Thread: CF floor pans?
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Old March 15th 2005, 13:22
coffinator coffinator is offline
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I agree with Oasis. Carbon fiber shatters upon impact. Mller stated that the cf pans would flex. As long as each layer of cf is set in the previous one at 45 degree angle and so on, it will be very ridged. If you were to replace every 3rd cf layer with kevlar it would make it extreamly strong and ridged. As for using rivets for mounting, I wouldn't. It creates a place for cracks to form. I would make a plate out of some 0.125 5051-T6 aluminium that ran around the perimiter of the floor pan and use AN17-8 bolts to hold it together.
If i were Carbon Joe I wouldn't make cf floor pans for the reasons stated by oasis.

mike,
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