[DeTomaso] 19 pound rear deck

[Charles McCall]

Going by memory, the stock rear decklid is 70-something pounds? It's HEAVY,
as anyone can vouch for who has either changed rear decklid shocks, or had
failing shocks and been bonked on the head by the rear decklid.

So 19 pounds is a significant improvement, and a good place to save weight.

Also going by memory, I think that the authentic carbon fiber rear decklids
(as opposed to fiberglass with carbon fiber overlay) weighs something
amazing like 2 pounds. I've lifted Geoff Peter's decklid - he runs no
decklid shocks on his CF decklid as it is completely unnecessary - and I
would beleive the 2 pound figure. Maybe it weighs as much as 4lbs, but not
more, I don't think. It really does feel like lifting a sheet of paper...

Yes, CF lids are expensive. So it would be interesting to see what the
Barotex decklid costs.

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 6:36 PM, boyd casey <boyd411 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has he made a front hatch yet? How much is he asking for the deck lid? Do
> you know if he has any plans for door skins , spoilers etc? How brittle is
> this stuff?
> Hugh
>
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Ken Green <kenn_green at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure what carbon fiber rear decks weigh, but I received a Barotex
> > rear deck today made by Lilo Ben Zicron (who owns the highly modified
> > Mangusta race car at recent events) and it weighs 19 pounds without
> > hardware.  Barotex is suppose to have some strength and durability
> > advantages over carbon fiber.  The shape looks very good, very flat
> > surfaces, and it is very rigid.  The hinge locations and lock still need
> to
> > be worked out.
> >
> > Lilo developed barotex and is in the process of marketing it for various
> > uses.  There is some info here:
> > http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/08/prweb1201154.htm
> >
> > Ken
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