Carbon fiber trunk and spoiler?? Bad idea?
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Talked to a guy who builds a lot of custom race cars around the U.S.
Asked him this question. He said it all depends on brand of the trunk. If its a good trunk, it should hold unless your straight line speed of 150 and over then maybe he could see a fluke thing happening, or if I'm cornering at the same speeds then it may cause enough flex to crack the trunk. He told me most formula one cars are not made of metal yet they generate lots of downforce with no issues. Sometimes they run into some sometimes they don't. Some have unibody designs some don't. Also, he related it to hood latches on cars. Some people don't run the m and have never had an issue, som run have had the hood fly up.....
Asked him this question. He said it all depends on brand of the trunk. If its a good trunk, it should hold unless your straight line speed of 150 and over then maybe he could see a fluke thing happening, or if I'm cornering at the same speeds then it may cause enough flex to crack the trunk. He told me most formula one cars are not made of metal yet they generate lots of downforce with no issues. Sometimes they run into some sometimes they don't. Some have unibody designs some don't. Also, he related it to hood latches on cars. Some people don't run the m and have never had an issue, som run have had the hood fly up.....
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No no no I completely agree. He was not saying they just toss on a spoiler, but what he was saying is that the end result sometimes is a spoiler attached to a fiberglass part. In the end they are attached to it with nuts and bolts. That is all he was alluding to. He was also saying on the Le Mans cars how sometimes you have just the street style car, he worked on the vette a few years back, and said that they used a carbon trunk on it. Then added it may have been a carbon Kevlar he couldn't remember off the top of his head.
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