made this last night. (carbon wrapped strut brace)

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made this last night. (carbon wrapped strut brace)

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I had some extra 2x2 twill carbon fiber and found an old strut brace so decided to wrap it in carbon.
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Looks good. nice work.
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I like! Maybe I should do something like this sometime...
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be sure to use high temp resin
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looks good dude - just the one was done? i would have to do my front and rear at the same time it would drive me crazy having them different :lol:
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Taz wrote:looks good dude - just the one was done? i would have to do my front and rear at the same time it would drive me crazy having them different :lol:
But you can only see one at a time :lol:
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aza013 wrote:
Taz wrote:looks good dude - just the one was done? i would have to do my front and rear at the same time it would drive me crazy having them different :lol:
But you can only see one at a time :lol:
:lol: true, but its just one of those things that you know is there so its always gonna bug ya
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would there be enough flex in the material?
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    Yea... doubt the bar is really gonna flex all that much but there is a little play in the material when it harden's
    I could do the rear but this brace was just knocking about so gonna finish it off tonight/ tomorrow and sell it on id say
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