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7 Feb 2004, 20:46 (Ref:866582) | #1 | ||
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Carbon Fibre Chassis
When do you think we will see mass produced cars with carbon chassis?
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Probably not that far away- within 10 years perhaps?
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Everything else has filtered down through the market. ABS, airbags, cruise control, traction control etc used to be the domain of the top end European makes and Lexus. Now they're commonplace on any price level.
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im not so sure it will happen. THe cost is pretty much standardized due to costs of labor and materials. The costs of carbon and epoxy won't drop much more because of the standard costs of producing them. Simply to expensive for a normal car...then you get into the problems of repairing them and working on them as well as the difference in car they receive in a race enviroment compared to a daily driver
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9 Feb 2004, 08:13 (Ref:867852) | #6 | ||
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not so, if it is done it will be done using pre-preg(matting pre injected with resin)& either a 2 part press mould or vacume bag, actuall lay up time wont take long & the part will be cured in a big oven, if they use a highly promoted resin then cure time could be as little as 1hr @60deg celcius. for mass production there would be more than made at a time, the most time consuming part would be trimming the chassis
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