Should i get a fibreglass replica bumper?

[Guest MFX_R33]

it looks like yellow weaved mat when it hasn't been made into anything, it goes clear so the black stuff is black coloured resin.

You are getting confused with Kevlar, which is yellow in colour.

I run a bodykit company, and we do a lot of work with Carbon Fibre and Kevlar composites.

Carbon fibre in it's raw form, is the same "blackish" colour woven cloth. This is used with a clear gel-coat and clear resin, and then a vacuum process or an Autoclave is used.

Basically all of the "Carbon Fibre" bonnets you see around, are actually only one layer of Carbon Fibre reinforced with fibreglass. This is due to cost, as Carbon fibre is very expensive. For a bonnet to be genuine, it would require about 4 layers (at least) for the top skin, plus another 4 for the bracing, making just the cost of the materials around the $1500 mark, and that is before the expensive methods are used to make the products.

You can easily tell a genuine Carbon fibre product from a laminate, by the thickness. A laminate bonnet, is usuall 8-10mm thick, where a full carbon bonnet is about 2-3mm. You can also see by looking at the underside of the bonnet, and if you can see the chopped strand fibre's underneath (looks like hair set in glue) it is a laminate.

Jeff.

[Pekatu]

A bit off topic but has anyone seen the f/glass bonnets JMS are selling with the GTR nismo style air lip and the large vent, they look the goods on the site but has anyone actually seen them on a car?

[wilch]

A good guess here,  but right hand side at the vertical bar lowest point, a crack that has run up slightly from the left over to the right along the joint point of the right vertical bar, to the hole on the right.

It doesn't have the same look as the left hand side.

If that's not the repair then the bar wouldn't have been made right.

good spot!

[T0nyGTSt]

fibreglass is crap.  

i have a crack on one side of my front bar and its being held up by "race tape" on the other - both of which had to do with incidents involving driveways.

I agree with Frank... I busted the absolute arse out of my fiber bar and to add insult to injury, the gum off the race tape is still there.

AFAIK no one makes reproduction bars from ABS plastic.

T.

[Jolinator]

i have a gtr style bar on my gtst, however i have just taken it off and found that its plastic and not Fiberglass

[xRHETTx]

I have seen 2 r32 gtst with plastic gtr bars on them, and they fit fine. No dont have photos unfortunately.