anvilauto CF parts ?
 

Just notice "new" sposor here anvilauto . They have pre notice of carbon fiber parts for 1 gens on their web pages. Does anybody have an idea what to look for :cool: ??

www.anvilauto.com

I'm sure Matt will be chiming in. :thumbsup:

I beleive some hints were posted in a thread here awhile back.

Mike

straight from the horses mouth
 

I'm glad my advertising dollar is already paying off with Lateral-g!
I should have production pieces later this week and we are selling everything at a 10% dicount if ordered before the end of September 2007. We will have 3 peices ready to ship including a standard cowl induction hood (2"), header panel (for '67 & '68 as well as '69) and a cowl panel with aluminum vent inserts that may be replaced with what ever custom screen you want to put in. The hoods are avialble in 3 varieties and prices depending on the amount of carbon fiber and include the under strucure like the original if you want to use a cowl induction system. The lowest priced hood has a carbon to layer with all other layers fiberglass. The highest priced hood is 100% carbon fiber. The header panel and cowl panel can be purchased in carbon top layer with fiberglass under layers or 100% caron fiber. We are still putting the finishing touches on our web site to accept credit cards, but it should be up later this week. In the mean time if anybody is interested please call our toll free number 888-723-8882 which is also posted on our site. Anybody who calls and wants any of these parts will be put on a prority list and get the 10% discount before the end of this month.
I also have first prototypes of a first gen Camaro carbon fiber deck lid and custom rear spoiler. I'm hoping to have production versions in about 2 months. I want to make sure the parts are right before we get them in production.
We will be making 2nd gen carbon fiber parts soon. I just bought Jason Wyrick's '73 Z/28 that is posted on member's rides on lateral-g. Just type in his name and you will see pictures of this already bitch'n Camaro which we will further transform into a light weight street fighter. For anybody who lives in southern California, I will have this car at "Cruisin' for a Cure" at the Orange county fairgrounds this Saturday, Sept. 22.
-MATT

Matt, I'm looking forward to seeing the pictures. :thumbsup:

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! MATT ive have wanted cf parts for my car soo badly (1970 z28) and when i was reading your post i was already thinking to ask you if you were gonna make 2nd gen parts, till i got to the end of your post!!! yes jasons ex-car is soo bad ass glad to see the person who bought it is gonna use it:unibrow:. please tell me your gonna do a hood and a deck lid and spoiler. cause for the longest time ive had the idea of having the cf masked off then painted so i could have a cf stripe!!!

Thank you Matt for your reply! This is allmost too much of fun. I cant wait to see pics. :thumbsup:

Time to up the credit limits! This is great.

Anvil CF PARTS
 

Thanks guys for your support! I am an industrial designer by trade (www.3did.com) and have been designing products for my clients for years only to see them get all the glory and money. Well, being a dyed in the wool car guy, I set out to form Anvil to cater to the Pro Touring market with an eye on design at an affordable price. There are already a lot of great companies catering to this market which has grown be leaps and bounds in the last few years (due in large part to sites like lateral-g). I want to fill a niche by listening to my clients to understand their needs and desires. I'm starting with the obvious choices first as a business strategy, but want to get into more specialized pieces to make customizing much easier for anybody with a desire to express himself / herself through their hobby without having to rely on expensive one off fabrications. Let's face it, how many of us can afford a Barrett Jackson $100K muscle car? Not me. If anybody has an idea for a new part or any feedback on what we are doing, I am all ears! By the way, we are starting with carbon fiber, but we are designing and engineering other parts like low profile hood pins, billet pieces and LED lighting. I want to make sure these part are right before I put them into production. Our web site should be done in the coming week (some coding issues), so thank you for your patience!

