Question about Carbon Dynamics

[68fbjjz109]

Depending on what you are interested in. It might be something a friend of mine can offer. I am working with him to build GT350 style components for regular mustangs. We are trying to capitalize on a few things:

-appearance: most aftermarket offerings in my personal opinion fall short for the Mustang and Ford did a great job with the GT350 specifically with the hood.

-aerodynamic performance: Aside form the great anesthetics, most of the unique body components stem from function and improving airflow, most companies can't match what Ford put in for R&D for the Mustang platform.

-increased front tire clearance: I want to be able to run an aggressive and square tire setup

-weight loss: as you may have seen in my conversations with the Pill, there is alot of weigh reduction potential in the S550, and I will be putting my car on a diet before any major power upgrades.

In the process of doing this for the regular Mustang, we get GT350 parts. While there isn't alot of weight opportunities with the fenders, as they are essentially aluminum cans. There is with the hoods, and aside from the weight reduction you don't get the aluminum hood shudder at speed due to how thin the outer panels are.

I'll talk with him today, and see if he'll swing by the forum. What is cool; aside from parts which are made in Detroit, the components are as well.

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[toddc]

Depending on what you are interested in. It might be something a friend of mine can offer. I am working with him to build GT350 style components for regular mustangs. We are trying to capitalize on a few things:

-appearance: most aftermarket offerings in my personal opinion fall short for the Mustang and Ford did a great job with the GT350 specifically with the hood.

-aerodynamic performance: Aside form the great anesthetics, most of the unique body components stem from function and improving airflow, most companies can't match what Ford put in for R&D for the Mustang platform.

-increased front tire clearance: I want to be able to run an aggressive and square tire setup

-weight loss: as you may have seen in my conversations with the Pill, there is alot of weigh reduction potential in the S550, and I will be putting my car on a diet before any major power upgrades.

In the process of doing this for the regular Mustang, we get GT350 parts. While there isn't alot of weight opportunities with the fenders, as they are essentially aluminum cans. There is with the hoods, and aside from the weight reduction you don't get the aluminum hood shudder at speed due to how thin the outer panels are.

I'll talk with him today, and see if he'll swing by the forum. What is cool; aside from parts which are made in Detroit, the components are as well.

Thanks for the prompting,
I did decide to stop by the forum

I'm new to the forum, new to this thread, but have been lurking and following a few of the GT350 threads based on the development of our current program. I've seen a lot of the questions and comments regarding fitment of various aftermarket parts, tooling, processes, etc.

Based on Kevin's prompting, it's probably time I introduce myself and my company.

Helion Composites is primarily a contract manufacturer of high quality, light weight carbon fiber parts for the automotive aftermarket and racing community. We have been supplying various tuners and teams that run in series like World Challenge, IMSA, Continental, etc for a number of years.
In addition to contract manufacturing, we have a line of Helion branded products for the Porsche/Audi community that is ever evolving.

While we're new to the Mustang community, we're not new to carbon fiber.
The product plan we have in place for the current gen mustang is a package that allows one to bolt on all of the GT350 style parts to the stock body mustang without all of the Shelby exclusive hardware. this is done by carefully reproducing clones of the Shelby parts them modifying those parts to create mounting provisions that work for the non-Shelby cars.
I'll follow up with more info but in the mean-time, you can see pics of progress and info on our process and products at our work in progress website,
www.helioncomposites.com
or on facebook, just search Helion Composites, LLC

Happy to answer questions,

Regards,

Todd Candey

 

[enzo101]

Looking forward to what yall have in store. Please keep us updated on new products. We, as well as other members, will be in touch with you and would like to see future products. Thanks!

 

[Voodooo]

Thanks for the prompting,
I did decide to stop by the forum

I'm new to the forum, new to this thread, but have been lurking and following a few of the GT350 threads based on the development of our current program. I've seen a lot of the questions and comments regarding fitment of various aftermarket parts, tooling, processes, etc.

Based on Kevin's prompting, it's probably time I introduce myself and my company.

Helion Composites is primarily a contract manufacturer of high quality, light weight carbon fiber parts for the automotive aftermarket and racing community. We have been supplying various tuners and teams that run in series like World Challenge, IMSA, Continental, etc for a number of years.
In addition to contract manufacturing, we have a line of Helion branded products for the Porsche/Audi community that is ever evolving.

