A few of you have seen the posts in the classified section under the heading "composite roof teaser" and have asked about the possibility of targa tops.
This thread should serve as another introduction to Helion Composites and the process we will go through to bring carbon fibre and fiberglass targa tops to market.
In this thread, I will show all of the steps involved in the modeling, tooling and production of our composite targa tops and explain the processes to the best of my ability.
It is my hope that anyone interested in learning what it takes to produce quality composite body parts will glean at least a few kernels from this thread.
This thread will be updated as progress in the process is made.
The first few pictures are of the starting point.
We took an existing fiberglass top with known good fitment and stripped all of the texture coating off of the surface.
This revealed a very uneven surface that needs to be corrected. The surface will be corrected by spraying Duratec Vinyl-ester fairing primer and lots of block sanding. Once a class A surface has been obtained we will proceed to the tooling phase.
For now, enjoy the first couple of pics and feel free to ask as many questions as you like.
Thank-you,
Todd Candey
Helion Composites
