Toooo much Carbon Fiber...
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well...that's the scary part.....
What whould happen.....???
IF it is real C/F, and it looks like it is, and if they did the job right, then they put more than 3-4 plies together and if it was prepreg, then they autoclaved it in a mold, and just polished the remaining resin to a shine, then it will be a proper C/F job, and if it got in an accident, then it will fair better than just sheetmetal. As in it will be better resilient to impacts than normal cars, and it can with stand the impact to greater applitudes than expected...but now for the draw backs......
C/F is not the best and greatest stuff to have...it is very dangerous for normal people to play with. First off, it has a tendancy to shatter, and splinter, and if the conditions are right, then it may burn.....and thats the problem....it depends on the resins and the cure time.....ever break a glass, and it shards...well, glass is made from sand, carbon fiber is also from sand, but it is just burned to a finer crisp...then processed and woven into fibers...hence it is just carbonized sand in a fiber form...still neat stuff....
Now the kicker is...if it burns and the material is in a shattered form, then all the nice resinated scrads of fiber decideds to disentagrate and they get back down to the carbonized dust.....and if you breath in that dust, then it is too late to get to the hospital...because...you will not live for too long after that. When a helicopter crashes and burn's...have you ever seen a professional firefight rush right up to try to save the occupants with out a mask or other protective equipment? No...because they know that a composite built aircraft burning will emit all kinds of dangerouse crap....
on the other hand...it will just crack and waste the owner a crap load of money to get it replaced....
Like I said...I can't stand the shit, cause I work with it all day long.
1: http://www.houston-imports.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57514
2: http://www.houston-imports.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65502
3: http://www.houston-imports.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67189
4: http://www.houston-imports.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78774
5: http://www.houston-imports.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81850
Yup. The entire rear hatch section is custom CF, and he's still working on the rest.
2: http://www.houston-imports.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65502
3: http://www.houston-imports.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67189
4: http://www.houston-imports.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78774
5: http://www.houston-imports.com/forums/showthread.php?t=81850
Yup. The entire rear hatch section is custom CF, and he's still working on the rest.
Loco Honkey
Banned
What a ricer wing.
Soichiro-Honda
Senior Member
You must be mistaken....
BTW those panels are real, and so is the trunk.
They load super fast for me- on any computer and any connection. Are you sure nothing's wrong on your end? The pictures are pretty large..
Ah- Houston-Imports gets a LOT of traffic. They generally have 50-100 people on at all times, so I'm not surprised that it runs slow every now and then.
cycloneb18c3
Senior Member
needs CF fuel door, hood(which is the most CF'ed piece on honda/acuras), and the CF mufflers. Id like to see how much the thing weighs b4 and after the CF install, and the price tag.
