[DeTomaso] GT5-S Gill material

Bjoern Flesland bflesland at gmail.com
Sat Mar 3 11:44:11 EST 2012


What about carbon fiber?
Cheers Bjoern



On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 5:34 PM, CharlesMcCall <charlesmccall at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
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> The gills located behind the doors in front of the rear tire on the GT5-S
> are apparently made from cast iron or lead. They are extremely heavy.
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> They are so heavy that when Mike Drew and I removed them from my car a few
> years ago to look underneath, we literally almost dropped them as our
> expectation of the weight was so radically different from the actual
> weight.
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> It is AMAZING how heavy these suckers are.
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> Due to the construction of the car, this weight is located rather far out
> on
> a poorly supported portion of the bodywork, and the effect is like putting
> a
> weight at the extreme end of a lever - it bends the bodywork back and forth
> and causes cracking in the paint. The gills I'm talking about are these:
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> http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=25247
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> Questions:
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> 1) Are all GT5-S gills made of this amazingly dense material or is it
> something weird about mine?
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> 2) If the answer is "yes", has anyone ever made any in something a little
> lighter?
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> 3) If the answer is "no", what would be a good material to use to produce a
> reproduction? From my limited knowledge of fiberglass, I don't think it
> would be practical for any cloth-based material. Or would it? Are there any
> cost-effective ways to machine a duplicate out of some type of plastic -
> nylon or something? Aluminum would probably be cost prohibitive.
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> Thanks!
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> Charles McCall
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> Raising Pantera Awareness Across Europe
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> 1985 DeTomaso Pantera #9375
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> http://www.poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=2323
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