.. And then maybe he will spend the hours upon hours of making all the items.. Even then he'll prob wanna claim your virginity

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Carbon Fibre Supra

That Supra is supposedly Carbon Fibre and 1287 kg which is a HUGE weight loss, that's with the roll cage. Apparely they did this "CUSTOM" carbon job themselves, say I could find a fabricator, would the cost go down and/or would the quality of the carbon parts become low? I'm generally talking about carbon by the way so whatever the car.

it say right on that page that they spent 30,000 dollars to do it themselves. So right there is you cost of materials. Do you have 30,000 to throw at an already 30,000 dollar car? well now add 30,000 more because that's probably what it would take to have someone slave over this. I'm done with this thread.

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I know you're talking about the R34 but have you considered the R32 with the price saving and already lighter weight? Most track and drag owners use the R32 for the very purpose of going lightweight. Also, you don't have to replace EVERY part with a carbon counterpart, sometimes carbon isn't always better especially when compared to air ;-)

Having said that, $10k is a great deal considering the asking prices of reprays around here!

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carbon doors - there were many to choose from starting at around 2000 for the shitty seibon ones which they say are bolt on no problems but believe me there is alot of f**kiong around the best ones i found were from sunline also but u r looking at 3000-4000

Were the Seibon carbon doors no good? Are they 100% carbon fibre or are they fibreglass with carbon skin?

I thought they were a good product...

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Were the Seibon carbon doors no good? Are they 100% carbon fibre or are they fibreglass with carbon skin?

I thought they were a good product...

i only found a couple of companies thaty made the full door out of carbon, price was extremely high over 5000, the seibon ones thet i have played around with on my mates evo were the biggest flamin mongrel of a thing to fit, they say straight fit so they should bolt on and a lil massage and they should fit yeah....dicks mate...this thing was at the panel shop for 3 weeks just for the doors.

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I mean produce the carbon parts yourself.

Carbon can be expensive depending on the Type, and Labour even more if getting parts manufactured through companies.

The only other thing you can do is Barter...

What do you do for a living? I will be starting to mold R34 GTR parts in the coming months.

What did you mean by "build the carbon yourself", I can't do it that's for sure but even if I found someone who can, isn't the cost of the material the issue or is labor what makes them so expensive?
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I mean produce the carbon parts yourself.

Carbon can be expensive depending on the Type, and Labour even more if getting parts manufactured through companies.

The only other thing you can do is Barter...

What do you do for a living? I will be starting to mold R34 GTR parts in the coming months.

hay noy

r u gonna be doing a gtr dash mate

let me know

ill definately buy one :nyaanyaa: for the right price of course i dont want the mfd or anything just straight like the hi octane racing r34 gtr

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hay noy

r u gonna be doing a gtr dash mate

let me know

ill definately buy one :nyaanyaa: for the right price of course i dont want the mfd or anything just straight like the hi octane racing r34 gtr

group buy??

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GUN_METAL_GTR32

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group buy??

noy cuz thats 2 bro :/

give me a couple days i reckon we can get more kents involved in this bro.

i want the first one but haha

jks

let me know what u do for the gtr's and well go from there im happy to be ur test whore :P

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Yeah i'm pretty keen on any 34 GTR stuff, just gotta get my hands on some spare parts.

My GTR should arrive in Oz tomorrow, so i should get cracking on finding some donor parts to mold.

noy cuz thats 2 bro :P

give me a couple days i reckon we can get more kents involved in this bro.

i want the first one but haha

jks

let me know what u do for the gtr's and well go from there im happy to be ur test whore :P

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Yeah i'm pretty keen on any 34 GTR stuff, just gotta get my hands on some spare parts.

My GTR should arrive in Oz tomorrow, so i should get cracking on finding some donor parts to mold.

awesome mate

carbon dash, centre console and parcel shelf for julz :P

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