dradon03

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Hey guys,

Was looking through Re Amemiya's website and was wondering what is the difference between Dry Carbon and Wet Carbon. As Wet seems to be much much more expensive. Was wondering it is that one have Resin applied to cure it and one is cured by thermal, aka cooked.

Thanks,

Alex

purerx7

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Not sure about process, but I know its only a couple pounds lighter, its usually only used it pure race cars. Its almost 3x the price too!

dradon03

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Yeah thats what I noticed.

On some of the articles that I was looking at the Dry Carbon is almost the same price as the FRP product.

Black91n/a

Wet carbon is layed up like fiberglass where dry cloth is layed on the surface and resin is then applied. It can also include vacuum bagging and autoclaving which improves strength. It could also be where the resin is drawn in from one end to the other by the vacuum in the vacuum bagging step. This is almost as good as pre-preg, and will be lighter and stronger than normal layup and resin application..

Dry carbon is prepreg, it's carbon cloth with presicely controlled amounts of resin applied already. You just lay it up, vacuum bag it and autoclave it. It's lighter and will be as strong as possible thanks to the exact right mix ratio of carbon and resin.

reactor

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You're got it mixed up. Dry carbon is the more expensive material.

radiantRX-7

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wow they have a lot of good stuff on that web site.

gabe30

wtf is that about jasonfaith ?

radiantRX-7

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dont click on the link!

RE-Amemiya

Why would you click on the link in the first place!?

Scrub

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and boom goes the dynomite.

kuroi FD

Yeah I think you have it mixed up, dry carbon is usually alot more expensive.

dradon03

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www.re-amemiya.co.jp

FD3S REAR SPOILER-GTⅡ (Wet Carbon)\144,900-
FD3S REAR SPOILER-GTⅡ (Dry Carbon)\281,400-
FD3S REAR SPOILER-GTⅡ (F.R.P)\113,400-

Sorry for the mix up. So if Wet Carbon is advantageous why is it cheaper than?

Black91n/a

Dry carbon is lighter and stronger, but if done properly, wet carbon can be almost as good when it's vacuum bagged and autoclaved, but that doesn't happen very often.