Aftermarket hood
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04-04-2009 | 05:33 PM
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Well you have to take into account the market is much smaller, and nothing is mass produced. But just the materials to make a tiny hatch is almost $100. Real CF is EXPENSIVE, god knows if those cheap hoods are just CF over cloth.
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04-04-2009 | 05:39 PM
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Molded carbon parts are pricey, but all the carbon parts on my truck are just machined out of flat sheets.
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04-04-2009 | 05:50 PM
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I'm not familiar with all the different way to make CF parts. I do know with R/c and full scale boats it is glassed just like cloth with epoxy resin. They have to pulled from a mold, which the mold itself takes a lot of work and maintenance. I'd imagine hoods would be extracted from molds, unless they found a cheaper and not as good way to do it.
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04-04-2009 | 05:58 PM
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Dry carbon is what has always been know as prepreg. When you receive prepreg it is cloth preimpregnated with frozen resin. It is like a roll of cardboard somewhat in consistency and workability. So its "dry" until you put it in your vacuum bag, pressurize it and heat it up and that frozen resin now flows in you mold, cures and you have a badass part. Wet layup is anything other than prepreg. That includes chopper gun, hand-layup, vaccumbagged wet layup, its all not prepreg.
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04-04-2009 | 06:09 PM
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Yeah, apparently dry carbon is stronger because the resin is evenly distributed and they're cured under pressure... I have no CF knowledge and have no car for it. It looks sweet, but I got it because it freed up a **** ton of room on top and under the upper deck of my truck, not to mention it came with aluminum pillars to connect to the lower chassis, making the over truck stiff as hell.
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