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Old 11-08-2014, 08:04 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Can be done easily but the expensive part would be the tooling. You could over wrap a very thin walled aluminum piece that becomes part of the final part to save some tool costs. This would also alleviate any leakage concerns should you end up with some porosity in the laminate. If you are familiar with composite processing you can make good parts without porosity. Even if you running 20 psi of boost, the stress in the walls of the pipe would be very manageable for carbon fiber. I don't imagine you would want the walls to be thinner than .03" just for stability. Fiber orientation is important if you really want to optimize the strength and weight but probably not a huge concern for a charge pipe.
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