Carbon Fiber Body Mod

[sabumaru]

Irreverent? are you for real!
What is rediculous is that you gave Hennessy $100,000.00

Each his own

I would go fully 6.6 or 7.0 build with wipple

But the twin turbo setup is also very intresting

 

[justvettn]

The engine is a major place to save weight, and that could be done without giving up the modifications you already have put into it, going with an aluminum or titanium engine block built to the specifications of a standard 6.2 would just require swapping all the other engine components over to the new block, a sleeved aluminum block would be the best option for maximum weight savings

I can't believe you are still referencing titanium engine blocks.

 

[MagicMtnDan]

OK, if you spent $100k on the motor and you want your pickup to have more speed here's what you should do:

1. Remove motor.

2. Have an all-new, tube frame truck built by a racing company.

3. Have all CF/FRP body and interior made.

4. Your formerly 6,000+ lb. truck should now weigh about 3600 lbs.

5. Put a 6.2L factory motor in your Raptor.

6. Sell the Raptor and use the money for steps 1-5

 

[sabumaru]

OK, if you spent $100k on the motor and you want your pickup to have more speed here's what you should do:

1. Remove motor.

2. Have an all-new, tube frame truck built by a racing company.

3. Have all CF/FRP body and interior made.

4. Your formerly 6,000+ lb. truck should now weigh about 3600 lbs.

5. Put a 6.2L factory motor in your Raptor.

6. Sell the Raptor and use the money for steps 1-5

I understand what you are saying
But i think a tube frame and custom interior will make it more into a prerunner / trophy truck imo. On the inside in mean
I would luv to get me something like the atlas concept has

 

[KaiserM715]

I can't believe you are still referencing titanium engine blocks.

Even if money was no option, Ti wouldn't make for a good engine block. I also doubt it would be lighter. Per volume, aluminum is is roughly half of the weight. Given all of the bosses, bores, mounts and coolant and oil passages, I doubt you could significantly reduce the volume of metal used in an engine block. Not to mention that Ti is bear of a material to machine and has significant galling issues. With a part as machining intensive and complicated as a block, you would have a high scrap and tool breakage rate.

If you really wanted a lightweight block, magnesium would be the way to go (and has quite a bit of historical precedence).

 

[Maxx2893]

Swap bumpers and rack for lighter weight ones. Those iron bulls/ fab fours are extremely heavy, you can get great looking prerunner bumpers that could easily save 100+ lbs on each end. Plus a lighter rack, who knows how much that rack weighs.

 

[justvettn]

I have not researched the latest and greatest in engine blocks but I am sure that Titanium for several reasons would not be one of them.
I also highly doubt that any manufacturer would even consider doing so for any reasonable amount of money. Even if someone was willing to attempt it the cost would be $100,000.00 or more (Just guessing due to the cost of titanium and its difficulties to work with it) just for the engine block.
Titanium is also heavy in comparison to aluminum.

 

[Maxx2893]

He could use titanium internals. Lighter weight, and that's weight that's moving very fast. Might check out Crower to see if they have anything.

 

[sabumaru]

On the exoticmside of materials

The material the spaceshuttle heat tiles are made of

Or the aluminimum/carbon hybrid stuff theynuse on the airbus a380

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He could use titanium internals. Lighter weight, and that's weight that's moving very fast. Might check out Crower to see if they have anything.

http://www.emachineshop.com/machine-shop/Custom-Titanium-Parts-Machining/page465.html

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http://www.delwestengineering.com/parts_titanium_valves.html

 

[KaiserM715]

On the exoticmside of materials

The material the spaceshuttle heat tiles are made of

What would you use that for? It is ceramic, light and heat resistant. But it is very low strength and very brittle.