Best, Matt

CF stripes
 

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention AJ, I have the same idea for the stripes. I plan to make everything that gets rally stripes on '70-'73 Camaros in carbon fiber which will allow anybody to mask off the stripe area and paint the rest of the parts body color. I plan to do this with the Jason Wyrick '73 and with my '69 as well which will be black for a carbon fiber ghost stripe look. The difficult piece for first gen is the filler panel between the back glass and deck lid since it is welded in place. It's screwed on for second gen, so no problem there. I would like to get a consensus about which header panel to make for the second gen first, standard or RS?

-Matt

i say RS but thats cause i have an rs:D also i think the rs one would sell more due to the fact that you see more aftermarket styled RS's over standards. after i read you post last night i went out to the garage real idea of it and was gonna bring up those exact two items. luckley they come out in thier own smaller pieces... very excited about your parts matt, i cant wait for your plethora of cf part!!! the problem with getting a consensus for the 2nd gen is that the early 2nd gens are just getting popluar some a high percentage of the owner (lots on nastz28.com) are old school... cheap...and not into the whole pt thing. not all just most.

I really like hearing about this!
 

It has me thinking about a lot of things. Any thoughts on CF front fenders for a 69 Camaro? How about a trickey lower valance with a cool looking splitter that would flow into those front fenders?

More thoughts on the above
 

You could make stock style front fender extensions for a stock look and my lower valance/splitter idea could be one piece that would have the fender extensions molded in. That way one fender would work for both the stock look and the modified look.

Something like this or a variation would be cool....But not the head lights. Now the hood is way beyond cool. Can you do that?

I say stock:thumbsup: More out of there and i like the look more :unibrow:

I can't wait to see the Camaro with some carbon fiber parts on it. Just want to say the whole experience with selling my car to Matt was great. Matt handled the transaction very professionaly and is a stand up guy. I'm sure he will be turning out quality cf parts for the pt generation.

near future parts
 

:thumbsup: Payton King,

Very cool computer rendering! Who did it and which program did they use to generate it? I like the way the low profile cowl induction hood flows into the front header panel all the way through to the leading edge of the the car. Nice touch. I plan on doing custom parts very much like this next. I wanted to fill the market with the easiest and most popular parts first, then design some custom parts that are in keeping with the original car's design while adding a little spice as it were. The vents on the hood are very much what I had in mind, but a little further back on the hood right over the wheel arch. I've studied a little on arodynamics in race car applications and the air extractor vents on top of the body work (on closed wheel cars) are usually situated at the peak of the fender. There is a low pressure area there that sucks the air out from under the hood and neutralizes lift. I have a '96 Viper GTS and if you look at the vents on the Viper hood that is where they are located. I was thinking of air extractors on the side of the front fenders a' la Trans Am, but I think it might spoil the lines of the car and may not be as effective as the vents on the hood. I am also having my body shop weld the fender extensions on my '69 to the front valance to make it one piece so I can use it as a pattern inwhich to make a mold for CF parts. This could save a lot of weight while smoothing out the appearance at the same time. I am also working on a custom replacement for the front chin spoiler that extends wider than the stock one.

-MaTT

Thanks for the reply Matt
 

Not sure on the rendering. A company called Evolution Motorsports were developing a full CF body that they were going to put on a tube chassis. They had a website with this car and another one rendered. Not sure who did it. I have not heard from them in quite some time. They were out of Georgia. I could not find them the last time I did a search, but that does not mean alot coming from me.

I believe the guy was talking about putting a twin turbo motor in the car might be why the vents are up front as to get the hot turbo air out.

I thought about the side vents up high on the fenders as well.

Looking forward to your parts coming on line.

How about a cf hood for 70 chevelles . The stock ones are too short and the aftermaket ones are too high. The stock cowl hoods start too far into the middle of the hood. A Chevelle hood with a long cowl induction area that is slightly larger than stock would be incredible. Then we would not have to use the oversized 4" cowl hood.

