What type/thickness Carbon fiber for SJ reinforcement

sjetrider

sjetrider

615 Freeriders are addicted to T1 madness.
Location
in the 615 (Nashville)
If $$$$$ is no issue then just use CF IMO, but its really not needed. CF is stronger and lighter but is less flexible and is really overkill for our purpose IMO. If you drag the excess resin out of FG and or CF the weight saved wil be minimal. I have used Texalium, CF, and biax and can say the CF and Texalium soak up less resin but we are talking a couple oz. per side here not a half a gallon??????????? IMO you can beef up under the hood seal area & a 6" strip on bondline w/ chop and one layer of 8oz. CF or 1 layer of 10oz biax or one layer of 8.6 oz texalium or whatever and you will be good to go unless your doing this003%7E1.jpg
 
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FL-cracker

X-H2O
Location
old exit 72 Melbourne
Remeber Texalium is just a fancy name for silver E-glass. It has the some conformabilty as per given weight as E-glass.

I would strongly recomend S-glass for you guys not wanting to spend the $ on Carbon, but would still like a lighter/stonger option then E-glass or Biaxel.

S-glass is 25-30% stronger then E-glass.

Us composites has some nice satin weave 8.9oz S glass I would like to try.

I have used the 6oz, and it is super easy to work with.... and only like $7 a yard for 30" wide.... I would recomend 5or 6 layers of this weight as it is much lighter material then the biaxel everyone uses.... In comparison 12oz Biaxel is .037 thickness. 6oz S-glass is .0089 thinkness.

The 8.9oz is more pricey at about $13 a yard for 30" wide.

Be sure to always squegy out your resin.
 
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tipafew

tipafew

Location
Grand Rapids, MI
I was thinking of going 7oz unidirectional on bond line and hood flange. Then 12oz biaxial with 5.8oz carbon over that. I do tend to land a lot of 3/4 rolls, so hopefully this will be good.

Chad
 
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