Fiberglass bonnet mould team buy?

[Dum-Dum]

Spoox are selling their moulds for 306 fiberglass bonnets

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Spoox-Motorspo...4d14a9495e

Currently at £285 or best offer. If a few of us went in together we could mould our own bonnets. 6 of us would be £50 each, 10 of us would be £30 each (plus fiberglass) but would probably end up with a sub £100 fiberglass bonnet. Obviously wed need to make up a rota of who gets it and when and how it gets moved and what happens once everyone has a bonnet but could be an awesome plan. TBH i reckon we could get it cheaper too.

[Piggy]

but isnt there a guy on gti6oc that does them for about £100 anyway!?

[Just Sean]

dumdum, why dont you just buy it and knock out moulds and sell them on here at forum discount?

[Ben Jay]

dumdum, why dont you just buy it and knock out moulds and sell them on here at forum discount?

This! Also are they smoothed? Or can the be smoothed?

[Grant]

Theres quite an art to doing it, I reckon it wouldn't be as straight forwards unfortunately

[Poodle]

That's been up for ages, someone suggested doing the same thing months ago. I'd buy it myself, but i'm making my own for considerably less lol

[Grant]

But yours would have massive dents in the middle for boost pipes alex

[Eeyore]

Theres quite an art to doing it, I reckon it wouldn't be as straight forwards unfortunately

Exactly this. Its not as simple as just throwing fibreglass in the mould and a perfect bonnet comes in. Fibreglass is actually really expensive and a pain to do.

[Poodle]

Lol Grant, true story.

It's not that expensive, or even difficult to do, but it is fairly painstaking and labour-intensive.

[Toms306]

Whats the advantage of a fibreglass bonnet anyway? Is it literally just weight saving?

[Poodle]

Pretty much, otherwise it's just a pita lol.

[RetroPug]

Whats the advantage of a fibreglass bonnet anyway? Is it literally just weight saving?

That's the advantage of pretty much all composite panels yeah.

[lolsteve]

Didnt ozone have a fiber glass one that wobbled or something?

[Poodle]

That's fairly normal for a grp bonnet tbh lol.

[Grant]

IIRC from reading last time spoox were selling this stuff; its a pain to get them without air bubbles in. Its not just a case of layering on the mat and then resin'ing it. So as to speak. If you were going to run off about 20 and sell them then i reckon it would be worth it. Otherwise,