I'd be very interested in seeing real world weights on the CF and the metal fenders. I'm more familiar with Mustang fenders than Camaro fenders, but my inclination is to think the weight savings won't be as large as that, but I might be wrong.
I'd be very interested in seeing real world weights on the CF and the metal fenders. I'm more familiar with Mustang fenders than Camaro fenders, but my inclination is to think the weight savings won't be as large as that, but I might be wrong.
I don't know about camaro or mustang fenders but there is a guy on yellow bullet who just made some carbon fiber fenders for a 70-73 firebird. I could see shedding 40-50 pounds if it is true as to what he said.
"First, the good stuff. Pics and video of the finished fenders. Fenders are meant to bolt into the stock locations using stock mounting hardware. These are some BIG ASS fenders, but came out weighing just 9.1 pounds each. The stock fenders are 33.4 pounds each, for a savings of 24.3 pounds each and almost 50 pounds altogether!!! They could have been even lighter if not for the fact that the customer wanted them to appear stock and bolt into the stock locations."
Yeah a couple factors get involved - were these vacuum bagged parts specifically built to be lightweight ? and how thick and durable were the final parts ? (BTW did he say what they cost ?)
The few times I've seen weights on Anvil stuff it was light but not exceptionally so (because they build OEM style quality for one thing).
LIke I said I know Mustang fenders best, about 25 lbs apiece (and a little lighter when I'd done with them) on the early cars. The FG versions are 15 lbs, and I seem to remember the Anvils were around 12 lbs. Maybe they are a lot lighter than that, but I think Paul Brown's SN95 vacuum bagged built for lightness fenders were 4 lbs apiece, so that is about hte lower limit there, and I know Anvil's weigh more than that.
Anyway not trying to start a kefuffle or anything, I'm just riffing off of my own attempts to save weight it was very difficult to justify $1500+ pair of fenders that I can't repair to save 20 lbs, and I'm very curious to get real world weights on stuff.
They say no good deed goes unpunished. Good deed number 1: I went to our alignment shop so that Gregg could take the Falken tires off of my Camaro and put them on his before he leaves for his road trip. Good deed number 2: Dick lends me his truck to run over a valve stem cap and hit the gate at the alignment shop.... Then I had to go to the bank. So yeah, technically it is all Gregg's fault.
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