Re: Carbon fiber tailgate
jwaller said:
the ty gate is just stock s-10 stuff, nothing special.
Ok......simple enough there ! thanks for the reply. Isn't the Ty gate a smoothie , referring to the inward draft of a SY gate ??
So we are looking at three gate skins-----stock Ty
------stock Sy,modded handle
------Modded Sy, smoothie
Until I get the donar parent gates in my hands such as a Ty gate to see the basic differences,I'll be guesing about whether or not the backsides could be fashioned the same ? This would save some time and costs.
For the gates that require load baring stiffness, i see that the Kevlar and Honeycomb Nomex matrix and additional labor would add about 225.00$ to a gates price. :squint:
I know thats harsh, I like to sit my arse there too !
Although I will say......the HCN ....is the best in light weight and ridgid structure as apposed to say a "Coremat" most commonly used . They aren't even in the same class. So you Race-gate only guys might want to consider it no matter what.
I'm planning on using Kevlar as mount point reinforcements on all gates. Perhaps aluminum plate as threaded boss's. Although there are other lighter methods,just not as robust.
I will say that no matter how you have me build these....you'd have to misshandle these regularly like a pissed UPS driver to really destroy them . The cosmetics on handling your steel gate would suffer even faster exposed to an ape !lol....( no offense to UPS drivers,really)
Speaking of shipping.......due to the light cartoned weight , they won't be hard to handle and shipping should be quite affordable by any shipper including Greyhound Express !
