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Hi guys,

Does anyone know of a person/company that can make moulds of car spoilers/front bars?

I am looking to replicate some front spoilers, possibly arrange a group buy.

Many thanks.

sliq.

No help from me on the finding someone front, but I'm iterested in the results

You are better to start at the moulder/ fabricator end who can assess what you actually want. The moulds used on MX5's for OE are complicated and massively expensive injection moulding dies. A bumper bar requires a moulding machine of probably 2000 tonnes clamp pressure and a die weighing in the vicinity of 15 tonnes and upwards . The die itself maybe $1mio or more. These are usually owned by the car co and the cost of the tooling is taken up with the volume over the part life.This is not suitable for low production. Small volume parts may be made by other methods such as with fibre glass or even dmc but die making is still expensive even for simple items which are made labouriously with long cycle and set up times. A manufacturer will expect to be paid for all design work and may even require drawings and a specification- they will not take the risk of a part that does not function or where a spec is not defined . If cheap parts are not already available it is a fairly safe bet there is no demand since the Chinese are renowned as copyists making relatively cheap dies and producing often substandard parts.

Mr Morlock wrote:You are better to start at the moulder/ fabricator end who can assess what you actually want. The moulds used on MX5's for OE are complicated and massively expensive injection moulding dies. A bumper bar requires a moulding machine of probably 2000 tonnes clamp pressure and a die weighing in the vicinity of 15 tonnes and upwards . The die itself maybe $1mio or more. These are usually owned by the car co and the cost of the tooling is taken up with the volume over the part life.This is not suitable for low production. Small volume parts may be made by other methods such as with fibre glass or even dmc but die making is still expensive even for simple items which are made labouriously with long cycle and set up times. A manufacturer will expect to be paid for all design work and may even require drawings and a specification- they will not take the risk of a part that does not function or where a spec is not defined . If cheap parts are not already available it is a fairly safe bet there is no demand since the Chinese are renowned as copyists making relatively cheap dies and producing often substandard parts.

I'm guessing he wants to make fibreglass copies, in which case none of the above really applies