Anyone have a Skid Plate?
06-24-2005, 07:37 AM
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Originally Posted by STIdevildog
Get a sheet of titanium.
People are forgetting that I have lots and lots of very high strength/ high toughness CF, at no cost to me. I'm not some ricer that is into the look and trying to coat my engine bay with Carbon dress-up or replace the stock hood with a heavier "Carbon Fiber" version.
The stuff I have would probably not make the BEST rally plate, but braided CF would do a great job as a skid plate. A job I recently turned down would've had me designing/modeling braided carbon fiber shrouds for aircraft engines, replacing the current aluminum shrouds at a huge weight savings. If you can use it to contain exploding turbine blades, rocks are really not that big of a deal.
At least "CF will shatter" was edited out of one of the above posts. People saying that drives me nuts.
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06-24-2005, 09:10 AM
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Originally Posted by flesher
If you have free sheets of Titanium, I will gladly make a skid plate out of titanium.
People are forgetting that I have lots and lots of very high strength/ high toughness CF, at no cost to me. I'm not some ricer that is into the look and trying to coat my engine bay with Carbon dress-up or replace the stock hood with a heavier "Carbon Fiber" version.
The stuff I have would probably not make the BEST rally plate, but braided CF would do a great job as a skid plate. A job I recently turned down would've had me designing/modeling braided carbon fiber shrouds for aircraft engines, replacing the current aluminum shrouds at a huge weight savings. If you can use it to contain exploding turbine blades, rocks are really not that big of a deal.
The least "CF will shatter" was edited out of one of the above posts. People saying that drives me nuts.
Nathan
People are forgetting that I have lots and lots of very high strength/ high toughness CF, at no cost to me. I'm not some ricer that is into the look and trying to coat my engine bay with Carbon dress-up or replace the stock hood with a heavier "Carbon Fiber" version.
The stuff I have would probably not make the BEST rally plate, but braided CF would do a great job as a skid plate. A job I recently turned down would've had me designing/modeling braided carbon fiber shrouds for aircraft engines, replacing the current aluminum shrouds at a huge weight savings. If you can use it to contain exploding turbine blades, rocks are really not that big of a deal.
The least "CF will shatter" was edited out of one of the above posts. People saying that drives me nuts.
Nathan
06-24-2005, 09:13 AM
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don't forget gang, the skidplate's benefit's aren't only for anti-bashing. Putting a nice smooth surface under your car has considerable aero benfits as well.
06-24-2005, 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by platypus
don't forget gang, the skidplate's benefit's aren't only for anti-bashing. Putting a nice smooth surface under your car has considerable aero benfits as well.
thats what mine was for, I dont go off road, well not on purpose
06-24-2005, 03:33 PM
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The titanium comes from my dads work and maybe on his next project he will have some extra sheets. I had a full 5ftx5ft sheet but we cut it in a bunch of pieces so I could practice tig welding. Structural carbon fiber takes time and money like the aeorspace and f1 teams have.
06-25-2005, 01:31 PM
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Originally Posted by cleofis
i have a primitive racing front skid plate for my gc8 you can use 
06-25-2005, 04:21 PM
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Does anyone know a site where I can purchase one of these things or anyone willing to sell me theres., haha because just the other day, I hit some kind of boxey thing and it broke mine right off. I have zip ties holding it up right now hah
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