Is it me or does the HOOD of EVO dent easily?
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Originally posted by ImportUpgrade
no what he means is that some companies specifically for the aftermarket ricer crowd, use a fiberglass base then lay carbon fiber with resin over it to cut costs. Some companies use dry carbon fiber some use the cheap wet carbon fiber. While the dry is lighter, more durable, and more expensive. The wet carbon fiber can be viewed as brittle under the same abuse a dry carbon fiber piece would withstand. CF is made to crack, but wet carbon fiber cracks a lot easier compared to dry carbon fiber. As you said, anything will crack under enough pressure, but some crappy carbon fiber products out there give misconceptions about ALL carbon fiber products.
no what he means is that some companies specifically for the aftermarket ricer crowd, use a fiberglass base then lay carbon fiber with resin over it to cut costs. Some companies use dry carbon fiber some use the cheap wet carbon fiber. While the dry is lighter, more durable, and more expensive. The wet carbon fiber can be viewed as brittle under the same abuse a dry carbon fiber piece would withstand. CF is made to crack, but wet carbon fiber cracks a lot easier compared to dry carbon fiber. As you said, anything will crack under enough pressure, but some crappy carbon fiber products out there give misconceptions about ALL carbon fiber products.
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Dry carbon is preppreg, wet is where you lay resin into the fabric. Dry is better because it has less resin content and is therefore lighter and more flexibe. The resin is not what gives the piece it's strength it's the fabric. As far as weight savings look at www.allamericanracers.com they are the ones that built the hood and trunk on the sparco evo with a significant weight savings. I believe the parts are located in the aftermarket section. Carbon is also more conductive than alumn so, it should dissapate heat better than the factory hood.
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Originally posted by hotrod2448
Dry carbon is preppreg, wet is where you lay resin into the fabric. Dry is better because it has less resin content and is therefore lighter and more flexibe. The resin is not what gives the piece it's strength it's the fabric. As far as weight savings look at www.allamericanracers.com they are the ones that built the hood and trunk on the sparco evo with a significant weight savings. I believe the parts are located in the aftermarket section. Carbon is also more conductive than alumn so, it should dissapate heat better than the factory hood.
Dry carbon is preppreg, wet is where you lay resin into the fabric. Dry is better because it has less resin content and is therefore lighter and more flexibe. The resin is not what gives the piece it's strength it's the fabric. As far as weight savings look at www.allamericanracers.com they are the ones that built the hood and trunk on the sparco evo with a significant weight savings. I believe the parts are located in the aftermarket section. Carbon is also more conductive than alumn so, it should dissapate heat better than the factory hood.
I assumed that prepreg, since it was "wet", was wet carbon....silly me. It all makes sense now since you explained it though. I just figured that since most carbon used on the body panels of cars is used for looks and some weight savings, that it was a combination of the resin AND the carbon fabric that created it's strength. I understand that carbon fiber, when actually used for strength, is layed out in a direction to give the part maximum strength(such as an airplane wing). But for aftermarket purposes, don't you think that the carbon fiber is really only as strong as cloth fiberglass since both would crack just as easy as the other?
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