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The future of carbon-fibre???
beagley - 10/1/11 at 04:29 PM

Was reading one of my car mags this weekend and saw a small write up about this stuff called "forged composite".

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I can see a lot of potential with this new material, hopefully it will pan out and become a cheap way to lighten/strengthen cars.


Beags

CNHSS1 - 10/1/11 at 04:39 PM

Carbon reinforced plastics have been used for a number of years, R/C model cars and helis have used them for the weight and ease of production of moulded nylon, but the rigidity is soemthing else. Bit more expense of course and harder on the moulding tooling i believe.
I reckon a real car bulkhead would be much lighter and probably strong as the cast ally used on stuff like Ferrari 360s

dan8400 - 10/1/11 at 04:44 PM

Repost?? I have read this artical before but maybe not on LCB?


Sounds good though


Dan

mcerd1 - 10/1/11 at 04:50 PM

quote:
Originally posted by CNHSS1
Carbon reinforced plastics have been used for a number of years

its also how they make most carbon tennis rackets, and if I remember right reliant had a go at injection molded GRP body pannels a while back

but there are always ways of improving these material.....

[Edited on 10/1/2011 by mcerd1]

MikeCapon - 10/1/11 at 05:29 PM

Interesting stuff. It's been around for a while. There's an outfit over here who have been using this technology for over 10 years. I visited their factory in 2002 and they were making bits for all sorts from microlight props to odd shaped brackets for a certain red Italian F1 team.

Carbone forgé