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Would anyone know a rough price on getting moulds made of my XB front panels (GS bonnet, guards) and doors? Is getting hard to get good metal versions of these items (especially bonnets) and thought it might be a good idea to have ability to reproduce if metals ones damaged.
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forget fiberglass plenty of metal still around if you look try asking
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Fibreglass moulds for the coupe doors, guards and I think bonnet already exist. I've been told some weigh more than the metal panels. They don't rust but they do splinter if you bang em. Years ago a lot of the race teams used fibreglass panels. They m
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I guess racers would go more for carbon fibre composites now than fibreglass. That in it self would be interesting for street cars but price might be a limiting factor.
Metal parts may still be around but the only place I could get any positive response
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that is true but i thike the efort to get the bodies done in fiberglass is cost prohibitive you can still get a lot of parts new still i have one frount aprin under the house and think i can sill get another i find most parts still available if you spend |
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It's people like myself that keep the bonnet's in storage. I've got a XB bonnet with scoops and pins sitting in my garage. No rust either. XB Fairmont sedan : [email protected] |
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Making moulds and parts is not rocket science. Here are a couple of pages on how to do it: http://www.fibreglast.com/content.php?URLID=170http://johnrsweet.com/Mold.html-- It's good to honk in a Henry |
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try ALFA fibreglass in melb for any fibreglass you need
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We have most XA-XC Falcon panels in fibreglass already.
Overall most of the panels are lighter, though as Paul mentioned it depends how thick the panels have been made.
At present we don't have XB front gaurds.
We have:
XA Front bumper
XA Front gaurd
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Insaen i'd forget about fibreglass its really hard to find somebody who does a really good job, you should still be able to find plenty of metal ones, you are really better off going with that option.
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