This is a topic I’ve been interested in years so I was pretty excited when I came across this video series on Youtube. I recently saw a Cobra on Corral.Net where the owner had remade many of his heavy OEM parts in carbon fiber, bringing the curb weight of his car down by some-500 pounds. Clearly that’s a pretty ambitious project, so my goal is to slowly replace individual pieces on my car with lighter carbon fiber variants. Carbon fiber is about 3x as strong yet 1/5th as heavy as steel, making it ideal for automotive applications.

This video shows the basics of the process done with relatively inexpensive equipment available to almost anyone. It’s a good introduction to carbon fiber, but you wouldn’t want to use this technique for structural pieces of your automobile, although some brackets and interior pieces, etc. should be fine. I will go into depth at a later time but felt like sharing these videos with you from Youtube as an early starting point. If you feel so inclined to begin making your own carbon fiber parts, please let me know so I can show your work on Stuck in Second.
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