does anybody on here know were i could get a carbon boot lid for my classic impreza, I have seen them for sale before but i can't remember were? can anyone help?????

 

Your better with an alloy one if your after weight saving as carbon fibre is pretty damn heavy.

Tony

 

TSL fitted one to a 22B demonstration car a couple of years ago.


Simon

 

cheers for the help, the boot lid is for the looks as much as anything, just to be diffrent.

 

Tony,

Are you serious ? Carbon fibre is very light. The bonnet I had could be picked up with two fingers !!!

The problem, is that there's a lot of suedo (sp?) carbon fibre parts, that are actually a combination of carbon, and glass fibre.

This is because to make a "good quality, light weight" carbon parts, they need to be "autoclaved", a very expensive process, and used in motorsport, etc', whilst the cheap stuff you generally see, is "wet layed" like fibre glass normally is.

Mark.

 

Exactly; an autoclave costs a fortune so a lot of 'carbon fibre' is simply laid up like GRP rather than proper pre-preg...

 

I got mine from MRO but they have closed down now.



It's about 4kg which is very very light

 

i didn't know there was an alloy one

Out of two RAs i've had, and my mate's RA, the only alloy panel was the bonnet.

also, iirc carbon fibre bonnets are slightly heavier than the alloy ones, so maybe not that useful?

 

my ra has bonnet boot and the front wings

 

Checked them with a magnet yet?

 

My thoughts as well - i assumed they were alloy - felt pretty light, hadn't rusted where there was a scratch etc.. then a magnet stuck to them

 

Impreza panels are very, very thin especially the front wings, which aren't really that big when you look at them. If you have alloy front wings it would be a first, they certainly never left the factory like that!