Carbon-fiber hood,and other ZR1 parts...soon!

P.S. i am working with Carbon-fiber HOOD project for ZR1, and Carbon-fiber upper plenum,Horn,and parts which goes to Filter.
front and rear Bumper (only 1990 Zr1) Carbon-fiber, we will produce them for guys who like to lower the weight and give better ET in drag racing,as well other kind of racing improvment.
the price will be lower than you can imagine. we want to market them, and give Zr1 the real performance.

i am already working on carbon-fiber hood with 2 custom duct (like Sledgehammer Callaway)for my 90 ZR1 Callaway Areobody.
any update with pictures,i will post it here. good luck to me!
Remember it will be Professional job. no jokes!!

[Bob G]

I Can't Wait Please Keep Us Posted , Thanks Bob

[Pete]

Very interested.
Like to see the Intake stuff can you make the ports 36-38mm

Will they be able to make a stock looking hood, i like the sleeper look.

Let us know how it goes.

Pete

[cuisinartvette]

For an intake you can also use the same composite material that LS intakes are made of, its light, stays cool and is portable .Eliminate the cooling passages, it will be cheaper to make. I spent a lot of time lookig into this, came close to doing them about a year ago.
I have the material info floating around somewhere and some people who can do imaging if you need. Thats not expensive, its the mold that costs.

Originally Posted by cuisinartvette

For an intake you can also use the same composite material that LS intakes are made of, its light, stays cool and is portable .Eliminate the cooling passages, it will be cheaper to make. I spent a lot of time lookig into this, came close to doing them about a year ago.
I have the material info floating around somewhere and some people who can do imaging if you need. Thats not expensive, its the mold that costs.

Hey Ron,
can you send me the I.H and itake for that project?cuz i want drive my car ,cant let my car grounded long time .
Any idea about removing some stuff or eliminated will be nice guys, but just show me where is that in Pictures. i need to see it ,i am not Pro. in LT5 engine
the molding isnt easy job,specialy with Carbon-fiber work.
hope we will do it with my team.

[carter200]

Good luck Hadi

Originally Posted by Pete

Very interested.
Like to see the Intake stuff can you make the ports 36-38mm

Will they be able to make a stock looking hood, i like the sleeper look.

Let us know how it goes.

Pete

the 36 mm will be best i think !.
dont you think 38 mm will be so big??


the hood will be in any style you want.
mine will be with 2 open ducts in rear of hood.
i know some like sleeper...
one of my idea was to make this front single Duct,and change and hook new filter to the horn,for better ram effect. but i will not do that,cuz i have Callaway front bumper and it will looks bad to me!

this is about same as 06Z06 front duct idea !but with little bit different style.

[Aurora40]

Neat on the hood. How much does the stock one weigh?

I always kind of wondered how much weight could be saved with different body panels. It's too bad some of that stuff wasn't feasible when the Z came out. Imagine it with an aluminum chassis and CF body panels.

Would the plenum just be to save weight? I still think it's interesting that there are basically no alternative intakes for the LT5. I don't know if that's a compliment on the original design, or a result of the small market for LT5 stuff.

Originally Posted by Aurora40

Neat on the hood. How much does the stock one weigh?

I always kind of wondered how much weight could be saved with different body panels. It's too bad some of that stuff wasn't feasible when the Z came out. Imagine it with an aluminum chassis and CF body panels.

Would the plenum just be to save weight? I still think it's interesting that there are basically no alternative intakes for the LT5. I don't know if that's a compliment on the original design, or a result of the small market for LT5 stuff.

Small market, and the cost to duplicate is pretty high. Sheet metal intakes are roughly around 2,500 and up. if you remember kirchoffer had the sheetmetal intake that was a one off design. It's to costly to make, and plus the story is the power to be had wasn't any better than a full boogie regular intake. So the only car you will see that on is Billy K's.

The nose cap could lose a little weight going to CF. The rear bumper would almost be nothing as it is already pretty light. Same with the doors, they are light once all the guts are out.

The big pieces would be the hood and then the rear deck. That's where all the weight is in the body of a C4.

Then you start working on the motor:
Injector housings are 7lbs each (after porting)
Plenum is 18lbs after porting

These three pieces alone are 32 lbs. Compare that to a 4 lb intake manifold for a C5/6 car.

[Pete]

If you can mold carbon fiber how about the bumber moldings (91-95)probably get more interest in those pieces.

Besides all the common weight savings,there is some weight savings if we had titanium screws for valve covers,IH's,plenum,vent cover,WP,PS,A/C,ALT,oil pan, etc.

Pete