While we're new to the Mustang community, we're not new to carbon fiber.
The product plan we have in place for the current gen mustang is a package that allows one to bolt on all of the GT350 style parts to the stock body mustang without all of the Shelby exclusive hardware. this is done by carefully reproducing clones of the Shelby parts them modifying those parts to create mounting provisions that work for the non-Shelby cars.
I'll follow up with more info but in the mean-time, you can see pics of progress and info on our process and products at our work in progress website,
www.helioncomposites.com
or on facebook, just search Helion Composites, LLC

Happy to answer questions,

Regards,

Todd Candey

Todd.
As a 2016 Mustang shelby GT350 owner, I am interested in carbon fiber pieces also. If a company were to make high quality, oem fitment, carbon fiber parts to fit the GT350 I would be very interested. Pieces such as front splitter and fangs, side fender vents, hood vent, rocker pieces, rear defuser and mirrors. Basically to replace the factory black pieces as a direct bolt on replacement part but in carbon fiber. If someone offered this....Sign me up!!

 

[Bender]

Todd.
As a 2016 Mustang shelby GT350 owner, I am interested in carbon fiber pieces also. If a company were to make high quality, oem fitment, carbon fiber parts to fit the GT350 I would be very interested. Pieces such as front splitter and fangs, side fender vents, hood vent, rocker pieces, rear defuser and mirrors. Basically to replace the factory black pieces as a direct bolt on replacement part but in carbon fiber. If someone offered this....Sign me up!!

I would be in for these parts like these as well.

 

[gravedgr]

I posted in that thread, too - but.. Give it time. The early knock-offs of most wings seem to always need work. This one is even a little more complicated than most.

Which thread (link pls)? If it is the one in the general discussion forum, I'm subbed but not caught up on reading. I'd like to see the feedback myself, as I was planning on a Track Pack wing from CD.

 

[Voodooo]

I posted in that thread, too - but.. Give it time. The early knock-offs of most wings seem to always need work. This one is even a little more complicated than most.

It shouldn't need work. They have a trunk to work from and if they sell a product and release it to the public for sale it should be ready. Don't sell or release it if it still needs work. They know what's right and wrong. It's called quality control. I heard a million times from aftermarket businesses that the oem tolerance is bad. That's pure BS. I am a tool and die maker by trade and also from a family owned body shop business of more then 45 years. I can buy any oem part and the part will fit 99.5 % of the time. This spoiler this member is showing from CD is completely unacceptable.

 

[gravedgr]

Which thread (link pls)? If it is the one in the general discussion forum, I'm subbed but not caught up on reading. I'd like to see the feedback myself, as I was planning on a Track Pack wing from CD.

I'm guessing this is the link/thread in question?

 

[Shift]

I find it very disconcerting that the vendor hasn't even replied to this thread to try to put people at ease, but are posting in other threads instead http://www.mustang6g.com/forums/showpost.php?p=978858&postcount=15

 

[autobahnGT350]

It's hard to see from that photo if the spoiler is flush against the trunk deck lid. It appears to show that their is a rise with a gap between the spoiler and deck lid. Again, can't really tell if it is in fact flush; however, it looks really nice overall. Hope the final product is perfect enough for all of us perfectionists. I am sure that it will be.

 

[mattlqx]

I preordered their 350R wing when they first announced it. Waited week after week while they posted in their thread "more updates to come" every couple of days. I finally received the wing about a month late and was disappointed as the quality was very poor. It looked nice, very nice (shape and size compared to actual 350R wing) but there were nicks (and pin holes) in the fiber glass and a few scratches on the wing as well (it looked like someone took 600grit sand paper to the flat black finish. Not super noticeable, but still shouldn't have been there. I posted pictures in the CD's thread and they PMed me to take my post down. I don't like when companies do this.

I emailed them and they initially told me a can of flat-black spray paint would fix the imperfections on the wing...

Uh no, I am not using spray paint on a brand new part that should have been perfect when I received it.

After playing email-tag with them for about a week, they did say they will send me the new and improved carbon fiber wing when it gets released (props to CD for this). But here I am, 3 months into this adventure still with no wing on my car. They told me I should have received it by the end of December. I emailed them the other day and they told me they will have more information in the second week of January. Once again, I continue to wait.

This sounds exactly like my adventure with The Lighting Firm for lights and a grille for my Fusion. Months start to pile up. I did end up getting the lights which weren't as advertised. A few weeks after that, surprise! They shut down and ran for the hills with everyones cash (or more likely, just squandered it running operations). So now I'm waiting on Amex to settle my dispute for the $500 grille.

 

[ohtobbad]

Thats why forums are great, real feed back, shows us who to deal with.
I hope they step up and fix this. Waiting is one thing, something tells me they have your money though eh? Funny how that works LOL.

 

[FosterB]

Carbon Dynamics owned up to the issues with the fiberglass R wing and lived up to what they had told me in resolving it with me.

 

[Hack]

Carbon Dynamics owned up to the issues with the fiberglass R wing and lived up to what they had told me in resolving it with me.

Can you post some photos of the final product installed on your car?

 

[morjo02]

can any existing GT350R owners that received their R provide any comments in regards to the R Wing fitment and alignment? any problems ?

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