Hi all,

I have some experience with composites, mainly with carbon skinning, but I'm wanting to start producing more advanced resin-infused parts. First on the list is to create an A-pillar mounted gauge pod for a car (I'll assume you all know what one of those looks like). My projects to date have suggested that carbon fabric simply isn't flexible enough to be manipulated into such complex concave shapes (the finished part would be convex but obviously the mold is concave) as a single sheet. With a gauge pod the only benefit of using carbon fibre would be cosmetic, so I don't really want the weave joins that using multiple sheets would cause. Am I missing some magic technique that would allow such a shape to be layed as a single sheet, or should I just stop wasting my time and make it out of CSM and spray-paint it instead?

Thanks fo any advice.