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Originally Posted by Gavin Collingwood
Seen as a large percentage of the car is carbon fibre, anything other than the real deal wouldn't last very long as it's wouldn't be strong enough
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LOL. I can get straight plastics (no reinforcement) that are stronger than some cheaper grades of woven CF sheet.
The whole "Carbon Fibre" thing is a massive hornets nest of different types of CF, varying from "pure" sheet, which is just resin and CF (with hundreds of grades and layups available) all the way down to barely reinforced plastics with 5-8% short chop CF in the mix. Provides very little increase in performance, but allows you to call something carbon fibre.
I'm pretty sure some of the parts advertised as carbon are only referring to the graphite used as colouring to make the plastic black.............