Carbon Fibre Air Box

[No Crust Racing]

Hey all,

Just wondering of anyone knows where to get carbon fibre for air box construction. Made my previous Cars airbox (First ever by the way lol) from aluminium and added rubber edging to prevent any marking or scratching but wanted something a bit fancier and less prone to heat saturation than that this time around. I know it's out there somewhere just need to know where and how much!

Thanks

P.S. New to the turbo import scene, previous car was an NA Celica, just bought this...

Series II

Cheers

For the curious...

Old Heat Shield

[midnight]

do you mean ready made carbon fiber sheets or the actual cloth?

carbon fiber comes on rolls as a cloth and is constructed like fiberglass, you need to lay it up with resin.

good fiberglass suppliers have it.

Edited October 24, 2005 by midnight

[No Crust Racing]

do you mean ready made carbon fiber sheets or the actual cloth?

carbon fiber comes on rolls as a cloth and is constructed like fiberglass, you need to lay it up with resin.

good fiberglass suppliers have it.

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I was totally unaware of that, thanks. I'm after the ready made sheets as I don't wanna be messing about making stuff to make stuff so to speak. Rather just measure cut and assemble

[scathing]

The "wet" carbon, using resin to lay up like midnight mentioned, is the simpler and cheaper way of doing it. There are quite a few people that have experimented with it at home.

"Dry" carbon, for a lighter and stronger end result, requires items like an autoclave that you may not have access to.

As for thermal saturation, my intake kit uses a metal heat shield and it works wonders. With one of those laser thermometer things, after a track session I found that there was a 20 degree temperature differential on the "engine" side of the shield and the metal ring on the filter itself.

But I realise it doesn't look as cool as a CF box...