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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)
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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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