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Old Oct 17, 2006 | 01:04 PM
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Has anyone had any experience with the carbon fiber flexible sheets? I saw a set of FRC's on ebay that were covered with this material. From the picture, it didn't look that bad. It looked pretty good. The color appeared to be close to Mag Red with either dark gray or black checked pattern.

I have seen shrink wrap material like this that molds itself to all the nooks and crannies when you apply dryer heat and wondered how it would work on the FRC's. I suppose there is other material like vinyl that just sticks (??)

Anyone know what this stuff is and where to get it? BTW, The pair of FRC's went for $137.50.
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do a search on carbon fiber it will come up. I was looking for CF sheets real stuff and it came up.
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do a search on carbon fiber it will come up. I was looking for CF sheets real stuff and it came up.
So did you ever find real CF sheets ? or preformed parts ? like fenders hoods etc?
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So did you ever find real CF sheets ? or preformed parts ? like fenders hoods etc?
Fenders and hoods?? APC http://www.corvetteracebodies.com

This is the real racing products. not all CF body parts look like CF. The lighter weight CG may not have all the graining ppl like, but it is light weight and strong.
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Originally Posted by Hex$cyn
So did you ever find real CF sheets ? or preformed parts ? like fenders hoods etc?

ACP for fenders and hoods I was looking for a sheet and it was $$$$$$$ Can't believe what they get for it. I got an entire layer of CF in a race boat for 5,000 extra 36 foot x 10 foot wide cat.
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Anyone have any USE experience with this material??
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