ANVIL web site live
 

OK everybody, our web site is finally up and running and ready to take orders. Now that pictures are up of the product, I would love to hear comments. We are putting together a gallery menu that will have more car pics as well as drawings and color renderings by me and some of my designers depicting concepts for future products. Eventually we will create a vote for your favorite concept area as well as allowing viewers to put up their own ideas and photos of their cars featuring our products.
For anybody in Southern Cali, I will be posting a list of cars that we need to use as "fit models" as it were, to test fit products that are in development. In return you will get free stuff!

Best, MaTT
ANVil

chevelle hoods
 

Dear 70 chevelle,

We will eventually be doing hoods for Chevelles. I think your suggestion is a good one. What I would like to do is do some sketches on a few ideas and get feedback from the Chevelle crowd before we get into making a pattern.
My very first car was a '70 Chevelle, so they are close to my heart and still love the way they look. Even my wife likes them, and that's saying something!

Best,MaTT
ANVil

great prices matt. also i was wondering what the wheight difference is between the 100% cf copared to the top layer cf hoods?

c/f close out panels, everybody with c/f valve covers need something more for underhood to tie it all together.

Great site and great looking parts Matt. The hood without the stock frame and cowl induction bits would be great for those of us running fuel injection and looking for some additional hood clearance. Would that be an option?

Do you have a good estimate on delivery time yet?

Thanks

Suggestions
 

Thanks for the quick feedback! Yeah, we are working on close out panels to go along with the fender braces we are designing. I want everything to have a homogeneous look, so that if used together they look like they aren't working against each other from an aesthetic standpoint as well as for fitment. Instead of a flat panel like you see with aluminum, we are designing a more organic form, which a molded part allows us to do. The cf valve covers look great and I think we can come up with something that really compliments the hi tech look while beign functional. If you look at a first gen Firebird with a 400, they have the filler panels ahead of the core support that forces air to go through the radiator making it more efficient. A tight close off panel in that area would do the same thing while cleaning up the appearance.
We are also planning on a super lightweight hood with no separate understructure that will allow more clearance under the hood. I don't want to sacrifice structural rigidity though, so we are doing some re-engineering of the bottom surface in that respect. The key is that the finished hood is still stiff, but as lightweight as possible.

Best, MaTT
ANVil

shipping
 

James,

I checked out your One Lap Camaro site. Very nice car and well designed site. I like the fact that you are using a 427 LSX. I'm thinking about the same thing for our 69. I know you can go with a larger displacement, but there is just something magical about the number 427!
To answer your question, we can probably ship this week! I will have to get pricing on any shipment outside the continental U.S.

Hey Matt. I just checked out your website, you have some killer parts. Id like to offer my 67 camaro for any test fitment. :D
I also think a trunk and stock looking rear wing as they are 67-69, and that part of the car didn't change for 69. The quality looks killer, and you will have a ton of customers.

Nice realistic prices.

Mike

Great parts!

I would also like to see a cowl panel with wiper hole deletes to smooth out the look. I don't use wipers LOL. ;)

Smooth look
 

Wiper delete on the cowl panel is an interesting idea. I'll get right on it. When we do the second gen hood we won't have the grill for the cowl air intake. The air will have to come from the back of the hood. This will make for a smooth hood much like the existing cowl induction hoods for second gens that you see. Wait until you see the first gen rear spoiler we are making? pictures to come soon.

I can't wait to see that.

...what no flat hood for the 2nd gen...what kind of time frame are we looking at for the second gen items to be ready?also are you gonna run a smaller cowl on your second gen? i wonder how the one jason put on ther looks from the driver seat

pics
 

OK, I took some pictures of the prototypes of the first gen deck lid and spoiler: carbon fiber dek lid and spoiler

