I know its lighter weight and usually stronger, but i was wondering does Carbon Fiber fail to elements and rust very easily?
Carbon Fiber
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Ive never heard of carbon fiber rusting, but I have seen a few CF hoods with sun damage around. Its probally just the cheap Ebay CF stuff.
haha@ carbon fiber rust. thats the funny. Its usually the clear coat or gel coat that goes bad on cheap hoods... the carbon fiber itself is very resiliant, extremely good on heat resistance, and very impact resistant. It is overall an excellent material.
I had to bondo a small rot hole on my carbon fiber hood. I just touched it up with carbon fiber paint and you can't even tell.
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LMAO kurt has a CF hood...with a car thats torn to pieces--anyone else find that shit funny *still laughing out loud*
its not torn to pieces, its called weight reduction! :yelrotflm
only problems ive seen with carbon fiber were in paintball. a while back some company decided to make a two piece barrel with the tip/second piece made out of carbon fiber. it was great, really light, and you could shoot through breaks easily due to the slick surface. but then again, they'd manufactured it so thin it was extremely brittle; more than once they'd snap after a rough dive or something of the sort.
only problems ive seen with carbon fiber were in paintball. a while back some company decided to make a two piece barrel with the tip/second piece made out of carbon fiber. it was great, really light, and you could shoot through breaks easily due to the slick surface. but then again, they'd manufactured it so thin it was extremely brittle; more than once they'd snap after a rough dive or something of the sort.
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Clip said:
Weight reduction my ass...[quote FNF]You see anything missin Ted? Hunh? **no** WE GOT NO ENGINES! DO WE TED!? DO WE!?![/quote FNF]
Maybe kurt plans on racing on "hopes and dreams" :yelrotflm
Clip said:
I think that was the scepter kit. They also made the tanks outta cf and that made hella difference.
no, the specific one i was talking about was manufactured by 32 degrees, just called the carbon fiber barrel. the scepter kit from powerlyte was aluminum, with several bore inserts. and hell yeah, the carbon fiber wrapped tanks were great for dropping some weight from the setup.
as for running on hopes and dreams, i bet that's gotta get better gas mileage than some of the stuff around here.
as for running on hopes and dreams, i bet that's gotta get better gas mileage than some of the stuff around here.
Its not just the cheap hoods that get sun damage I have one thats sun damaged from a great supplier on here Its about 5 years old, just needs to be recleared to make it look like new.
Maybe, but reviving 5.5 year old threads like this will more than likely get you laughed at a bit...Jonsupra;1806958 said:
To answer your question, all depends on how solid your hood is. Some poorly made ones, stock struts will likely pop a hole in it.