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 Posted: 10-13-2005 05:06 pm
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DanHolmes

 

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 Carbon fibre is always the material of choice if weight is the key however in order to do it properly you must be prepared for some outlay in terms of vacuum bagging and ovens.

I work in advanced composites and have mulled over the idea of making carbon fibre bonnets (hoods) for the JH since mine is very heavy and the double skin promotes rust on the leading edge - the weight savings (if I could get it right) are enormous!

Secondly and perhaps a little easier is to replace the prop shaft with a carbon fibre tube. These are made to very high specs using a process called filament winding - I suspect that an good automotive/race engineer could figure out how to attach the UJ's relatively easily if you could supply dimensions and specify a wall thickness from torque calculations.