They still need some little tweaks before I go into production, but you can get an idea of what we are doing. We took a stock '69 spoiler and removed the riser portion on the bottom that is about a 1/4" tall and is slightly indented from the edge. This serves to mask a sloppy fit for production cars. We hope to have a more accurate fit, thus eliminating the need for this while dropping the leading edge down right against the deck so there's no gap. It also provides a tighter fit to top of the rear fenders, so it will come with a gasket to seal it and cushion the ends when closing the lid. Because it's lower, we had to add to the outside ends to match the fender when looking at the back of the car. There was a lot of finessing to get it to look right. Because the elimination of the riser didn't leave enough "meat" at the leading edge for the studs, we made up for it by adding 4 teardrop shapes at the stud locations. So, we have a custom cf spoiler that retains the overall shape of the original. The deck lid has a carbon fiber top and fiberglass lower portion. We plan to do 100% cf on this too. The photo of the top looks like it's real bulbous, but that is an optical illusion caused by some reflections. It acutally fits better than the original because we closed the gaps all the way around to be even.
I would love to hear feedback!

MaTT
ANVil

2nd gen
 

I think we will do a flat hood first for the second gen with optional hood vents of different styles. I think the cowl induction on the second gen doesn't quite match the styling of the rest of the car which is very curvaceous. I'm actually quite surprised, though, that the view from inside the car with a 4" cowl hood isn't bad. It doesn't block the view like you think it would. It's a bit over the top for me, so we are designing a custom hood based on the original stock hood. As far as timing goes, it will be a few months before we see production, but hey, winter is near and Christmas is coming!

MaTT
ANVil

That looks killer Matt. Just kick ass. I didn't know you had a trucklid done. :thumbsup:

Matt,
How does your 1st Gen 2inch CI hood fit compared to the aftermarket metal ones? Similar? I test fitted a metal one to my car and it fit pretty decent. However, I bought a Harwood bolt on fiberglass hood that fit like crap. Stuck up way to high no matter how many adjustments I made on the DSE hinges. I now have a $450 shop table.

Additionally, when will your Full CF 2inch cowl 1st gen bolt on hood that has a smooth underside w/o the frame be ready?

I am ready now to pull the trigger on a full CF cowl panel and the hood I mentioned above. I can get to a satellite phone ( I am currently on the Syrian Border) before the 30th if you think you will have one of the above mentioned hoods ready in the near future. ( car was going to paint soon until we test fitted that shiny turd made by Harwood. My old man is still trying to keep shop date if we can)

Props on the new site. Looks slick.

Thanks for your time.
Jim

Looking great:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Would be cool to have the entire front in CF. Fenders, innerfenders, cowl hood, cowl panel and so on.
Would be cool to have CF-doors as well. Imagine a -68 Camaro with Cf front with spoiler, CF-decklid with spoiler and CF-doors.
Any plans on this?

Friendly pricing!!!!! :cheers:

Such great products. Have you thought about a rear deck lid with the spoiler integrated into a one piece item? Maybe also, a more aggressive rear spoiler?

I was thinking the same thing, and taking Steve's idea of intergrading a 3rd light into it, but the stuff looks great as is as well.

"Bare" cowl induction hood
 

Jim,

I salute you brother! It's good to hear from American heros!
I can't give an exact date when production "bare" cf hoods will be ready, but it won't be for a couple months. I haven't figured out pricing yet, but I'll probably have an introductory price on it for a month before I have production parts as a pre order incentive. Stay tuned! If you are in a hurry, you can buy one of our Carbon/fiberglass hoods and modify the underside if you know how to use fiberglass. Then you just paint the underside black to match.
To make our hood, we took a steel hood and teaked it until it fit my '69 perfectly. I had to actually jump up and down on the edge to take the bow out of it! Once fitting properly, we blocked it and filled in the spot welds and seams on the sides. Once finished, this was used as a pattern for molds. The cf molded hood fits as well as our pattern which is better than a steel hood and much better than most fiberglass ones I've seen. A molded hood whether it's fiberglass or carbon fiber is a little tricky because it's plastic which can be effected by heat and it's spreading over a large area with hinge springs tugging at it. That is why you need to use light weight hinge springs and hood pins are always a good idea for safety. We are working on some custom hood pin/latches by the way.

Best of luck and God bless!
MaTT
ANVil :bow: