Brand new dashboards & other carbon fiber ae86 stuff

[cdixon311]

I've never used these guys or even heard of them, but they're posting about brand new dashboards. I know it's hard as hell to find a decent dash, so I wanted to share.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Retro-sp ... 4480421705" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://retrospec-toyota.blogspot.mx/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[c4ptiv3]

Yeah, I want that shit.

[milchmann]

I have a couple of their other parts on my wish list, but I have not purchased anything from them yet. If you are at all concerned with the part being actual carbon fiber, I would buy these first http://retrospec-toyota.blogspot.mx/201 ... irror.html to make sure that they are not selling FPR (usually fiberglass with a layer of carbon fiber ontop) as carbon fiber. To be clear before I go on a tirade about carbon fiber, the price of the "carbon fiber" dash is very reasonable for a FPR part, and would be unheard of cheap for carbon fiber.

These most likely are FPR. They specifically say "vacuum infused process" which means that it has to be a wet layup (which is also more susceptible to yellowing). To get that kind of complex shape with a wet layup requires a fiberglass shell (in my experience it would be required at least). They also do not list how many layers of carbon fiber there are which is a big indicator, most if not all true carbon parts prominently display this to justify the cost.
For it to be true carbon fiber it would have to be done with a 10000 piece buck, an autoclave, and dry carbon ... it would probably also need a kevlar or similar material layer or two for rigidity.

All that being said, there is nothing wrong with FPR (though it is not as light weight), it just irks me when people advertise it as carbon fiber.

If anyone ends up buying one of these, it would be good to know how good/bad the fitment is.