To: tx_eggman; Pontiac; rktman
man, I miss the FRP panels on the Saturn. Wonder if I could resurrect that tech in the aftermarket here and now? Our Ford Exploder needs some crinkly-dent fixes...
Surely most of the patents are up...
22 posted on
11/21/2014 11:18:23 AM PST by
no-s
(when democracy is displaced by tyranny, the armed citizen still gets to vote)
To: no-s
The Saturn got a lot of flack from “journalist experts” for “large panel gaps”
Those were needed because the frp material has a much larger coefficient of expansion with temp.
But I suspect the real challenge to selling aftermarket frp replacements is price. Not many folks would spend 3 or 4 times the price of a replacement Chinese sourced sheetmetal part.
23 posted on
11/21/2014 11:24:04 AM PST by
nascarnation
(Impeach, Convict, Deport)
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