Carbon Fiber Cha Cha Cha!

[nuclearcarnie]

Well, the coupe is off to the shop this week for a turbo install (Yipeeee!) and I was also thinking that I wanted to replace some metal with carbon fiber. Hood, rear deck, fenders and facia and I also came accross a couple of sites that offer the doors! Way cool.

So the question is this...Can you retain the stock interior with these doors? Has anyone had any experience with these? Pro's? Con?

Ready...GO!

Thanks

[USAF_G35_Guy]

CF is one of those things that's all about personal preference as far as looks go, but if you're turbo'n your G it sounds like you're semi serious about putting a few track days in the near future. As far as doors go? I'm not sure if you can keep your stock interior on them. Especially when it comes to.....are there factory spec'd mounts/holes for your power window assembly. The best thing to do is just ask the people who make the doors. As far as the actual panels go, I would say you could make them fit even if they weren't designed too. The top lip of the panels will probably still lay in place (if the car is designed to even have a window and not pure race) and then you'd just have to worry about actually securing the panel to the door, but most of the weight is held on the top rim. Either way, I'm not sure if dropping weight between the wheels is as important as just dropping it from the front end, as CF hood/fenders/front bumber would probably give you the best 50/50 front/rear weight balance. Especially if you're adding a turbo and piping to the front end, you'd probably wanna drop most of your weight from the front and leave the middle/rear as is. Just my .02 tho Of course you could just CF everything except the unibody, strip the whole car bare, and then just tune your suspension for the optimum setup! Either way...good luck! and pics when you're done!!!! BTW, I also have a CF hood and have also considered CF fenders and front bumper. The only reason I haven't tho is cause I don't wanna look too ricey If my car was black I probably would, but it's Grafite and as I'd personally like it, I'm not a fan of getting all those...WTF looks and WTH did you do that to a G35 for!

[nuclearcarnie]

Mine is black and I am going to at least do the hood and trunk, I hear ya about being overdone. I am not into the body kits really but I love the look of carbon. The factory lines are about as good as it gets IMO. I am having thoughts of just going for it, racing seats, carbon everywhere, built motor, brakes and suspension...the whole nine. I want to build an absolute beast over the next couple of years and commit Corvette genocide

Is that wrong?

[GObsessed]

What if... instead of dismantling your nice, fairly new car, buy an older one cheap & totally rebuilding it for the track. It sounds like you're putting a lot of money into your project, that way you have the best of both worlds.

[rn79870]

Would there be a safety issue with the doors, or do the replacement doors have all the structural members of the stock doors, and if that's the case, would you really save any weight?

[Focusedintntions]

I would guess the doors are maybe just new door skins and you use the framming of the door.....

Best to call teh company and ask them.

[nuclearcarnie]

I think there is an issue where safety is concerned, they recomend a cage. I am thinking that it is probably not worth the hassle.

I have considered the fixer upper project instead of hot rodding the new car...I think if it is done right it will be ok, I like the fact that it is pretty new and I fully understand that I am throwing cash down a dark, bottomless hole. I really don't have plans to sell the car so I guess I don't much care. I also don't think that it will ever be a heavy duty track car, just want a "King of the road" car, maybe a standing mile car?